Meeting 774
May 23, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, phantom Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:04 pm - agreeing the ‘Dith happens’
18 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 773 were accepted as 'her
salad showed up’
The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $2.63 in the standard
jar & $7.55 in the party jar
No VP [week 11]
The President reported that Baycon is this week
We established a party jar
Frank made a motion to not talk about ‘Sith’ until he can flee the
restaurant & it passed 12-3
Party Committee - Nathan says there will be parties on Friday & Saturday
nights, serving gourmet sandwiches & snacks - and the meeting #, if one
is held there will be ‘slerm squared’
Announcements:
Frank announced that he is giving away old books - ‘take them’ & then he
reported that Chris Garcia was not a BASFA member - and then paid for
Chris’s membership. After which Chris made a campaign speech showing he
wants to be the new BASFA VP
Carole announced new Silicon [Oct 7-9] developments - check their
website & that Chris Garcia will be a judge for their film festival
Reviews:
Julie reviewed ‘Jonathan Strange & Dr. Norrell’ as she thought it
started very slowly but became quite readable - worth library
Joanie reviewed her Zaire 72 PDA as reasonably good all around
I reviewed the musical ‘Chess’ as enjoyable even if the ending was
different than the London cast version & worth full price. Trey
follow-on’d that parts of it were very impressive but thought it worth
matinee
Chris reviewed the ‘Lemony Snickett’ DVD as he didn’t think it worked on
the small screen on which the musical score was wasted & he recommends
the documentary ‘Accordian Tribe’
Fred reviewed Crieghton’s ‘State of Fear’ as ’avoid this book’ - &
reviewed the Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson as worth buying in
hardback
‘Spamalot’ on Broadway was not reviewed, as the ticket price for the
back of the 2nd balcony was $170, whereas good seats for ‘Fiddler on the
Roof’ were reasonable, loud & excellent
Kelly reviewed a demo of the life-sized board game of ‘Mousetrap’ at
Hunter’s Point in SF as worth more than full price. [other life-sized
board games were then discussed]
Carole reviewed Tuscon as hot! [106 to 112]
We auctioned off = books for $2.00; $0.50, $1.00; a Star Wars tie for
$5.00; a CA quarter for $1.00 & -another- CA quarter for $10.00, Canadian
And the rumor of the week was ‘slerm, it’s highly addictive’
Then some members fled the restaurant and the rest of us reviewed ‘Sith’:
Dave C commented ‘everybody dies’; Frank follow-on’d that he really
liked it, thought it the 3rd best, since a ‘good Star Wars movie has
body parts cut off & lies are told’; I follow-on’d that I thought it was
4th best of the 6 because of the poor acting, since if Yoda is the best
actor something is very wrong; Julie follow-on’d that it was 3rd best &
exactly what she expected it to be - her opinion was the acting was the
best of the prequels; Trey follow-on’d that in general he was
disappointed with the acting; & Dave C follow-on’d that he also had
problems with the acting & thought the plot was rushed
We adjourned at = 9:35 pm
