*Meeting 943* *August 25, 2008*
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary *Began 8:00 - with shineys* *27 people attended * a party jar was established *Secretary's report*: the minutes of meeting 942 were accepted as 'crossing our L's and dotting our C's' *Treasurer report was that last week we took in $32.40 in the regular jar and $10.76 in the party jar* *the VP reported there's a new 'Drink Tank' out & he has started a new project to eat 100 grilled cheese sandwiches with 100 very interesting people* *The President read us a letter from an author [sent to him care of Coco's] - and there was much reaction in response to this * *Announcements* Dave C announced that Disneyworld's Adventurer's Club is closing & asked that both versions of Kungaloosh recipe be included in the minutes. Old version: 1 1/4 oz vodka, 1 1/4 oz malibu rum, 3/4 oz midori, 2T pineapple juice, splash cranberry juice; Revised version: 1 cup daily's strawberry daiquiri mix, 1/4 cup orange juice, 1/4 cup captain morgan's spiced rum, 1/4 cup blackberry brandy Ken announced that there will be a Legion of Rasselon meeting this Friday at the usual place [Carl's jr at 1st & Trimble] [evil] Kevin announced that at Gallifrey 2009 their party [to replace the Evil Genius party] will be 'volcano day' Maureen announced that she'd been published in Baen's Universe = the latest for her illustration of 'Shopping Spree' by Beth Bernabitch - and she just got a commission from them Andy just paid for 3 BASFA club memberships for Derek Miller, Letha Welch & Henry Welch *Reviews*: Glenn reviewed Stephenson's 'Quicksilver' as a bug crusher and enjoyable to read & reviewed the Mongolian BBQ on El Camino as awesome - Chris follow-on'd that it is a wonderful place Chris reviewed being broke as Netflix is his best friend & reviewed DVDs - said he fell asleep during 'The Hoax' and the DVD of 'Wordplay' was a fun little film, reviewed 'Wrestlemania 2' as WoW & reviewed 'Thinking Triple X' as fascinating and fabulous Bill reviewed searching along the road for lodging while en route to Denvention as he ended up going to Bags, Wyoming as the intervening towns ended up being full Stellen reviewed the noodles and sea bass here as a very good addition to the menu and worth full price Howeird reviewed 'Here Bullet' - poetry and a journal from a soldier in Iraq - as some good, some not so good & reviewed 'Bikini Planet' as it's a new novel every few pages, with about 30 predictable plots and 4 endings and worth BASFA auction Dave C reviewed Denver's sales tax form with math errors as worth downloading from their website [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Leprechaun 4 in Space' as cheesy, shot in bad video and with bad CGI Adrienne reviewed 'Dark Knight' as awesome, worth full price - with good acting & script, with excellent production values; & I follow-on'd that I enjoyed it, found it visually stunning and also thought it worth full price Carole reviewed Denvention as she got a workmanship award [for her 2nd ever entry] and the Masquerade was well run; reviewed a place called Balcony House as too difficult to get into and another place - Cliff House - as better and worth full price but hard to get out of and reviewed the Grand Canyon as pretty and worth full price Andy reviewed seeing the Olympics closing ceremony - without sound - as it looked like they hired a Burning Man camp to do a Dr Suess tribute - he was not impressed Eric reviewed a filming of 'Delirium' as he was disappointed and it was worth Netflix Ken reviewed 'season 3 of the Venture Brothers' as 'bwuh?' Dave G reviewed his colonoscopy as it went in-depth and while recovering he saw an On Demand movie - 'Dr Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen' and it was superb; Spring follow-on'd that Dave was under the influence of painkillers at the time we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off Bill for $5.00 to Trey; auctioned off 2 videos for $10.50; then swag for $0.75; misc stuff for $1.00; a CD for $2.00; & books for $11.00; $0.50; $1.25 and $0.25 *We adjourned at =* 9:50 *And the rumor of the week was: 'and he eats waffles with that mouth'* -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************
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