Meeting 910 January 7, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:04 - with comments made about 'Max Romney' - and we said 'hi' to Galen! 28 people attended We established a party jar [after a close vote] Secretary’s report: accepting the minutes of meeting 909 was delayed for a week the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $1.00 no VP right then - he fled early to do packing The President had even MORE nothing fannish to report A motion to commend the president for being a lazy bum was successfully objected to being considered We THEN did auctions, depriving Dave G of a chance to eat until they were done. We auctioned off a Max Headroom mask for $1.00; books for $0.25, $1.25; $1.00; $1.00; $0.50; $1.25; $1.00; $2.50; $0.25; $1.25; $1.00; $2.25; $0.50; $17.00; $0.75; $2.00; $5.00; $0.50; $25.00; and Adrienne-made cookies for $1.00; $2.00; $0.25; $2.00; $0.75 [immediate review of the raisin cookies was 'Wow! These are great!']; $1.50; and a bracelet made by Miko for $5.00 Announcements Cheryl announced that she has to go back to England Wednesday and will be back next in March - and that she game 2 more episodes of 'Barmy Cats' to Chris Andy announced that Further Confusion is in 2 weeks and there will be an Evil Genius party there on Friday night - and they will be judging Masquerade on Saturday Adrienne announced that our local blood banks are desperately in need of donations [especially O negative blood] [tall] Kevin announced that there is a shorter time than normal to make Hugo nominations since Worldcon will be the 1st week of August this year and suggests starting the nominations next week; follow-ons included 'go join Denvention' Reviews: Lisa reviewed 'Atonement' as worth the 7 Golden Globe nominations and full price Stellan reviewed the Tech Shop in Palo Alto as a clubhouse for folks who like to make thing & wished they had all the equipment there in their own, infinitely large garage, check www.techshops.ws; it costs $30.00 a day, $100 a month and definitely worth full price and they do classes there Glenn reviewed PG&E as not worth full price Miko reviewed 'Sweeney Todd' as having bad CG for the first 10 minutes but that both principles sing rather well, the casting is great & it's definitely worth full price - even worth the mall Goths and 117 frustrated text messages. There were follow-ons - Dave C greatly enjoyed it and thought Depp did a very good, understated performance - thought the animation was okay and stated there was much more blood than the stage version; Harold followed that Depp's performance was brilliant, it was a wonderful film & worth full price; then Miko reviewed 'Juno' as hilarious and worth full price - and Lisa agreed Harold reviewed Kieth Olbermann's 'Truth or Consequences' as not worth full price and the diatribes within were angry ones; reviewed 'The Savages' as advertised as black comedy but he missed the humor and as worth bargain matinee Andy reviewed a product called 'Easy Screen Print' as useful, easy and simple - worth it - and reviewed 3 CDs of good umppa music as worth what he paid for it & reviewed the West Kingdom's 12th Night - held at the Doubletree - as a very fun event, recommended and worth full price - that there were really neat things in the dealer's room and recommends the cheese mochi puffs [as an aside, where are these found?] [evil] Kevin then follow-on'd saying that they met many charming people and the sword jocks were drinking more than usual since they couldn't hit each other with sticks I reviewed 'Charlie Wilson's War' as enjoyable, a very good movie & Hank's does a great job - worth full price & reviewed 'National Treasure 2' as wonderful mind candy & it may give brain diabetes but it was a lot of fun to watch, worth high matinee; Dave C follow-on'd that the various break-ins of places like the White House and Buckingham Palace needed 'That was easy' stickers slapped on them & Trey thought it was entertaining Cheryl showed us her cool ray gun and her periscope book cover thingy & reviewed Australia & India's cricket match is that after 5 days it came down to the very end - that Australia won & there was a diplomatic incident Dave C stated that 'I read a book' ['1st time's always the hardest' came a quip] & he reviewed Robert Rankin's book 'The Da-Da-Dee-Da-Da Code' as worth wait for paperback Trey reviewed 'Dexter in the Dark' as he was disappointed by the supernatural elements & reviewed Simon Green's 'Man with the Golden Torc' as gritty and wry but not his best stuff - worth used paperback We adjourned at = 9:56 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Chris will be disappointed to learn that no one bought him anything in the auction' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
