Meeting 981 May 18, 2009
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 fwy), Sunnyvale Began 8:00 23 people attended a party jar was established Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 980 as 'and 12 points to Norway' - and accepted the minutes of meeting 979 as "No! Yellow!' the Treasurer was a bit late but reprted that 'we have money' the Vice president reported that Nazi ninjas stole his 'Drink Tank' amd this weekend is Baycon and he will be responsible for the Fanzine Lounge - room 330 The President said 'hi' to Black feather, visiting BASFA for the 1st time and otherwise escaped all responsibilities Announcements: Ken announced that the Legion of Rasselon will meet this Friday at the usual time and place [evil] Kevin announced that Norway won the Eurovision song category - and there will ve no Evil Genius party at Baycon Dave C announced that he has a new profession - that of 'comic industry professional' Glenn announced that there'll be a Westercon 64 bid party on Saturday night at Baycon, room 343 Stellen announced that there'll be a BASFA party on Friday night at Baycon John announced that this is his first day as an IBM property Reviews: Andy reviewed Eurovision as best seen drunk with friends - all in all worth full price and the trouble getting it up on the screen - there were lots of follow-ons, including Chris praising the scallops - and [evil] Kevin admitting that a 14 hour party was taxing for him I reviewed 'Angels and Demons' as fun to watch if I didn't think about what was happening on the screen - and better than the book, worth matinee; Chris follow-on'd that he loves Dan Brown and considers Tom Hanks the living incarnation of the devil; and Trey found the movie disjointed Adrienne reviewed seeing 'Star Trek' on IMAX as she didn't notice much difference, and reviewed the 'Melting Pot' as a nice place to eat but not for large groups and reviewed 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' as a chic flick and enjoyable John reviewed the Asian American festival as the stage sets were good, it was hot and their teiko group performed superbly and reviewed Supercon as a good old-fashion comic convention Stellen reviewed a book, the 'Deceivers' by Thaddeus Holt as a very good read and recommended - worth full price Chris reviewed the 4rg in the 'kitty takes a werewolf' series ['Kitty and the Silver Bullet'] by Carrie Vaughn sold by Cargo Cult - as a ridiculous but good book, he only saw 'Twilight' on Thursday & went to a surreal birthday party - that the 'Lost' season finale was great and the DVD for 'Rent' is the worst transfer evar! And text-based adventure games are worth full price Dave C reviewed the Giants playing the gNats as seen with [tall] Kevin as the game ended excellently well and worth full price and [tall] Kevin follow-on'd that the game had a storybook ending we did auctions: Adrienne was sold for $0.50, a 'create a commie' for $0.75, flying monkeys for $1.50, magazines for $0.50, DVDs for $0.25, $1.50 & $0.75, books for $0.25 & $0.25, an eye for $0.25, & gum for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:45 And the rumor of the week was: 'Chris Garcia will be nominated for the Tom Hanks achievement award' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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