Meeting 797
October 31, 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 8:08 pm - for tonight’s spooooooky minutes
20 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 796 were accepted as
‘mysteeeeerious’
No Treasurer [week 3][ but the proxy report was that last week we took
in $5.50 in the regular jar & $17.26 in the FC party jar
VP reports = pre-eminent VP Chris reported there will be NO ‘Drink Tank’
& he is participating in national novel writing month; [no Nathan, wk 1]
We said ‘hi’ to Ben Seeberger, visiting us, having found us via the website
We established a party fund jar
Announcements:
Cheryl announced that she brought a Glasgow worldcon report in Finnish
to pass around & Saturday night is National Drunk Writing night
Dave C announced there is a BASCon this weekend [for slash fiction] at
the Embassy Suites in South SF - go there and buy books
Kevin S announced that he’ll be in Portland for Orykon this weekend at
the Marriott, downtown & there are Emerald Cities in the room [and that
any money goes in the kitty]
Chris announced that he is a proud Emerald City subscriber & that a
number of BASFAns are mentioned in this months File 770
Mike announced a Serenity meeting at the Tidehouse at Saturday, noon
Kevin R suggested that folks might want to go to the SC Leather Assoc
Community weekend - check sccleather.org for more details & he announced
that he & Andy may be running the cosplay masquerade in Anime LA
Reviews:
Jony reviewed ‘Thus’ by Pratchett as grim but whimsical
Cheryl reviewed the UK as cold & wet - that there was a Worldcon and
nobody died & that England beat Australia in cricket and the world
hasn’t ended yet
Dave C reviewed the Tiger Lilies as ‘the usual’
Kevin R reviewed Yaoi-con as it had a high ‘squeeeeee!’ factor, that he
felt old & out of place & it was full of squealy fan-girls & worth
pre-reg - with more details in SFSF
Chris admitted being a great big geek & reviewed ‘Most Haunted Live’ as
a TV series made just for him; brilliantly wonderful & reviewed the DVD
collection of ‘Arrested Development’ as worth full price & even more
wonderful
Doug reviewed the Ardenwood corn maze as it contained trivia, was made
for gamers * he insulted a chicken & it was utterly amazing; Kevin S
follow-on’d that it was definitely worth full price
We auctioned off stuff for = t-shirt $1.00; DVD & magazine for $4.00,
figures for $5.00; books for $2.00 & $2.00 & birthday auctioned off me
for $14.00 to Trey
We adjourned at = 9:12 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘shiver me timbers!’
