Meeting 869 March 26, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:02, with flung fake sugars 23 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 868 were accepted as ’all cooped up’ The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $41.75 in the regular jar & $5.25 in the party jar The VP reported the claim that the hoax issue of the ‘Drink Tank’ is out - or will be out & there'll be a new SFinSF out Wednesday The President reminded us that NEXT week [April 2] we will be meeting back at the Hickory Pit The Publications committee wants people Announcements [evil] Kevin announced that the next phase of his work-site will be online at www.almaden.ibm.com/spinaps and there's a St Louis con this weekend, CostumeCon 25 Mike announced this year's season of Dr. Who starts this Saturday on BBC1 [and deleted] Ken announced that KTEH is running some documentaries - 'Lust in Space' at 11pm, Saturday & 'Mythmaker - William Hartnell' will be next Saturday & April 10 sees the start of Dr Who Bob announced the Contra Costa Library has for free the Rosetta Stone language courses online Reviews: [evil] Kevin reviewed the BayCon committee meeting as it lasted over 4 hours & Chris still has permission to chase him around with a big stick if the CostumeCon meetings last that long [there were follow-ons] Harold reviewed 'Torchwood' as worth buying on DVD at full price & the 2nd season of 'Rome' as containing spoilers & had nice costumes & a free hand with historical accuracy [then there were follow-ons about the Tudors] Dave C reviewed the tribute for Bob Wilkins as it sold out & Dave suggested that donations can be made to the Alzheimer Aid Society of Northern California for the care of Bob Wilkins & he reviewed 'Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader' as perversely attractive & recommends it [with some shame] & there were follow-ons Bob reviewed having his car hit in the parking lot as not worth full price & reviewed having 6 fillings as not worth the terror & reviewed the Escher exhibit at the SJ Museum of Art as really, really good & reviewed 'Planet Earth' as worth seeing Chris reviewed 'Challenger' as thick, very big and possibly the best fanzine out there & worth writing 2 letters to & reviewed 'Askance' as having a great cover & there are pictures of Chris in it & is also worth writing a letter to it Carole reviewed hearing she needs major car repairs as it sucks Ken reviewed a John Waters show on Court TV - 'Till Death Do Us Part' as a bit amusing and worth catching Andy reviewed the 'Dresden Files' as the last 2 episodes were worth watching & also reviewed the Shure E2c noise-cancelling earphones as worth buying and worth full price Trey reviewed movies he saw so you don't have to - 'TMNT' was more or less predictable and very true to the Saturday morning cartoon & reviewed 'Wild Hogs' as far too cliched & worth rental We auctioned off a foam things for $0.75; a hat for $0.75, a magazine for $0.25, various Disney kitsch for $5.00, an eyepatch for $0.50, a button for $0.50, a book for $1.00, & a Cinequest magazine for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:37 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘that Kevin Standlee will be elected president of SFWA' _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
