1) You can only invite four people. The can be living or dead, from any time in history.
2) All previous games don't count anymore. I've played with different rules before, as the party can only be bloggers.
I'll start
Marlon Brando
Astor Piazzolla
Pablo Picasso
Leon Trotsky
RENEGADE EYE
I can't help but like this game and am often intrigued by others' choices.
ReplyDeleteBertrand Russell, Martin Luther King Jnr, Noam Chomsky, George Orwell.
You can invite any four people in world history and you choose ugly old men? I'd be thinking some juicy T&A for my diner party.
ReplyDeleteOK, be good MZ, be good, MZ...
Plato, Nietzsche, Freud and Rhawn Joseph.
ReplyDeleteFanny Kaplan, Vladimir Lenin, Charlotte Corday, Marat.
ReplyDeleteDiogenes of Sinope, Hipparchia, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Billie Holiday
ReplyDeleteCaligula, Vlad The Impaler, False Dmitri, George W. Bush.
ReplyDeleteThe question Pagan Temple, is if you would stay for dinner or watch from a prudent distance?
ReplyDeleteMy next question is would our invited guests who are not alive be able to converse, and what stage of decomposition would we find them in?
In any case, my choices are:
Eduardo Galeano, Cixi (Ts'eu-hi), Gramsci, DiVinci
Of course whithout translators, the conversation might get a little cold.
Mad Zionist: I was too politically correct. I forgot Petra Nemcova.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Gurley Flynn, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and Shabana Azmi
ReplyDeleteOliver Cromwell, Bill Hicks, John Kennedy Toole (if only to tell him to keep the faith and keep on writing)and Messalina
ReplyDeleteMy guy list: Moses, Mohamed, Jesus, Buddha
ReplyDeleteI invite: Jean Baudrillard, Marquis de Sade, Monica Bellucci, and Samuel Beckett.
ReplyDeleteSontin-I would stay for dinner. Remember, it would only be the four of them, they would presumably not be allowed to bring their guards or other thugs, so it would be safe.
ReplyDeleteSince I arrive upon this conversation with a lurid appetite for the absurd:
ReplyDeleteAnetta Keyes
Moses Maimonides
Ferdowsi
Norman Thomas
My list? Andre Breton, Oscar Wilde, Emma Goldman and Flora Tristan.
ReplyDeleteNina Simone, Douglas Adams, Buenaventura Durruti, and Nat Turner.
ReplyDeleteSun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Leonidas of Sparta, and Britney Spears.
ReplyDeleteBritney Spears? Before the haircut I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteLeon Trotsky, Malcolm X, Rosa Luxemburg and M.F.K. Fisher.
ReplyDeleteJohn, Paul, George...er...John Bonham
ReplyDeleteCan I do two? I want one dinner party where the conversation is about food:
ReplyDeleteMFK Fisher, Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown and Jeffrey Steingarten.
I'll let them decide where/what we eat.
Geoffrey Chaucer
ReplyDeleteBen Jonson
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
A bottle of Grey Goose with cool spring water chaser. I could actually communicate with these people.
hmm..I like that you can choose living or dead. That makes the dinner a lot more fun.
ReplyDeleteGandhi, Nietzsche, Mohammed (I've got some real good questions for that guy...) and whoever it was that first invented/made rum. There would be some good debates. And rum.
Nadia-since you are going to have rum, with Mohammed as a guest, might as well go all out for the diner and serve ham, with a nice pineapple glaze.
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, and Che Guevara.
ReplyDeleteBald Britney reminds me of my little sister's Barbie dolls after they were conscripted into my GI Joe strike team and were given flattops in basic training.
ReplyDeleteMuhahahaha.
Okay, kick her out of the dinner party and invite General John J. "Nigger Jack" Pershing instead.
