Meeting 829 June 12, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:10 [with lots of orders] 21 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 828 were accepted as ’poll-ish’ The Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $11.50 in the regular jar [total = $8529.20] & sold 3 BASFA memberships at Baycon The VP reported that there are 2 new issues of ‘Drink Tank’ out & he’s making a movie in 2 weeks [ask him if you’d like to be in it] & there’s a new SFinSF out The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee went and saw a rugby match The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported a new PR is out that features the snarkiest crossword puzzle ever The Party Committee tried to put Sue on the spot and wants to hold a BASFA party at Silicon & would like help for it Announcements Chris announced there will be an official Jay Lake roast at Worldcon & he’s reading in 2 weeks Ed announced PENSFA is alive & well & he has contact information for them Dave C announced ‘Book Group Expo’ will be at the SJ convention center June 17-18 [although Dave won’t be there] Ken announced that every Wednesday night all summer in San Pedro square will be a free movie showing & Chris follow-on’d that ‘Galaxy Quest’ and ‘Forbidden Planet’ may be shown there [evil] Kevin announced they are gamma testing online registration for Costumecon 26 & are chasing down an Internet Explorer bug Eric announced he will be doing a local audition for Jeopardy on Thursday Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ as very worthwhile to watch, a good film, very interesting and worth matinee price I reviewed ‘The DaVinci Code’ as a decent adaptation of the book & enjoyable; reviewed ‘Over the Hedge’ as lots of fun - especially the squirrel - although it was predictable & reviewed ‘X-Men 3’ as better than I expected it to be & all were worth matinee. I also reviewed Trey & my 20th anniversary as really fun Art reviewed the ‘Dr Who’ season finale on the SciFi channel as the Daleks have learned to climb stairs Andy reviewed BASFA meeting 828 as ‘we were in the wrong room’ & it was worth full price but was inconvenient Eric reviewed ‘Cars’ as pretty darn good, but is Pixar’s 2nd worst [better than ‘A Bug’s Life’] in his opinion & worth matinee & popcorn & says stay till the very end for the cookie; Dave C follow-on’d with the news coverage that the film had ‘only’ pulled in 62 million Chris reviewed ‘Angels & Demons’ by Dan Brown as only slightly ludicrous & a fun read but it made him think he was an idiot for enjoying it so much; Harold follow-on’d that since he read it in jail it was not wroth full price to him Bob reviewed a drive up to the Lick Observatory that was worth the visit and the Bonestell art there was worth the drive alone; then [evil] Kevin warned that the drive there is still one to take . . . slowly Ed reviewed ‘Stuff & Nonsense’ at Baycon as he bought a platypus from them We auctioned off stuff, videos for $1.25; $1.25; $1.50; playing cards for $1.00; & the only printed copy of ‘Drink Tank 84’ for $1.00 We adjourned at = 9:25 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that Chris will wrestle an alien for the SciFi Channel’ [cute suggestions = ‘in a mask’ ‘in the turtle costume’] _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
