Meeting 781
July 11, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Nathan Slerm-r & Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, phantom Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:02 pm
13 people attended
The minutes of meeting 780 were taken at Westercon & ‘not yet present’
No Treasurer present
Neither VP was present
The President reported he spent last week with family
[an aside = Cheryl looked fantastic in a salwar kameez! I managed not to
get drool on it.]
Announcements:
Cheryl announced the Locus poll results were announced last week and
Frank Wu placed 13th [very well] and Emerald City placed 8th
Reviews:
Julie reviewed the Marin Heart of the Forest Ren Fest that opened last
weekend as it doesn’t seem to have changed much in the last 5 years & is
worth seeing & reviewed a book on rockets as good 4th of July reading &
a book on Mercator as it was a good read and rather dark in places & had
amusing foot notes.
Mike reviewed ‘Fantastic 4’ as he wasn’t expecting much from it & it was
still fun - worth sneaking into after you’ve seen your regular movie. I
follow-on’d that I enjoyed it more than I expected & rated it worth
matinee; Trey follow-on’d that the fx were nice & he enjoyed the
character interplay & he wasn’t disappointed
Art reviewed a show called ‘Coupling’ that he saw on KQED as akin to
‘Friends’ mixed with ‘Sex in the City’ & thought it amusing
Kevin reviewed Westercon as it seemed under-populated & the newsletter
was creative in its spelling [& Eric asked if Kevin had tried reading it
backwards] & commented that the dealer’s room was . . . light. He felt
it was worth attending & that 89% of the votes went for San Jose in
2007. Other comments were made - that the hotel lobby was already being
docrated for the Calgary Stampede; there was an amusing SM Stirling
story; Kevin came in 2nd in the Hawaiian shirt contest & the Locus
banquet food was quite nice. Dave C followed, saying he did about what
he expected to as a dealer & that crossing the border was a visit to the
8th circle of hell, he recommends that if you have to take goods across
the border to go thru someone bonded when travelling each way
Cheryl reviewed Construction & especially the ‘If I Ran the Zoo’ game as
very entertaining
Art also reviewed ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ as visually stunning & worth
full price
I reviewed ‘Madagascar’ as a movie I expected nothing from & was totally
enchanted by - well worth full price just for the lemurs & penguins;
then reviewed ’War of the Worlds’ as impressed they kept the 1st and
last paragraph & Wells’ ending & that other than that it had lots of
special fx & a few good scenes, but that it was a worth-seeing-once
movie at matinee price
We auctioned off = book for $2.50; $2.00; $2.00; $2.00 & $2.00
We adjourned at = 9:32 pm
And the rumor of the week was that ‘Dave Clark will win the next CBS
reality show - ‘Survivor Customs’
