Meeting 855 December 11, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:01 - talking about bad vampire porn 20 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 854 were accepted as ’#854 in the series - collect ‘em all’ We established a party jar There was no Treasurer - but we took in $2.85 in the regular jar and $7.68 in the party jar The VP reported that there’s a new issue of ‘Drink Tank’ on efanzines.com, there’s a print copy of ‘Claims Dept #12’ out & that SFinSF plans to have a party - of sorts - in September The President reported that FC ’07 is still looking for staff & that FC ’08 still needs someone to bid for it The AhwaneeCon committee reported that there’ll be a PR out next week & Chris reports that he is an idiot Announcements Howeird announced that there’s a new SFinSF out and the deadline for the next issue is Thursday Andy announced that he has CostumeCon 26 PRs with him Dave C announced that there’s a new Cargo Cult catalogue Adrienne announced that epionions.com is having a write-off with a grand prize of $1000 for the best review Stellen announced that his old math professor [Christer Fugelsand] just docked with the space station [evil] Kevin announced that thanks to NASA they have an almost live feed of this mission & there will be holiday songs sung after the Xmas show Saturday, Dec 16 Art announced that ‘Forbidden Planet’ is being released on DVD [there were follow-ons] Chris announced IFC will be showing ‘The Last Woman on Earth’ starting Dec 20 and running through Jan 7 Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘Stranger than Fiction’, as funny but with a few serious flaws [like the main character is named ‘Harold’] - but quite good and worth bargain matinee [tall] Kevin reviewed travel to Yuba City as there are better hotels there than the Best Western & reviewed the Kansas City SMOFcon as the weather affected attendance, that the convention was badly organized, that the city shuts down at night, a few good bits and that the convention was still worth his time & that next year’s SMOFcon will be in Boston Cheryl reviewed Kansas City [‘misery’] and hence Kansas by proxy as she had no idea why Dorothy would want to go home & reviewed the ‘Pacific Buffet’ in Fremont as having a wide range of food and recommends it Chris reviewed ‘possibly the greatest thing ever’ = the Psychotronic Film festival as the shorts were absolutely brilliant & ‘the Green Slime’ is one of the most terrible films ever made - but with the audience it was brilliant & worth full price PLUS having to walk both ways in the rain & he reviewed buying comic books as ‘comics are dead and they ruined my Flash’ [there were follow-ons] Adrienne reviewed ‘Casino Royale’ as the opening credits were wonderful, they really updated Bond & the soundtrack irked her; plus she reviewed ‘Borat’ as having a few good laughs but was otherwise tedious Dave C reviewed ‘Conservatize Me’ - as interesting and worth full price Howeird reviewed ‘Déjà vu’ [then reviewed it again] - as well-acted, with good writing and good editing - worth full price & he also was wearing a GOOD T-shirt [evil] Kevin reviewed ‘Vampirates’ as ‘simply mediocre’ & aimed at a younger audience & that it may be the first of a new series Andy reviewed last week’s Torchwood as ‘still fantastic and worth stealing’ and reviewed ‘The Super Buffet’ at Stevens Creek & Saratoga as ‘not so bad that it gave me cancer, but it sure ain’t good’ - and not worth going there for free [there were follow-ons] We adjourned at = 9:30 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘the Masquerade halftime entertainment at Baycon will be the Shrimpchip 5’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
