Meeting 772
May 9, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, phantom Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:06 pm - with us limping along
18 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 771 were accepted as 'base 13’
The late Treasurer reported that last week we took in $1.75 in the
standard jar & $30.25 in the party jar
No VP [week 9]
The President reported he is a low-tech cyborg this week
We established a party jar
The Party Committee (Nathan) told us the numbers [cost] for the party;
gave us an idea of the menu [slurm!] and asked for volunteers - MORE are
needed!
Announcements:
Mike announced that the Century management didn’t want a line for the
new ‘Star Wars’ flick to start so early & asked the Star Wars fangroup
to come back on the 16th & he announced there will be another sneak of
the ‘Serenity’ movie on the 26th in SF
Kevin announced that there are new ‘Emerald Cities’ and a new ‘Claims
Department’ on the back table
Dave C announced that they are finally bringing the old ‘Hitchhikers’
radio show out
Reviews:
Joanie reviewed ‘Sorcery & Cecilia, the Enchanted Chocolate Pot’ as it’s
age-appropriate YA fantasy & enjoyable & Trey follow-on’d that he read &
enjoyed it
Julie reviewed getting interviewed for a Canadian documentary about the
‘Voynich manuscript’ as the interviewers were very prompt & everything
worked like clockwork & rates it as ‘worth part of one’s 15 minutes’
Dace C reviewed ‘Enron, smartest guys in the room’ as interesting &
worth full price; then reviewed ‘The Perfect Store’ - a book about Ebay
as a fun little book, also worth full price [then JMS’s auctions were
mentioned & there was some additional discussion]
Chris Garcia reviewed ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ as very enjoyable, worth full
price; then reviewed a UK fanzine, ‘Meta’ as probably his favorite UK
fanzine now
Frank Wu reviewed an old Fay Wray movie [‘the Most Dangerous Game’] as
it was quite charming & a fun old movie, worth full price
Ed reviewed Laumer’s ‘The Great Time Machine Hoax’ as his favorite piece
of sf humor & asked what the point of ‘Hitchhikers’ was - and discussion
followed. Chris commented he was bored silly by the Laumer story
Trey reviewed Guy Gavriel Kay’s books ‘Sailing to Sarantium’ & ‘Lord of
Emperors’ asOK but not his best, still worth reading & worth library
We auctioned off = a book for $10.00
We adjourned at = 9:34 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘Barbara hates us all’
