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Meeting 842 September 11, 2006 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 23 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 841 were accepted as ’stripped to the bone in 2 minutes’ We established a party jar Treasurer’s report = we took in $10.75 last week in the regular jar & $142.50 in the party jar - mainly thanks to the Hollister bid The VP stopped by for pie, but left before the meeting began The President welcomed BASFA’s newest member, Stellan Lagerstrom, who then introduced himself as ‘your basic nerd’ who went to Worldcon & stumbled on us [BASFA]. Then we said ‘hi’ to Howeird, who introduced himself as ‘it’s all Chris’s fault’ and he came by, expecting to find 3 people here and had seen our website - and that it needs to be updated & met Mark - who was here to give Joanie a donation for her middle school’s book project Announcements Kevin announced that he is rather rashly donating 2 Hugo items to Joanie’s middle school project & asked if anyone wanted to look at the trophies Dave C announced that he has joined the dark side of the badge [many follow-on’s about badge ribbons] Andy announced that Silicon is coming up in a couple of weeks & there is possibly going to be an Evil Genius party on Saturday night Adrienne asked why BASFA doesn’t print its own books & several reasons were given Joanie announced that an art car festival will be held this Saturday & Sunday in downtown SJ [evil] Kevin announced that the annual gay rodeo will be at Driscoll Ranch, 5 miles inland of San Gregorio Beach, this Saturday & Sunday [and they will be sponsoring the goat dressing] Reviews: [evil] Kevin reviewed the Northern California Ren Faire as they got will-call tickets because of the Hollister bid & it was a beautiful, pleasant day; a mid-sized faire & folks were having a lot of fun & the acting was certainly cheesey - more cheesey than he remembered anyway & worth full price Adrienne reviewed the Pleasanton Scottish games as it was very large & she liked the games and the shopping - a fun place to go on a Labor Day weekend & worth full price and spending the day there & she reviewed an HBO boxed set, ‘Deadwood’ as the show is so awesome Kevin S reviewed an LJ member [anonymous Kenny] as a drive-by poster who is very nearly illiterate - and astonishing Andy reviewed ‘Greetings from Lake Wu’ as the Frank Wu artwork is justifiably gorgeous and each piece is radically different from each other & the stories are generally excellent & the production values are insanely gorgeous, definitely worth throwing $150 at Trey reviewed [so you don’t have to] Walter Hunt’s latest book, “Dark Crusade’, 4th in the series as he liked it and it brought matters to a satisfactory close & worth paperback; then Dave C commented that he met Mark Budz at Worldcon and that some authors tend to write their titles in alphabetic order - & Joanie approves of this We auctioned off stuff - birthday auctioned Kevin S for $10.00 to Dave C & birthday auctioned [evil] Kevin for $10.00 to Andy; then books for $1.75, $0.50, $1.00, $0.75 & $3.00 We adjourned at = 9:17 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘Tall, evil or cheap - pick any 2’ |
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