Meeting #1710 - Monday, 19 June, 2023
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
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Called to order at 20:00
Total of 14 log-ins
Secretary
The minutes of meeting 1709 were posted online, and were accepted as: the
least disastrous news available.
Treasurer
Regular: $15,805.32
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to = dwgalla...@gmail.com
Vice President
Nothing fannish to report.
President
Not present.
Committees:
None present.
New Business:
No new business.
Announcements:
Yochanan:
Palo Alto Players is doing Puffs - A Harry Potter based comedy parlayers.org
<http://parlayers.org/>.
Valerie: Really enjoyed the harry potter parody puffs. You can use the code
MOODY for $5 off any Adult reserved seat* to the remaining performances now
through July 2 from Palo Alto Players https://paplayers.org/event/puffs/
https://www.broadwayondemand.com/rentals/c9d9509e-d98c-41e0-a8a2-1ceb0c8afe64
Lisa:
BayCon is July 4th weekend. (1-4) baycon.org <http://baycon.org/> Santa Clara
Marriott
Craig: Schedule is on Grenadine
Candy: Silicon Valley Authors will be selling and signing at Baycon the whole
time! As well as doing panels.
Rick:
Teaser trailer for Netflix's upcoming adaptation of 3-Body Problem is now out.
https://www.liveforfilm.com/2023/06/19/3-body-problem-watch-the-teaser-for-the-new-sci-fi-series-adaptation-from-david-benioff-and-d-b-weiss/
In case people missed it, a substantial trailer for the upcoming B5 movie is
also out. https://file770.com/babylon-5-the-road-home-trailer/ August 15.
Ken:
Legion of Rassilon is this (the fourth) Friday. This month we’ll be watching
the Ninth Doctor story The Unquiet Dead and the Tenth Doctor story The
Shakespeare Code. 7:30 pm Dennys in Milpitas (Abbot Ave, off Calaveras, near
880) lor.club <http://lor.club/>
Reviews
Yochanan:
12th Night (Noche de reyes) (Willow Street Park, San José) through June 25
Thusdays-Sundays at 7 pm. Done with in a telenovela style. Absolutely
delightful. Actors are top of their game. Silicon Valley Shakespeare. Free.
svshakespeare.org <http://svshakespeare.org/>
Puffs (Palo Alto Players) fantastic. Worth full price. A little bit long (2:40
w/ intermission) A little muddled, not all jokes land. The whole idea is just
delightful. The Harry Potter years from the POV of another house. Highly
recommend.
Artiemis Fowl: The Time Paradox. Liked, but didn’t love. Hadn’t read any of the
series. Fully realized magical world. A lot of ideas, but a bit too dense. A
page turner, but don’t recommend without possibly starting from the beginning.
Good not great.
Parallels (Disney+) French series (6/7 eps) sort of a time paradox thing going
on, and parallel universes. Interesting story, but a little convoluted. Dubbed
into English.
Lynn:
Watched two movies on an airplane. Mulan (live action) very nice, not a
musical. 80 For Brady, liked a lot more than she expected. Not a football fan,
but the cast!!! Nicely done.
Valerie:
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill--cozy and folkloric and sweet. Ink Blood
Sister Scribe: a touch of horror/thriller as the magic librarians are chasing
the heroes but it was fun overall with surprising revelations. Cassandra in
Reverse was charming--women's cozy romance meets Greek myth meets groundhog day
as superpower. Invisible Library big series--fun magical librarians series,
mild parody in Thursday Next style.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 (Paramount+) is keeping things up from
last season. First episode good.
Yochanan: Huge fan. Strange New Worlds is just delightful. Balance of
meaningful and whimsy.
Ken: Make sure to watch the Ready Room after each episode.
Patty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen 10 book series by
Steven Erikson, very good series but very deep fantasy series … I'm re-reading
it for the 3rd time so it's definitely worth reading at full price, if you like
odd worlds with strange magic.
Rumor of the Week:
A pair of docs is a paradox.
Adjourned at: 20:39
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