Meeting 854 December 4, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:06 with me wearing the spawn of Kevin’s coat 14 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 853 were accepted as ’containing real stunt people We established a party jar There was no Treasurer or Treasurer’s report There was no VP or VP’s report The President had nothing fannish to report The AhwaneeCon committee reported that ‘we have done Jack this week’ Announcements Dave C announced that this Saturday is the return of the Psychotronic Film Festival at Foothill College, room 5015 Bob announced that Jay Lake is running an auction online to benefit a neighbor in trouble - check his LJ = Jaylake.LJ.com Andy announced that the Imperial Royal Lion Monarchy of San Jose is doing a Xmas show Saturday, Dec 16 at 8pm at the Oddfellows hall on Race Street in SJ Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘For Your Consideration’, a comedic narrative film - still with the usual suspects - as worth seeing and worth bargain matinee Andy reviewed last week’s Torchwood as very solid and ‘O my God they killed Suzie, you bastards. Not really’ - still worth breaking the law for and fantastic and reviewed the sleep innovation nova form comfort lux mattress, from Costco online as amazingly comfortable - the way to go and worth full price Howeird reviewed Pear Theatre as it did a very interesting show called ‘The Baltimore Waltz’ and says to check the theatre’s website as they do very interesting small plays & he reviewed moving and changing jobs in the same 3 days as ‘prepare to have your mind explode’ & it wasn;t quite the move from hell, but the movers TRIED Dave C reviewed ‘Retro Pulp Tales’ - an anthology with mixed results as it’s worth cover price; reviewed a CD as ‘the greatest made, ever, really - seek this out, I implore you’ about the CD ‘Dead’ the Grim Reaper’s greatest hits; reviewed ‘Perfume’ [did it stink? asked Carole] as he enjoyed it greatly and was worth at least matinee & reviewed the Disneyland Holiday Tour as he doesn’t think they understand what we were really wanting to see and not really sure it was worth the $40 cost Bob reviewed ‘Android Dreams’as it was okay and worth paperback but was the WORST copy-edited book he has ever read [pub’d by Tor] Carole reviewed Loscon as quieter but she still has a good time and enjoyed helping to work Masquerade [evil] Kevin reviewed a short story in ‘Realms of Fantasy’ by Jay Lake - ‘The Number of the Bus’ as very odd and very short Trey reviewed ‘The Asti Spumante Code’ as the end disappointed him and it was a reasonably good parody and worth used paperback We auctioned off books for $0.25, $0.50, $1.28, $2.00, a Woof fanzine for $0.25, a map for $0.25 & a DVD sampler for $1.25 We adjourned at = 9:12 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘Chris has nothing fannish to report’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
