Hello and welcome to Symposiasts. Catchy eh? We originally (this morning) wanted our new "project" to be titled Symposium because, well, without really knowing what it meant, it seemed apt. Having looked in the dictionary, we found "symposium" to mean 'friendly conversation' dating back to the drinking parties of Ancient Greeks. We were very pleased to have hit upon the perfect title for a blog started by two friends who just want a venue to air the judgments formed and the tastes cultivated by the everyday. Frustrated that such blazing insights could only amuse ourselves, we thought we'd offer them to you for consideration.

Anyhoo, "Symposium" was taken and all our hopes crashed around us. We ventured back to the dictionary and found that as participants in a Symposium, we are Symposiasts. Nifty, eh? You will admire our humility and restraint when you find that we chose Symposiasts over Symposiarch, which means 'president of a symposium'. We felt it was a touch imperious... even if, well, literally correct.

We realise we follow in the footsteps of many who have tread the fine line between insight and inanity before us. Whether we cross that line or not, we don't care. The value of this place for us is that it is all about us.