Meeting 888 August 6, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 7:59, with Bruce dissing Sinatra 28 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 887 were accepted as 'better attended than Con-Xtreme' Treasurer's report: last week we took in $50.65 in the regular jar [total $9,963.15] & $14.50 in the party jar [total $644.81] The VP reported there there'll be a Drink Tanks out in the next 2-3 days & he's still looking for cocktail stories for the issue after that & a new SFinSF is out & that 'Chris for TAFF' is now redundant [3 of 4 candidates are named 'Chris'] The President said 'hi' to new attendees & that Southern California remains mostly paved-over The Site Selection Committee reported that Barry popped out at his first at-bat & next week [August 13] we will be meeting at the Newark Round Table pizza place on Thornton - & then in 2 weeks [August 20] we will be at the IHOP on Great America Parkway The BASFA Times 'Zine Committee reported that the preliminary cover is done, but that it needs more content ['all the news that fits'], so send articles to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce moved that for the duration of the meeting everyone be referred to as 'Chris for TAFF' & it failed [tall] Kevin proposed that Yokohama be annexed as part of the Far East Bay Area, with a meeting to be held at Worldcon & this passed [lots to 2] Announcements Julie announced that BASFA was founded in this very room [at this Coco's] Chris announced 'hello!' and that the TAFF ballot is out - and there are 3 people with the first name 'Chris' on the ballot [out of 4] & to go vote now, or to check www.chrisfortaff.org; there were follow-on's - and Frank mentioned that if you want to vote for TAFF and need a fannish reference, to use him - and Dave Clark suggested he could also be used as a reference [evil] Kevin announced that there will be a CostumeCon 26 'swim and meet' at Carole and Bill's place this Saturday, August 11 - and anyone who is interested should attend - and inquiries can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill announced that the Round Table pizza place at Saritoga and Moorpark is now closed Ed announced that there will be a meteor shower this Saturday night [the Perseids] Reviews: [evil] Kevin reviewed Costume College 2007 as a 3 1/2 day slumber party where all the girl costumers got to dress up and act silly - and that he had a good time; Andy follow-on'd that it was worth not going to Con-Xtreme for and he had a blast = good party, crazy people, lots of functioning Joni reviewed 'Die Hard 4' as the kind of cartoon violence she was hoping for & the best comedy she's seen this summer - and worth Costco discount tickets Dave C reviewed NASFIC as he had a good time, but bait/switched him from St Louis to Collinsville - not even in view of the Arch; about 1600 attended, he saw a few panels, there were few parties and it was worth a discounted price - then there were lots of follow-on's, especially about the food available in the near region [tall] Kevin reviewed the Great Oregon Steam Up - as for $8 you got to see the contents of 6 museums turn their steam equipment out, including an old locomotive steam strain - and was definitely worth it Julie reviewed 'Becoming Jane' as it lived up to the designation of 'chick flick', but she enjoyed it, it was lavishly photographed and worth full price 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 I reviewed 'Pirate 3' as it still makes me happy, then reviewed Disneyland as it was an entirely joyful experience this visit - and I got a great pocket watch there, worth full price - then reviewed 'The Bourne Ultimatum' as very exciting, worth seeing twice and worth full price Joe reviewed the pink doughnut at the last night of the KwikiMart as it was hard to describe what pink tasted like and said Spring for the VERY last one there [there were follow-on's] and reviewed our waiter as excellent Chris survived his flight from hell & reviewed 'Problem Child' as it amused him & reviewed 'Elf' as every child in the movie was throttle-worth - and both were worth seeing Then we birthday auctioned off Bill to Frank for $12.00 & birthday auctioned off Ken to Jerry for $35.00; plus auctioned off books for $5.00, fanzines for $2.00, travel books for $3.50, a water bottle for $1.00, a box for $1.00, a book dissed by Chris for $0.50, a DVD for $1.00, a equality now & slinky for $2.50 & a NASFIC pin for $1.00 We adjourned at = 10:12 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘When the 3 Chris for TAFFs ride the sky the apocalypse is nigh' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
