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Meeting 835 July 24, 2006 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:06 [with applause] 24 people attended [and the pecan pie was very good] Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 834 were accepted as ’moist, humid & sultry’ Treasurer’s report was that we took in $49.50 last week We established a party jar The VP reported that there’s a new issue of ‘Drink Tank’ out, a new SFinSF & his film ‘Not Just Any Body’ won best written short film - plus he has ‘Chris for TAFF’ stuff available at cafepress & he likes Murf The President had nothing fannish to report There was a motion to endorse Sparks for TAFF that failed The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported that they now have big obnoxiously shiny fruit stickers for the party The Party Committee reported that they are online and on-schedule for Silicon & Furcon & he modified the party jar & he still needs help There was a motion to establish a DUFF beer jar that failed Announcements [evil] Kevin announced that you have 1 week left to vote on the Hugos Frank Wu announced that ‘Emerald City’ is #7 & he is #12 in the Locus poll [both moved up in their respective rankings] Carole announced that she is now an official member of the Nippon Worldcon staff Mike announced that he may be looking for a non-smoking Worldcon room-mate Ken announced that the Cinema San Pedro movie for this Wednesday night will be ‘The Blues Brothers’ Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘Monster House’ funny, not for small children and worth bargain matinee & reviewed ‘Clerks 2’ as the greatest thing in cinema ever - very funny, very profane - worth full price & Mike says stay for the credits Carole reviewed the Silicon website as the hyperlinks all take you to the Guests page & that’s a little disconcerting Chris reviewed videos of Westerns and says if you’re ever going to watch 5 films back to back, make sure it’s not a hot weekend and they aren’t 3 hours long each. “It was a little bit brain melting.” And he reviewed the DVD of ‘Natural City’ as if you’ve seen ‘Blade Runner’ then you’ve seen it Dave C reviewed ‘Hustle’ on AMC as fun and light and he recommends it and reviewed Kathy Griffin live as he had a wonderful time, worth full price & reviewed the San Diego ComicCon as ‘my, has it changed’ & he went without pre-registering [Ewww!] and ‘there were more people . . .’ <voice trails off in despair> Dave also says that they expected at least 100,000 attendees and probably got it. There were follow-on’s = Chris reviewed it without being there; Spring reviewed having worked it before as educational & a bit skanky; Dave G commented that the G4 live coverage was a bit shaky Jim reviewed an ‘Opus’ comic as a bit humorous Ed reviewed Flint’s ‘Boundary’ as very nicely done [evil] Kevin reviewed ‘Eureka’ as now that the SciFi channel has sold its soul to wrestling they can afford writers & that this pilot was entertaining, with good writing Art reviewed ‘Eureka 7’ as an anime that mixes surfing and giant mecha as he hasn’t quite figured out the plot yet. View at your own risk We auctioned off stuff, DVDs & videos for $8.00, $5.25 & $30.00; nekkid playing cards for $0.75; a box of books for $1.50 & a mystery box of books for $2.00 - & birthday auctioned off Ken for $11.00 to Frank Wu We adjourned at = 9:26 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘What are we buying? A clubhouse! When? Real soon!’ |
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