Meeting 977 April 20, 2009
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began at 8-ish - with a beat 25 people attended a party jar was established AND a TAFF jar was established Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 976 as 'Oooo yummy, thank you!" the Treasurer reported that we took in $10.00 in the regular jar last week the Vice president says there's a new 'Drink Tank' out that talks about SMOF-racing, there's a SFinSF out too & there's a new TAFF winner: Steve Green The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements: Chris announced that there's an Eaton conference coming up in 2 weeks and he'll be there and JG Ballard died Ken announced that this Friday is the Legion of Rassilon meeting at 1st and Trimble at 7:30 pm Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters will have a book signing at the Old Spegetti Factory on May 2, noon for David Lee's book 'Ghosts of San Jose' Lisa announced that SJ in 2011 is the only bid on the Westercon ballot Andy announced that Costume Con 27 is in Maryland in 2 weeks and the Anticipation Hugo voter's assortment is now available for download I announced that the cheesecake was -fresh- Reviews: [evil] Kevin reviewed the Cafe Press Costume Con 26 embroidered shirt as made with infinistich and worth full price and reviewed Spin Currents 09 - organized with Stanford - as 75 attended, which is really good and that all were favorably impressed and it was worth full price Dave C reviewed Norwescon as he got a speeding ticket getting there at a speed trap [there were follow-ons about such like] Stellen reviewed last week's CSI - set at a sf con - as 'Galaxy Quest' was way better, it was silly and he wishes normal sf cons were that exciting [lots of follow-ons] Chris reviewed his weekend as he spent much of it watching 'Twilight' - reviewed 'Observe and Report' as the most mediocre script he's ever seen, spent time practicing his brooding, ate waffles at Ole's, saw Scandinavian movies - including 'Let the Right One In' which was a very quiet vampire flick and worth going to Sweden to see - then went back home and watched 'Twilight' some more; the follow-on's included Dave C's recommendation of Ole's Waffle House Fred reviewed 'Shall we Kiss' [a French romantic comedy] as it was kind of interesting and enjoyable - worth full price Lisa reviewed Norwescon as the con was good size, with great costumes - quite a good convention - that they took the monorail to the sf museum and it and the museum were great fun and worth visiting Mo - was tired - but reviewed the Psychotronic Film Festival was fun and she won in the raffle, it was worth full price; Dave C follow-on'd that he also won the single BEST thing in the raffle ever - 'Sons of Kong' and Ken had heat exhaustion and didn't enjoy it as much as he could - and had his 1st ever interview today Carole reviewed 'Duplicity' as Julia Roberts frightened her and reviewed a fashion show in the valley as nice, she had a good time and also won a raffle [her 1st] Glenn reviewed Hula's Island Grill in Santa Cruz as really good and the Bay Area's radio is better than LA's [evil] Kevin also announced that Jon DeCles has just published 'Storm Wars' - go check www.piswyck.com Bill reviewed repelling termites as it took lots of prep time, including boxing the kitties and now they are unpacking again we did auctions: anime DVDs for $7.00, magazine and a slinky for $1.00, a basket of stuff for $0.25; CDs for $0.25, $0.25; cows and stuff for $1.00; a box of magazines for $0.50, a fandom book and fan for $0.27; a floppy and record for $0.50; Valentines and stickers for $0.50; stickers for $0.10; conbooks for $0.25; magazines for $0.25, various stuff for $2.00 & a bag of books for $19.00 We adjourned at = 9:47 And the rumor of the week was: '50 cents for Barbara' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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