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Meeting 831 June 26, 2006 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 7:55 [with an ‘O god!’] 28 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 830 were accepted as ’Kate & Leopold make the flowers grow’ Treasurer’s report was that we have money The VP reported that there’s a new issue of ‘Drink Tank’ out & he made a movie last weekend * he has personal pride & that he is announcing his candidacy for TAFF and put $20.00 that within 30 days of his trip he would have has trip report done The President greeted our visitors = Mike, Yvette - both locals - and also Amy, visiting from Seattle We annexed the Mission Valley Marriott as a part of the Bay area for Westercon Announcements [evil] Kevin announced that Westercon will be this weekend and there will be an Evil Genius party and a Hollister in ’08 party there Ken announced that the Cinema San Pedro movie for this Wednesday night will be ‘Jaws’ Spring announced that Pat MacEwan’s mom passed away Kevin S announced that he has fanzines to pass around and read - plus check out Cheryl’s online blog Chris announced that he’s doing a reading tomorrow at Intersection for the Arts with Terry Bisson & Peter Beagle & if you come he will either buy you a drink or kick you Reviews: Julie reviewed ‘1776’, the stage play at the Willows theatre in Concord as the best thing she’s ever seen there - with no weak parts and great sets; that it’s still the best play ever written and will be playing there for another week Harold reviewed “The Republican War on Science’ as readable and reviewed the SJ Giants as a lot of fun and he enjoyed Turkey Mike’s BBQ and he urges the Sports Committee to ‘pick a date!’ Adrienne reviewed epinions.com get-together in Las Vegas as she did a lot of walking around and that ghosts avoided her; that she took the Haunted Vegas tour on Sunday and enjoyed it & she brought auction items Chris reviewed driving to San Francisco to drop off his film as the worst day to drive in the year & reviewed Johnny’s North Side Grill in Los Gatos as he managed not to leap upon a group of university students who were dissing the Foundation series but the ribs were still great Andy reviewed Gaylaxicon in Toronto as having some flaws but worth the tickets there and the at-the-door- reg fee - but totally NOT worth the hotel fee; that the Masquerade was good but the hotel was . . . an experience [that included quantum elevators; and this was the Primrose Best Western]; [evil] Kevin follow-on’d that details are in his LJ but that his padding out for the Masquerade worked well Dave C reviewed CSPAN’s showing of the Heritage Foundation meeting some of the cast of ‘24’ as ‘peculiar’ & Ken follow-on’d that later that night CSPAN had Ben Stein on [evil] Kevin reviewed Wonderflex, an astonishing material to work with and he’s been using it to make mandibles Dave G & Dave C reviewed ‘the Day of the Dunes’, as a pleasant time with a lot of wining going on Catole reviewed the Martine Inn in Pacific Grove as very nice and has good food Dave C announced that Mike Ward is looking for a room-mate for Westercon Amy recommends the town of Winslow as worthwhile Frank Wu reviewed the Licensing Development show in New York as being worth full price There was an announcement that starting next week there will be a 15% gratuity added to all our bills We auctioned off stuff, birthday auctioned off Carole for $11 to Bill; epinions swag for $5.00; films for $5.00; a CD rack for $5.00; books for $1.00, $1.00, $1.00; tea for $1.00; ribbons for $0.25; Baycon stuff for $5.00 & a bookbag for $3.00 We adjourned at = 9:37 pm We suspended the normal rules for rumors - And the rumor of the week was that ‘BASFAn’s are the new zombie’ |
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