Meeting 963 January 12, 2009
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 - and the cherry pie was hot! 22 people attended a party jar was established Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 961 were accepted as 'this is your brain on Miko'; the minutes of meeting 962 were accepted as 'new, with less Miko' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $6.85 in the regular jar; $5.25 in the party jar and $17.00 in the TAFF jar the Vice president said, "Hello!" and then reported there are 2 new 'Drink Tanks' out - one being a tribute to Bob Wilkins - and today's Milo fact is that Miko once shot a guy in Reno and did not have the courtesy to watch him die The President reported that Further Confusion will be in 2 weeks Announcements [tall] Kevin announced that 'it's that time of year again' so starting next week we'll be discussing Hugo nom-nom-nominations - beginning with the Campbell award and the bottom third of the ballot Cheryl announced that on Friday [7-ish?, check their website] Borderlands will have short readings from John Scalzi and Mary Robbinet-Cowal - and on Saturday at the Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building in SF, that SFinST will also have a reading, doors opening at 6pm [this space left ominously blank] \Dave G announced that he saw a job ad for Queensland [Australia] who want a caretaker for Hamilton island - check the BBC website Ken announced that John Scott Martin passed away last week - along with another guy = Ray Dennis Stechlet Glenn announced that Ewan Chrystal passed away last week and was a very nice fan [evil] Kevin announced that they won't be holding an Evil Genius party at Further Confusion, but they still may be pouring drinks there Dierdre announced that Obama says the first thing he'll do in office is close Guantanimo Bay prison Reviews: Chris reviewed that he survived the weekend without verbs - saw 'Shoot em Up' and thought it awful and awesome in which carrots are a lethal weapon - rated as worth both 'Point Break' and 'Road House; - and reviewed Frank & Bri's back room as it has to be made of pure morphine & reviewed the 1st 2 episodes of Dr Who as ruined for him & reviewed 'Bride Wars' as flawed & more offensive than 'Crystal Skull' & reviewed the DVD of 'Dark Knight' as a bad transfer & boiled meat is tasty and worth hitting himself in the head for Cheryl reviewed searching for cheese in Napa as they had a fairly good time and worth the trip and reviewed getting interviewed by a Mexican radio station via Skype about the Hugos and science fiction awards as interesting and she recommends 'Sands of Saravati' for the graphic novel Hugo - and suggested a few names for Best Prozine for Hugo = Albedo, Weird Tales and HP Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror Dave C reviewed 'the Spirit' as he will never doubt Chris's reviews again in his life - it was 108 minutes of hell in soft focus and recommends seeing 'Minuscule' on Youtube Dave G reviewed 'Evil Dead, the Musical' as they were not in the splash zone but were still lightly spattered, it had no redeeming virtues at all and was everything that makes a musical great - really worth going to Martinez to see - several times Glenn reviewed Korean tomato candy as not bad, that he got an accurate fortune and really likes the bathroom at the El Camino Mongolian BBQ Stellan reviewed 'Leonardo' as he liked the exhibit a great deal, saw the 'Band of Brothers' miniseries again and was still impressed by it Adrienne reviewed the Bay Area Ghost Hunter's get together as neat and reviewed Amazon's 'also bought' information as very helpful for her [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Sharks in Venice' as unwatchable and 'The Immortal' as a mix of CGI and live action and he's not sure it was good or bad - worth cable Fred reviewed the Asian Art Museum in SF as the exhibit on Afghanistan artifacts as worth visiting to see Gnu reviewed the Aladdin show at California's Great Adventure as worth going to we then did auctions: stuff for $0.75, soap and sheets for $3.50, clocks for $1.50 & $0.50 and a yoyo and books for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:58 And the rumor of the week was: 'When carrots are outlawed, only outlaws will have carrots' -- ******************* 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
