Meeting 959 December 15, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 24 people attended a party jar was established [after a spirited bout of voting] Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 958 were accepted as 'flashy' the Treasurer reported that we took in money at last week's meeting and that Spring was involved in a car accident. Thankfully, she is OK, but the Dino-car is not doing so well the Vice president's Miko fact is that her true father is Sir Mixalot and there is a new 'Drink Tank' out - volume 1 of the Forrest J Ackerman tribute The President had nothing fannish to report - but reminded folks that he and the secretary will miss the meetings on Dec 22 and Dec 29 Dave C reported that week 1 of the 'Raphael Watch' - that he's still not here Announcements Glenn announced that he'll review 'Anathem' next week Lisa announced that Lady Colleen is out of the hospital and announced that the knitting on 'The Scarf' is done Ed announced that Further Confusion is in January and he will be on a world building panel Harold announced that Betty Page passed away Adrienne announced that the next Bay Area Ghost Hunters get together will be on Saturday, Jan 10 at 7pm at John's Grill in SF Dave C announced that there's a con coming up in February - Potlatch - which will be in Sunnyvale in the Domain Feb 27-March 1 and he has flyers - and that there is a new Cargo Cult out Reviews: Andy reviewed 'Warriors' on cable as the episode he saw on the Tokugawa Shogunate was pretty good and had gorgeous costuming - and worth watching Chris reviewed 'Invincible' on DVD as 2 hours, 5 minutes long - the first 20 hours of which were slow and made him long for the days of 'Barry Lyndon' and the TV made a noose of its aerial; then reviewed the Psychotronic film festival as De Anza is the Miller Light of community colleges but the films were fantastic as always Mo reviewed the 'Day the Earth Stood Still' as she wished it had stopped, saw the original and thinks the original had dignity; Adrienne commented that John Cleese is in the remake and very good; I follow-on'd that I saw it and enjoyed it; Trey followed, saying he is the least common denominator of viewer and enjoyed it and Dave C mentioned he carries the original on DVD at Cargo Cult Harold reviewed 'Cadillac Records' as well acted and recommended, worth bargain matinee and reviewed 'Ninja Nonsense' as funny as hell and a bit perverse, but recommended on Demand, Anime selects Dave C reviewed 'Four Christmases' as funny and a situation comedy movie, worth matinee & reviewed 'Plutonium Blonde' by John Zakour and Lawrence Ganem as a good silly read, worth paperback and available thru Cargo Cult books Glenn reviewed Tofu House and Chocolate Sushi - a Korean restaurant - as not expensive and quite nice - 3 stars out of 5 we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off Dave C for $11.00 to himself, then auctioned off various samples for $1.50; a CD holder for $2.00, a CD for $1.00, a DVD and tool kit for $11.00, plastic figures for $1.00, games for $2.50, $10.25, stuffies for $3.00, tools for $8.00, Tick figures for $6.00, videos for $3.00, book and photo for $10.00, and books for $1.00 and $1.75 We adjourned at = 9:33 And the rumor of the week was: 'Squids in Spaaaaace!' -- ******************* 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
