Meeting 841 September 3, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 7:59 [with pie] 17 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 839.98. . . were accepted as ‘sloshed in translation & the minutes of meeting 840 were accepted as ’Crikey!’ There was no Treasurer [week 3] but we took in $3.00 last week There was no VP - but Chris did a dash-by fanzine-ing and there is a new issue of the ‘Drink Tank’ The President congratulated Frank Wu on his Hugo win again - since Frank had brought his rockets with him [shiny!] We said ‘hi’ to Bob Balmanno, visiting us for the 1st time & just-published author of the sf novel ‘September Snow’ The Hollister in 08 committee reported ‘sadly’ [while jumping with glee] that they did not win the site selection ballot but pulled 79 votes [a record for an ineligible bid] & the party was a resounding success, plus various bits of evidence were handed over to fanac.org’s history archives & they ended with $138.00 to pass along to the BASFA party fund & future hoaxes may occur & then the committee was discharged - to applause Announcements Ken announced that the final Cinema San Pedro movie for this season on Wednesday night will be ‘The Breakfast Club’ Dave C announced that he has a box of ‘Greetings from Lake Wu’ books in his car, by Jay Lake & Frank Wu for $150 [and cheap at that price] Eric announced that Steve Irwin died today Reviews: Mike reviewed socks made of ‘cool max’ that keep feet comfy and cool - as pricey but worth the cost & says that prescription glasses for $18 are well worth it from valueglasses.com [evil] Kevin reviewed taking Andy to Disneyland for the 1st time as there were many fun parts to it & he found the jokes at the ‘Jungle Cruise’ are as bad as ever - but they’ve added piranha! & he reviewed the Worldcon Masquerade as one of the smoothest he’s ever taken part in - it hummed - and some of the backstage judging was overly dramatic. There were follow-on’s - Dave C commented that the photo area was ‘a little tiny space’ & they didn’t get all the contestants & [evil] Kevin said that Conrad would be on National Geographic TV Kevin S reviewed Worldcon as he spent 7 days there to get the full flavor of the con & that the ‘taster’ memberships did their job & he enjoyed the con & wished he could’ve attended more panels It was then moved and passed that Kevin S be renamed Kevin Alpha-Omega for the duration of the meeting Since Kevin S was the first on the Worldcon main stage - and the last one off of it - then he related WSFS business meeting hijinks [as Ben Yalow fought the tide] - saying it was exhilarating but not fun - and that both ‘Match Games’ went well but the night time ‘Match game’ needed a much bigger room & air conditioning; then Bob follow-on’d that Kevin was masterful Dave C reviewed Worldcon as he was stuck in the Dealer’s room most of the con & did well Fred reviewed Burning Man as totally great and the weather was much better than other years & was worth far more than full price Frank showed his ‘Chris for TAFF’ poster & that he tracked down 2 movies he’d been looking for - ‘Laserblast’ [not as bad as he expected] & ‘The Crater Lake Monster’ as completely awful and really bad - and not worth full price Eric reviewed something seen at the Tapestry Arts Festival as beer inspired and that the WalkWatcher art was fairly cute We auctioned off books for $0.25 & a stack of blank CDR’s for $3.00 We adjourned at = 9:40 pm - before the rumor was adopted, but = And the rumor of the week was = ‘Final Vote - Ben Yalow 0, the Tide 99’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
