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Meeting 847 October 16, 2006 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 18 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 846 were accepted as ’I’m crushing your head’ There was no Treasurer, but the proxy Treasurer’s report was ‘we have money’ There was no VP, but he had been there earlier and gave Dave C his last print copy of the TAFF ballot to guard [‘Chris for TAFF’] The President reported that breathing is good, even fans do it The Party Committee reminded folks to volunteer to help him run the BASFA Further Confusion party & he’s made party room reservations for BASFA parties at BayCon & Westercon & he’s run out of BASFA badge ribbons The AhwaneeCon committee reported that typos in the flyers have been corrected Adrienne proposed that BASFA do a gift exchange because it seems fun but the motion failed for lack of 2nd Announcements Lisa announced that CostumeCon 26 has sold 106 memberships Adrienne announced that the ‘hot brandy séance’ in the Columbia hotel in Columbia, CA has been postponed to sometime in November or December - and she’ll keep us informed I announced that SubLevel 3 will be ‘Special Musical Guests’ at Further Confusion 2007 Reviews: Andy reviewed Vinticon as Murphy, CA is a charming little town with tasting rooms every 3 doors, the Chinese restaurant they ate at was mediocre,, that they drank scary wines [like ‘Undead Red’], the scavenger wine hunt was a brilliant idea, but suggested that visiting fewer wineries per day would leave the participants with more energy to do other things [like play games till 1am] & that Twisted Oak winery is a must see; that Vinticon was worth full price, including the drive; [evil] Kevin follow-on’d that despite the wedding that took over Murphy they were still helped by many people Harold reviewed ‘Static’ by Amy and David Goodman as depressing and infuriating and very interesting - probably worth full price Dave C reviewed ‘Al Franken’s God Spoke’ as a documentary, rather fun and worth matinee Adrienne reviewed ‘Man of the Year’ as really fun, with Williams doing Mork-like antics and there were a lot of good lines in it; she enjoyed it; she also reviewed Masterpiece Theatre’s ‘Casanova’ with Peter O’Toole as she kind of likes that sort of stuff and she liked it, thought it worth seeing Fred reviewed ‘This Movie is not Yet Rated’ as absolutely excellent, he recommends it highly & is worth full price, or buy the DVD Trey reviewed ‘Open Season’ so you don’t have to as he had few expectations when he went in and even with his lowered expectations was disappointed Dave C also commented about talking cows and asked what happened to ‘Monster House’ We auctioned off stuff - books & a DVD for $1.75 [to the proxy Chris]; coffee mugs for $0.75; books for $1.25 & $1.50; cassettes for $1.50 & a poster for $1.00 We adjourned at = 9:15 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘Open Season indited for serial time-killing’ |
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