BASFA Meeting 897 Minutes October 8, 2007
Meeting 897 of the Bay Area Science Fiction Association was held at the Round Table Pizza, Newark CA The meeting started at approximately 8:10pm 14 people attended VP Christopher J. Garcia presided, minutes taken by emergency not-so-holographic secretary Linda Wenzelburger. Officers absent: President Trey Haddad, Secretary Barbara Johnson-Haddad. Previous minutes The minutes of meeting 896 were adopted as 'Zombie fun for everyone' A party jar was established. Officer Reports Treasurer's report Dave G reported that we took in $20.20 last week, giving us a grand total of $9,246.84 Party fund took in $10.75, bringing the total party fund to $795.20, but still need to pay Ed for two parties. Estimate balance will be $275 after reimbursements are made. Vice President's report There was, or should have been a new Drink Tank out last week a new SF/SF should be out this week. Should be going bi-weekly. Don't forget to submit TAFF ballots. They are available online at www.taff.org.uk Deadline is 11/17/2007 midnight (IN HAND, not postmark) Committees Site Selection: Dave G reports that next week BASFA will meet at the Coco's in Sunnyvale. Coco's is making overtures to wanting our permanent business on Monday nights and is willing to talk to the other group (that is only there one Monday a month) to see if they would give up the room. A suggestion was made that we could potentially have most of our meetings in the South Bay (Coco's for example) and have one meeting a month at a more northern location (like Newark) to accomodate the North/East Bay members. This will be discussed at later meetings. Dave is still attempting to contact some other potential locations as well that had been brought up at previous meetings. (like, Sonoma Chicken Coop) Fanzine: Needs photographs and other materials. Contact Chris with content submissions - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business There was no business. Announcements Dave G. - Vintacon is this weekend. Attendees not just from the Bay Area, and soon the WORLD!! Two states will be represented by actual residents this year. Dave Clark - New Cargo Cult catalog is out (copies available at meeting) - so full of stuff there was no room for pictures. Julie - For those not attending Vintacon there is a European band playing at Sutter Creek this coming weekend. Reviews Dave G - 2 weeks ago he and Spring were at the Sacramento Creation Convention. Lots of Star Trek, Star Wars stuff, but they didn't see much of anything cause they were in the dealers room. Worth the hotel cost and the table fee - made money! Eli - Reviewed new TV show - Pushing Daisies 8 pm Wednesdays on ABC, may be repeating on Friday night at 8pm) About a guy who can bring people back from the dead. The rules: if he touches them once, they come back to life, if he touches them again, they die for good. If he brings someone back and lets them stay alive more than 60 seconds, someone else dies. And in the first episode, brings back to life his childhood sweetheart and decides to let her live, but he can't ever touch her again. Very surreal, CGI enhanced color heightens that effect. Lots to look at and listen to. Series is by the same guy who did Wonder Falls. Lots of great stage actors in the cast. Worth full price (since it's free) so check it out. (Chris G?) said it's the best 10 minutes of television in the last 5 years. John O followon that Nielsen will be aggregateing for new show reruns that happen within the same week. Also pointed out that the narration is being done by Jim Dale (of Harry Potter audio book fame). Dave Clark - during SiliCon also went to the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Trade Show. This is where publishers and distributors try to get Dave to buy their books. Alice Walker, John Dean were there. There were autograph sessions as fundraisers. David Farlane, Mark Ferrari, Brian Sanders all have new books out. Got booty, and posters for Spring. Worth full value, but you've got to know somebody (to get in). One bummer: Sunday afternoon is the 'cookbook buffet' but the only representatives this year were two vegan cookbooks and there was no chocolate. Group review of Silicon - Julie started us off with : Had a good time. Lacking in programming - lots of gaps. Panels attended were good. spent nights in the party rooms. slept during the day. Worth full Price. (sorry don't have name for this one!!) Furry party was a good party, but the group wasn't so good about cleaning up. 14 unopened bottles were left over - the cleaning crew were not drinkers - so new friendships were forged when the booty was hauled over to ConOps. Dave C reported that it took 25 minutes to get a badge, and he was the only one in line. Checked out the dealer room. Parties were good. John O - came in at noon on Friday and registered at the hotel and picked up reg packets no problems. Friday parties were better than Saturday parties. Browncoats ran two parties each night so not up to their usual energy level since they were spread thin between parties and the masquerade ball. Pancho's Cross Time Cantina - all the investors got their money back (so a good party!). The Klingons were the usual Klingons. BASFA was a quiet party at the end of the haul - not the best placement for a party room. SF/SF was the best fanzine lounge with good walls decorated with pages from the zine. Chris O - worked Costume Competition she was green room and backstage and photo wrangler ( in other words, not enough staff behind the scenes). A ninja broke Cassandra (part of Mette / Bryan's entry) trying to get her onstage, but all was fixed in time. 16 entries in all - which is a lot for SiliCon. Awards were announced at the dance 1/2 hour after they were ready..Most of the contestants had removed their costumes because they didn't know how long the wait was going to be. Lisa had to endure an endless loop of The Black Dahlia playing at a table near the CC26 table. Chris G - the SF/SF party was fun. Drinks on the fly worked really well. They got Pancho's leftovers for Saturday night's party and went thru 2/3rds of the bevvies. Had more to start night 2 party than the first night because of all the donations. Friday was a better party. Saturday was lower energy on the party floor because of the Firefly dance. He saw one movie 'The Cleaner' which was terendously bad. (yes, so bad he had to make up a new word for it). Fashion show was good. The overall schedule for the con was for 2500 people, but only 1200 showed up. The Program book was a great piece of fiction. Lots of guests listed in the program actually showed up (this is unusual) Oh, and Chris got to be Kevin Standlee on Saturday night and accepted the Ken Euland award... and he restrained himself from announcing Kevin was bidding a WorldCon to be held at Dave and Spring's place. Other Business Dave C made a motion that Crhis should be referred to as Kevin Standlee for the rest of the meeting. Arguments were made for and against the motion, which ultimately failed. Dave G added a late review of the 5,000 Fingers of Dr.T - a movie with songs and music written by Dr.Seuss. Highly recommends it. Chris G added on that he absolutely hated it. Though both agreed that Hans Conreid was really good. Rumor of the Week is that : BASFA endorses Saxon for President Auctions $6.00 for an amazingly annoying little pink box that made kissing sounds. The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:12 _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! 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