Meeting 817 March 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 a talk about conversation] 22 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 816 were accepted as ‘Pennsylvania 65000’ Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $21.75 The VP reported he got a new hat and there’s a new ‘Drink Tank’ & SFSF is looking for a new layout guy The President reported he had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee reported some good dates for the SJ Giants for us to check out The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported there are presupport forms & then Andy did more math Dave C commented that disincentivise is a word We established a party jar Announcements Kevin R announced that the Costume Con photo archives are being moved and he’s looking for help to type in flavor texts Dave C announced that next Saturday at 7pm there will be a Psychotronic Film Festival at Foothill community college; for $5.00 [and $2.00 for parking] Cheryl announced that the Japan/Cuba game is now being played Adrienne announced she has a review about Anaheim hotels posted on epionions Kevin S announced that there are fanzines Reviews: Joanie reviewed ‘To Say Nothing of the Dog’ & ‘Inside Job’, both by Connie Willis as she thought ‘Dog’ was entertaining but not hilarious and she enjoyed it, while ‘Job’ was a well-paced novella - both worth full price mass market Chris reviewed another ‘next best thing ever’ = ‘V for Vendetta’ as the script was really good, Natalie Portman didn’t annoy him & Hugo Weaving was awesome & he’s really glad he saw it; Dave C follow-on’d that it was a very faithful adaptation - everything was great & for the first time you will believe [omitted by those who don’t believe] Cheryl reviewed academics as they drink a lot, that she had the chance to smash crabs with a mallet and went a long way to end with the pun ‘squid pro quo’ Andy reviewed the press coverage of ‘Dr Who’ last week as fact-checking is not something that journalists do and there were a lot of inaccuracies - but that the Merc review was pretty good [and there were some follow-ons] Jim reviewed the Contact conference at NASA/Ames as ‘great - worth full price, absolutely’ We did birthday auctions = Kurt sold for $10.00 to Nancy; Nancy sold for $8.00 to herself & Spring sold to $50.00 to Dave G; then auctioned off books for = $3.00; $0.25; $0.25; $5.00; $4.25; $5.00; a bar-towel $3.00; more books for $2.00; $2.75; $0.25; tar candy for $0.25 & $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:27 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘anti-fortunately, Chris is not Dave’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
