*Meeting 870*
*April 2, 2007*
Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
*Began 8:00, with us welcoming Cheryl back*
*18 people attended*
We established a party jar
*Secretary's report*: the minutes of meeting 869 were accepted as 'not
as good as the onion rings'
*The Treasurer reported remotely that last week we took in $35.10 in the
regular jar & $36.15 in the party jar*
*No VP or VP report*
*The President had nothing fannish to report*
The Party committee reported he has had problems with the ConExtreme
folks paying their share of party expenses - but other than that there
are rooms reserved for BASFA parties at BayCon & Westercon
There was a motion that failed
*Announcements*
Cheryl announced that there have been some write-in candidates for the
SFWA presidency that include herself, Jay Lake and Jeff VanDerMeer
[tall] Kevin announced that there was a Hugo nominations revision due to
a counting error in the dramatic presentation category & that 'Pan's
Labyrinth' is in and 'Pirates 2' is out - AND he announced that [evil]
Kevin for a lifetime achievement award from the International Costumer's
Guild at CostumeCon 25
Ken announced that it's 8 days until KTEH starts running the new season
of Dr Who & that BBC America landed the US showings of 'Torchwood'
Adrienne announced that Gerry Perkins died last week of systemic cancer
*Reviews*:
Eric reviewed 'Meet the Robinsons' as he enjoyed the movie, that it had
a manic energy & while the CG animation was not the kind he is fond of
the story was fun - and it's definitely worth cashing in movie passes
for and even paying full price
Cheryl reviewed England as still cold and wet, but that Wales beat
England in rugby, so all is right with the world; and she reviewed the
Cricket World Tournament as about half over and there have been upsets,
including Ireland getting into the 2nd round
Fred reviewed Charlie Stross's 'Glass House' as he enjoyed it, it was
loads of fun & worth reading
Ken reviewed 'Smith and Jones' [the 1st episode of Dr Who] as it started
off the series strongly, the new aliens are more of a nuisance than a
threat and definitely worth watching
I reviewed 'Shin Megami Tensei - Devil Summoner, Raidou Kuzunoha vs the
Souless Army' as a wonderful game for the PS2. Great graphics and story
- worth full price and telling others about it. I also reviewed the
'Shin Megami Tensei' series of games in general as sharing common
elements [like monsters - and all having involving, if unique,
plot-lines] - and that the prior games = 'Shin Megami Tensei - Digital
Devil, parts 1 and 2' and 'Shin Megami Tensei - Nocturne' are also well
worth buying at full price and playing for a ton of hours.
We auctioned off an audio book for $1.00; other books for $0.25, $0.25,
$1.00, $0.75, & a collection of Mad Magazine CDs for $10.00
*We adjourned at =* 9:27
*And the rumor of the week was* that = 'that Barbara will pass out
trying to say the title of the next Shin Megami game in one breath.'
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