Meeting 761
February 21, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:10 pm - with lots of auction items
12 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 759 were accepted as 'home
alone' & the minutes of meeting 760 were accepted as 'hazmat'
No Treasurer, but that last week we took in $6.75
No VP
The President reported that there's been a lot of flu in our circles
Kevin reported that Cheryl is somewhere over the Pacific Ocean right now
Craig suggested that BASFA hold a room party at Silicon & that Nathan
contact the folks doing Mara's Bar to share room space & possibly lower
costs thereby
Announcements:
Mike announced that there's a 'Star Wars' fan group that meets at
Armadillo Willy's on the 4th Thursday of the month & the 'Legion of
Rasselon' meets at the Saratoga.Moorpark RT on the 4th Friday of every month
Chris announced that Cinequest is 2 weeks & that his short film,
'Chick Magnet' will be shown on March 5
Craig announced that March 3-6 is an anime convention, 'Anime OD' in
SF at 1500 Van Ness
Art announced there's a 'Save Enterprise' campaign & tomorrow Studio
Ghibli releases 'Porco Rosso', 'Nausicaa' & 'The Cat Returns'
Dann announced that he holds an 8pm, every Friday night movie fest
at his place ['Spoof-fest'] & everyone is invited, so email him with
your email address so he can keep you updated
Dave C announced that Mar 3-5 is Potlatch 14 in SF
Kevin announced that Orycon's Doubletree hotel has closed & the con
is looking for a new home, plus they lost the contents of their storage
locker
Reviews:
I reviewed 'Constantine' as hellish good fun that spurred fun post-movie
conversation, worth full price, followed by another matinee thereafter.
<We talked about movie cookies.> Ed follow-on'd that he also liked
'Constantine' & that it had great sets, good acting; Trey follow-on'd
that the movie was not flawless but was very true to the spirit of the
work, it had a good feel & was worth matinee
Ed reviewed 'Hitch' as a great flick, nicely played with good symbolism
& Will Smith did a great job - a well-spent afternoon & he also reviewed
a new light gun game product as very good and worth full price
Dann reviewed 'Son of the Mask' as being completely ruined by Jamie
Kennedy's performance - 'he simply can't act' - and 'if I could've
stopped this movie from general release I would've - because I'm a
humanitarian'. It was not worth seeing for free. Dann also warned that
the revamp of the Warner cartoon classic characters looks awful
Kevin reviewed the extended edition DVD for 'Return of the King' as he
wanted to know why so much of the movie was done in whispers, but
thought it worth full price
Chris reviewed 'The Village' as he saw it 4 times this week, doesn't
like the film but loves the score and wants it to win the Oscar for
'best score'
Mike reviewed 'Wondercon' as he enjoyed what he saw, thought it worth
full price <& there was some discussion>; for a review of the con check
fanboyplanet.com
We auctioned off stuff
We adjourned at = 9:30 pm
And the rumor of the week was that ‘the secretary invents all the rumors'
