Lacking all officers of the club, Eric took the floor as president and
Glenn was drafted into being secretary despite his best efforts at
disappearing into his coffee cup. There were 35 in attendance, possibly
excluding any late officers stragglers.
Fred moved for a party jar, passed.
Tall Kevin moved that the reading of the minutes be postponed one week,
passed.
No pres, VP or Treasurer reports due to none of those individuals
present then (some reports later, see below).
_Announcements_ ("What a horrible way to end the day, what a horrible
way to die.")
Adrienne wanted to know if anyone wanted her room at the Marriott for
D3. Several suggestions to check the boards. She also announced a
walking tour of Denver, contact her for details.
Evil Kevin mentioned that there is going to be a convention this weekend
- hic! - and if you don't go, you'll have to put up with us reviewing
all the fun next Monday.
Ken announced that next Friday will be a Legions of Rasselon (sp?) with
two episodes.
At this point some stragglers officers were noted to be in the room and
the orders of the day were suspended by general assent to permit their
reports.
VP: New Drink Tank, the Panda issue. October will be the Fandom on ∞
Earths edition. At some point he took over the meeting from Eric, but I
didn't note when.
Treasurer: regular tooking $16.50, party took in $17.25. Andy moved and
three cheers were given to the Treasurer for seeing us in to the five
digit range in the regular account.
_Back to Announcements...._
Joe: Vintacon at the Russian River and Dry Creek ("Too late!" says
Spring...)
Fred: Tor.com revamped, not so torrible as it once was.
Mo followed on that it had nice art and a good book program
Tall Kevin followed on that it was "what IO9 should have been"
Tom: Potlatch 18 PRs available, will be at the Domain Hotel in
Sunnyvale, 2/27/09 to 3/1/09.
Howeird: The meltdown of the iPhone network was not an Apple Core Failure.
Chris: Keanu Reeves will be playing Plastic Man, to his disgust. He
will be presenting an artist Hugo at D3, there were many follow-ons to this.
_Reviews_
Evil Kevin: Aussie walkabout grill is good but small. He was happy that
his bartender didn't believe that he was part of the class of '78 and at
their reunion for many schools, he was impressed that his high school
(Shasta) had badges with photos of people as they used to look like.
Mo followed on with a reunion quote from "Grosspoint Blank"
Dave C: SFX review corrected his memory for a previous review being of
"Charlie Jade" rather than Jonathan something. Reviewed "The Night They
Came" by Dave Gamboa as awful and read the last paragraph of the
prologue to prove it.
Diana said that back home such things were called a "criminal waste
of Brazillian rainforest"
Tom: reviewed the play "Ishi" at the Rhino theatre as having
"excruciatingly heterosexual kissing scenes" at least as compared to
their normal fare. 3.5 hours, well written but depressing.
Ken: saw "Pericles" by this Shakesphere guy. The setting was 1800's
South Carolina with pirates, gospel, etc.
Joe: followed on to Chris's earlier remarks. When he saw "Kung Fu
Panda" he imagined Chris in the leading role. Many puns followed this.
Dave G: He and Spring saw "Evil Dead" the musical. Plot. Song.
Dance. Buckets of Blood. What more could you want?
Dave C: RSC's "All the Great Books" is set as a last ditch course to get
everyone in the audience to graduate. Fun and worth full price.
Evil Kevin: Were there shorter and shorter recaps like the
Shakesphere shows? No.
Spring: There were one word recaps.
Glenn: The Shakesphere ones used to recap the historical King plays
as a football game with the crown as the football.
Chris: "Confessions of a Superhero". He said there are some true nuts
out there and that says a lot coming from him.
Glenn followed on with a mention of the Triumph the Insult Comic
Dog's interview of the clown woman outside Michael Jackson's house.
Chris: reviewed "Momma Mia" as crap, but not utter crap. Cow jokes
followed.
Fred followed with stating there was laughter in the theater when
Brosnan started singing.
Dave C: responded to critiques of Shatner's singing as Shatner did
"Has Been" as spoken word singing and did just fine.
Mo reviewed "Dr. Horrible" as unpredictable and predictable and fun
Chris said it was brilliant (but not like those idiots in the
Guiness commercial)
Spring said that the lair is house featured on Monster House
Mo followed herself by saying that web broadcast is the wave of the
future and standard broadcast media is dead.
Tall Kevin followed that by relating that web broadcasts are Hugo
eligible under short and long forms.
Adrienne then opened a can of worms by asking if anyone had seen "Dark
Night".
Diana: really bloody fucking good, especially the psychology of the
Joker
Mo: Fresh Air described the Joker as a force of chaos, like the shark
in Jaws.
Stellen: said he was more like Hannibal Lector than other Jokers.
Chris: said that it scared the heck out of him.
Andy: commented on the hype-to-value being better than the previous film.
Deirde: said the role actually killed the actor as he overdosed on
the sleeping pills he took because the role gave him nightmares.
Dave C: Adam West Batman movie DVD coming out
Mo: Spookfest featured "Terrors of Spider Island" as when Muppets go bad
and had semi-naked male models and bitch slapping. Worth free, but Don
said it was $10 wasted.
Auction took in $4, $1.5, $1, $0.25, $7.75. Glenn was happy to get from
Chris the copy of "File 770" with John Hertz' review of Allie & Glenn's
wedding.
The rumor of the week, passing 18-17 after heavy bidding, was "Kevin has
finally found the grill of his dreams." and we adjourned at some time
that I didn't note.
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