Correction: the movie I reviewed was Public Enemies, with Johnny Depp and
Christian Bale.
Public Enemy was released in 1931 with James Cagney and Jean Harlow. (It puts
me off grapefruit.)
Adrienne
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From: melchar <[email protected]>
To: BASFA list <[email protected]>; chris garcia <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 4:48:54 PM
Subject: [Basfa] BASFA minutes for July 6
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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