Meeting 881 June 18, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00, with talk of Guidolon 27 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 880 were accepted as ’cosmic avian crusader' Treasurer's report: last week we took in $7.35 in the regular jar & $40.75 in the party jar - with an additional $45.00 from Karisu's birthday auction at the special meeting '29 in base I' and accepted as 'very short' The VP reported that there are Drink Tanks out on efanzine.com & there'll be a new SFinSF out next week and he's not bidding for Westercon The President said 'hi' to the new folks The money motion should be voted on at the July 9 meeting [assuming that Dave G gets the postcards out real soon] The Party committee reported that there will be a party at Westercon on both Sayurday and Sunday nights [yay! BASFA] Dave C gave a proxie Sports committee report that Kevin will be buying the tickets for the Giants outing, Friday June 29 [Westercon eve] - on Tuesday The AhwaneeCon committee's last PR will be handed out at their party at Westercon on Saturday Business = Chris began by mentioning that the Hickory Pit will start closing at 9pm starting on July 1 & a new site selection committee was established chaired by Dave G Plus the Westercon folk has a room set aside for BASFA from 7pm until 8:30pm Monday for our meeting [& Chris suggested that if the meeting runs long that they relocated at 8:30 back to the fanzine lounge] Announcements I announced that [tall] Kevin had a '2-fer' today - that he had a letter appear in the Merc's 'Road Show' column - and that he appeared on KPIX's 6pm news and his appearance was superb Chris announced that long-time fan Walt Daugherty died this last week at 90 [evil] Kevin announced that Westercon starts in 2 weeks on Saturday & mentioned an evil plot Andy announced that they'll be hosting 5 parties at-con - in order: Vinticon 5, then AhwaneeCon, Further Confusion, Evil Genius & then Dead Dog Night Mythcon [that's what he said!] Dave C announced that there are new cargo Cult flyers out Then we auctioned off: posters for$2.00; a Tshirt for $1.00; books for $2.50 &$3.50; magazines for $5.00;& $1.50; a DVD & cards for $5.50, a book & cards for$6.00; & kewl stuff for $10.00 Then we birthday auctioned off Carole to Bill for $12.00 Reviews: Julie reviewed the latest Dr Who episode as 'Wow! Bang!' and Andy follow-on'd that Derek Jakoby chews scenery marvellously & totally worth stealing twice; plus Dave G reviewed 'Blink' as it frightened a small child; then Julie reviewed the Vallejo Pirate Festival as she worked it, it drew at least 10,000. the food was really good - everyone was there - there was wonderful feedback, packed with people in costumes & a major success; Howeird follow-on'd that it was a Ren Faire for pirates & he got the t-shirt and took pictures & then Frank made a pun that made everyone groan Andy reviewed an optical slave camera accessory as definitely worth it Chris reviewed fanzines as absolutely wonderful and that they can be found on efanzine.com Dave C reviewed robot wars as 'it's back' - full of small robots to big robots that hurt the surroundings - some with flame throwers - and that it was well worth full price; then he reviewed 'Oceans 13' as it suffered from mission creep & worth matinee; then Chris follow-on'd that he enjoyed it and thought it was a lot of fun Harold reviewed 3 days of tax seminars in Las Vegas as sparking his annual tirade & said the weather was 110 degrees[!] & it was a 'dry hell' - he also reviewed 'Fantastic 4' as not worth full price, stupid and hokey; then Adrienne follow-on'd that she thought it was worth bargain matinee & was enjoyable & Chris says that Evelyn liked it & Frank was completely disappointed [evil] Kevin reviewed the Star Wars special edition of Robot Chicken as possibly being the best piece of TV ever done We adjourned at = 9:50 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Guidolon tastes practically like chicken' _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
