Meeting 812 February 13, 2006 [with a suggestion for interpretive dance]
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:02 [feverishly] 17 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 811 were accepted as ‘croak’ Last week we took in $0.75 in the regular jar & $1.50 in the party jar & the Treasurer was late VP report = he has ‘Drink Tanks’, went to Wondercon & the next ‘Drink Tank’ will be about inventors & inventions The President reported = that he had nothing Reminder that part 3 of the Hugo nominations follows the meeting Announcements Julie announced it was the anniversary of the Dresden fire bombing Andy announced there’ll be an Evil Genius party at Gallifrey on Friday night [and pass the mustard] Dave C announced that Gallifrey will be at the LA Marriott in 4 days [& Dave G said ‘but jewelry] Reviews: Wondercon was reviewed – Chris said he had a wonderful time & the most fun was interviewing Bob Wilkins & John Stanley [many comments were made about restraining orders] and he spent a whole lot of money on comics & it was worth full price & the Browncoat documentary was very good; follow-ons were made about corsets, porn actressses, Raven O’Neill’s birthday & Mel’s Diner’s inability to sit a large party together; that the Masquerade was really quite decent & that the SF Marriott lies [in regards to room parties & costumes] & Kevin S thought it was worth his $15 one-day membership to attend Andy reviewed Cirque de Solei as it is about the dreams of an old clown about his funeral, is very surreal & the connecting bits were weird & good & kind of hold it together, charming & definitely worth 3rd tier ticket prices – loads of fun; Kevin R follow-on’d that it drew attention very well & felt intimate in the way it was presented Jim reviewed a film seen at an independent film festival ‘AKA Tommy Chong’ – a documentary – as he knew the story & thought it was well done & interesting & he recommends it as worth full price Chris reviewed ‘The Lion King’ as he was amazed and had expected to hate it – that it was absolutely well done, the singing was wonderful & the music well done – and was worth putting up with his mother Kevin R reviewed a costumer’s cabal weekend get-together as very pleasant & a reminder that you should spend time with old friends when it’s possible Trey reviewed ‘That darned Squid God’ by Polatta as a rollicking good time; that ‘Damned Nation’ by Polatta was a guilty pleasure; that ‘700 Sundays’ by Billy Crystal just sucks you right into it, is fun & very readable No auctions We adjourned at = 8:58 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that the BASFA secretary is a Dalek’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
