Meeting 912 January 21, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:01 [with hopes that were soon dashed] 35 people attended We established a TAFF jar Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 911 as 'motion to strike and replace with' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $30.15 in the regular jar, $10.86 in the party jar & $41.45 in the TAFF jar VP reported that he he's almost finished with a new 'Drink Tank' - and he's already got a LoC for that issue - so there's time-shifting going on - and Further Confusion is coming up and he's in charge of the science track The President reminded us that there will be Hugo nominations after the meeting the BASFA Times committee reported that he has 3 pages and a cover for it - but wants MORE Announcements Lynn announced that Denvention's hotel block is open & announced that this Wednesday she'll be in a comedy showcase at Rooster T Feathers Harold announced that the Razzies were announced & Eddie Murphy had 5 nominations for every role he played in 'Norbert' Adrienne announced that you should get Worldcon memberships by the end of the month so you can make Hugo nominations & announced that there's a UFO conference in Laughlin, NV Feb 23-March1 & there'll be a 'Dark Shadows' fan festival in Burbank July 18-20 Andy announced that Further Confusion is this week & Soko Hardware in SJ [6th St] is closing and they're selling everything there at half off now & announced that the Evil genius party will be in room 247, Friday night & they'll be landlording the party Saturday night for the Santa Clara County Leather Assoc Mike announced that 'Pop Top Trio' will play the Mission City Coffee Roasting Company on Saturday, 8pm, Jan 26 There is no #6 [and then declined to state] Reviews: Lisa reviewed 'Alvin & the Chipmunks' as fairly decent & worth matinee Chris reviewed DVDs - 'The Ten' as even better on DVD & worth full price & 'The Family guy' was even better without the bleeps & worth full price Harold reviewed 'The Paperback Apocalypse" by Robert Price, where the author waxes rapsodic on turgid theology as worth library rental Kelly went to a SFinSF/Tachyon Press reading & it was quite lovely and a free event [tall Kevin recommends the back row with the comfy chairs] Daniel reviewed Rustycon as the worst con since Petuniacon and over-programmed & the food service mystified him [there were follow-on's] [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Resident Evil - Apocalypse' as worth cable with a hangover Dave C reviewed 'Cloverfield' as the Blair/Godzilla Project - pretty good and fun & reviewed 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' as good and worth full price [tall] Kevin reviewed 'Hawaii 50' on DVD as the counter girl didn't know of the series - at all - & each collection is worth buying at 25% off Fred reviewed 'Persepolis', an Iranian anime - as highly recommended and worth full price We adjourned at = 9:02 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘the theme for next year's FurCon will be nos-fur-atu' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
