Meeting 836 July 31, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 18 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 835 were accepted as ’ice-cream-alicious’ Treasurer’s report was that we took in around $70.00 last week between the regular and party jars We established a party jar The VP reported that there’s a new issue of ‘Drink Tank’ out on efanzine.com, a new SFinSF & remember to buy ‘Chris for TAFF’ stuff at cafepress with Frank Wu artwork on it [‘why should America suffer alone?’] & Frank’s ‘Guidilon’ won ‘Best in Show’ and ‘Best Animated Short’ at Conostoga The President had nothing fannish to report The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported that the bid now has a sub rosa theme song ‘My House’ by Rosemary Clooney [‘finally a bid with enough fiber’; ‘not an elevator in sight’; ‘no wait for the elevator’; ‘no broken elevators’] The Sports Committee admits defeat in regards to organizing a SJ Giants outing due to illness and his hectic work schedule Announcements Ken announced that the Cinema San Pedro movie for this Wednesday night will be ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ Dave C announced that Daniel & Kelly say hello & gave their proxy report that ‘Santa Claus rules us all’, plus that ‘Greetings from Lake Wu’ will be a special edition book released at Worldcon [Frank = ‘larger and in color’] Kevin S announced that you have until midnight to vote on the Hugos & there are ‘Emerald Cities’ in the room & to read Cheryl’s blog Chris announced that Sunday, August 13 is the premiere of Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Shriek’ at the DNA Lounge & that Chris will be speaking there for SFinSF Reviews: Joanie reviewed Traverse City, Michigan, as a vacation spot that is usually cool, the indoor pools are nice & the shops are pleasantly quaint - very nice to visit Ken reviewed Las Vegas as ‘a way to escape the heat’ [Dave C = ‘it’s a dry hell’] & Ken saw Blue Men Group as very funny, very loud & very bizarre - a great show & then he reviewed ‘Love’ as the greatest thing ever produced - worth his air fare, accommodations, food and the ticket to get in * he reviewed ‘Tempest’ in the park as he enjoyed it too Chris reviewed the greatest film ever [‘again?’] ‘Hollywood’s Top Secret Movie Studio’ as fascinating and great & funny things were spoken of [including about Chris’s driving] & I agreed with Frank that ‘The Hellstrom Chronicles’ was the best bug movie ever We auctioned off stuff, books for $0.25, $1.00, $0.50, $2.00, $4.00, $0.25, $0.25, $0.75, a Tshirt for $0.25; a poster for $0.10 & a box of movie trailers for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:22 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘Perverts are ideal for curling’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
