Meeting 732
August 2, 2004
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:04 pm
14 people attended
Secretary’s report: was unavailable
Treasurer’s report: last week we took in $5.88
No VP [but she gave a great reception]
The President reported that we’ll be here for a while, that next week is
the new site vote and in 3 weeks is the money vote
The author committee [rep’d by Kevin] reported that Walter Hunt went to
the Steven’s Creek RT, not the Newark one and felt chagrined.
The party committee [Nathan] asked if we want to do a BASFA party at
Silicon [if you do, see Nathan]
The election committee [also Kevin] showed us the prospective new site
ballot and a random drawing of names put them in the –same- order as
showed on the sample ballot
Announcements:
Spring announced that she found a website saying there will be a ‘Lord
of the Rings’ exhibit in Boston running through October [so it’ll be
there during Worldcon]
Gave G announced that he mailed the postcards about the money motion
Reviews:
John reviewed volume 2 of the ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’
[comic] as lots of action and he recommends it. He also recommended the
‘Hellboy’ comic
Kevin reviewed 'I, My, Me! Strawberry Eggs’ – a 13 episode anime series
on 4 DVDs – as highly sentimental and worth what he spent for it – but
warned us that it should not be viewed alone because the series is
highly emotional. In an odd follow-on, Dave G recommended engrish.com
I reviewed ‘The Bourne Supremacy’ as possibly better than the first
movie, although the ‘shaky cam’ technique was over-used; worth full
price. I also reviewed ‘I Robot’ as that I enjoyed it when I had been
prepared to hate it; worth matinee. There were follow-ons for ‘I Robot’
= Joanie said it could be viewed as a thoroughly enjoyable Will Smith
movie; Nathan thought it was more of a murder mystery and enjoyed it
very much & Trey enjoyed it and thought it worth matinee.
Mike reviewed the San Diego Comic Con as mind-staggeringly huge with too
much to see, too many hours to be awake and worth attending
Dave G reviewed a 24-hour wedding reception – for Frank and Alison –
dinner, tea, pool and beach party as worth a wedding prezzie. I
follow-on’d that the pagoda wedding-cake was magnificent & Trey said
they needed professional help. . . to cut the wedding cake and he really
enjoyed playing pool thereafter, agreeing that it was worth a wedding
prezzie.
Trey reviewed 'Thunderbirds are Go’ as he may be the only person in
North America who enjoyed it and rates it as worth matinee if you were a
fan of the series.
We auctioned off 2 National Geographic magazines for .75 and .50 cents,
respectively.
We adjourned at = 8:55 pm
And the rumor of the week was that ‘Thunderbirds are go’
