Meeting 954 November 10, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 23 people attended a TAFF jar & a party jar were established Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 953 were accepted as 'I can't believe it's not Barbara' the Treasurer reported that we have money the Vice president reported that there's a new 'Drink Tank' out & stuff The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements Andy announced that some Trak phones and Blackberries can have a nifty gizmo - check traffic.Berekely.edu [evil] Kevin announced that Saint Georges Spirits will have their open house Nov 22 - so get your tickets now Mo announced that she won't be here next Monday & that the Siliconnections board of directors is looking for 2 new members - are you interested? Chris announced that Locus is even more hated by him and has earned his scorn again [and Forrey's still not dead] Andy proposed a new club rule and it was sent to committee - the committee chair is Andy Dave C announced - Oooo a bunny! ... something butch Reviews: Cheryl reviewed the SF Fungus Festival as she whole-heartedly recommends the mushroom ice cream and reviewed Ellen Klages book reading at Borderlands as good [there were follow-on's about do-it-yourself radiation experiments], then mentioned that the next SFinSF reading will be at 7pm on this Saturday and reviewed Writers with Drinks at a bar that was SRO and the next will be Dec 13 Dave G reviewed the Creation Farscape con in Southern Calif as it lacked its old luster and friendliness Joni reviewed Camera 12's sing-a-long movie series with 'Nightmare Before Xmas' as fun, if sparsely attended and worth full price Dave C reviewed ['we are all Jay Lake'] his trip to World Fantasy con in Calgary as fun and smaller and he saw some readings [he shrugged] - the awards banquet food was good - the con was interesting and walking around Calgary was ... warm and it was all worth full price; then he reviewed voting early in the rain as he wished he'd waited till Tuesday a little and reviewed Christopher Fowler's 'Full dark House', an English mystery, as a good thriller, but relaxing and worth full price Adrienne reviewed the 'Duchess' as it left her thoughtful, it had gorgeous costumes, she enjoyed it and really liked that it used real locations and not computer backgrounds - worth full price [evil] Kevin reviewed the Leather Association as the scaled down plans worked well and they had fun and he reviewed the 'Tee Nee Thai Cafe' [1423 the Alameda, by the Towne] as their beer list was mostly Belgian Monastic bottle-conditioned ales - and was worth full price Glenn reviewed food poisoning at Masu Sushi a worth negative full price and thumbs up to the Santa Clara Dept of Environmental Health for their rapid response and reviewed 'My Neighbor Totoro' as a lovely fun film and reviewed 2 pirate porn films as awful Mo reviewed a job interview as wonderful - but it made her very thoughtful about her job history; check her LJ for more on this [maureenstarky] Chris reviewed 'Love you More' as an incredible short film & reviewed the short film of 'Riverworld' in 7 minutes are 'O my god it was bad!' we then did auctions: a game for $1.25; a video for $0.50; a painting for $1.50; and boxes of books for $3.00 and $0.75 We adjourned at = 9:39 And the rumor of the week was: 'Evil Kevin's next scientific paper will be on Schroedinger's Jar' -- ******************* 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
