Meeting 813 February 20, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 [with talk about taxes] 10 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 812 were accepted as ‘garbled in translation’ No Treasurer & last week we took in an unknown amount VP report = he has ‘SFSF’s & the next ‘Drink Tank’ is due out on Friday & his movie will be shown in less than 2 weeks The President reported = that he had nothing fannish to report We voted down establishing a tablet jar Announcements Harold announced that in Austria a pro-Nazi writer got a 3-year sentence for denying that the Holocaust happened; Frank Wu follow-on’d, saying ‘The Holocaust did happen’ Chris announced the Olympics have been occurring & that the US men’s team has made it into the medal round & will be playing Canada Frank Wu announced that Uncle Owen has died again [i.e. the actor from ‘episode 4’] & it was commented that the actor who played G’Kar also died last week Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World’ was a book worth reading Chris reviewed 2 CDs of music by Richard Cheese as both are wonderful , worth full price & founding a commune to worship him & reviewed Frank Wu’s hand-writing as good [mentioning that Yuri’s night was next week] & reviewed ‘Walk the Line’ as a solid film, well put together, the screenplay was only OK & that the film did not have a cinematic denouement Frank Wu reviewed ‘RadCon’, where he was Artist GoH as he mad a mutant baby space alien that looked just like Bob Brown & it was a lot of fun & again convention attendance there was at an all-time high We auctioned off books for = $0.50; $8.00; $0.25; $0.50 & $0.25 We adjourned at = 8:40 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that next week’s BASFA will be subtitled the never-ending auction 2’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
