Meeting 801
November 28, 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 about 8:03
14 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 800 were accepted as
‘octacentaweekial’
No Treasurer [week 2] & but we took in $11.50 in the regular jar &
$29.25 in the party jar last week
We established a party jar
VP reports = no Nathan [week 5] & VP Chris reported that he just got
back from Loscon & has very little fannish to report
The President reported that the holidays are bearing down on us
The Sports Committee reported that Doug Berry is trying to organize an
outing to the California Museum in Oakland - check out his LJ ‘gridlore’
Announcements:
Cheryl announced that there are new ‘Emerald Cities’ & the 2 Australians
have been found [& that beer or bribery may have been involved in their
earlier escape]
Julie announced that the Dickens Fair opened last weekend and will
continue for another 3 weeks - and that French postcards are back and
better than ever
Chris announced there will be an issue of Drink Tank [‘100 - tho it’s
more like 200-something’] and he’s looking for exactly 100-word long
reviews, stories or anything - and get it to him by FurCon
Kevin R announced that there’s a FurCon coiffure conspiracy going on -
and check out his LJ ‘kproche’ for more details
Reviews:
Chris reviewed the Follies in Palm Springs as possibly the scariest
thinbg he has ever been dragged off to see & worth being dragged off to;
he also reviewed Loscon as he had a real good time this time, thought
GoH Steven Brust was a lot of fun and a good singer & the highlight of
the con was a dramatic reading of Frank Wu’s ‘The Tragical History of
Guidolon, the Giant Space Chicken’ - and was great fun
Andy reviewed free Sharks tickets as definitely worth the price for
parking & reviewed the California wine cellar with a 500 capacity as
half full & worth the too much he invested in it. Kevin S follow-on’d
that the hockey rules changes have made the games higher scoring
Cheryl reviewed ‘The 13 1/2 Lives of Captainb Bluebear’ by Walter Moers
as long and funny and about a blue bear [‘sounds like a German LSD
alternative’ = Andy] - and as very, very silly
Kevin R reviewed horrible movies seen without any complaints - he found
‘Sahara’ to be a genuine fun romp & ‘Manticore’ seen between
channel-flipping back to reruns of ‘Aeon Flux’ as worth the price of
admission - so he was happy
Julie reviewed ‘Slap Dash’ as a pretty good little independent movie and
worth her [free] price of admission
Harold reviewed the latest ‘Pride & Prejudice’ by Jane Austen as light &
worth bargain matinee
Then we auctioned off printed matter for = $0.50; $3.00, $0.25; $1.00;
$2.00, $1.00 & $6.00
We adjourned at = 9:06 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘800 more times’
