Meeting 822 April 24, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:01 25 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 821 were accepted as ’29 across’ A Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $36.10 The VP reported there’s a new ‘Pacheco Progress Report’, ‘SFinSF’ will be out next week and there’s a new ‘Drink Tank’ out - but not with him The President stated he had nothing fannish to report The Hollister in ’08 bid committee has no new numbers to report The Sports Committee reported that he needs to have dates given to him for an outing The Party Committee reported = “May 19” We established a party jar Announcements [evil] Kevin announced the upgrade of the Costume-Con site is finished Mike announced that he brought free discs, please take them away Dave C announced, several times, that World Horror Con will be in the 2nd week of May at the Holiday Inn Golden gate in Sf, so attend and support your local dealers Chris announced he has been asked to give a reading at Tachyon Books [in SF] & that he will be drinking heavily for the occasion Cheryl announced that she will be leaving the country at the end of the month Dave G announced that he & Spring will host a party at 7pm at their place & he passed out flyers; please RSVP Reviews: I reviewed the DVD of ‘Pitch Black’ as surprisingly entertaining and it had a lot of fun extras Cheryl reviewed a sf reading that was remarkably informative & the next one will be the Tuesday after World Horror Con Kevin S reviewed helping out at the Oregon Electric Train Museum as the wheels came off their railing and fussing around with old railroad equipment caused him to leave furrows in the gravel there Chris reviewed ‘Vegas in Space’ as if there were Oscars for the best drag queen musical, it would win. It was kind of entertaining and the best find he’s made on Ebay was a 16mm print of the ‘Love Boat’ with Bruce Jenner & Hulk Hogan [there were follow-ons] Lisa reviewed Disneyland as the fireworks were excellent and ‘Go Sharks!” Dave C reviewed Norwescon, selling books as still a dicodemy [sp?] & reviewed S Andrew Swann’s ‘The Dragons of Cyahoga’ as a fun little novel, worth pb Adrienne reviewed ‘Bimbos of the Death Sun’ as pretty bad and insulting - worth used pb [there were follow-ons] Sue reviewed the SJ Ballet as very very well done & reviewed ‘Take the Lead’ as nice eye-candy, worth full price Ed reviewed the Peking acrobats as very impressive, worth full price Dave G reviewed the Berekley Sharfengerger Chocolate factory tour as he learned fun stories and well worth full price [free] and taste-testing the samples was akin to sampling wine and highly recommended [there were follow-ons] And then Kevin S announced his parent company’s name was changed to Con-Way We auctioned off stuff, books for = $5.50; $0.50; $0.35; $3.00; $5.50; & videos for $0.90 We adjourned at = 9:34 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘There’s a convention coming up . . .’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
