Announcing a new Meetup for Chicago Creative Social Club!

What: Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS: The Empire Strikes Back

When: Friday, March 26, 2010 7:00 PM

Where:
The Long Room
1612 West Irving Park Road
Chicago, IL 60613
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Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO is on Friday, February 26th. We have 24 "Yes" RSVPs as of this writing and there is still time to join in on the fun.

I have decided to schedule Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS allowing about six weeks lead time, for four reasons:

• I am thinking Conversation Salons will be a regular THANG of The Chicago Creative Social Club. I decided that the last Friday evening of every month might make sense. With supplementary, bespoke (look it up -- the British use that word ALL the time) Meetups besides the Conversation Salons, we will have a pretty solid Club calendar. I think a regular rhythm of events might be good, but I could be wrong.
  
• I decided to officially postpone the discussion "Hollywood hatchet job: Alan Moore's From Hell" to Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS. I had designated it "optional" for Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO. Am I postponing it because I am unprepared? Hardly. Shutter Island is coming out as a movie, and it also has a recently published graphic novel, so I would like to check both out, as well as Dennis Lehane's original novel. I also just finished the graphic novel "The Hunter" based on Richard Stark's crime novel, upon which TWO Hollywood movies were also made: Point Blank with Lee Marvin (1967) and Payback with Mel Gibson (1999). I would like to explore the artistic variations from one medium to the next for From Hell (itself largely derived from Stephen Knight's 1976 book, Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution), Shutter Island, and The Hunter, so it makes sense to do all this at Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS. I would suggest that you also check out these sets of books, movies, and graphic novels yourself before Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS (just hang out at Borders!); the artistic variations are intriguing and the graphic novel truly makes for a different, sometimes UNMATCHABLE experience in its own right. And as someone who has read at most four comic books in his life, I can assure you that you don't need to be a comic book fan to love graphic novels.
  
• I wanted to signal ahead of time that the topic on "technology and social isolation" will be a running theme in our Conversation Salons. As you will see at Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO (if you attend it!), this topic is a hugely important one for our society, and Meetup.com is a prime example of a technological solution that can ameliorate, rather than exacerbate, social isolation. At The Chicago Creative Social Club, we can have fun with social isolation even as we destroy it.
  
• Finally, I wanted to give as many of you as much planning horizon as possible to be able to fit Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS into your schedule. Is six weeks enough? I hope so.
  

Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS will be at The Long Room unless someone identifies a better (however defined) place, or a venue in which I can give a PowerPoint presentation on the topic of graphic novels. Note that there will be MANY MORE topics in the creative universe for Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS. Your suggestions are welcome.


Jester

PS: For Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO, I am adding a new topic "Very good reasons and very bad reasons to join, participate in, and leave a Meetup Group".

Learn more here:
http://www.creativesocialclub.com/calendar/12618417/