Meeting 837 August 7, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 [with cleaner hands] 16 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 834 were accepted as ’phacetious’ Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $21.25 in the regular and $16.10 in the party jar - and that Vinticon’s hotel needs an overflow hotel & since the ghost won’t pay for a membership, the ghost is not wanted We established a party jar The VP reported, “I’m sorry, what?” - then that there’s a new ‘Drink Tank’ out & Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Shriek’ will be shown on Aug 20 at 12 Galaxies & he had a date on Friday [that did not end up in a park] & the ‘Match Game After Dark’ is on for Worldcon - after the Hugos The President welcomed Linda -er- Lisa & Frank Wu paid for her BASFA membership There was a motion to rename Lisa ‘Linda’ for the duration of the meeting that passed 10-9 There was a motion to rename Frank ‘Pacolon’ for the duration of the meeting that passed - ‘everyone to Frank’ There was a motion to rename Trey ‘Chafing dish’ for the duration of the meeting but it was objected to consideration There was a motion to rename ‘Linda’ as our Ambassador to Chadsworth [Calif] for the duration of the meeting - and then name Lisa Ambassador to Chadsworth that passed The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported that the complete bound edition of Pacheco Pass PRs 1-6 has been published & PR6 is out Announcements Ken announced that the Cinema San Pedro movie for this Wednesday night will be ‘Galaxy Quest’ Andy announced that CostumeCon 27 has received its ribbons [and they look GOOD] [evil] Kevin announced that Conrad’s underbite is repaired & he’s working on getting a bit of tail Dave C announced that there’s a bunch of stuff on the back table - including the new Cargo Cult & there’s a convention coming up a few weekends from now Reviews: Harold reviewed the world’s worst umpiring in the history of baseball - in the 9th inning at PacBell Park where the umpire threw Barry out [but it did help to get the fans in the game] & reviewed the greatest discovery in the history of diet snacks division - Orville Reddenbacker Kettlecorn minipacks Chris reviewed his date as very enjoyable & reviewed ‘Hollywood Babylon’ as beautiful and ‘just made me smile’ but that ‘Hollywood Babylon Unraveled’ was the greatest book ever written & just makes him feel good Lynn reviewed the ‘Today Show’ as an example of incredible interviewing & that Al Rocher is brilliant Dave C reviewed ‘Collapse’ by Jered Diamond as very thick reading - dealing with things that have gone wrong with civilizations that brought about their downfall & reviewed the ‘greatest website ever’ as www.oddballcomics.com We auctioned off stuff, birthday auctioned off Harold to Chris for $26.50; birthday auctioned off Warren to Lynn for $10.50; birthday auctioned off Lynn to Warren for $10.50; auctioned off books for $0.75, $0.50, $0.60; a magazine for $1.00 & a bound copy of Pacheco Pass PRs 1-6 for $6.50 We adjourned at = 9:21 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘837 has been declared a prime number by the Kansas State board of education’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
