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Meeting 828 June 5, 2006 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 7:59 [with comments about the polls] 21 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 826 were accepted as ’15 minutes of fame’ & the minutes of meeting 827 were accepted as ‘Dave’s sleepy-time minutes’ The Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $16.00 in the regular jar [total = $8502.70] & took in $2.00 in the party jar [total $359.92] - pre receipts We welcomed Dan to the meeting - who said that this is what comes of putting up posters at Baycon The VP was glad he was not presiding & reported that there is a new issue of ‘Drink Tank’ out & that we did well with the Baycon fanzine lounge & Hollister in ’08 & he has a reading coming up The President reported that conventions are places where people go to be social & exchange germs The Sports Committee reported that the Churchill Cup [rugby] began Saturday and the U.S. team only lost 28-13 to Ireland and that Kevin plans to attend the other games on the 7th & 10th The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported that they have actually taken in $900 in membership sales & are trying to not be too ambitious, but can have a party at both LACon 3 and Conzilla, plus Hollister is ’08 figure prominently in the Baycon Match game Announcements Kevin announced he has an issue of ‘Instant Messenger’ to pass around [evil] Kevin announced his picture was in the Monday Mercury news business section [page 1, above the fold] Reviews: Chris reminded everyone to write him in as a candidate for mayor for San Jose & reviewed the ‘DaVinci Code’ as the only film where Tom Hanks acting is overshadowed by a metallic callbox and the ending is absolutely hideous but the previews made him feel dirty and the ‘Code’ was worth $6.03 [evil] Kevin reviewed Costumecon as ‘we had a lot of fun’, it was a really nice show & the BASFA in exile meeting was called on account of meat. Travel weather was atrocious - but it was all definitely worth full price. Chris follow-on’d that his boss saw the photo of Kevin and Chris reviewed it as ‘awesome’ Lisa reviewed Raging Waters as they had a good time, it’s a great place for pirates and worth full price Harold reviewed ‘101 People who are Really Screwing America’ by John Huberman as slightly to the left of Lennon & reviewed ‘The DaVinci Code’ as difficult to review because as a historian it’s a comedy overall but as a thriller it’s okay but wait for pay-for-view Carole reviewed ‘X-Men 3’ as good summer fun & worth full price if you’re a fan & said Baycon’s Masquerade was very good quality for a Baycon Andy reviewed throwing an Evil Genius party in Iowa as interesting and successful and that the hotel had weird air conditioning problems Dave C reviewed ‘X-Men 3’ as he enjoyed it and Kelsey Grammer did a very nice Beast & it was worth full price. He says stay through the credits for the cookie after the movie & he reviewed ‘The Notorious Betty Page’ as a fun little bio pic and worth matinee We adjourned at = 9:11 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘sidelined by meat’ |
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