Meeting 948 September 30, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:05, after orders were taken 32 people attended a party jar was established Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 947 were accepted as 'picking the nits' Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $70.75 in the regular jar and $9.89 in the party jar the Vice president reported that there'll be a new 'Drink Tank' out this week and a new 'Journey Planet' out so check efanzines.com & his food has arrived and he'll be doing both fanzine lounge and newsletter for Silicon and he's eating his soup The President had nothing fannish to report - except that Silicon is this weekend The Party Committee reported he saw Michael Wallis and there'll be an ERPs party at Silicon, on Saturday in room 265 and the Silicon Arts council needs a programmer Announcements Maureen announced that Silicon is this weekend at the Doubletree, $25 for a one-day memvership and she'll be in the Art show - as will Howeird [with nifty photos], Silicon TV should be channel 37, the Westercon party is Saturday night, there'll be an SFinSF party in room '360-something'; the Match Game will be Sunday at 2pm and a PENSWAG meeting Saturday in Campbell Dann announced that Ken Laile won't be making Silicon after all [a paying job interfered] and Silicon still needs volunteers badly Julie announced that espace made its first orbital launch and that Oct 11-12 will be an organ gathering in Sutter Creek and that Disney is doing a special for a free admission on your birthday Dave C announced that this Thursday will be the Biden-Palin debate Howeird announced that he'll be on 10 am panels at Silicon on Saturday and Sunday & [evil] Kevin follow-on'd that he'll do his Spintronics panel on 11:30 Sunday [tall] Kevin announced that Ed Green is in some of the Discovery channel ads for 'Dirty Jobs' as a dancing plumber and said for us to go read Cheryl's blog to watch her menace fandom again Reviews: Joe reviewed a wake for a RenFaire friend as a nice pagan ceremony and she's tired of hearing about deaths in that community Adrienne reviewed 'Ghost Town' as kind of a cute movie and worth matinee & thinks 'Primeval' is a bit derivative but she's enjoying it Harold reviewed 'Dexter' as worth having Showtime in order to get & reviewed 'Ghost Town' as damned funny and a cautionary tale about hospitals and reviewed the Pacifica Fog festival as - there was fog Michael reviewed some of Toby Bluth's artwork as it blew him away [check at www.peabodygallery.com for more info] Howeird reviewed 'Dreams of My Father' by Obama as not a page turner and worth reading for the angst Miko commented that the Casa de Ren Faire will be going on until Oct 11 and worth it when they went & reviewed the 'Ideal Bar and Grill' in Santa Cruz as very good and has an impressive menu Joe reviewed Yaoicon as 'if you're not androgynous then you're effectively invisible' and he enjoyed the con Andy reviewed Yaoicon as possibly a greater disaster in ballroom seating than Baycon WITH screaming fangirls and the hotel staff was being weirder than usual and the air conditioning was lacking Ken reviewed retro roller skating in Milpitas as there was a Dr Who pinball machine there, people skated and had fun and the snack bar was good - all worth full price; Chris follow-on'd that he had a great time Chris reviewed Netflix as fools and they forgot to include a NDA for Roku - which was reviewed as crap - and reviewed 'Speed Racer' as he's lucky he still has a girlfriend & everything not CGI came from Ikea; and reviewed 'Incident at Loch Ness' as it wasn't good but it wasn't bad Glenn reviewed seeing the 'net version of 'Shoggoth on the Roof' as amusing we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off John O'Halloran for $12.00 to Chris O'Halloran; then auctioned off various stuff for $0.25 ; videos for $1.00; books for $2.00; $1.00; a book & 1776 DVD for $16.00; shineys for $0.50; a USB hub for $12.00; & CDs $4.25; & $11.00 We adjourned at = 9:45 And the rumor of the week was: 'Instead of a bailout, Republicans will propose 'Survivor Wall Street'
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