Meeting 942 August 18, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 29 people attended a party jar was established Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 941 were accepted as 'home sick' Treasurer report was that last week we took in $1.25 in the regular jar and $0.25 in the party jar the VP reported he took last place in both the 'best fan writer' and 'best fanzine' categories, there's a new 'Drink Tank' out & he has a much-worn Dr Who scarf at his place and then he insulted Canada The President reported that he's glad to see everyone back Announcements Joni announced that there are jobs in computer programming in East Lansing, Michigan that a friend asked her to mention Ken announced that there will be a Legion of Rasselon meeting on both this Friday and next Friday at the usual place Adrienne announced that there will be Scottish games at the Alameda fairgrounds this weekend - and announced that she was listed as a testimonial blurb in a book Dann announced that this Friday's Spookfest will have a showing of 'The Great Dictator' Spring announced that she was #6 in the Hugo fan artist category - and mentioned that Frank Wu came within 2 votes of displacing Dave Langford as #2 in the best fan writer category [tall] Kevin announced that Chris Garcia gave a great speech in presenting the best fan artist Hugo Cheryl announced that the next SFinSF reading will be Saturday, Sept 20, 7pm at the Hobart Building in SF Reviews: Worldcon was reviewed ... again = Chris said he sweat a lot at high elevation, there were lots of thunderstorms ['hey, food!'] and he had a great time in the Fanzine lounge - had an awesome time and the pre-Hugo party was great and it was worth $375.18; Adrienne reviewed Denvention as a decent convention, that it needed a writer's workshop, but the stage looked great, the art show was nice and she had a pleasant-enough time; [Spring then reviewed U-dig outside of Delta, UT as fun, the blowout was not fun and highway 50 was horrific]; then [tall] Kevin reviewed Denvention as lots of travel woes but the con was much better than he expected - that the 'Match Game' went off well, even with all the moves and there was a good crowd, that it was not the best of cons or the worst of cons [Eric: 'So you're saying it was a Dickens of a con?']; Glenn reviewed that it pegged his meter at 'good', he had fun at the mimeo demo - running the Westercon table went better than he expected and there was tons of good eating and he had a room from hell at the Crowne Plaza; Dave C reviewed the Chris-run bar at the Fanzine lounge as GREAT! And the con was his best Worldcon evar [his koala and the luggage were adorable]; Cheryl reviewed that it went well and her posting to her blog of the results from the 20 essential books of SF in the last 20 years panel was well-received and clothes shopping in Denver was wonderful - Maureen follow-on'd that Cheryl's blog was a wonderful way to share the Worldcon by proxy and Dave G praised the malts at an Arctic Circle shop in Elko, NV Chris also reviewed 'Tropic Thunder' as he loved it [evil] Kevin reviewed the Gay Rodeo as high proof and he won the grand prize basket Dave C reviewed BBC America's 'Primeval' as a monster of the weed show and rated it as 'we'll see' - Maureen likes it & Adrienne follow-on'd that it was like 'Jurassic Torchwood' and it's fun, mindless escapism Julie reviewed the Post Office near her as one of the windows will not accept cash any more and this is very annoying Joni reviewed sunblocks as that she has a problem with oxy-benzone - which is a component of most current blocks - so she's been looking for alternatives. She reviewed 2 brands = Eucerin and Solbar Shield as effective, if slightly unpleasant to apply Glenn is looking for a new job [NOT in Michigan] & reviewed 'Plato and the Platypus' as a good book that he read though in one sitting Cheryl reviewed the Xmen as they have moved to San Francisco & reviewed a reading by Jeff Carlson as quite entertaining Trey reviewed seeing a play ['Proof'] as community theatre and he enjoyed it we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off Andy for $20.00 to Chris; auctioned off a bag of gooey stuff for $1.00; then books for $0.25; $14.35 and $3.00 We adjourned at = 10:07 And the rumor of the week was: 'Free Range Haggis will be next week's monster on Jurassic Torchwood' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************* _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
