A Tale Of Two Parties

Let's look at the society pages.

On December 30th, I attended an FOV--Friends Of Virginia (and Steve) Postrel--party. Virginia Postrel, as regular readers know, has a great blog and is the author of two fine books. Virginia also likes TV--she was a huge fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, for example. We're both fans of Battlestar Galactica and Lost, but since she tapes the shows and is way behind, she refused to discuss them.

Her party was full of academics and bloggers. Among the crowd was Brian Doherty of Reason magazine, Amy Alkon, Mickey Kaus, the Gay Patriot (who lives in West Hollywood, of course) and Sandra Tsing Loh. Matt Welch who now works for the "evil MSM," just returned from France and couldn't make it.

There was conversation and lasagna. Brian, who wrote a book about Burning Man, will have a new book out soon on libertarianism. I'm certainly looking forward to it. Mickey told me he gets a lot less grief from his own side--Democrats--than he used to since they won the elections. Still, some claim he's a concern troll. We also discussed, among other things, the tasering at UCLA and Ann Coulter's sincerity.

Then, on New Year's Eve, I partied with my book group. The hostess put out a delightful spread. We watched a DVD--A Night At The Opera (can't go wrong with that)--and played Apples To Apples. Then we went out on the balcony to greet the new year with champagne. We drank from expensive glasses so we couldn't dash them against the fireplace.

Start writing "2007" on your checks.