Meeting 896 October 1, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:03, at Baker's Square again 22 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 895 were accepted as 'with love, Miss Moneypenny' the Treasurer's report is that last week we took in $35.00 in the regular jar No VP report - and no VP The President reported that Silicon is this week and he'll be there working newsletter The Site Selection Committee reported that we'll be back at the Coco's 2 weeks from now and that he is still working out where we'll be NEXT week [so watch the LJ, website and mailing list] We established a party jar Announcements Adrienne announced that 'Most Haunted' will be doing a live broadcast from the Winchester Mystery House on Oct 19 for 7 hours [presumably starting at 4pm California time] - for the Travel channel [tall] Kevin announced that he'll be in Oregon this weekend and that Chris Garcia will be the designated Kevin Standlee at Silicon Ed & Ken both announced that there'll be parties at Silicon this weekend - that the BASFA party should be in room 273 and there should be night reg [either where registration usually is or in ConOps] Reviews: Adrienne reviewed some of the new TV season - that the new 'Bionic Woman' is more for grown-ups & 'Ghost Whisperer' has not changed much & still has an emphasis on the main gal's [chestal region] & is very simplistic & 'Moonlight' is about a vampire PI with average story-telling and is kind of a dud Harold reviewed '3:10 to Yuma' as very well made with superb acting, tho a bit over the top in places ['nom nom nom scenery'] & worth seeing & reviewed 'The War' by Ken Burns as very well done & recommended and worth joining PBS for & reviewed his behavior at Coco's as not worth full price I reviewed 'Resident Evil 3' as a lot of good zombie fun with some great visuals and worth full price; then Trey follow-on'd that it was worth matinee but managed not to shoot itself in the foot with its plot Dave C reviewed 'The Hellfire Club' by Peter Strauss as a thick book that he bailed on finishing & reviewed the Morrissey concert at the Fillmore as he bought a scalped ticket for the show and it was worth it for a lovely concert [tall] Kevin introduced us to a new visitor to the club, Takayuki Karahashi who lives locally in the Bay Area & was one of the Nippon Worldcon organizers; then [tall] Kevin reviewed that 'My Name is Earl' has an LA area sf fan [Ed green] in it this season - and then reviewed Japan as worth full price - and that the rail pass that cost $800 for 3 weeks was completely worth it - that they went to Kamakura [where the temples are] and got to ride trains and monorails to get there - agreed the giant Buddha statue was really big - and all of it worth full price [evil] Kevin reviewed some of the new TV season as that 'Heroes' is off to a good start & that 'Journeyman' shows some promise but didn't hold his interest & that 'Reaper' has every sign of being clever and funny [tho Andy says it's on the 'also ran' network] & [evil] Kevin also thought that the 'Sara Jane Adventures' is worth stealing, with good writing and character development Ken reviewed 'La Fondue' as recently relocated and they went there a few days after re-opening & found it more hip, less hippie, with good food, interesting ingredients and worth full price Ed reviewed 'Chicken Little' as worth full price and 'smoking science fiction' Dave G reviewed 'Californication' as educational and worth paying for Showtime in order to see it Then we auctioned off books for $4.50; $5.00; $0.25; $0.50; $1.00; $1.00; $0.25; $0.50; $0.50; $0.25; & a travel kit for $2.00 We adjourned at = 9:50 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Nah, I got nothing' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
