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 -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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