*Meeting 871*
*April 9, 2007*
Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
*Began 8:01*
*14 people attended*
We established a party jar
*Secretary's report*: the minutes of meeting 870 were accepted as 'clams
got legs'
*No Treasurer - but last week we took in $11.75 in the regular jar &
$3.25 in the party jar*
*VP reported that he holds in his hand the only DVD copy of the 'Attack
of the Giant Brine Shrimp' & there are new copies of 'Half Dome
Happenings' and 'Drink Tank' out*
*The President had nothing fannish to report*
The Publications committee wants conscripts - and may need volunteers
*Announcements*
[evil] Kevin announced that he got a lifetime achievement award from the
International Costumer's Guild at CostumeCon 25 - and brought the plaque
for us to ogle & announced that rates for CostumeCon 26 go up May 1st
Ken announced 'less than 24 hours to go' - before KTEH starts running
the new season of Dr Who
Chris announced that the Sonoma Valley Film Festival will be this
weekend & will be all over the city
Art announced that he has a Samsung color laser printer to get rid of,
that it's in working order [but not Mac 10.4 compatible]
*Reviews*:
Harold reviewed 'The Tudors' as history light, that they got Henry's
name right and not much beyond that & worth having Showtime for & he
reviewed 'I was a Horror TV Host' by John Stanley as it's about horror
TV hosts - and reviewed 'Arcade Fire, Neon Bible' as 'get it' - and
reviewed Fright Night at PacBell Park as 'god, they're bad this season'
and it was cold
Chris reviewed 'Grindhouse' as a psycho-sexual freakout & he liked the
fake trailers and previews & at 3 hours it was a bit long & well-worth
full price [and there were follow ons]
Andy reviewed the 2nd episode of Dr Who as 'holy mother of god what a
whacked out experience' - an absolute blast - and worth stealing &
reviewed the special edition of Dr Who/Weakest Link as a decent episode
that was -so- wrong & made some comments about Dr Who fan-service; then
Andy reviewed CostumeCon 25 as there were some minor flaws but overall
it was a fabulous convention - worth full price
[evil] Kevin reviewed not doing anything for a weekend as it was
mini-series weekend on the SciFi Channel and otherwise lovely and
relaxing and he needs more of them & then reviewed the O'Reilly Media
Emerging Tech Conference, where he presented Spintronics - as he went to
one talk and it was . . .drivel - and that when he did his presentation
[compressing 1 hour into 20 minutes] that it was well received as it
actually contained hard science - and the trip was worth full price
Mike reviewed 'The Reaping' as it just got messier and messier as it
goes along and could only rate it as 'fan service' and worth matinee
Julie reviewed spending part of the weekend converting LPs - as time
well spent and recommends Spin Doctor
*We adjourned at =* 9:05
*And the rumor of the week was* that = 'that BASFA is in violation of
Logan's Run'
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