Meeting 840 August 28, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:06 [with a bit of rap] 18 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 839 were accepted as ’tongue tied There was no Treasurer but we took in $0.75 last week There was no VP The President said he had nothing fannish to report Announcements Bob announced that Frank Wu won his 2nd Hugo at Worldcon & [evil] Kevin won an award for best humorous costume & Hollister came in 4th [& in follow-in’s it was mentioned that Father John won a Master’s class costuming award] At this point, Frank Wu showed up - to thunderous applause - and showed us his awards. [Ooo - shiny!] Joanie announced that they are looking for a cheap automatic transmission vehicle that can hold a wheelchair in the back - and please to get in touch with her Ken announced that the Cinema San Pedro movie for this Wednesday night will be ‘Office Space’ & announced he has a plate of fries up for grabs Daniel announced that he & Kelly are officially publishers [Traife Buffet Haute Biblio] & their 1st offering is ‘Greetings from Lake Wu’ by Jay Lake & Frank Wu Reviews: Harold reviewed the Metreon’s ‘Titanic’ exhibit as a must-see for Titanic fanatics - as very interesting and impressive & it takes about 90 minutes to walk through the exhibit was worth full price & wear comfy shoes & he reviewed the 20 volumes of the Aubrey-Maturin sea series as the series is worth full price John reviewed this last Sunday’s ‘Monty’ comic as it hit on all cylinders for him - and was passed around Daniel reviewed Worldcon as he had no fault to find with the Marriott - he got lucky - he had a great time at the con & that the con was so spread out that he felt it never really achieved critical mass - but it was fun & the con drew about 5000 & the Worldcon ‘used car lot’ was interesting & the art show draw-off Between Bob Eggelton & Frank Wu raised about $1000 for charity; Frank follow-on’d that he got his picture taken in ‘the original’ Batmobile; other follow-on’s mentions that Andy & [evil] Kevin throw one heckuva party & that a picture of Conrad the Disco Lizard made it into the OC Register We auctioned off books for $1.25 We adjourned at = 8:50 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that the Disney company will meet next week to demote Pluto to a pup’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
