SiliCon night reg is not moving to con ops this year. It will be same place as during the day or possibly upstairs ballroom for those just attending the film fest and masquerade ball. pam
melchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 Secretarys 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
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