Meeting 790
Sept 12, 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 8:02 pm
14 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 789 were accepted as ‘belabored’
Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $0.50
VP reports = no Nathan [week 3]; VP Chris reported that new issues of
‘Drink Tank’ are coming out
The President got a wealth of silverware & reported that he has party
stuff that he wants to fob off on a new party maven
We said ‘hi’ to Glen, visiting from LA & he commented he may be moving
up here in 2007
Art had email from Matthew, a SF resident who’d like to attend meetings
but needs a ride & inquired if anyone drives in from SF & could help him
Chris suggested he may restart ‘Justifying the Neans’, the BASFA
newsletter & this was greeted positively
Announcements:
Kevin announced there are new Emerald Cities & that Cheryl plans to take
the ‘zine semi-pro
Chris announced he will be doing another movie Oct 16 & would like
volunteer stunt drivers for slow speed driving therein
Dave C announced that fan, Kelly Turner, is in hospital & he announced
‘Other Change of Hobbit’ is putting up auction items on Ebay for Katrina
relief & various charities
Frank announced there are Ebay auctions to add your name to various
fiction [by Stephen King, Amy Tam, Neil Gaiman & others]
Reviews:
Julie reviewed a series of YA melodramatic books with cliff-hanger
endings that included ‘Both Sides of Time’ as nice if you like that sort
of thing and worth library
Kevin reviewed one of the busiest weeks of his life as being fan GoH at
a NASFIC was pretty neat & he tried to be a good guest & had a great
time; he reviewed the NASFIC as well-attended but too spread out & he
enjoyed the board of inquiry & worth far more than he paid for it
NASFIC was reviewed by Chris as he had a good time & that it did have
problems & the fanzine lounge was FANtastic, worth 3/4 of what he paid
for it; Glen reviewed that the program guide blame should be laid at the
feet of only one person & you needed a secret decoder ring to figure it
out; Dave C agreed about the program guide problems & as a Dealer had
other problems - such as the website program participants varied from
real life - so it made stocking a table difficult; Dave G said he was
there for only part of the con & thought Dealer’s room was in a bad
space, as was the standing exhibits area - but this was due to the
facility being built into a hill, but that the expected attendance did
not justify 10 tracks of programming; the Board of Inquiry was reviewed
as ‘Kevin was railroaded’ ; that it was all Seth’s fault & Kevin got off
on a technicality & that the board of inquiry was hijacked by pirates
Dave G reviewed the IMAX ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’ as worth full
price
Dave C reviewed ‘The End of the Road’ by Tom Bodett as good short
stories for a dentist’s office visit, worth pb & reviewed ‘The Unquiet
Grave’ by Evans as the ‘grimmest, highest body-count Dr. Who book he has
ever read’ & worth getting free
We auctioned off stuff = books for $1.00 & $2.25, a CD for $1.25; a pen
for $1.00; audio for $1.00; comic for $1.00; magazine for $1.25 & 2
glasses for $3.75 & $4.25
We adjourned at = 9:31 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘Blame Seth’
