Meeting 758
January 31, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:11 pm - with a new zap gun
15 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 757 were accepted as 'the
plane truth'
Treasurer's report: last week we took in $0.50 (& the party jar took in
$75.45)
The VP reported via Frank that Atlanta was all icy, but it's better now
& Dave G reminded us that 'friends don't let Frank Wu fly'
The President reported there's a Baycon meeting Feb 13
We established a (Baycon) party jar
The Sports Committee reported that the Welsh rugby team has 'Brains'
We said 'hi' to our newest member, Matt, who told us about a Farscape
fan group he is part of (find out more at www.watchfarscape.net) &
brought us auction items
And Kevin sent around the accumulated Hugo nomination suggestions
Announcements:
Mike announced the 'Firefly' fan group will meet Saturday, 2pm at KD
Bloom's
Kevin announced he will miss next week's meeting and tonight is the
last night for Hugo nomination recommendations
Reviews:
Dave G reviewed the 'One Ring Celebration' as a different sort of
CreationCon & that it had panels [in association with theonering.net, a
503C non-profit corp] - interesting and educational to those from
theonering.net. All 4 hobbits were there, as well as John Rhys Davies &
it was fun
Mike Mclaughlin reviewed the 'Edge Chronicles' by Stewart & Riddell as
fun stories & he was very impressed with them & the artwork therein
Kevin reviewed Firesign Theatre's 'Big Broadcast of 2005' as he felt it
was worth going up to Oregon and paying full price [there will be a
performance at the Heritage Theatre in Campbell this Thursday)
Mike Miyake commented 'if John Rhys Davies is the only headliner in a
movie it has to be a SciFi channel original' & he reviewed 'Point
Pleasant' as hellish fun
Frank announced that Walter Ernsting [aka Clark Darlton], one of the
co-founders of the Perry Rhodan series, had just passed away - and he
announced that Adam Hochschild [author of 'King Leopold's Ghost'] will
be at Keplers Thursday at 7:30 & that he & Alison will be there
We auctioned off stuff = a Frascape DVD for $6.50; 3 calendars for
$1.00, $1.00 & 3.00 & 2 tank models for .75
We adjourned at = 9:09 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘Frank Wu lives live to the fullest, with
extra bacon'
[then we did the last batch of Hugo nomination recommendations]
