Meeting 955 November 17, 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 party jar was established Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 954 were accepted the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $4.00 in the regular jar, $8.00 in the party jar and $0.25 in the TAFF jar there was no Vice president The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements Carole announced that Philcon is this next weekend Dave G announced that the Sharks won tonight and he and Spring intend to go to the 10:30 showing of 'Evil Dead, the Musical' on its opening night - not in the splatter zone - and wants to know if anyone wants to make an outing of it Andy announced that Saint Georges Spirits will have their open house Nov 22 - so get your tickets now; $30 for basic tickets, with 2 add-on tickets and a tasting clinic [with limited sign-up slots], check www.stgeorgespirits.com/ Dave C announced that Loscon is coming up and announced that Dr Who, Season 4 and the animated Dr Who will be available for sale tomorrow - and he sells them Reviews: I reviewed 'Fable 2' as a delightful fun game, gorgeous and engrossing - with my only real complaint being about the assigning of evil points [30 for murder, 5 for stealing a shirt] - way worth full price - and reviewed getting a flu shot at Safeway as very fast and at $30 - with a 10% off coupon for a full grocery order - it was very much worth the time spent Adrienne reviewed 'Quantum of Solace' as the opening credits were fun but the film editing was choppy and not too good and the music was generic action movie fare; Andy follow-on'd that the story was very thin, generally good with lots of action scenes, worth full price Lisa reviewed 'Madagascar 2' as very silly and very much fun and really worth full price, but she paid matinee Fred reviewed Convergence 08 as interesting and there was information about Genescient where Greg Benford has moved from writing science fiction to being an entrepreneur [tall] Kevin reviewed a trip to Chicago as no part of the travel was fun but on the flight back he saw 'Mama Mia' and it inspired him to create SMOF filk with Cheryl - check her LJ - and Lisa follow-on'd that she saw it and it was very silly Cheryl reviewed the United terminal in SF as it has a huge display of science fiction toys there that is very worth seeing and she reviewed Chicago as still suffering from Obama fever and she saw a sf reading there that was 'bi-national' Ken reviewed Texas as he visited the Alamo and, indeed, there is no basement there, the riverwalk at San Antonio was lovely, Taste of Texas in Houston was definitely worth full price and they brought back lots of swag we then did auctions: a box of books for $3.00 and a book bag for $3.00 We adjourned at = 9:12 And the rumor of the week was: 'World Fantasy Con 2009 is looking to book Abba as music GoH' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************
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