Meeting 816 March 13, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:03 [with a defense of unnatural acts] 20 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 815 were accepted as ‘a quarter past 8’ No Treasurer The VP reported he is suffering from sleep deprivation and there’s a new ‘Drink Tank’ on the internet & he met celebrities The President reported he had nothing fannish to report The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported ‘pre-support often’ - and then he did math Announcements Kevin R announced that ‘Surge of Power’ will have a theatrical release next month Julie announced this weekend is the ‘Contact’ conference at NASA/Ames & announced PEERs will hold its monthly dance the 1st Saturday in April Adrienne announced she has her flyer done for the LACon 4 Worldcon’s Writer’s Workshop & some are on the back table Kevin S announced that Peter Tamarkin had died Cheryl announced she is wearing polarized lenses & that Terry Bisson will start a series of readings, the first being on March 28 - more details on her blog Dave C announced the SciFi channel has started to advertise ‘Dr Who’ & KPIG has started to broadcast [and then there were comments made about ‘Dr Who’] Chris announced the Sonoma Film Festival will be the 2nd week in April & that he has been named ringmaster [one ring to rule them all and with a fanzine bind them] Art announced the Miyazaki film festival begins on the Cartoon network on March 18 Mike announced the Nickelodeon in Santa Cruz will doing a ‘Firefly’ marathon starting around 11:55 pm April 1st And Andy announced that Hugo nominations are over Reviews: Kevin R reviewed Coronation 35 as being over [Andy chimed in with ‘God - drag queens can drink!’] & Kevin stated it was very fabulous and that in 4 1/2 weeks he will be free Chris reviewed his 12 days of Cinequest as his true love brought to him . . . a lot of booze, a good reaction to his movie, that he had a great time & all the shorts were wonderful & ‘Thank you for Smoking’ was brilliant. There were follow-on’s [‘Norweigia?’] - some of them coherent Fred reviewed the Hollister in ’08 bid with a math/money story [$1.00 + (2) $2.00 + (5) $5.00 = $30.00 and a bid-com membership Ken reviewed the colorized & remastered ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ [seen in the Castro] as color did not improve it Dave C reviewed the Disneyland ‘Monster’s Inc’ ride as a fun little ride & thought the Santa Barbara winery was the most convenient he had ever seen, with a good tasting room - and worth full price Cheryl reviewed England as cold and un-wet & less than 1/3 of the average rainfall has fallen & she -would- review the weekend’s cricket ‘but no one would believe me’; cricket chirps follow-on’d Kevin reviewed an LACon committee meeting as the Anaheim Hilton looks the same but the Anaheim convention center has been remodelled . . . again; that plans seem to be going well & kudos to Chaz Baden for putting on a marvellous hospitality suite. Adrienne follow-on’d that the ConCom is still looking for panel ideas Julie reviewed ‘Just Like Heaven’ as a sweet, romantic comedy, but with amateurish production values; formulaic but cute & worth being put on your Netflix queue. Chris follow-on’d that he liked it & Cheryl said it was shown on a plane she was on but was not worth putting the sound on for Carole reviewed a Cinequest flick ‘Walk Out’ as excellent; then Chris follow-on’d that he didn’t care for it much = ‘it was preachy’ We auctioned off books for = $1.00; $6.00 [in anti-bidding]; $3.00; $0.50; $5.00 & $2.75 We adjourned at = 9:37 pm And the rumor of the week was = that ‘Trey will disincentivise certain things’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
