Meeting 932
June 9, 2008
Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began 8:02 - [with tomato talk]
29 people attended
a TAFF was established
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 930 were accepted as 'undead'
- and 'lost' week's minutes [meeting 931] were accepted as 'Clairol
hair-ball essense'
Treasurer reported that we have money
VP read a selection from 'Banana Wings' that was taken from his TAFF
report & then reported there's a new 'Drink Tank' out - and a new SFinSF
may be out 'soon' - on he's looking for content for his 'Drink Tank'
issue about gaming
The President had nothing fannish to report - but did say 'hi' to Tom,
visiting us after hearing about the club at Baycon
Then Chris was instructed to contact Claire Briarley about how BASFA can
help her with the banana blight's effect on 'Banana Wings'
Announcements
Adrienne announced that she is looking for a room-mate at Denvention
[and would prefer that to be a non-smoking female]
Dave C announced that Westercon is coming up [Las Vega, 4th of July
weekend] & announced that 'Nation' by Pratchett will soon be out &
announced that the 'mark of Cain' is apparently a Tor imprint
Maureen announced that she'll have a garage sale at her place, 2999
Fresno St, Santa Clara, 9am-5pm on Saturday & Sunday - proceeds going to
Silicon & she recommends maidmarion.com as a fun MMORPG
Andy announced that there will be an open house event on Saturday, June
28 for $35 at Saint Georges Spirits - check www.stgeorgespirits.com for
more information
Carole announced that - as a Silicon costume programming person for
Silicon - that if you're interested in this, contact her & she announced
that July 28 will be a games day at their place & they will host a house
filk on July 12
Lisa commented that terabyte hard drives are getting too cheap
Julie announced that this weekend will be the 2nd annual Pirate Fest at
the waterfront in Vallejo
Chris announced that July 12 is 'Mechanics Crawl' in SF
Stellan announced that this weekend will see Robogames
Howeird announced that Aldis Budrys has died
Reviews:
[evil] Kevin reviewed 'Speed Racer' as shiny & silly & noisy & great art
it is not - great fun it it - and worth full price; Maureen follow-on'd
that it was great but gave her a migraine
Adrienne reviewed 'Crystal Skull' as she was disappointed, it was
predictable and ... come on & worth matinee
Chris reviewed 'Iron Man' as fantastic and brilliant & worth full price
& reviewed 'Don't mess with the Zohan' as he had problems with it but it
was otherwise worth $6.73 & reviewed the Indy pinball game as really
entertaining & reviewed 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' as very funny and
worth $6.85
[tall] Kevin reviewed Marcon as eventful, there was no mass transit, it
was fun and being a GoH was worth the per diem
Carole reviewed the Art & Wine festival as fun and worth spending money on
Stellan reviewed the last couple issues of 'Goats' as you're risking
brain damage to view it but is fun
Fred reviewed 'Man of La Mancha' as wonderful and worth more than full price
I reviewed 'Kung Fu Panda' as full of awesome and worth full price &
Trey follow-on'd that the art served the movie and it was worth full price
Dave C reviewed Book Expo America in LA as he didn't have a booth but
all the publishers DID & it was exhausting
we then did auctions: a notepad & lemon curd for $7.00; a book & yummy
chocolate-mint for $7.00; a CD, pancake topping and videotapes for $1.00
& a paperback for $6.00
We adjourned at = 9:50
And the rumor of the week was: 'my hovercraft is full of raccoons'
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