Meeting 815 March 6, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 [by group consensus] 20 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 814 were accepted as ‘nominated as best original minutes’ The Treasurer as late and somehow we forgot to get a treasurer’s report from him when he did arrive No VP, no VP report The President reported = this is food - and we established a party jar, then he thanked David Friedman for visiting us - and mentioned that the Miyazaki films will start being shown on Cartoon Network on March 17 or 18 We said ‘hi’ to David Friedman - who has a new book, ‘Harald’ out [Baen Books], his first fiction book [‘it started out as an insomnia cure’] The BASFA/Hollister in ’08 hoax Worldcon bid committee is now operative & registration forms are available. Kevin S called upon the BASFA hordes to support this bid The Sports Committee reported he has done nothing this past week Announcements Kevin R announced that BunBun is back, worship the comic - follow’on’d with a ‘poing’; & announced that March 10 is the deadline for Hugo nominations Kevin S announced that he has fanzines for us to peruse & had 2 copies of ‘Emerald City’ to hand out [& then reminded us that generous contributions help keep it alive] [then there were comments about semi-fanzines & what Chris Garcia would make of that <’an entire issue of ‘Drink Tank’ was the most popular theory>.] Reviews: Dave G reviewed ‘Roving Mars’ on the IMAX in Dublin as well worth the $10.00 [with a $2.00 coupon] & reviewed the hoax bid as ‘starting down a slippery slope’ Harold reviewed the 25th anniversary ‘Cats’ as the stage in SF was too small, but there were nice costumes, good singing, he had good seats & it was worth full price Andy reviewed a birthday celebration as fun & a pub in Alameda called the New Zealander as the food there was well worth full price if doing lunch & you want pub fare. Then he reviewed St George’s Spirits at the Naval Air Station in Alameda as there were many different types of beverages [many were described], including real-Wasabi-infused vodka [which caused numerous shudderings] - and thought it well worth full price. [then various wasabi neeps followed] Joanie reviewed Continental as the seats are too short for tall people & too narrow for wide people, but there is free [inadvertent] entertainment & rated it as worth full price, if it’s going where they fly We adjourned at = 8:55 pm And the rumor of the week was = that ‘Chris Garcia will start publishing a daily semi-fanzine’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
