The Salon is fast approaching (this weekend!) and there are a couple of fun things to discuss regarding it. First, who is coming? We’ve got confirmations from Elizabeth, The Groom, Iain, Natarajan, Donna, and me. I hear that Brett is a “maybe”. Kim and Martial, lamentably, cannot make it; Kim is chained to her veterinary desk. Trey, any news from your neck of the woods?

Second, we must identify what pressing moral, ethical, intellectual, political, and/or artistic subjects should be up for discussion at the Salon. What’s on your mind? What crises of conscience have you recently encountered? Me, I’ve been putting some thought over the past few months into weighty topics like the meaning and direction of my life and consequent choices of career. I have no doubt that you all have experiences and opinions to share on your own version of that one. What else might we chew over as we partake of some divine culinary offerings?