Meeting 792
Sept 26, 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
17 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 791 were accepted as ‘what
the heck is that noise’
Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $57.85 & our total is
footloose & fancy free
VP reports = no Nathan [week 5]; VP Chris reported that he’s still going
to Las Vegas to rocket sled across the alkali flats
The President greeted new faces at the meeting & reminded us that
Silicon is Oct 7-9 at the Doubletree
We said ‘hi’ to Ross Parlett & Eric Brown - who were visiting us,
referred by Lynn
Announcements:
Ross announced that he is moving and looking for a home for 13 boxes of
sf paperbacks & magazines - that he had in his van outside [and they
were great books!]
Kevin Roche announced that Teslacon will be in 3 weeks = ‘wine tasting
with geeks’ - & the registration deadline is this Saturday
Chris announced that he likes miniature golf
Andy announced they will be doing an Evil Genius party at Silicon
Mike announced he interviewed Carole & Craig for Silicon for KFJC & he
has passes for a ‘Serenity’ showing at the Saratoga AMC [Tuesday, 7pm]
to hand out to us - and he suggested we be there by 6pm
Reviews:
Chris reviewed ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’ as he was in hysterics
for the whole film & rates it worth more than full price & reviewed
‘Newton’s Cannon’ by Keyes as fun but uneven and worth the $3.75 he paid
for it at a BASFA auction
Dave C reviewed ‘The Aristocrats’ as bizarre, worth high matinee; Jim
follow-on’d with praise for Dave for doing the review so tastefully &
Andy reviewed the production website for the movie as incredible
Dave G reviewed ‘Magnificent Desolation’ at the Dublin IMAX as 40
minutes long - but worth the full IMAX price
Kevin reviewed a whole lot of places in the Tenderloin as interesting
Mike reviewed the red carpet premiere for ‘Serenity’ as impressive and
everything was free - plus there was an open bar at the party afterwards
- he met stars & felt it well worth the plane fare & everything else;
Chris follow-on’d that swag is great
Andy reviewed [part 2 of reviews of drag bars in the Tenderloin] as
‘Deco’ is a very nice piano bar, a very nice place & the bars in the
Tenderloin had very reasonable drink prices
Art reviewed ‘The 40-Year Old Virgin’ as reasonably charming with rough
language - worth full price
I reviewed ‘Madagascar’ as still delightful and worth seeing, even
surrounded by little kids at the $0.50 10am matinee at the Plaza 4.
We auctioned off stuff = magazines for $2.00 & $5.50
We adjourned at = 8:57 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘it’s lemur-ific!’
