Meeting 783
July 25, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Nathan Slerm-r & Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:00 pm as we said ‘hi Galen!’
17 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 782 were accepted as 'do you
want fries with that’
Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $4.60 in the regular
fund & $11.25 in the party fund
VP reports = pre-eminent VP Chris reported that there’s a new issue of
‘Drink Tank’ online & that his team did make the film in 48 hours & that
Frank Wu made an appearance therein; then Nathan reported that Scotty
died last week, that Gary Kurtz us selling off his Star Wars memorabilia
on Ebay live auction, that the SF Museum is taking films for
consideration thru Nov 1 & a Star Wars TV show is allegedly in the works
The President had nothing to report
We said ‘hi’ to Harold Tilsdale - a guest visiting us ‘cuz he saw our
website
Announcements:
Pam announced that Cathy Garber is a media guest for Silicon
Carole announced membership prices for Silicon go up Sept 14, so buy now
& to check out the Silicon website
Julie announced that the Novato Ren Faire goes for another 3 weeks
Dave C announced he read that Fred Saberhagen has been diagnosed with
metastasized prostate cancer & that it’s been really hot
Chris announced that Captain Jack Avery has started a new ezine called
SFSF [check ezines.com] & that the film he did will be at the Roxy this
Wed & Thurs nights at 7 & 9:30pm
Cheryl announced that she leaves for Glasgow this Wednesday
[Trey commented in follow-on that ‘my government’ equates to ‘my gout’,
but that he can live with his gout.]
Kevin announced that he leaves for Glasgow this Sunday - looking quite
natty in his captain’s outfit
Reviews:
Nathan reviewed the Legion of Rasselon meeting & found it fun & had a
good time, well worth checking out and that the ‘4400’ is worth viewing
Dave C reviewed ‘the Knitters’ at the Great Old Music Hall - playing
traditional American music & heard Phranc [butch lesbian music] as a
great time was had by all
Julie commented that she was re-learning how to knit
Then Chris said something to trigger my mysophobia [Spitting? Ewwww!]
Dave C then reviewed ‘The Island’ as a ‘big dumb movie’ that he saw for
free as his only consolation - that it was tedious & everything about
science hurt & that the clones were too stupid to be killed. Dave stated
that this movie turned the audience against the idea of seeing films.
Avoid this movie
Dave C then reviewed Ian Banks’ ‘The Algebraist’ as hard going & hoped
it was an off-year for the author, worth used pb
Dave G reviewed a 50th wedding anniversary party in San Diego for his
aunt & uncle as a fun time & then reviewed ComicCon as big & full of
people & a nice little diversion & worth the 1-day membership fee
Julie wanted it known that she still hasn’t seen the movie ‘Sideways’
Dave C mentioned a secret book dealer’s trick
Chris reviewed wearing his shirt inside-out as ‘very cooling’ & then
reviewed buying a Disney treasure on Ebay as good live-action & sucky
cartoons
Cheryl reviewed ‘Books by the Bay’ as it was hot in SF & she bought some
books there
We birthday-auctioned off Galen for $5.25 to Chris, who outbid himself
We adjourned at = 9:18 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘Galen is back, can Friday be far behind?’
