Glenn is not subscribed to the BASFA list, so at my direction he sent me the minutes for posting to the BASFA list. -- Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Glazer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Fri 11/9/2007 10:10 PM
Meeting number 901.
Acting President: Kevin Standlee
Emergency Holographic Secretary: Glenn Glazer
No other officers present.
The meeting was called to order at 2001 hours. Kevin reviewed the
various BASFA titles he's had and thanked the secretary for being
volunteered. There was a motion by Fred to create a party jar, which
passed.
The secretary read the minutes and asked for corrections. "Glenn" has
two "n's" and it is Janet Tait, not Jan Tait. Joanie moved that Joe be
referred to as Joe Bob for the duration of the meeting. Joe OTC'd,
which failed 8-9. Bruce moved to change the first "Joe" in the motion
to "everyone", which was seconded. Evil Kevin spoke against the
amendment citing secretary hardship. Sue said that it would make the
secretary's job easier. The secretary commented that it would make
understanding the minutes hard in the future. Joe thought that it would
make historical readings more amusing. Ed spoke against, arguing
confusion of identity. Fred also spoke against, saying it would make
finding corrections for the next meeting difficult. Andy said it
wouldn't matter as Barbara wouldn't see these minutes anyway. Dave
Clark warned that referring to everyone as Joe Bob might get us unwanted
attention from the Department of Homeland Security. Jo added the
factual data that he has a brother named Bob and he did spend four years
in the Ozarks. If that's where he picked up his motorcycling penchant,
he must have been an Ozark Mountain Daredevil. Dave moved to close
debate, one level. This motion passed. The amendment failed 4-12.
Evil Kevin moved to amend, changing "Joe Bob" to "Billy Joe". Andy
suggested changing it to "ghost of BASFA past". Glenn suggested
changing "Joe Bob" to "Joe" but was ruled dilatory. At this point, the
president converted the motion to a fill in the blank. Jo put in
"Ack!!!" (as in Bill the Cat), Eric put in "Joe" with an "e" as that is
not how Jo's name is spelled. Bruce suggested "Barbara". Fred moved
that debate be closed, which passed. Blanks as follows: Joe Bob failed
6-8, Billy Joe failed 5-8, Ghost failed 5-9, Ack!!! passed 11-10 after
moderately heavy bidding. The main motion failed 1 to many.
Evil Kevin moved to accept the minutes as chronic hysteresis. The
president opened it up as a blank. Eli suggested "And in the role of
President Lora Roslyn: Kevin Standlee". Fred nominated Winchester 30-30
in honor of the 900 meeting. Dave sang his nomination of "I'm not Lisa,
my name is David.". Lisa put in "Jo will be known as Joe Bob.". Andy
nominated "Chris and Barbara: coincidence?" Bruce moved to table blank
filling. Move to table failed. Andy nominated "And closed captioning
for the humor impaired provided by Glenn Glazer." . Main motion
passed by many to few and the minutes were accepted as "And closed
captioning for the humor impaired provided by Glenn Glazer."
Fred moved to suspend orders of the day and go directly to auctions.
This passed without objection. Dave mentioned that several items came
from BASCon, a local slash convention. A Highlander pillow went for a
buck, a pair of videos for 50 cents. 3 commercial videos went for a
quarter and three more for a buck. A Wallace and Grommit video set
went for $5 and 16 pre-recorded video tapes for $2. _Wild Animus_, 1st
Edition finally got sold for $1 after much procedural wanking about
stopping the auctioneer from reading the synopsis versus getting him to
restart the auction. "Hellphone" sold for a quarter and "Twice Dead
Things" for 28 cents.
After the auction, the previous agenda resumed with officer's reports.
Kevin will be in Newark, NJ next week. Secretary thanked people for
giving him their names and for waiting patiently while he caught up.
Under committees, the only report was from site selection, where Kevin
said that if Dave Gallaher were here, he'd surely let people know that
we won the right to hold the World Fantasy Convention in 2009.
Announcements. Eli mentioned that the writer's strike is going on and
may prevent "Pushing Daisies" from reaching a full season. A "Heroes"
spinoff got canned. Both Kevins announced Construction this weekend.
Reviews. Dave reviewed Al Franken's "Lying liars..." as describing "Joe
Bob, I mean Bob Jones University as nice in a racist sort of way." and
worth paperback. He also reviewed BASCon and was surprised that there
was no discussion of Dumbledorf's coming out of the closet. There was
some debate as to whether or not it is still slash if the character is
actually gay. Andy emphatically said no. Gordon reviewed MileHighCon
as being always fun to go back and worth full price, even if he only got
to see closing ceremonies and the dead dog party. There was some
discussion as to whether this constituted ghosting or not. Glenn
reviewed watching the sun come up at Castle Rock State Park and going on
the Summit Meadows Trail. Ed reviewed the limestone caverns in Castle
Rock. Andy reviewed www.weeble-stuff.com, the home of "Prawn to be
Wild" as consisting of stories told as flash based games and worth the
full price of free, despite some pointless parts. Kevin continued his
journey through Japan, starting at Aomori and focussing on the 53km
tunnel to Hokkaido and the behind the scenes tour. Glenn reviewed the
spa at Kusatsu Onsen. Gordon recommended "Barefoot in Tokyo".
A number of Guy Fawkes related rumors were nominated, but "Kevin has
become an expert on Japanese schoolgirl outfits." became the rumor of
the week. At this point, a move to adjourn was heard, seconded and passed.
Respectfully submitted,
Glenn Glazer
Emergency Holographic Secretary
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