Contest Update!!! You can still win tickets!!!

My my my! What a response!!!

Just when I figure that nobody actually reads my brilliance, the emails come pouring in. It seems all you have to do is offer a prize and the peckers and crackers come crawling out of the crax in the floorboards...

You should be ashamed of your avaricious selves.

But on the other hand...it is a great idea to give away a pair of tickets to the upcoming Gourmet Food and Wine Expo by forcing people to actually evaluate what's important to them. So...to prime the pump I've added the Deaconess' list to this blog. She's not eligible to win, but we've been given tickets already because we're in the sacred circle of wine.

For those of you who are unaware of the Deaconess' genius, here's her ideal dinner guest list:

Leo Tolstoy

John Lennon

Seth MacFarlane

Francis Schaeffer

Ambrose Bierce

Coco Chanel

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Dorothy Parker

Henry David Thoreau

Margaret Atwood

So let's hear from the rest of you. Send me the 10 people you'd most like to invite for a fancy dinner replete with the lost art of conversation, great food and great wine. I'll be judging the results when the flood turns to a trickle.

deaconfresh@rogers.com
You heard me.

Deacon Dr. Fresh
Sparking new neural connexions and upping the IQ of the planet...

Win Tickets to the 2007 Gourmet Food and Wine Expo!

Hello Children of the Grape and adherents of the cathode-ray tube religion...

Welcome to yet another brilliant blog experience, designed to educate and stimulate your overly medicated brains...(temporarily) breaking the consensus trance you live in...your face pressed to the television screen...obediently asking your doctor for the medications you just saw advertised on CNN...no longer helplessly hoping...for something real and with authentic content...and as you sleep...your life passes quickly and without meaning...and the deathbed beckons you to...watch television...have children...go into debt...consume...run yourself into the ground...and you play your role...and do exactly what you're told...because the dollar's strong...and the rules are different now...and it's time for a flu shot...and your brain is atrophying...

But you don't care...because you have a 54 inch screen...and a new credit card...and CSI is on tonight...and all is well with the illusory world...and it's so much better to sleep than think...is it not?..................Wake up...

NOW!

...on a lighter note, your humble Deacon has an online contest for y'all! As you can see from the title of this issue, the 2007 Gourmet Food and Wine Expo is nearly here again! This is certainly cause to rejoice! If you've never attended this prestigious 4 day event, I urge you to click on the link and find out all about it. And better than that, you can win a pair of tickets to this fun-fest by dropping me an email. Here's the contest rules:

Send me your ideal list of 10 guests for the fantasy dinner party of your dreams. I want to know who you'd throw together around a gourmet meal for an intriguing evening of the lost art of conversation. (That's when people turn off the idiot box and actually talk to each other about politics, religion, culture, literature, art, history, philosophy, etc.) Here's my list in no particular order, to get you started:

Samuel Johnson

Garry Kasparov

Glenn Gould

Nikola Tesla

Martin Luther King

Peter Cooke

Allen Ginsberg

Marilyn Vos Savant

Virginia Woolf

Leonard Cohen

Let me know who you'd invite. Note that Bono on a list will lead to an immediate disqualification. I'll let you know who the winners are...

Deacon Dr. Fresh

Helping you remember what your brain's for...