Meeting 786
Aug 15, 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
18 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 785 were accepted as ‘behind
us’ & the minutes from Worldcon, dubbed meeting 784.5 were accepted as
‘evidence of entropy’
No Treasurer; but last week we took in $7.00
VP reports = pre-eminent VP Nathan was not present; then Chris reported
that he actually WAS here this week, that he has fanzines to give away -
he passed them out - and that he loves his new T-shirt
The President [quietly levitated 4 inches above the ground] and reported
he had nothing fannish to report
We said ‘hi’ to Jack Avery, SFSF fanzine editor who stopped by to say
‘hi’ to us. He told us SFSF is available at efanzines.com, is interested
in Worldcon reports, con reports in general, letters to the editor &
notices of fan events to come
Announcements:
I announced that the Further Confusion annual picnic is this Saturday at
Lake Chabot at noon - and is open to any fan interested in attending
Julie announced that on Aug 18 the Presidio Theatre will show all 3
‘Lord of the Rings’ movies
Jack announced that David Drake will be signing at Borderlands at 7pm
Saturday & there will be a wake for Scotty on Thursday at the Edinburgh
Castle
Chris announced that the short he helped make will be shown at the
Basement in SF & that Frank Wuis in the short
Dave announced that SFSFC will hold a party TBA to court-martial Kevin
‘real soon now’
Remember that Kevin is also the NASFIC fan-GOH
Reviews:
Worldcon was exhaustively reviewed - Kevin told us that about 4100
attended, that as Captain of the WSFS ‘Armadillo’ he voluntarily wore a
tie, the major events happened on time, where they were supposed to &
went well - that he was photographed numerous times but that all
pictures he has seen of himself are blurry - he vamped well when
necessary & hopes he never has to work that hard again; Dave C reviewed
it that he KNEW it would be successful when he went to the Frank Wu
panel on Thursday afternoon and found the room packed; Frank thought it
was a lot of fun, well run & felt it was like many other conventions
held in other places, except the potato chips are called ‘crisps’ and
come in really weird flavors & that the money was odd [[examples of this
were displayed]] & his panels went fabulously well; fun with Scottish
money was mentioned & that apparently for some con rooms air
conditioning was lacking [‘it wasn’t the heat, it was the humanity’]
Chris commented that English fanzine writers get it right
Ed is obsessive about ‘Settlers of Catan’
Dave C reviewed England as it made him feel wistful for real food, mixed
drinks, real soda, guide books written in the last decade & stop signs;
he saw 2 stage plays = ‘Guys & Dolls’ as excellent, worth full price &
‘Theatre of Blood’, a comedy, as worth full price & on his short list
for dramatic long presentation
Kevin reviewed the sleeper car from Glasgow as a hidden treasure - it
takes all night - is pricey but you don’t have to pay for a hotel room
that night
We auctioned off stuff = a book for $0.25, a book & a fan for $0.25, a
book for $1.25, a cardboard C3PO & a fan for $1.00 & a book for $2.50
We adjourned at = 9:42 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘that Frank Wu is the Scary Spice of life’
