summer plans

We had a good Neanderthal meeting on Monday night to discuss Caputo's The Voyage. Following Lumpkin's last-minute suggestion for a location change, we met at the new Fado and sat upstairs on the new roof deck on a lovely late-spring evening. The usual suspects were Lumpkin, Parker, Mullen, and me, and we were joined for the first time by my friend and colleague Andy Delfino. He gets high marks for a) having actually read the book, and b) convincingly lecturing on Post-Modernism (Mullen gets high marks for pretending to be interested when what he really wanted to talk about was Lost).

Anyway, we've decided to make Fado our new meeting location. After all, unlike Fox and Hounds, they closed for renovations and you can actually tell they did something. Plus, it's evidently more convenient for the hinterland-dwelling Mullen. And the scenery is better. The view of the neighborhood from up there is nice, too.

In the interest of time, we went ahead and set a date and picked a book for June, bypassing the usual intermediate step of pretending to care what those who didn't attend might want. Our next book will be White Noise, by Don Delillo, and our next meeting date is Monday, June 23rd. We also decided that the Neanderthals would take a summer break over July and August and would kick off our eighth season in September with a weekend in the mountains (details TBA) to discuss Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons. We'll iron out logistics about that one later . . . for now, though, White Noise, June 23rd at Fado.

EDIT: Hey, wonder if I'm related to this guy?