BASFA Meeting #1545 (in Quarantine)
Monday, April 13, 2020
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Held at Black Bear Diner, Milpitas
Called to order at 20:01 with 16 people in attendance
Secretary Report
The minutes of meeting #1544 were were posted online and accepted as: Very
promptly posted.
Treasurer Report
#1544:
Regular $0.00 | Party $ 0.78
#1502 (5/27/19):
Regular $0.25 | Party $ 1.50
Totals
Regular$15,631.83 | $230.58
Vice President Report
Nothing fannish to report
No president report
Committee Report
Sports Committee
SJGiants Harry Potter night on Friday, July 31.
Still waiting on when or if the season will begin. If they keep the event dates
the same, no issue. If they move the dates we’ll have dibs on the new date. If
there is no season they would like me to use payment as deposit on game from
2021 season. If you paid up, and it’s cancelled (or the new date doesn’t work)
Ken will refund you regardless of the SJ Giants policy.
No new business
Announcements
Lisa:
Fanime has officially cancelled this year’s convention. Tickets will be rolled
over to 2021. If you booked your hotel through the convention, the booking will
be voided. fanime.com <http://fanime.com/>
DaveG: ConZealand will be virtual this year. An announcement with more details
is expected Tuesday.
Ken: Being virtual means it will truly be the first World.Con.
Reviews
DaveW:
Semper Augustus, by Nancy Kress (novella in the Mar/Apr edition of Asimov’s)
near-future dystopia in which aliens have visited Earth and made their
technology available to elites, displacing a lot of working-class jobs. Income
inequality, terrorist/resistance group, a more authoritarian US government
using the terrorists to justify military crackdowns on the population.
Protagonist born into poverty, becomes a fashion model and gets tension between
her old friends and new. Really good, and the alien motivation is suitably
alien.
Valerie
National Theatre's Jane Eyre was very artistic with a very sincere Jane-- and
I'm not usually a fan of that story. Free through Thurs, then a new play's
coming. The Saturday Night Seder with celebrities on youtube was delightful --
hilarious and appropriate. A good guide for teaching about the seder.
https://www.saturdaynightseder.com/ Haven't tried the Globe's free Hamlet or
Big Finish's free weekly Dr Who story yet but there's lots of great free stuff.
Phantom of the Opera on youtube Friday. I've also been doing delightful book
talks through zoom and Jewish Community Library.
Joni
Discovered through Amazon that there were more Midnight, Texas books, and that
there even was a television series on NBC!
Fred
[hybrid review/announcement] CBS All Access streaming service is offering free
access to their service (promo code GIFT or ALL) Watched Star Trek: Picard [Ken
lost track for a bit: sorry…] www.cbs.com/all-access
<http://www.cbs.com/all-access>
Todd: Enjoyed Picard
DaveG: Picard quite good. Catching up on Discovery
JohnO: Enjoyed Picard, especially how they handled the character being older.
CBS All Access also has all the Star Trek series’ available.
Valerie: Found the first half of Picard boring, second half revved up. It’s all
fan service, but fun fan service.
Kennita:
Cheetah cub cam: nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/cheetah-cub-cam
<http://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/cheetah-cub-cam>
DaveW: John Oliver show last night has a news reporter at home with cat
“cleaning” itself in the background.
DaveG: KTVU’s Bill Martin had a cat tail in his weather report.
Lisa: Monterey Bay Aquarium also doing live feeds
montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams
<http://montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams>
Joni: Monterey Bay Aquarium also has backggrounds for your Zoom needs
montereybayaquarium.org/animals/wallpapers
<http://montereybayaquarium.org/animals/wallpapers>
JohnO
Having heard wonderful things, he and Chris are finally watching the Good Place
(part way into the second season now.) Enjoying the heck out of it. Minor
character stole the moment: The actress portraying Chef Patricia had the body
and facial mannerisms of an angry chef while pleasantly delivering nice
dialogue.
Kennita: Second that it’s worth watching
DaveW: Number of treats ahead of season 2. There’s also a Good Place podcast!
Alex: You might accidentally learn some philosophy!
Ken: Ordered the BluRay that comes out in May.
No auction…
Meeting was adjourned at 21:01, and the rumor was: Corona virus was started by
pets to make their humans stay home more often.
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