Meeting 811 February 6, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 [feverishly] 24 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 810 were accepted as ‘they found planet 10’ Treasurer report was unavailable, as was the Treasurer VP report = also unavailable, but he left ‘Drink Tanks’ The President reported = that he had nothing Reminder that next week is week #3 of Hugo nominations & that part 2 of Hugo nominations follws the meeting The party committee reported that he’s making progress towards the next party, at BayCon We established a party jar Announcements Andy announced that rumors of deceased zombats are untrue, nor have they been renamed ‘plan 9 from down under’ Joanie announced that her middle school library is looking for donations - especially Dragonlance books, or other tomes suitable for the 11-14 year age-span Dave C announced that Gallifrey will be at the LA Marriott in 2 weeks Kevin S announced that he has fanzines Reviews: Ken reviewed some Brit import TV shows - that ‘Life on Mars’ was very good, that ‘Hyperdrive’ was a miss, that ‘the IT Crowd’ is also pretty good - and also that he had heard this week’s ‘Medium’ is good Andy reviewed ‘East Coat Seafood’ as excellent, very authentic, very popular dim sum - well worth full price [and get there early] Julie reviewed a book called ‘Mirror, Mirror’ - as it contains interesting histories [including 2 chapters on John Dee], philosophy & then went into the realm of science and telescopes; that it was fascinating & she recommends it Dave C reviewed the ‘San Francisco International Gift Faire’ as it was difficult to gain entrance to & once he was in he found endless amounts of arts and crafts - but nothing he could use & not worth his name being on their mailing lists; then Dave passed on a review of ‘Ghost’ by Ringo as he was told it was not worth reading & worth selling on EBay Adrienne reviewed a short story collection = “Future Washington’ as she liked the kitty cat story & that it’s eligible for the Hugo Kevin S reviewed KNBR radio as they let him get on the air & make humorous asides Then Mike announced that an March 12 there will be a Q&A with Edward James Olmos at Cinequest No auctions We adjourned at = 8:50 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that Chris Garcia was elected as president in his absence’ [and Trey was disappointed it was only a rumor] _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
