Meeting 995 August 24, 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 talk of WindyCon We established a party jar 27 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 994 were accepted as 'can't sleep, squirrels will get Barbara' the Treasurer reported that the club had money the VP reported that there should be a new 'Drink Tank' out on efanzine.comand Sept 1 should see the debut of 'Exhibition Hall' - and he has to pay his rent ... and Steve Green sends his regards The President had nothing fannish to report new business = [tall] Kevin noted that Cheryl had won a Huga [there was much applause] and that we should send her congratulations on this prestigious award - and an invitation for her to come visit us with it - say around the end of October The Millennium Bug Committee reported some ideas and the sense of the meeting [to use party funds] was 'lots in favor & the treasurer against' Announcements: Dave C announced that there's a convention coming up over Labor Day = DiscworldCon in Tempe & the Steampunk con in Seattle will be a con without booksellers [evil] Kevin announced group sales for 'Spamalot' will allow a few more folks added to his group ticket buy for the Sept 15 Howeird announced that the shuttle may be a weather no-go Glenn announced that World Fantasy Con is Oct 31-Nov 1 and memberships are going fast & Patricia McKillip won an award for 'Forgotten Beasts of Eld' Ken announced that Zombiewalk will be in downtown SJ Wednesday & the SJ outdoor theater movie is 'Shaun of the Dead' and the Legion of Rasselon meeting is in the usual place [1st & Trimble] & Saturday at Emperor Norton Field will be 'Creature Features' after the Giants game 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 Chris announced that ortcat.com is a site for ordering old radio shows - including 'Stroke of Fate' Mo announced that she's working SorcererCon at the Doubletree over Thanksgiving and is doing programming and needs panelists Reviews: Ken reviewed 'Inglourious Basterds' as much better than the original Adrienne reviewed books = 'Haunted Baseball' as the writing was iffy but fascinating; 'San Francisco Ghosts' by Mark Lyon as interesting and the hotel she stayed at in Montreal -after- the Purgatory hotel as being wonderful, this hotel, the 'Pierre du Calvert AD 1725' was marvelous and worth staying there I reviewed 'Ponyo' as wonderful, beautiful and fun, worth full price; Eric follow-on'd that it was very well done & Trey reviewed that it felt a little too juvenile to him Chris reviewed a novelization of the TV show 'Psych' as possibly the most entertaining book he has read this year & it includes the FCC, he reviewed 7 issues of Wednesday Comics as excellent and he did see 'Twilight' this week, between 2 showings of 'Watchmen' Lisa reviewed 'The Time Traveller's Wife' as well done, sweet and worth full price Dave C reviewed 'Move Under Ground' by Nick Momatas - a Mythos book - as very surreal and one hell of a ride, highly recommended Carole reviewed Quebec as she took lots and lots of pictures Mo reviewed 'True Blood' as slightly camp and recommended, she reviewed a BBC series called 'Bang goes the Theory' as fun & reviewed the podcasts on [ www.theaterofthemidnightsun.com] as very good Bill reviewed Worldcon as he spent most of the con working on a demo, reviewed the free wifi on the train to Quebec as not worth what he paid for it [free] & reviewed driving thru a thunderstorm cell as like having bathtubs of water dropped on them, repeatedly [tall] Kevin reviewed a thunderstom cell he & Lisa were caught in while in an open field as 'wow!' & recommends checking out trevelswithKuma.lj,com; plus it was an incredible bargain for him to use airline miles to book sleeper rooms on the trains he took - plus the WSFS business meeting went much better than he had expected it would and all in all it was well worth it - and he reviewed a convenience store - a 'conveni' as he wished he could bring a franchise of it to Fremont; Howeird follow-on'd that taking the train to Reno is beautiful ?? reviewed Sacremento Bee Keeping Supplies as they sell many kinds of honey and it's great Andy reviewed 'District 9' as difficult and disturbing and worth full price; [evil] Kevin follow-on'd - agreed - and said it could have left out the Nigerian crime ring; and Andy also reviewed 'ito-en oi ocha' - a Japanese bottled green tea - as actually good Bob reviewed a lot of things - the Bob Dylan show as worth full price; 'Transformers 2' as not worth used paperback, even on the small screen; 'Harry Potter 6' as worth matinee if someone else pays; that Border colloes are worth full price, even if one tries to kill you 4 times; the Tut Exhibit as worth full price; the CA Academy of Science free Wednesday as not worth the half miles line to get in; that 'CSI Las Vegas' was not a Star Trek con episode and worth full price plus; that being homeless and jobless still sucks and is not worth squat; and a book by Marc Reisner, 'A Dangerous Place' was worth paperback and worth reading we did auctions: birthday auctioned off Mo for $10.00 to Ken and Geri; birthday auctioned off Bill for $1.00 to Carole; then posters for $1.00, $1.00; magazines for $0.50, $0.25; videos for $2.50; tape and chocolate for $5.00 and a book and picture for $30.00 We adjourned at = 10:10 And the rumor of the week was: ' ' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' 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