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Meeting 849 October 30, 2006 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:10 20 people attended Big Announcement = next week BASFA will meet at the Newark Round Table at Thornton Ave and Cedar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 848 were accepted as ’full of veiled references’ Treasurer’s report = we took in $5.12 in the regular jar & $30.00 in the party jar VP report = ‘Chris for TAFF’ & there’s a new ‘Drink Tank’ on efanzines.com, there’ll be a new SFinSf soon The President had nothing fannish to report The AhwaneeCon committee reported that Robert Hole has done the logo, registration forms have been printed & a progress report is being assembled Announcements Dave C announced that there’s a convention coming up at the Embassy Suites in South SF, BasCon, a slash fiction convention Andy announced a death in the BayCon extended family & that ConExtreme has moved from March to July 27-29 Lynn announced that she will be performing at Java on Ocean in SF at 7pm & that Warren now works at the Titanic exhibit Chris announced that he wants a review of Yaoi-con [from someone who attended it] [evil] Kevin announced that CostumeCon’s rates go up on Wednesday Art announced that the annual DevNul tournament begins tomorrow at midnight Reviews: Howeird reviewed community theatre - the Mission City Center for the Performing Arts in Santa Clara’s showing of ‘Gilligan’s Island, the Musical’ as much, MUCH better than it sounds and every part was nailed solid, well worth full price and attending twice Chris said he lost lots of money at Tahoe and reviewed the worst haunted house ever made as not worth the $5.00 donation & he reviewed DVDs - ‘Velvet Vampire’ as not as bad as it could have been, with beautiful cinematography and the storyline was crap, worth $3.86 & reviewed ‘Homo Promo’ as really entertaining and worth adding to your Netflix queue - but see it with a computer nearby so you can do searches for obscure actors Cheryl reviewed England as wet and she’s glad to be back & reviewed darkest Somerset as the newspapers there have progressed to moveable type & there’s an article about Kim Newman that she passed around & while England doesn’t do much with Hallowe’en there IS a fun costume event to celebrate - Guy Fawkes day - ‘costumes and explosives, who can ask for anything more?’ & she had photos from that too; Andy follow-on’d that he’d seen Kim Newman on TV during 100 Years of Horror Bob reviewed books, Peter Watts ‘Blindsight’ as interesting science & Charlie Stross’s ‘Glasshouse’ as a terrific use of teleportation Dave C reviewed the great debate [radio DJs debating] as free & worth full price & warns that the 75th anniversary edition of ‘Dracula’ has had a new musical score attached to it Andy reviewed episodes 2 & 3 of ‘Torchwood’ as it’s getting weirder - not for kids - still worth breaking the law for Dave G reviewed skin cancer surgery as ‘wear sunscreen’ Then we established a party jar And Dave C reviewed ‘Man of the Year’ as fun, cute - not really deep - & without a lot of thought & worth matinee & reviewed ‘Well of Lost Plots’ by Fforde as a bit of a place-holder, worth paperback We auctioned off stuff - books for $0.25, $5.00, $2.00, $3.00, $2.50, $3.50, $5.50, $4.50, & birthday auctioned Barbara off for $12.00 to Trey We adjourned at = 9:15 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that Cheryl Morgan will win the Hugo for fan artist’ |
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