Meeting 767
April 4, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, phantom Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:03 pm - with a time change
17 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 766 were accepted as 'the
secretary can't see without her glasses'
Treasurer's report was that at meeting 765 we took in $4.80 & at meeting
766 we took in $0.50 in the standard jar & the party jar took in $1.10
No VP [meeting 4]
The President reported that 'stuff is going on all around me but I
remain blissfully ignorant'
Announcements:
Carole Parker announced she is on Silicon's staff & will answer any
questions we have about the con [Oct 7-9] & they will have a film
festival this year
Dave C announced (& showed the ad) that someone is making spaceships
for sale [made of wood & foam] & also announced there's a Harry Potter
con ['The Witching Hour'] at Salem, MA
Reviews:
Art reviewed KQED's short film showing of 'George Lucas in Love' as very
entertaining
Joanie reviewed 'Royal Treatment' [a romance novel she got as a gift] -
as weak - not painful, but not worth buying
Sue reviewed 'Sin City' as a lot of fun & worth full price; Carole
passed along a review that she'd heard it was worth seeing
Dave G reviewed Norwescon as a more Goth oriented crowd. He ogled
pretty panelists [Spring] & rates it as worth '2 tables; Spring
follow-on'd that she rated her sales as below expectations & the con had
a good space track & the con has become really bizarre
Trey reviewed the 'Robots' as Robin Williams did a good job but the
script was overly simple, worth matinee [some discussion followed].
Trey then reviewed 2 Guy Kay books ['Song for Arbonne' & 'Lions of
Al-Rassan'] as good capable fantasy but nothing really remarkable & he
reviewed the last spring-training Giants/A's game as it was a perfect
day for baseball & worth what he paid for it; I follow-on'd that I liked
the Oakland stadium & had a great time
We birthday auctioned off Dave G to himself for $ $6.00 & birthday
auctioned off Spring to Dave G for $ $15.00
We auctioned off stuff: water pistol $0.75; an Ellison ms for $2.25;
posters for $0.50, $1.50, $0.25 &$1.00; Russian cards for$0.50 & NASA
piccies for$0.25
We adjourned at = 9:19 pm
And the rumor of the week was that ‘Frodo Baggins is alive & well &
living in Sin (City)'
