Meeting 947 September 22, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:ish 25 people attended a party jar was established Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 946 were accepted as 'I don't like Mondays' Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $41.00 in the regular jar and $23.86 in the party jar the Vice president reported that there'll be a new 'Drink Tank' out tomorrow, there's a new 'SF in SF' out now with lots of pictures and words The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements Dann announced that Silicon is coming soon and an actor, Ken Laile will be attending Silicon 2008 and then be Silicon's media GoH for 2009 Andy announced that this weekend is Yaoicon at the 'Winchester Mystery Marriott' - bring your slash fiction Harold announced that it was the 100th anniversary of Merkel's boner Dave C announced that DVDs are coming for the Sarah Jane Adventures, the Man from UNCLE and Quark Miko announced that she's back Chris announced that the Australia football grand finale and he is in a state of international mourning Glenn announced that since the US is bailing out AIG - that they sponsor Manchester United - so the US now will be overpaying soccer players Ken announced that this week the Legion of Rasselon will be meeting at the usual place at First & Trimble [tall] Kevin announced that Cheryl is safely back in darkest Somerset Stellan announced that there's an air show in Salinas this weekend and Harold announced that there's a fog festival in Pacifica this weekend - so it will be sunny Reviews: Joe reviewed 'Burn' as fantastic and if you like the Coen Brothers you'll love this movie - and the body count isn't that high; plus he reviewed 'Torchwood' - playing on a HDTV channel - as he's enjoying it & reviewed that motorcycle crashes are not fun Chris reviewed 'Lifesized' as 'why does he let Evelyn control the TV' and he's been watching a lot of shorts, some of which are awesome Ken reviewed the DVD of Quark as - order it from Dave C now - and the episodes haven't aged that badly Glenn reviewed a bit from a book he's reading as inspirational for those taking minutes [tall] Kevin reviewed an SFinSf reading as certainly worth making the trip to SF for it, the readings help the Variety Children's Charity - and the next readings will be Oct 9 and Oct 18; he also reviewed his trip to New Orleans as humid and windy and very rainy, but they were able to get into excellent restaurants without reservations, he recommends Brennan's, enjoyed listening to good jazz and had a very good time [evil] Kevin reviewed Totoro's Sushi Boat in Saritoga as the food was very good and Dave C announced that Disneyland will be bringing back their Hallowe'en tour we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off [evil] Kevin for $18.00 to Dave C; then auctioned off various stuff for $3.00; a book & t-shirt for $1.25; videos for $2.00; $0.50; $33.00; $1.00; $1.00; $0.75; $1.50; $3.00; hats & a video $1.00; & books for $3.50 We adjourned at = 9:52 And the rumor of the week was: 'BASFA will buy the TV center to produce the Chris Garcia show, starring Kevin Standlee' -- ******************* 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
