The Rusted Musket

When hosting a dinner party it is generally understood that you’ll be the one providing the food.  In the same vein the host should not neglect, atleast initially, to provide the evenings other pivotal feature, the conversation.  With this in mind it is surprising how many people are actually very poor hosts!  While the host might put forth a lot of effort to make some food (that’s in and out of the system with in a few hours) they give little or no effort to themes or topics that guests might for the next week or two be enriched, intrigued, humored, or delighted by.  Never, under any circumstance should the evenings conversation depend upon banal conversational cop outs such as, “How are you?” or “Whats going on?”.  Those brain dead trivial questions should be avoided like the plague because in essence they transmit the vibe of, “I’ve got nothing to say, I’m boring, please you talk”.  There might be occasion to use those phrases casually, but never ever when you’ve gone through the trouble to invite someone over.  Instead start out with a funny story that stands out from last week and then gradually get into deeper matters as the evening progresses…