Meeting 745
November 1, 2004
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 7:58 pm with rumors of the election & Trey talking quickly
20 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes for meeting 744 were accepted as ‘well,
okay, we'll vote on them tomorrow'
Treasurer’s report: last week we took in $22.50
VP report - that the party decorations are staying up until next year
The President reported that he had even less to report than usual
Announcements:
Julie announced that the Sunnyvale Public Library has DVDs of Babylon 5
for loan
Cheryl announced there will be 2 author events - on Wednesday Jim Monroe
at Longhaul & Tad Williams at Cody's & she announced the Bay Area Slash
convention will be this weekend
Art announced the annual dev nul tournament is taking place now
Spring announced that her school (Hersh elementary) is having a book sale
Reviews:
Cheryl reviewed World Fantasy Con as they gave herself and Frank lots of
hugs and that she managed to occasionally drag herself out of the bar to
attend a panel or a party. There were follow-on's: Alison - that it was
lots of fun & Frank had his birthday again; Frank said they managed to
leave the hotel and see sites; Dierdre said that it was like a relaxicon
Nathan reviewed a winery/brewery/distillery - Edgefields near Portland,
OR - as really fun and worth full price
I reviewed 'Shaun of the Dead' as still fun to see & definitely worth
being taken out to; Nathan follow-on'd that 'Shaun' easily withstands a
2nd viewing
Dave C reviewed Spookicon at the Radisson in SF as it was even less
attended than last time (but didn't affect his sales) & also reviewed
'The Cramps' as 'crazy as always' & gave us TMI about the performance;
then offered us Tshirts
Trey reviewed seeing 'Comedy Sports' (top floor of Bella Mia restraunt
on weekends) as it was their Hallowe'en spectacular and pretty good;
also reviewed 'Ray' as 'damn that's a good soundtrack', the plotting was
uneven and thought it worth high matinee prices; sue follow-on'd that it
was wonderful and she thought it worth full price
We birthday auctioned off Barbara to Trey for $12.50 & birthday
auctioned off Frank to Nathan for $15.00; then more stuff [books] for
$1.00; $0.25; $1.50 & $7.50
We adjourned at = 8:50 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘that Trey will still be president on
Wednesday'
