Meeting 818 March 27, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:01 23 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 817 were accepted as ‘Transylvania 6-5000’ Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $112.85 [regular jar] & took in $4.50 in the party jar The VP reported that John Purcell sent in quarter to pay for puns in his letters to ‘Drink Tank’, that there will be a new ‘Drink Tank’ on Friday & there’s a Pacheco progress report The President reported that he would like to report something really cook and interesting, but had nothing We established a party jar The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported there are 15 pre-member & SMOFish reaction has been ‘amusing’ The Sports Committee reported he forgot his paperwork for the SJ Giants dates Announcements Cheryl announced that there are ‘Emerald Cities’ in the room & she has an issue of ‘Interzone’ for folks to look at & tomorrow night is the first of the Terry Bisson readings at 7pm at the 777 Valencia St theatre, with Robert Silverberg & Kim Stanley Robinson Kevin S announced that the Hugo nominations are out & ‘Emerald Cities’ is nominated for best semi-prozine; Cheryl is nominated for best fan-writer & Frank Wu is nominated for best fan artist [the suggestion was made that since Chris Garcia wasn’t listening that he be covered in honey & iron filings] Dave G announced that Dan Curtis had died; also Richard Fleischer & Stanislaw Lem have died Dave C announced that there are bookmarks for APE on the back table - ‘please take them’ Reviews: Kevin R reviewed the Costume Con photo archives as when he did this, he found gems and encouraged people to go view them at www.costume-con.org/gallery2 Chris reviewed another ‘best thing ever’ = the Psychotronic Film Festival as he enjoyed some of the worst music videos ever made - that it was a great event - worth $5.00 plus the $10.00 he spent at Denny’s and other costs besides; Dave C follow-on’d that Chris is impulsively generous Doug reviewed ‘Life as we Do Not Know It’ as a fascinating and hopeful read & he recommends it Cheryl reviewed Australian state cricket championships as her team [Victoria] did not do well & there were cricket follow-ons, some of which were not puns Julie reviewed the Legion of Rasselon meeting as that she saw ‘The Quartermass Experiment’ there and thought it was a lot of fun & is out on DVD and is well worth watching I reviewed ‘V for Vendetta’ as excellent, worth watching twice and bringing along friends both times just for Hugo Weaving’s performance & really enjoyed it; Kirsten follow-on’d with a query that Dave G answered = that it’s amazing to watch on the Dublin IMAX & Hugo Weaving’s performance was Oscar-worthy; ‘evil Kevin’ follow-on’d that Stephen Fry doing a Benny Hill send-up was great; Doug follow-on’d that religious extremists are up in arms about the film; Fred reviewed it as the adaptation was not as good as the graphic novel; Andy follow-on’d that he saw the move & read the graphic novel on the same day & enjoyed both for different reasons, but the novel was more intentionally vague & Trey follow-on’d that he enjoyed the film, but wished it had included at least 2 more of V’s speeches from the graphic novel Dave C reviewed ‘Slings and Arrows’ [as seen on the Sundance channel] as . . . insance & strange [and there were follow-ons about the channel] We birthday auctioned off Julie for $4.00 to me; then auctioned off books for = $5.00; $3.00 [for Chris]; $4.00; $1.25; $0.75; $0.50 & $1.50 We adjourned at = 9:27 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘Chris was a member of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in a former life’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
