Meeting 994 August 17, 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-ish - with the mention that [tall]Kevin is not a foamer We established a TAFF jar; we also established a party jar 28 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 993 were accepted as 'seconds', while the minutes of the Montreal meeting were accepted as 'in absinthia' the Treasurer reported that the club had taken in money the VP reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' out, there is also a new 'Journey Planet' out - and he has not become a pro-kick boxer The President said 'hi' to folks visiting us - Cat, a long-time BayCon fan, visiting us from Sacramento - also Alex, an independent Mac contractor who reads - and Michael MacGee, a book editor who is also a writer, has a new book out, does pod-casts that are on Itunes and asks we check out his website [www.theaterofthemidnightsun.com] ... which is a very pretty site The Millennium Bug Committee was formed to help plan a BASFA event for meeting 1000, with Chris as its head Announcements: Jo announced something that squirrel then made off with & he announced that he has a new domain, so email him at [email protected] Lynn announced that she is on the job market again as a tech writer and really needs the work, contact her at [email protected], plus announced that Warren has spent far too much time in the hospital recently Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters now has about 400 member [tho she expects the number to drop now that WorldCon is over] and announced that she sold an article to the SFWA Bulletin [yay!] and it'll be in the next issue Lisa announced that the Foglio's published their acceptance speech in the Monday 'Girl Genius' strip online; check http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php Dave C announced that wiki has a huge amount of poutine articles & announced that there's a convention coming up over Labor Day = DiscworldCon Chris announced that we get free wifi here at Coco's - via the Marriott hotel - so use their option for '24 hours free' Glenn announced that World Fantasy Con is Oct 31-Nov 1 and memberships are going fast [evil] Kevin relayed a 'hi' from [tall] Kevin, who is en route to Oregon Reviews: WorldCon was reviewed by many: Glenn sat site selection and missed all the panels, found every meal he ate there to be completely awesome; Chris has the world's smallest hotel room [12' by 10'], shared by 3 fans, he had a great time, even tho it was very expensive and he ate a LOT of noodles; Adrienne was stuck in a purgatory of drunken US 19 year old frat boys at her hotel, but she rated Registration and Con Suite as really well run; the consensus was Dealer's Room sucked; Lynn said the filk track was very good, but it was on the wrong grid and the Con seriously needed shuttle buses; Jo rated the quality of panels as extremely good and the quality of advice he got from Writer's Workshop was fantastic; a comment was that the parties suffered from suppressing fire; Dave G stated that the panels were good but FINDING them was difficult, he survived the business meetings and had a good time <<Twitter is EVIL>>; Andy thought it was worth full price, the pub crawl was awesome, Registration was smooth and "OMG duck in a can!", fanzine lounge was fantastic, Masquerade was really, really good & the Hugo awards were excellent; [evil] Kevin said his Liberacicus costume was unveiled and photos are starting to surface [lost of kissing pics]; Dave C saw lots of Neil Gaiman and his favorite restaurants were not those shown in the guide I reviewed the 'GI Joe' movie as 2009's version of 'Megaforce' - only without the benefit of Barry Bostwick's acting prowess, or Persis Khambatta's warmth and humanity ... and ice doesn't float in their universe - worth being taken out to see it ... once Gordan reviewed 'District 9' as very good; reviewed Houston Jones as he and his music were excellent; Jo follow-on'd that 'District 9' was very good Stellan reviewed renting bicycles in Montreal as excellent Dave C reviewed 'the Colorado Kid' by Stephen King as still too padded Lisa reviewed 'Julie and Julia' as wonderful and reviewed 'Ponyo' as even more wonderful, so beautiful and so much fun Glenn reviewed 'Solstice One' by Patricia McKillip as he enjoyed it we did auctions: birthday auctioned off Lynn Gold for $5.00 to me; then books for $0.08, $5.00, $0.25; magazines for $3.00, $0.25, $0.25; a toy for $0.50 and con newsletters for $0.15 We adjourned at = 10:15 And the rumor of the week was: 'it's the beard' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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