Meeting 924 April 14, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 - [as I read elf porn] 23 people attended no jar was established Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 923 were accepted as 'alright' Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $15.50 in the regular jar and $12.75 in the party jar there was no VP [week 2] The President had nothing fannish to report A motion passed to rename Glenn as 'the late Glenn Glazier' for the duration of the meeting Announcements Cheryl announced that the next SFin SF reading will be April 20, 6pm, outside the Montgomery Tubes check for details at SFinSF.org & she announced that she is paying $5.00 for a BASFA membership for John Scalzi [as long as he agrees] Mike announced that Peppino D'Agostino will be playing at the Mission City Coffee Roasting Company, Friday, April 25, 8pm Lisa announced that CostumeCon 26 will be in 11 days & [evil] Kevin is counting the days, plus pre-reg for CC26 closes April 15 and she can take money here Dave C announced that Reyn Spooner has discontinued his Disney line of shirts Julie announced that she went to the ERPS meeting and she is now an ERPS board member [tall] Kevin announced that on April 15 the voting closes for the Locus poll 'the late Glenn Glazier' announced that KFOX is putting all the covers for their contest are posted on kfox.com [evil] Kevin announced that he is part of a publicity blitz for IBM that has been on NPR and the BBC Ed announced that the SJAA holds a star party every moonless night at Camden & Bascon, SJ and they'll have an auction on Sunday Carole announced her elbow is now healed Andy announced that 'Was not Was' was released earlier this month Reviews: Julie reviewed Contact as really good, with lots of good speakers & dealers. She reviewed 'Torchwood' as she hopes it continues & commented that the new 'Dr Who' companion will take some getting used to [there were follow-ons] Fred reviewed Yuri's Night as he had a wonderful time and it was worth full price Dave C reviewed driving a Jeep 4x4 as it was like driving a tank, a bouncing ponderous tank & reviewed BBC America's 'Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares' as his new addiction and worth full price 'the late Glenn Glazier' reviewed taking a nice drive to Napa and buying cheese and then buying various meats ['a bowl of heart attack' = from Andy] & reviewed Chili's steak dinner as very good - then there were follow-ins about how good Raphael is Dave G reviewed a creation con - 'the SciFi Summit' in Southern CA as there were lots of Spocks there but sales were slow, but they made money so it was worth full price Joe wandered off-topic ['we have topics'] and waxed rhapsodic about the fun of driving really fast Andy reviewed the Beard Papa coffee flavored cream pastry as it tastes like coffee & reviewed this year's Eurovision music videos as the worst lineup ever; the videos are up on the eurovision.tv website Cheryl reviewed a Southampton alumni event held in SF at the house of the consul general as she had a good time Fred reviewed 'Lysistrata' at City Lights [somewhat modernized] as worth full price and recommended we then did auctions: books for $0.50, $0.25 & $2.00 We adjourned at = 9:42 And the rumor of the week was: '0 dollars for Chris' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
