Meeting 974 March 30, 2009
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began at 8-ish 26 people attended a party jar was established Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 973 were accepted as 'that' Treasurer report = last week we took in $20.80 in the regular jar and $ 4.69 in the party jar the Vice president said 'ello' and reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' out - 'handicapping the Hugos' & there's a new 'Culture' out and a new SFinSF will be out soon The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements: Adrienne announced that she's on Twitter now = Adrienne517 and she's looking for an Anticipation room mate and there'll be a con in July - maybe - Nor-Cal para Con, July 17-19 Bob announced that NASA's naming contest for the space station ended with Colbert winning, with Serenity coming in 2nd, plus he's moving back to the Bay Area and looking for work - preferably museum work - and he would really like some help moving on April 25 from Roseville, otherwise he'll be stuck doing it all alone John asked use to keep good thoughts in mind since he may be out-sourced tomorrow Mo announced that this weekend is Contact at NASA/Ames and they are VERY in need of sf art to hang for its duration; please contact Mo if you can help - and you'll get a free membership Howeird announced that Contact is this weekend - its silver anniversary & that Yuri's night is being hosted by the California Academy of Sciences, April 4 = check http://yurisnight.net/ Dave G announced that Contact will feature a gorgeous silver pin to commemorate the occasion that Spring designed Johanna announced that she is helping to work on a sf fan film - check with her at [email protected] Ken announced that people died [Andy Hallett and Maurice Jarre] [tall] Kevin announced that he survived a reorg Reviews: Chris reviewed having to read all the Hugo nominees in 5 days is hard on the brain - that there were 2 monkey stories among them - and overall it was worth not sleeping for Mo reviewed being a conference associate at the Game Developers Conference last weekend was interesting and she enjoyed it and it's worth buying the Expo pass to see it Adrienne reviewed 'A Haunting in Connecticut' as all the characters were so stupid that it astonished her, but there are worse movies out there - and worth Netflix if you have to see it & she reviewed a documentary 'The Making of Me' as disappointing and a bit boring Fred announced the EFF Benefit reading as just great and that 'Life of Brian' is no longer bannd somewhere in Wales [the town of Aberystwyth - which can't be a real Welsh town since the name has vowels in it ^_^] Howeird reviewed Shatner Butt Girls who did a show last Saturday as entertaining & tightly scripted - worth full price Glenn reviewed seeing porn playing on a DVD player while out driving as distracting Johanna reviewed seeing lots of Dr Who fan files as 'The Schroedinger Effect' is probably the best of the lot we did auctions: a bear for $0.50, a Xmas thingie for $0.25, books or $0.25, $0.25, $1.00, $0.25, $1.00, $0.25; magazines for $1.50, $2.75, $2.00, $1.00, $0.50, $0.25; a box of stuff for $0.15 & $0.25; handfuls of stuff for $0.50, $0.25, $1.00, MP Fluxx cards for $11.00, a DVD & book for $1.00 & $1.00; a shower curtain & loofah for $0.25, & candles for $0.50 We adjourned at = 9:49 And the rumor of the week was: 'You can't write this stuff!' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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