Meeting 907 December 17, 2007
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 - with Trey in Texas 25 people attended We established a TAFF jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 906 were accepted as 'on Wisconsin' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $12.25 in the regular jar and $4.50 in the party jar VP reported that there's a new 'Drink tank' out, he's looking for a new place to live & 'go TAFF'! The President was in Texas There was discussion and for the next 2 meetings it is unlikely there will be club officers at BASFA - and Coco's closes at 9pm Xmas eve. While people are welcome to go there, there may not be a well-attended [official?] meeting until January 7 Announcements [evil] Kevin announced that St George Spirits in Alameda finally has permission to release their Absinthe Verte label, going on sale at their distillery Dec 21 & Costume Con's membership rates go up to $95.00 on Jan 1 Harold announced that Comp USA is going out of business and having sales Ken announced that another house with a major light display on Vallejo near San Thomas Aquino & the Legion of Rasselon will have the usual meeting on the last Friday of the month & the meeting will show 'Voyage of the Damned' & the entire 'Man from U.N.C.L.E.' will be for sale from Time Life Reviews: Joe reviewed 'Enchanted' as brilliant & worth full price, He reviewed Highway 121 near Sonoma as there's a crazy huge snowman army out there <<What if there were no rhetorical questions?>> Glenn reviewed 'SMOFcon' as he got a shirt, went to a panel, the con went really well & he had good conversations; reviewed 'Golden Compass' as he had objections to the movie because he had read the books and thought it the 'Cliff notes' version of the book, while Harold follow-on'd and did like the movie, possibly because he had -not- read the books; Fred follow-on'd that he had read the books and still enjoyed the movie Harold reviewed his new laptop as he -begged- for XP but they only had Vista & he's still working on it; Dave G follow-on'd 'Vista sucks' & Joe commented that if Vista sucked then it would be more useful than it is Dave C reviewed 'Mister Majorium's Wonder Emporium' - about a magic toy store as 'stuff happens' & that the movie producers may have missed the point of their own movie & reviewed 'Black Dossier' by Alan Moore' as not nearly as plot-driven as 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' & there's a bad case of 'what's the point' - worth maybe trade paperback [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Atomic Twister' as perfectly workmanlike and he's seen worse [*cough* 'Flash Gordon] & worth being a couch potato for , but he turned off 'Power Play' Lisa reviewed 'August Rush' as lots of fun, interesting - she enjoyed it - and worth matinee Chris reviewed being sick as he didn't go to work, went to Rasputin Records and found the soundtrack for 'Walk Hard', he was happy; then on Saturday he went somewhere & saw 'Bladerunner' - it was worth matinee &reviewed the January issue of 'F&SF' as possibly the best magazine out this year Ken reviewed 'I am Legend' as enjoyable and worth full price Then we auctioned off a bag of Darth Tater and other stuff for $2.75; a script for $0.50; books for $0.50, $1.00, $2.00; $7.50 & birthday auctioned off Miko for $20.00 to Chris and birthday auctioned off Dave C for $8.00 to Dave C We adjourned at = 9:49 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Donner on Blitzen' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
