Here’s the challenge — if you could invite 5 people to a dinner party (not counting best friends or relatives), who would they be? What would you eat? What music would be playing? What would you talk about? Who would you invite? Considering all the options available, it took me a few minutes and I hereby deliver my list with a disclaimer — the names will probably change with time, environment and mood. Buck Fuller (the most brilliant man ever) Winston Churchill (the most intriguing chronicler of his time) Jean Jacques Rosseau Wil and Ariel Durant (come together wrote the history of civilization) J.D. Salinger (he has to get out once in a while) Picasso (an inspired freak like that has to be exciting to chat with) For openers Oysters Rockefeller Crab Cakes Cream of Brocolli Soup Watercress Salad For an Entree Tenderloin of Beef crusted in rock salt and coarse black peppercorns Cabernet Sauce Fresh Spinach For those prefering Fins Coho Salmon crusted in sesame seeds and tricolored pepper corns Cabernet Sauce Fresh Spinach For Drinks: Full Sail Ale 982 Penfolds Grange Hermitage Cosmopolitans and Lemon Drops Sapphire Martinis Belvedere Martinis For Desert (I started here) Fresh strawberries and blue berries dusted with powedered sugar and glazed with Grand Marnier Flourless semi-sweet chocolate cake Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with just hints of ice still floating in the mix Late Harvest Monticello Savignon Blanc A nice selection of Ports Oban 14 year old Single Malt What music would be playing? The entire "___ing with the Miles Davis Quintet" Series The Stones (live recording) Celia Cruz and La Dinamica A Benny Goodman selection Stephane Grappelli Santana - That Double Album with Europa and Black Magic Woman on it Not sure the old guys could hang with it, but what the heck? What would you talk about? "can't talk, eating..." life after death scientific and spiritual conceptions of God and the Universe Define "courage" Define "creativity" Define "love" Is true love possible? Is coexistence without war possible? What drives man to murder his neighbors, sons, and friends in the name of religion, nationalism,or a cause?