Dinner #5

The Park
118 10th Ave.

Moment in time:
5/6/2010 8:00 PM
Gorgeous Guests:
Jason McDowell-Green
Brock Forsblom
Tyce Walters
Judy Wang
Mia Crager
Caite Hevner
Marshall Pailet
and ME


Exquisite Edibles:
Steak Salad with arugula and onion
Ricotta pesto pizza
Tri-color hummus plate
Penne pasta with sweet Italian sausage, spinach and white beans
Crab Cakes
Portobello Burger

Pre-dinner query:
If you could institute any law, what would it be called?
Answers:

"Bodhi Act" (Jason)
Daily city-wide required 30 min meditation period (Mon-Sat)

"The Don't You Dare Leave the Theater Before the Bows Are Over Act" (Meg)
That's rude.

"Rapid Response Act" (Ethan)
Email me back. Now.

"The Act to Restore Good Governance" (Tyce)
Actual improvements to the world. Whatever.

"No Texting at Dinner" (Marshall)
Obvi.

"No Line Cutting Law" (Judy)
On the subway especially. Emulate Japan.

"The Marriage Abrogation Act" (Caite)
Abrogation? Look it up. We did.

"The National Anti-Puritanical Work Ethic Initiative" (Brock)
More vacation. Emulate France.

"The Calorie and Gibberish and Regulation" (Mia)
Give foods fabricated names. And always list number of calories. Emulate New York. Ex: Homapodge Shamerdooflings, 63 calories


Questions at Dinner:
-If you could pick one era to visit for 24 hours, what would it be?
2112 (Brock) & The Dinosaurs (Marshall)

-If you could time travel to see any live performance, what would it be?
Shakespeare's OTHELLO at the Globe...or the wrestling at the first Olympics (Jason), Beatles at Shea Stadium...or SHOWBOAT (Meg), the original MY FAIR LADY...or Martin Luther King's "I Dreamed a Dream"... aka "I have a dream"(Ethan)

-Would you rather have B- sex with a different partner everyday (required, no exceptions)
OR
have A+ sex with the same partner once every three years (and no other sex ever)?
There were several outstanding concerns. Option one: STDs, no more excellent sex, B- sex is only 80%, sex becoming a chore. Option two: contemplating having sex only 20 more times in one's life, sexual starvation.
Ultimately people came down on the side of A+ sex. No one feared monogamy.


-What is your favorite NYC secret?
Speakeasys: Please Don't Tell, Milk and Honey (Tyce recommends emailing for reservations because the phone number changes all the time)

-If you could remove any word from the English language, what would it be?
meta (Tyce)
ointment (Caite)
condo (Brock)
impact (Ethan)
inflammable (Mia) <--that shit means the same thing as flammable!


-If you had $2 million to spend on a party that you must throw within the next 12 months, what would you celebrate, where and how?
Judy said she'd throw her own gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jason would fly all his friends to Australia to celebrate New Years and then turn right back around and party some more!
Brock would throw a Midsummer's Eve Party on a beautiful night. First he'd buy the weather; what's left over: booze.

-What is your best "only in New York" story?
Mia's story: "Only in New York are you approached by the small-time marginally famous movie director who wants to “put you in a movie” and take you to Paris for “casting” while shopping at Whole Foods (for such sexy items as toilet paper and frozen peas). Through the course of the encounter I was told such nuggets as 'I have fathered many children; the first at age 13 when I followed a woman to the airport and got on a plane to Argentina with her.'"

Bathroom blog moment:
No comment. Rating: $1.

The winner of tonight's dessert-time diversion: Tyce with a score of 5!


Cheers to our Fifth Festival of Food and Friends!

Yours,
ME