Meeting 988

July 6, 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 8:04 [with Adrienne missing something]

21   people attended

Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 987 as 'lost in ...
well ... something'

the Treasurer reported that at meeting 986 we took in $9.25 and at meeting
987 we took in $31.00 and $7.75 in the party jar

the VP reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank', there'll be an 'SFinSF'
out soon and will have a new 'zine out 'soon', probably called 'Exhibition
Hall'

The President had nothing fannish to report


Announcements:
Glenn announced that Westercon 64 will be in SJ

Adrienne announced that NorCal ParaCon 2009 was cancelled and the Bay Area
Ghost Hunters will hold a meet-and-greet July 18, 1pm at Tarquay's Roadhouse


Chris announced that Robert MacNamara died and announced that there may be
sill things happening with 2010 and Pasadena [there were many follow ons,
something about people being dropped on their heads]

Julie announced that she was kind of here and she has webcomics at her
website, www.spiralsheep.com

Reviews:
Westercon was reviewed - Glenn mostly sat a table - liked the hot weather,
didn't like the construction on his floor and said there were WAY too many
panel tracks - thanked the BASFAn who donated a gob of money to fund the bid
party/birthday party and thanked Joe for his wine stewardship; Carole
reviewed it as pretty good, that it should have had a party floor and not
parties scattered over several floors and the Masquerade could have been
done better; Bill reviewed it as a good trial run for DiscworldCon and he
had fun with filking

Andy reviewed a website autotunethenews.com as incredibly bizarre, funny and
robots are cool - worth the cost of the internet

Chris reviewed his weekend as Linda's cats didn't try to murder him this
weekend, he saw 'Twilight' again;  reviewed a season of 'Mad Men' as
awesomely great - with pizza; reviewed a book - 'Casino Moon' as fantastic,
enjoyed a 4th of July parade and reviewed a new ipod/iphone app:  'Pocket
God' as OMGRotFLBBQ!! and was really fun and crazy; reviewed a play, 'The
Women' as good with so so production values and had an absolutely fantastic
meal at Luna's in Concord

I reviewed 'Transformers 2' as there were not enough explosions to keep the
plot from hurting my brain, worth Netflix; Trey follow-on'd that it had
flaws but that Optimus Prine kicks bot

Fred reviewed 'Hangover' as funny, despite the plot holes, and reviewed
Billy Burkes as a good place to eat in SJ

Bill reviewed 'Spamalot' as a good time was had by all and definitely worth
2nd tier full price

Dave G reviewed the King Tut exhibition as he's still dead but looks better
than Michael Jackson - worth full price and a 2nd visit; Spring follow-on'd
that a group of 10+ gets a discount and Mo recommends the 'Lord of Creation'
if it gets up this way

Adrienne reviewed 'Public Enemy' as the script lacked focus, but the acting,
sets and costumes were excellent; reviewed 'Saturn's Children' as it didn't
really appeal to her and Chris follow-on'd that he connected with the prose
and liked it

Lisa reviewed the Half Moon Bay 4th of July parade as fun;  reviewed
'Imagine That' as warm and friendly and wonderful; reviewed 'My Sister's
Keeper' as a tear jerker, worth seeing

Mo reviewed 'Kops' as a gentle movie, very cute, worth watching

we did auctions:   birthday auctioned off Lisa for $4.00 to Chris, and
birthday auctioned off Trey for $6.00 to Chris; then books for $0.25, $2.00,
$0.25 and magazines for $0.35 and $1.50

We adjourned at = 9:36 pm

And the rumor of the week was: next week's meeting will be a good time to go
and pee


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