Meeting 858 January 8, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 - with talk of health 29 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 856 were accepted as ’virtually ignored’ & the minutes of meeting 857 were accepted as ’all typos and mispronunciations copyright Chris Garcia, 2007’ We established a party jar The Treasurer reported that this was the 150th anniversary of the Fort Tejon earthquake & he said that we had money The VP reported there’s a new ‘Drink Tank’ due out today & a new SFinSF is due out this Wednesday & ‘awesome!’ The President welcomed Amber to the club, visiting us for the first time - and then Chris stuck himself with a fork Julie moved that we hold auctions tonight before reviews and this passed The Party Committee reported that he had a report to turn into the Treasurer [then did so] & says Con-Xtreme will be sharing space with the BASFA party at Furcon and the same arrangement has been offered for BayCon, plus he’s looking for science track panelists for Con-Xtreme The AhwaneeCon committee reported that the National Park Service has recommended they use Camp 4 for the con, instead of the Ahwanee hotel It was mentioned that the BASFA mailing list was down We auctioned off - passes for $0.50; chocolates for $10.00; a SMOF bag for $4.00; books for $5.00, $0.50, $4.00, $10.00, $2.00, $0.25 & $2.00, magazines for $1.50, $0.75, $0.50 & an 8” floppy wang relic for $2.00 Announcements [tall] Kevin yielded to Cheryl who announced that she leaves this Thursday and may be back in March [then Chris sang a Tom Leher song] Adrienne announced that today more divorces are filed than any other day & announced that www.gather.com is looking for reviews and willing to pay Dave C announced that FurCon is Jan 18-22 & that SFSFC is trying to get Harry [‘Snapes on a plane’] Carole announced that there will be a CostumeCon meet-and-greet at her place Feb 10, see her for more info Andy announced that CostumeCon 26 will have an Evil genius party at Furcon & they’re looking for help to staff their fan table at FC ’07 Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘Pursuit of Happyness’ as smusing and funny and worth bargain matinee & reviewed ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’, subtitled, as too even-handed, well-acted, but worth seeing & worth bargain matinee Andy reviewed Torchwood as a whole as kind of disturbing & not very good as a series, but with great individual episodes & definitely worth stealing [evil] Kevin reviewed being home sick as it sucks and he’s been watching bad movies & reviewed ‘Queen of Blood’ as coherent & definitely worth watching on the couch when you’re sick Cheryl reviewed the Bridgewater festival and its pirate theme - and passed around a newspaper covering it & she’s reading ‘The Jennifer Morgue’ by Charlie Stross as it’s wonderful; Ed follow-on’d that the book was a fun read Adrienne reviewed ‘Night at the Museum’ as fun & worth full price; I follow-on’d that it was really enjoyable and worth full price, Chris said that the movie inspired him to want to become a night watchman, Julie thought it had the best trailer she’s seen this year & Trey follow-on’d that he really enjoyed it, found it delightful and thought it worth matinee; then Adrienne reviewed ‘The Queen’ as dignified, excellent and respectful - and that Helen Mirren deserved awards for her performance & is well worth seeing Dave C reviewed www.mytrumanshow.com as well worth wasting a few minutes over & is run by a truly unique individual Chris reviewed getting drunk after a funeral as he got plastered & that seeing the first ‘Back to the Future’ movie as the best movie to ever see when drunk & that Saturday Night Live was funny that night - recommended on 3 jiggers of whiskey [there were follow-ons, including ‘3 jiggers of whiskers’ & ‘frozen baloney daiquiris’] We adjourned at = 9:41 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘that Chris has plenty of 8” floppy wangs’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