Not if you do vacations, if you them do that you enjoy them, I wait that this all good for city, regards of your friends of Reus Catalunya
ReplyDeleteGaudi, Dali, Picasso and Chaplin
Che Guevara, Huey Newton, Nina Simone,Comandante Ramona
ReplyDeleteNelson Mandela, Noam Chomsky, Gorbatchov, Manuel de Dieguez.
ReplyDeleteI already met Gorbatchov when I was a university student but I'd like to meet him another time.
ReplyDeleteFrench/ US relationships: as you all know, Nicolas Sarkozy is on vacation in the US and he met Bush today. Here is the latest poll:
ReplyDelete- 40% of the French prefer that the relations between both of these countries stay the way they are
- 26% would like that France distance itself from the US
- 33% want that the relations between France and the US get tight
They are preparing something for sure, I guess it's about time to do a new revolution in France.
Politiques: France is still part of "Old Europe"? You don't hear about freedom fries anymore.
ReplyDeleteI wld call Gandhi, Mata Hari, Cherie Blair and Hitler. Faithful Battle-crow will be butler.
ReplyDeleteGrigori Rasputin, Curly Howard, Jack Kerouac and Sarah Silverman
ReplyDeleteBertolt Brecht, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, Nina Simone and Ella Baker.
ReplyDeleteAnd I might invite Trotsky to ask why at every significant point of line struggle in the Soviet Union Trotsky was "out sick" and then conceded to Stalin.
I do believe Trotsky underestimated Stalin. He thought Lenin would take of the problem when he recovers.
ReplyDeleteTrotsky could have used the military against Stalin, but didn't because it would unleash anti-communist forces.
Trotsky had to go on an unexpected trip to Turkey.
Joan Baez, Catherine the Great, Spinoza, Lily Tomlin
ReplyDeleteCool answers.
ReplyDeletePlato, Rumi, Ghandi and Lao Tze
Kurt Vonnegut
ReplyDeleteGeorge Orwell
Ron Atkinson
Ramsay Macdonald
tina modotti, emma goldman, che guevara, serovino giovanni
ReplyDeleteGlenda: I wish you had your own blog. Your group blog is hard to sign in on. Your old blog was very good.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Maria/Maria.
we play this all the time at our house!
ReplyDeleteYeshua - for the obvious
adolph hitler - to get into his sick mind
sean connery - eye candy
michael moore - we'll need someone to eat the food while the rest of us converse...i don't like waste...
1) Robespierre
ReplyDelete2) Karl Marx
3) Friedrich Engels
4) Bertolt Brecht
Not quite sure about Robespierre, seems like the odd one out.
Well thats why I dont have a side in the Stalin/Trotsky debate. They both suck.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmmm...probably:
ReplyDeleteV.I. Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Ted Grant
Dimitri Shostakovich
Karl Marx, age 50, Jesus, age 30, Stalin, age 60 and Hedy Lamarr, age 35.
ReplyDelete-Leon Trotsky
ReplyDelete-An icepick
-A survivor of the Kronstadt massacre
-Some hand-wringing student wanker to provide comic relief and mop up the blood afterwards
Ned: There are anarchists who support Trotsky's decisions at Kronstadt.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know who those anarchists are, Ren. Not that I want to get into a fight with you over Krondstadt (or Makhno, for that matter.) For me unity of all revolutionary tendencies takes precedence over what "your guys did to our guys 90 years ago." It is important what people do now, not the past.
ReplyDeleteNo inter-revolutionary squabbling allowed until AFTER the revolution!
ReplyDeleteThen, may the bolder assassin win!
I appreciate you joke, Farmer, however this need not happen if the great majority of forces have reached agreement on some sort of common program beforehand. And today there is more of a convergence of ideas among socialists and anarchists than I have ever seen in 42 years of activism.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare
ReplyDeleteMarx - (Karl and Groucho - counts as one!)
James Joyce
and
William Blake
Andre Breton, Sylvia Pankhurst,
ReplyDeleteViktor Alter, Simone Signoret
Scarlett Johannson, Halle Berry, Uma Thurman, and Janeane Garafolo.
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