I've always been a big fan of David Attenborough and his BBC's documentaries. I've always loved those "Life" series and those other series like "The Blue Planet". The man is an icon and ask yourselves is there a worthwhile natural history documentary out there without Sir David. For Christ sake, this Emperor penguin waited for three days on this ice flow just for his autograph. He's got groupies on all continents. He's a modern day Dr. Doolittle. Just look at this clip of how he charmed the pants off of this little robin when he was here in New Zealand. Just 15 minutes with this Lyre bird and he's taught it all these different sounds. The man is amazing.As a guest at my dinner party he was almost too amazing, too iconic (see Ali and Obama from previous posts). I see Sir David as a bit more low key though and almost more familiar too everyone so I don't see myself nor my guests too intimidated by actually having him over. The man has been everywhere. He has these trademark segues in his series where he'll be standing on a rock island off the coast of Argentina with some Elephant seals and than midway through the sentence he'll be in northern Greenland cuddling an Artic Fox. I'd be most interested in his travel stories as much as his animal ones. I'm not too worried about the mix with the other guests because I feel I've got a good balance going. Sir David was always on the short list but I was a bit worried about which direction my dinner party was going. Since it appears to be on the older, respected side when then I think he's a perfect fit and I'll be doing a lot of listening. That seems fine to me.
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