Meeting 800
November 21, 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 8:10 pm - as folks slid the curtains
16 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 798 were accepted as ‘out of
time’ & the minutes of meeting 799 were accepted as ‘on time’
No Treasurer [week 1] & there was no proxy report
We established a party jar
VP reports = no Nathan [week 4] & VP Chris reported that ‘yes dammit’ he
has a report - that he leaves for Hemmit tomorrow, then head for Loscon
& intends to have fun. Then we said ‘hi’ to Frank Wu
Andy wanted it mentioned in the minutes that it was makingfiends.com
The President said he had nothing fannish to report
The Sports Committee reported that he saw the Calgary Flames hockey team
while passing through Calgary airport
Announcements:
Chris announced that there’s a new Drink Tank out
Kevin R announced that many wineries in Livermore are having wine releases
Cheryl announced that the English rugby team was beaten by New Zealand
so she’s happy & ‘two of our Australians are missing’ [Trevor Stafford &
Deborah Biancotti]
Mike announced that there’s a Legion of Rasselon this Friday at the
Carl’s Jr at 1st & Trimble
Dave C announced that Loscon is the weekend [go there & buy books]
Reviews:
‘Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire’ was multiply reviewed; Andy said
they had to skin it, tan it, make it into a stole to make a movie - that
the pacing was excellent & don’t drink anything during the movie, that
the costuming was well done & the set designs were fabulous - worth full
price; I reviewed it as fun, pleasant, watchable, bladder-challenging &
worth seeing twice atr full price; Harold thought Weasley was weasel-y,
Dumbledore disappointed him, the teen angst was annoying & the movie was
worth matinee; Ed enjoyed it a lot, will see it again & thought the feel
of the movie was different and thought movie #3 was better; Craig saw it
in Texas & thought the climax between Harry & Valdemort was interesting
& Mad-Eye Moody was a well-realized character, the adaptation was
excellent & thinks it worth seeing 3 times at full price; Dave C made a
bad joke [about ‘When Harry Met Valdemort’]; Kevin R said it was a
‘squeeee!’ factory for fan-girls when he saw it; Trey thought it
well-adapted from the book, thought the new characters were well-cast &
that teen angst has never been his thing
kevin S reviewed Calgary as quite nice, full of friendly fans & he used
the hotel hot tub; he recommends Air Canada to fly there
Cheryl reviewed ‘Temeraire’ by Naomi Novik as 3 parts Hornblower, 1 part
Suzannah Clarke, 3 parts McCaffrey, 3 parts Biggles and very fun; and
she reviewed the pirate shop 5 shops down from Borderlands as delightful
and she recommends it
Chris reviewed ‘Kitty of the Midnight Hour’ by Vaughn as a book about
talk radio, a fun book & worth the $5 he paid for it at BASFA auction &
reviewed ‘Hell Yeah’ by the Horror Pops as rock-a-billy music and worth
what he paid for it
Fred reviewed ‘Jesus is Magic’ as full of humor and irreverance and
interesting and worth full price
Craig reviewed seeing all 3 ‘LotR’ films shown back-to-back as extremely
good [during which 7 meals were served] - as one of the most unique
experiences of his life
Dave C reviewed Asimov’s ‘A Choice of Catastrophes’ as a fun book, worth
looking for
Ed reviewed a stage production of ‘City of Angels’ as really nicely done
& Chris follow-on’d that it’s his favorite stage piece
Craig reviewed the play ‘Wicked’ as worth seeing twice at full price &
the story’s great
Then we auctioned off printed matter for = $2.50; $5.00, $1.00; $1.00;
$10.00 & $13.00
We adjourned at = 9:31 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘tongue-kissing a lizard is over-rated’
