Thanks for taking the minutes, Glenn.
________________________________ From: Glenn Glazer <[email protected]> To: basfa <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:43:46 PM Subject: [Basfa] Minutes of Meeting #991 Minutes of Meeting #991 2000 Meeting convened, 23 people. No Pres, Secretary or Treasurer. Chris doubled as VP and Pres, Glenn was the emergency holographic secretary in exchange for a pun license (Thanks, Eric!). 2001 Party jar moved, failed to be amended to MAFF and passed. 2009 Minutes from #990 were read by Eric Larsen. There were corrections: cup donated by Sally Woerhle as party of parting gifts from the fannish Jeopardy game, Adrienne said that the restaurant she reviewed was called "Tarpy's Roadhouse" and that the place they stayed was a high end motel not a high motel. The minutes were accepted as "Now available from Cargo Cult Books". 2016 A proxy for the treasurer said that he wouldn't be at the meeting. We have money. 2017 VP: There is a new Drink Tank out. 2018 Announcements: Lee Ann: Trepidation 2009 next weekend at the Hyatt Regency in SF and handed out humorous flyers for it. See http://community.livejournal.com/trepidation2009 . Lisa: Mythcon 41 will be in Dallas next July. Adrienne: At first didn't know she was up because, as she said, "I can't be two, I'm deux!" followed by laughter, wailing, gnashing of teeth and banging of heads against walls and tabletops. Followed this by saying that she had sold enough advance memberships, so the Montreal Ghostwalk is on. Passed around a flyer for the UFO con. Mike: He will be running the Ra tournament at Pacificon. Dave C: As reported by the Huffington Post, Jon Stewart is now America's Most Respected Newsman. There were a number of follow-ons. 2030 Reviews: Evil Kevin: Spent the weekend doing slides for work and watching "Being Human" which is about various monsters wanting to be human. He liked it, though maybe not enough to make an effort to see every episode. Glenn: Spent Saturday doing the hard labor with his neighbors of clearing brush along the road they live on. Went to the PENSFA party that night and had a good time, with many people wanting to talk about Westercon 64. Gave a "worth full price" review to Patricia McKillip's _Alphabet of Thorn_ saying that the main character had rather fannish experience of having gotten so involved in a pet project that it drives away real work. Lisa: Went to Mythcon 40 and liked getting to know the guests of honor. Elevators were a bit scary though. Stayed in the William Tell Room (cue Overture here) at the Madonna Inn on the way back. Mike M: Reviewed the comic "Cursed Pirate Girl" by Jeremy Bastian and pubbed by Olympian Publishing. www.jeremybastian.com as very good and drawn at size, not scaled down. Stellen: Reviewed the Berkeley Kite Festival as fun and free. There were many very large animal kites and precisely controlled four string kites - including a ballet to music. A long tubular kite on the ground looked like a sandworm surrounded by Fremen (kids). Dave C: At Chris' request, introduced Stellen as the one who put our name in lights. (Literally, Stellen had made a plastic BASFA sign with a laser cutter at Tech Shop and put a changing colored light underneath it.) Dave then reviewed "The Boy Who Kicked Pigs" by Tom Baker (yes, that one) as a sick little story and a great listen. The story being just over one disc long meant that there was a bunch of extra material on the disc such as interviews with Baker on being the Doctor. // Reviewed "Radioactive Redhead" a worth full price comedy satirizing various SF tropes. Leo: Liked "Secret of Monkey Island" for Xbox 360 as very clever, imaginative game. At $10, well worth full price. Rick: Warned that "In the Loop" as dangerous to the ribs and that he and Deirdre laughed nonstop through all two hours. Lea Ann: Sort of liked the computer game "Lost Odyssey" as "awkward but charming", particularly the parts where you have to RPG through a funeral service. kMarkkk: Took the Damn Tour at Hoover Dam. Wonderful from geek machinery and art deco viewpoints. Worth full price of $30 and even a trip back with a new camera. There were many follow-ups. Dave C: Said that "Torchwood: Children of the Corn^H^H^H^H Earth" was worth paying for BBC. The aliens are back for more. So were the people wanting to do follow-ons. Chris: Did not leave his apartment all weekend. Enjoyed "True Stories" by David Byrne and got a lot of stuff he missed when he saw it as a kid. // Thought Randy Savage had a lot of obscure bits (and therefore was good). // Very impressed (and somewhat surprised by this) by HBO "True Blood". // Made chili with ginger wife. 2118 Auctions: Rick's plum jam, t-shirt, apple mints, DVD, Jay Lake book, Marvel Origins book, Trepidation PR, Ken's Birthday auction. 2155 Adjourned with the rumor "Bugrit. Millenium, hand and shrimp." If that rumor or any others comes true, we'll be the first to tell you on "Waiter! Waiter! Don't pelt me!" _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
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