Actually it was the Scots of whom I said they couldn't beat an egg. England did manage two good games.
Love 'n' hugs, Cheryl At 05:30 PM 3/18/2008, melchar wrote: >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 Cheryl Morgan Emerald City: Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.emcit.com/ UK: 07742 196 331 US: (650) 722 1413 Skype: cherylmorgan _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
