Meeting 860 January 22, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:05 23 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 859 were accepted as ’kinda fuzzy’ We established a party jar . . . after much voting The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $3.75 in the regular jar & $9.75 in the party jar; plus that at meeting 858 we took in $31.75 in the regular jar & $25.75 in the party jar The VP reported that no one told him that Jerry Pournelle visited the Computer History Museum at some time in the past & there is no new ‘Drink Tank’ out yet & Mr. Frank Wu is against the notion of another Canadian Worldcon & there should be a new SFinSF out Wednesday & he plans to write a very narrow review of FurCon The President reported that he was despondent that he did not view or tape the 1st episode of the new ‘Harry Dresden’ show on the SciFi network and greeted our visitor, Rick Bretschneider to the club [tall] Kevin brought up that BASFA.org’s domain needs to be renewed and that Michael Wallis is moving it off Network Solutions to a different registrar The AhwaneeCon committee reported that they spent the weekend at FurCon Announcements Adrienne announced that the gather website has a novel contest for a 1st novel with a deadline of March 15 Reviews: Further Confusion was multiply reviewed - Chris reviewed it as ConXtreme had a great room party & FurCon was the same as every other con he went to at the Doubletree - with slightly more tails, that he lost his badge, sat a fan table, saw Furry Night Live & Conrad live and singing & thought it worth the $25 he paid for a 1-day membership; Andy mentioned the ‘Drama Llama’ & thought the con was quite good despite the [censored] & that Scott’s Evil Petting Zoo was popular & the party was a hit and the Masquerade had a fair amount of chaos, but no more than usual & FNL was funny as hell & worth sponsor membership price just to get in the short line; [evil] Kevin reviewed taking part in FNL as great, worth full price but that the food at the Coffee Garden was vile & loathsome & sucked rocks - totally not acceptable & I reviewed FC as I survived, am Co-chair for FC ’08 & the theme will be the ‘Fur East’, so Orient yourself towards furry fandom & then [evil] Kevin follow-on’d that because of the theme they will have the ‘Fiendish Party of Dr. Moo Manchu; then Lisa reviewed FC as she sat the CostumeCon fan table, that her food wasn’t too bad, although the food service was brain dead & her son adored the Gaming room, that the Art Show was good & that both book sellers in the Dealer’s Den were darned good. It was mentioned that there were 287 fursuiters in the parade & a membership total of 2064. Then Dave C reviewed FC as he was in Dealers the whole time & got food poisoning from the food & had very good sales - due to Dr Who, Season 2 having just come out, plus he doubted many hetero males were at-son based on specific sales of items at his table & Trey reviewed FC as that everyone he saw seemed to be having a good time Dave G reviewed a Xena Creationcon he and Spring were at - as jewelry sales were down, it was about 95% female & it wasn’t worth the price of admission. Harold reviewed the ‘Dresden Files’ as he enjoyed it & he will watch it again & it inspired him to buy one of the nooks & he reviewed ‘The Worst People in the World’ by as a good book & worth full price - with a discount Chris reviewed pop cultures associates various Top 5 lists as very nice Dave C reviewed the ‘Dresden Files’ as nice, but not very special & also reviewed a promo ad on KSJC that was full of puns as fun [and he prepaid for the puns] Howeird reviewed the Playboy Fabulous 40’s as it was full of nekkid ladies & he reviewed a book - ‘A Crack at the Edge of the World’ by Simon Winchester as stunningly written & worth more than full price We auctioned off books for $15.00; $2.00, $2.00, a catalog for $10.00 & an abomination for $1.75 We adjourned at = 9:42 pm And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Chris will be wrapped in plastic’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
