Meeting 914 February 4, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:07 [because I had prime rib] 29 people attended We established a TAFF jar Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 912 as '9.8 for presentation' & accepted the minutes of meeting 913 as 'damn good cherry pie' the Treasurer reported that at meeting 912 we took in $5.25 in the regular jar & $3.67 in the TAFF jar & at meeting 913 we took in $1.50 in the regular jar & $6.25 in the TAFF jar there was no VP or VP report The President reminded us that there will be Hugo nominations after the meeting Announcements Ken announced that the new issue of 'Raspberry World' is out and has an article by him therein [check their website at raspberryworld.net & he announced that KTEH will start the new David Tenet 'Dr Who' on April 10 & the 4th series will start in April on the Sci channel, along with the 'Sarah Jane Adventures' Dave C announced that John McCain keeps calling his house - along with some guy called Romney & 'I don't know what to do' [there were follow-on's] Kelly announced that SF in SF is doing a reading on Saturday, Feb 23, opening at 6pm at the Hobart Building in SF, with Paolo Bacigalupi & Carter Sholz Glenn announced that today is Alice Cooper's 60th birthday Dave G announced that Saturday, March 1 at 4pm is a Tupperware/Slash/jewelry party at the House of Spike [evil] Kevin announced that there have been many updates made on the CostumeCon website - check out their entry forms for the historical masquerade & science fiction and fantasy costuming Andy announced that the 19th opus of Gallifrey will be in 2 weeks at the LAX Marriott and will be the last Evil Genius party before Costume Con Reviews: Julie reviewed episode 3 of 'Torchwood' as very good but the ending was a bit weak - and there were follow-ons Ken reviewed 'Brainiac Science Abuse' as they love explosions, innuendo and is a lot of fun to watch Andy reviewed the lead balloon of Mythbusters as it kicked ass & reviewed Further Confusion as he's almost recovered from it, that the Evil Genius party went off really well, a great success, their panels went off well, judged the Masquerade on Saturday & landlorded the Santa Clara County Leather Assoc party Saturday night and it went off well, there were a few schedule glitches, FNL was the best ever, dead Dog was actually a lot of fun and the con was worth full price; there were follow-ons [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Marde Gras de Vampir' as good costumes and dreadful theatrics & he reviewed the 2nd batch of St Georges Absinthe vert as they enjoyed the first drink of it and then poured hot cocoa for the next 3 hours & was worth the time spent Gordon reviewed 'The 39 Steps' and "secret Agent' as he predicts that director will go far - worth full price Dave C reviewed 'Service Included' by Phoebe Danrosch as fascinating reading, fun to read and is worth full price in hardcover Glenn reviewed the audio book of 'Born Standing Up' by Steve Martin as funny and poignant, is worth full price, especially for his reading and inflection Dave G reviewed the Creation Xena lovefest at the Burbank Bob Hope airport Marriott as there were 35 guys there and a whole lot of women, that the attendees seemed to have fun but weren't interested in buying jewelry; that it was an interesting experience & is one he hopes to never do again & was not worth any price at all [tall] Kevin reviewed his company's management conference, held in Tahoe in the snow as not a smart idea and they had to pay him to go there, but he spent the weekends in Reno and can't recommend the Holiday Inn there, it's not near anything and is in a run down section of town, he also commented that looking at real estate off in the middle of nowhere made him very glad they had 4-wheel drive [there were follow-ons] Daniel reviewed the DVD of 'Clerks 2' as a must buy for Kevin Smith fans - worth full price plus We adjourned at = 9:26 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Tupperware/Slash/Xena' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
