*Meeting 884*
*July 11, 2007*
Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
*Began 8:02, with pizza*
*31 people attended*
We established a party jar
*Secretary's report*: the minutes of meeting 883 were postponed
*Treasurer's report: last week we took in $16.00 in the regular jar &
$28.50 in the party jar*
*The VP reported there was a Drink Tanks out last week about Westercon &
a new SFinSF is due out soon & no one died*
*The President thanked everyone for coming and then said 'hi' to Linda
Wendelburg [a costumer and evil genius in training] & 'hi' to Dan
Pietrasik [since we are meeting in 'his own back door']*
*The postcards for the money motion are going to be sent out now and the
money motion vote will be July 25 at the Milpitas Round Table pizza place*
The AhwaneeCon committee reported that they came in 2nd in the balloting
- with 30 votes out of 116 cast & Phoenix won ['Thank god!'] - the party
went on all night, even if it had cheesey beer ['it was camping beer'] &
'soylent smores is peeps!'; there were follow-on's: 'Never again
Westercon!' and Lisa reported she took in $44.77 in the tip jar that
went in the party fund
The Party Committee plans to do 2 nights of BASFA partying at ConExtreme
& that the Westercon BASFA party enrolled 11 new members & he had a lot
of fun
The Site Selection Committee reported that several new sites to check
out have been suggested and that [after discussion] we decided to check
out each place, one after the next, with the location for the meetins
[starting July 30] will be listed on the website, the mailing list and
in our LJ community
*Announcements*
Howeird announced that today is 7-11 [and those market's 80th
anniversary] & that he now has phone service, thanks to Dave G
Tom announced that ArtCon Ditto will be Oct 26-28 at Gualala, Calif &
will be small & that 'the dealer's room may be ... the dealer's room
Andy announced that this weekend will be busy, July 14 morning will have
the annual Wearable Arts potluck at Immanuel Lutheran Church in
Saritoga, the meeting starts at 10am with potluck to follow; then
Saturday afternoon sees St George Spirits doing their open house - where
they'll be there in their special forces uniforms - then Saturday night
the Alameda County Leather Corps will have their annual contest and show
at the Hill and Valley in Hayward
Spring announced that Saturday is also the SF International Chocolate Salon
[tall] Kevin announced that FinnCon is this week - in Finland - and that
Cheryl Morgan is there as one of their GoHs
Chris announced that he's running for TAFF officially
Lisa announced that Aug 3-5 is Mythcon in Berkeley & mail-in memberships
closes July 15 [check www.mythsoc.prg]
Also - a local writer, Jeff Carlson, has a new book out, 'Plague Year'
and will be doing signings at the B&N in Roseville on Saturday Aug 4,
2pm, the B&N in Walnut Creek, Thursday, Aug 9 at 7:30pm & at
Borderlands, Saturday Aug 11, 1pm
*Reviews*:
Adrienne reviewed South Dakota as a definite experience with a small
town feel, interesting hotel, the fireworks near Mt. Rushmore were
incredible and it was an interesting trip
Chris reviewed the 7-11 to Kwikimart conversion in the shop across from
where he works [the Computer History Museum[ as wonderfully themed,
awesome and worth every dime he's spent there [there were comments];
then he reviewed Westercon as it's over and nobody died - it was a
brilliant time & the fan lounge was high on lounge and fans but light on
fanzines; and there were follow-on's [selections =] Dave C thought the
fanzine lounge was a fun place to go and he was trapped again in the
Dealer's swamp; Andy said he kind of remembered Westercon [laughter] -
the parties sounded like fun and most went until 4am - Joe said
something about soup; [evil] Kevin mentioned grilled toast; Spring said
the Mark Ferrari party was cool & the baseball outing went well
Julie reviewed the latest Harry Potter movie as rather good & worth the
midnite showing to 'get it over with' & reviewed the Dr Who season
finale as darkly satisfying, with Andy following with 'Holy mother of
hell steal that bastard now!'
Dave C reviewed 'Show Business' a documentary, as fun & worth full
price, then proto-reviewed 'Xanadu the Musical' as he read it may be too
gay for Broadway
Andy reviewed 'Dr Who the Infinite Quest' - which is part of a kid's
show in Britain as a bit too kidded down, but enjoyable & also worth
stealing
Fred reviewed the Heinlein convention in Kansas City as warm, they did a
lot of work, it was lots of fun and worth every penny
I reviewed 'The Transformers Movie' as surprisingly good, much better
than I anticipated & worth seeing twice; Trey follow-on'd that he was
pleased it wasn't really bad and thought it worth matinee
*Then we auctioned off Simpson cookies & a Squishie cup for $10.00*
*We adjourned at =* 9:50
*And the rumor of the week was* that = 'Westercon 2011 will be held at
[tall] Kevin's house'
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