Meeting 859 January 15, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:04 - with the secretary out of position 19 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 858 were accepted as ’7 seconds delayed’ No Treasurer, but I be we have money anyway The VP reported, “Me?”, then - there’s a new ‘Drink Tank’ out & a new SFinSF out & the next issue of ‘Drink Tank’ will be awesome! Because it’s the shill issue - and he went to meetings The President claimed he had nothing fannish to report and THEN reminded us Further Confusion is this weekend & that the SciFi channel will show the new Harry Dresden TV series starting Jan 21 The AhwaneeCon committee reported that PR2 is out announcing the move to Camp 4 & that Phoenix filed And allegedly the server the BASFA mailing list was rebooted and went down again immediately - but there IS a LJ, just in case Announcements [tall] Kevin announced that the Hugo awards ballot sent out should not be used - there are flaws & the website is being . . . interesting Chris announced that the Fanac awards are being given out this weekend & odds are a Bay area fan will win in a category & he encourages art [evil] Kevin announced that the CostumeCon 26 glossy brochure is out now - an important marketing technique - and relayed that BayCon will soon make party decisions & to stop by the evil petting zoo at Furcon & that www.meatini.lj.com is going strong Jim announced that Robert Anton Wilson died this last week [‘that’s’ what they WANT you to think!’] Mike proxy announced that Garth & Joni have BayCon memberships they need to sell Ed announced that Further Confusion is this weekend & the BASFA party is Friday night - & the ConXtreme party is Saturday night & he needs volunteers for both Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ as a fairy tale that’s not for children - good effects, very well done - highly recommended, with nice acting & worth full price Chris reviewed ‘Dreamgirls’ as . . . okay & reviewed ‘Laser Cats 2’ as pure genius beyond what anyone can tell & absolutely brilliant & on youtube now [evil] Kevin reviewed ‘Grendel’ as the worst CGI - ever! - and ‘not even worth wasting the electrons used to warm up the cathode ray tube - and we don’t even have one anymore’ and also reviewed the Penninsula Wearable Arts Group - PenWAG - as ‘my god, what a hoot!’ & that he and Andy are the first male members EVER and it was great fun [most folks then declined to talk about Kevin and Andy’s members] Dave C reviewed a CD, the ‘Music of David Seville’ by David Seville as ‘his earlier work’ - ’37 tracks of youthful indiscretion’ that was akin to ‘drive-in theatre intermission music’ & worth less than he paid for it & he reviewed ‘The Apprentice’ as it was based on the ‘Great Dalmuti’ game philosophy that life is not fair ‘Bob’ reviewed the DVD for Torchwood as he has it, from Amazon.co.uk, but hasn’t seen it yet We auctioned off - a book for $2.00 & buttons for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:16 pm And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Barbara has several’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
