Meeting 850 November 6, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:01 - in Newark 16 people attended Note = next week BASFA will be back at the Hickory Pit Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 849 were accepted as ’Dave Gallaher will be on time in next week’s minutes, too’ We established a party jar Treasurer’s report = we took in $28.29 in the regular jar & $14.25 in the party jar VP report = [‘Chris for TAFF’] There should be a new ‘Drink Tank’ out today & a new SFinSf out Wednesday The President welcomed familiar fannish faces [various comments were made about last week’s displacement] Announcements Cheryl announced that there’s left-over Hallowe’en candy - and passed it around to great enthusiasm Dave C announced that he has a copy of SF Weekly to pass around that has a review in it of YaoiCon Ken announced that at 7pm, Friday, Nov 24 KTEH will show a documentary = ‘Patrick Troutman in America’ Chris announced that he has ‘zines John announced that the SF Browncoats will have a trademark seminar in the Alameda, at 3pm [? Didn’t get the day] Reviews: Harold reviewed Las Vegas traffic as ‘take a cab’ & Cirque de Soile as brilliant, good music, great sets - well worth full price Chris commented about LJ going down [and the filk about it = ‘The Day the LJ Died’, which can be found = [EMAIL PROTECTED] & reviewed ‘BBS the Documentary’ as really, really good, worth full price & reviewed ’24 Hours on Craig’s List’ as even better. Then later he stated that buying DVD at a supermarket is a bad idea & reviewed ‘Underworld’ as craptacular and hideously awful [that made him more stupid even when he fell asleep during it] Ken comment that he’d been awake more than 24 hours and reviewed England as he found it sunny and bright; that economy air fares there as the seats are meant for tiny people, but cheap & he did many kinds of fun stuff in England and felt it well worth full price; then there were many follow-ons; Ken later reviewed ‘Stormbreaker’ [a juvenile spy flick] as mildly entertaining and fun Cheryl reviewed Monday night football as the Raiders can hit the target when it’s the right target & that the Wallabies and All Blacks apparently cause sunny weather in England & reviewed FinnCon as a good time was had by all [500 science fiction fans and 5000 screaming anime fans]& mentioned that Cheryl will be a guest at FinnCon 2007 in July 14-15 Dave G reviewed Texas & a hotel full of rabid football fans as he didn’t take his life in his hands by trying to turn the TV station to catch the Cal game & he got a GREAT bag from World Fantasy Con & it was a good convention Dave C reviewed ‘The Grudge 2’ as he learned he would never get that hour and a half of his life back again - worth wait for cable [‘and then change the channel?’ = Eric] & reviewed ‘Fear of the Dark’ by Walter Mosley ’ as an interesting mystery novel and worth full price & he announced ‘Eye of Argon’ is in print again - and they found the ending - and that Cargo Cult will carry it Fred reviewed ‘Variable Star’ by Spider Robinson from a Heinlein outline as not bad & worth paperback [but he bought it as hardback] John reviewed Blue Man Group as hard to describe but great Trey reviewed the current comic on VH Cats website as the best ever Hallowe’en web-comic We auctioned off stuff - books for $5.00, $0.25, $0.25, $2.50, $0.25, $2.00, $0.50, $0.50, 2 videos for $5.25, & routers for $0.25, $0.50 & $0.50; then we birthday auctioned off both O’Halloran’s as a set for $10.25 We adjourned at = 9:55 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that Frank Wu’s shoes need LEDs and death rays’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
