Meeting 923 April 7, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8-ish - with our own sound fx 25 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 921 were accepted as 'unread' & the minutes of meeting 922 were accepted as 'the sum of 2 difference machines' there was no Treasurer or Treasurer's report this week there was no VP or VP report The President reminded us that CostumeCon 26 will be in 3 weeks The Party Committee reported that he's in negotiation for rooms for parties at Baycon & Furcon Announcements [evil] Kevin announced that CostumeCon needs your help to unload trucks or watch the unloading the Thursday before con - please contact CC26's volunteers Glenn asked if there were any good Korean BBQ places in Santa Clara Lisa announced that pre-reg for CC26 closes April 15 and she can take money here [Galen follow-on'd that he also can take money] Dave C announced that General Petreus appears in front of Congress tomorrow Mike announced that Geoff Muldaur will play at the Cayuga Vault, Friday 8pm in Santa Cruz Howeird passed out pretty fliers, saying that 'Man of La Mancha' starts May 17 [and he plays both the Governor & the innkeeper] - call 408-266-4734 for more information Cheryl announced that April 15 is closing day for the Locus poll & announced that the 'Challenge Cheryl' series is up at cherylmorgan.com and is a good excuse to answer silly questions [tall] Kevin announced that he has 3 pairs [2/each] of Giants tickets that he would like to sell since he can't make those games; the days are for May 9, May 15 and June 16 Dave C made a motion that failed Reviews: Ken reviewed 2 weeks spent on honeymoon in the United Kingdom as they saw a lot of people they knew, got hailed on, Jerry drank whiskey, they shopped, it was a fun trip, if pricey Joe reviewed bailing out his water bed as the end of an era Andy reviewed 'French and Saunders' = 'Let the Eat Cake' as absolutely hilarious and crude & hysterically stupid - and if you can find it, it's worth full price Adrienne reviewed Danielle Steel's 'The Ghost' as bad - even for a romance novel & reviewed 'Ghosts of San Francisco' as fun, but folklore and nor well researched & reviewed that net puffs hurt Maureen reviewed being a con guest for Icon 27 as really nice & she got to meet her hero, Murphy Anderson - who was just amazing & worth full price Ed reviewed Ringo's 'A Deeper Blue' and Unto the Breach' as he enjoyed them, the 2nd was a really excellent book and he's been really enjoying the series & reviewed 'A Scanner Darkly' as schizophrenic and strange & worth dollar rental, just barely Lisa reviewed '21' as a lot of fun & worth matinee Fred reviewed 'Lysistrata' at City Lights [somewhat modernized] as worth full price and recommended we then did auctions: books for $0.50, $1.00, $1.50, a video for $1.00 by Galen for Joe that was given to [tall] Kevin, a comic for $2.00, & Dr. Who stuff for $2.00 & $1.00 We adjourned at = 9:43 And the rumor of the week was: 'Free Tibet with purchase of China' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
