Meeting 920 March 17, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 [greenly] 25 people attended We established a party jar we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off Joni for $6.00 to Garth, cupcakes for $1.50, cookies for $1.50, $2.00, $0.75, $1.00, $1.50, & a magazine for $0.25 Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 919 were accepted as 'life is short enough people' Treasurer's report was that at meeting 919 we took in $6.00 in the regular jar, $3.77 in the FFAT jar to bring Chris back & $4.75 in the party jar there was no VP The President had nothing fannish to report It was moved and passed to excuse Chris Garcia's absences and not to start the counter for him to lose his office until April, provided that he holds a BASFA meeting at Eastercon Announcements Fred announced that Yuri's night is coming soon - details at http://yurisnightbayarea.net Lisa announced that little Harold's birthday was today; he's 19 Cheryl announced that 'I'm here' [to applause], but she flies off to Florida tomorrow & announced that England has noted an invasion by a weapon of masked wrestling [but trusts he will find his way home again] Dave G announced that he's heard Chris will hold a party at Eastercon Dave C made an inquiry about who has Blue Ray players - in regards to Cargo Cult information [tall] Kevin announced that Norwescon is this weekend - as are many other conventions Galen announced that he is a direct descendant of John Carter of Mars [evil] Kevin mentioned matchitforPratchett.org Reviews: Harold reviewed boxing as a bad month for the Marquez brothers & charged too much for it & reviewed Dropkick Murphy's reissue as a kind of celtic-punk-oi band & they're loud - screaming their lyrics. They're -um - LOUD - and the CD is overpriced Lisa reviewed 'Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day' as a beautiful late-30's-style romantic comedy, the actresses are great, it's lots of fun and worth full price Cheryl reviewed an SFinSF reading as marvellous and much fun was had by all & reviewed England as cold and wet - but some of the wet is from tears because Wales won at rugby ['the English would be hard-pressed to beat an egg'] Dave C reviewed the New York Dolls, performing in SF as the 2 original [surviving[ members are moving a bit more slowly, but it was an excellent show, worth full price and he reviewed the book 'Superheroes in my Pants' by Mark Ebanier, a compilation of essays, as a fun retrospective, a fine book and worth trade paperback Ken reviewed the Lynxis 500N series as not worth buying, unpacking, repackaging and returning to Fry's Howeird reviewed 'The Counterfeiter' as wonderfully done, extremely well-acted, worth box office [it's subtitled] & reviewed Governor Spitzer as following in the footsteps of Governor Rockefeller We adjourned at = 9:00 And the rumor of the week was: 'Ann MacCaffrey's last book will be 'Dragonslayer of Pern'.' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
