Chat

[moon_custafer]

Went to Thanksgiving dinner with friends, but stopped at another couple's apartment on the way over to drop some stuff off, so two visits in one day; and tomorrow we're going to my brother's house for dinner with him and my parents. This weekend's the biggest social whirl I've had in a while. Talked a lot tonight - hope I didn't dominate the conversation too much (someone was reading us an essay he's writing on the history of "cool" - I thought he should have compared it more carefully with earlier social concepts like "good form" or "sprezzatura," rather than treating it as a purely late 20th-c invention.)

When I've got a bunch of people to talk to and interesting topics, it's like dessert for my brain.

Comments

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

You need have no fear of dominating the conversation. Your commentary is always well-informed and often piquant: a welcome addition to any salon! I think it might seem to some people that Diners conversations are sometimes being monopolised by the speaker of the moment but that's because Big Ideas require Big Exposition. Our data packets are bigger but we do timeshare.

BTW - Just rewatched the "Chat! Chat! Chat!" episode of "Ghost In The Shell"!

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

The one that takes place entirely in a chat room discussion of the Laughing Man? That's a good one.

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

Yes, that's the one. It's a very realistic portrayal of a typical chatroom: snark included! I also like how the old mainframe guy is the one with the deepest analysis so he's the one the Major hauls out to interrogate.