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Meeting 846 October 9, 2006 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:01 [with me eating prawns] 22 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 845 were accepted as ’nicely kluged Mr. Trembley’ Treasurer’s report = we took in $24.25 in the regular jar & $33.50 in the party jar at meeting 844 & took in $16.50 last week in the regular jar & $45.75 in the party jar at meeting 845 The VP reported that the TAFF ballot is out [‘Chris for TAFF’] ‘Drink Tank’ #100 is almost done & then his hair will stop falling out, there’s a new ‘SFinSF’ out & he worked Silicon; then [tall] Kevin follow-on’d about TAFF ballotting The President asked us to seriously consider where we’ll hold the Nov 6 BASFA meeting; we voted and pending availability will hold it at the Fremont Round Table, with [tall] Kevin checking on its availability The Party Committee reported that he sold 4 BASFA memberships at Silicon & he asked questions about holding BASFA parties at BayCon & Westercon Announcements Dave C announced that Terry Pratchett is doing 1 signing in Petaluma at Copperfield’s next Sunday [at 3:30?] & announced that Dave Clark appeared in the premiere of ‘Studio 60’ & was mentioned as a suspect on ‘Law & Order’ [evil] Kevin announced that CostumeCon 26 signed a contract with the SJ Doubletree for April 25-28, 2008 Chris announced the AhwahneeCon 2009 bid has begun & that there’s likely to be a bid for SquatterCon 2010 at the LASFS clubhouse; and we established an AhwahneeCon Exploratory Committee, headed by Chris Garcia Dave G announced that he has a flyer for the San Mateo Marriott and passed it around Reviews: Silicon was multiply reviewed; [tall] Kevin reviewed it as a better fit for the San Meteo Marriott, as very quiet and low energy; Andy reviewed it as a good con for nightlife, with almost as many parties as at BayCon & the League of Evil Genius party was well-attended & the Coffee Garden [‘was still crappy’ = evil Kevin] was in decline & all-in-all there were lots of cries for ‘Chris for TAFF’; [evil] Kevin commented that he got to buukd a volvano and crash 2 planes into it & he could be seen in a very sharp-looking suit on Friday; Chris reviewed it as he enjoyed working the newsletter, liked interviewing Mr. Lobo, enjoyed the parties and talking with friends and he had a really good time and is exhausted and thought it worth full price; Howeird took pictures, one of which he photo-shopped amusingly & 3 that he donated to the BASFA archives; I reviewed it as a fun time, that I enjoyed working on the newsletter and not having what I wrote snipped & thought the con was a bit low energy but the parties were good; Lisa reviewed it as quiet and she missed panels because she was sitting a fan table and the parties were good; Ed reviewed it as he spent most of his time throwing the BASFA parties & didn’t see much of the con & Trey reviewed it as both anime and gaming seemed smaller than last year Julie reviewed the EDA tech forum, that she got swag and the food was first rate and Watts Wacker gave a good discussion and she won an ipod nano in a drawing & it’s worth free if you’re invited to one Dave C reviewed the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show - sponsored by the Slow Talkers of America - at the Oakland Convention center as he got a trunk-load of swag and could have used a pack mule and it was worth full price Chris reviewed the ‘most worst thing human kind has ever done’ a DVD, ‘Requiem for a Vampire’ as ‘monkeys couldn’t save this movie’ & even having full frontal lesbian sex couldn’t save this movie; ‘it was wretched’ and makes ‘Vegas in Space’ look like ‘Citizen Kane’ & that it was worth full price, $1.00; there were many follow-on’s Harold reviewed ‘Jet Li’s Fearless’ as it had beautiful visuals, an interesting story. It was excellent and worth full price We auctioned off stuff - a Spiderman roasary for $1.50; a coffee mug for $1.50; cards for $1.00 & a comic and an SFinSF for $1.50 We adjourned at = 9:34 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘the proceeds of the BASFA slave auction will go to fund Chris for TAFF’ |
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