Meeting 838 August 14, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:12 [with the resolve to read ‘Kitchen Confidential’] 24 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 837 were accepted as ’having achieved stalling speed’ Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $82.75 in the regular and $7.85 in the party jar We established a party jar The VP reported [stalling having succeeded] that if you saw him on TV you were lucky [as he has not seen any segments yet]; that there are new fanzines [including a new ‘Drink Tank’] & his sister gave him a papercut on the eye The President welcomed ‘Bug’ [Bridget Bradshaw, from TAFF] & Frank Wu paid for her BASFA membership Given a chance to report, Bug chewed her dinner contentedly There was a motion to name Bug the Ambassador to TAFFlasia & Cambridge that passed all to Bug [it was commented that while death releases you from LASFAS, that BASFA is thinking of establishing a necromantic committee] There was a motion that shall not be named that was objected to consideration The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported that there is a new bidcom member & shopping is being planned - & the President thanked the committee for their hard work and partying Announcements Ken announced that the Cinema San Pedro movie for this Wednesday night will be ‘Ghostbusters’ & that this week on channel 54 will see the Pajama Party Pledge night this Saturday from 10pm to 2am wherein they will show ‘Day of the Trifids’ - and have the world premiere of ‘Guidilon the Giant Space Chicken’ with Chris and Frank probably in the studio Kevin S announced that there are copies of the antepenultimate issue of Emerald City in the room Chris announced there’ll be an issue of SFinSF up real soon [which includes an article by Cheryl] & he’s desperate for reviews of Worldcon & he wants LOTS of articles for ‘Drink Tank’ #100 Dave G announced that he has flyers for Vinticon 4 [Oct 13-15] Frank announced that some of the props from ‘Nacho Lebre’ are up for sale on EBay right now Reviews: Ken reviewed the Capital Drive-in - where he saw ‘Pirates 2’ as the audio kept slipping, the film didn’t fit properly on the screen & folks kept driving thru with their headlights on - that there was a small but annoying crowd there & the experience was not worth attending - stick to normal theatres Chris reviewed his little cousins as they are ‘sooooo cuuuute’ and worth full price & reviewed his weekend as very fannish - he sat around and read fanzines & had another date as very enjoyable & worth full price Harold reviewed the finest film he has seen in quite a while ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ as ‘you think your family has problems’ & very definitely worth matinee Then we established a TAFF jar Bug announced that she is gathering artwork and the best of it will go in her TAFF report [evil] Kevin reviewed ‘UFO’ as one of the greatest series from England ever made - and where’s all the cool stuff he’s supposed to have by now? Fred reviewed ‘Galaxy Quest’ at Cinema San Pedro as the movie was great [sitting in the street, drinking beer] and worth full price Lance reviewed a technology and art festival as some of the art was super cool & he saw a dance performance also worth full price; Fred follow-on’d that one of the art pieces has a message on it in IR that could only be viewed with a digital camera Bug reviewed the Survival Research Labs demo as like the end of days with explosions and things that went ‘phooom!’ and she wants one of the plasma arcs for her garden & then reviewed her trip as she ‘didn’t see many fans in Boston, she went to Readercon’ Eric reviewed Pageant of the Masters as really fantastic to watch Mike reviewed ‘The Place Promised in our Early Days’ as ‘O my god it was so strange’ and we may be seeing the next Myazaki in Shinkai Dave C reviewed ’50 years of Disneyland’ at the Oakland Museum as interesting We auctioned off stuff, birthday auctioned off Andy to Tom for $27.00; birthday auctioned off Bug to Dave C for $17.00; birthday auctioned off Dierdre to Chris for $7.00; birthday auctioned off Rick to Chris for $6.00 [so he could have the set]; & auctioned off Raisers stuff for $4.00 We adjourned at = 9:45 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘When Ben Yalow dies, he’s taking Worldcon with him’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
