Meeting 998 September 14, 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 mention of bad manners and Kanye West We established a party jar - and the pun tax was expanded to include rude interruptions 24 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 996 were accepted as 'clueless' & the minutes of meeting 997 were accepted as 'I'm talking here the Treasurer reported that the club had money the VP reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' out - no joke! The President had nothing fannish to report The Millennium Bug Committee reported 'we don't know yet' The Party Committee reported that there should be a BASFA party on Friday night at Silicon - and that if anyone has a room to offer on Saturday night that there could be a BASFA party part 2 then as well; contact Ed [tall] Kevin is the acting BASFA webmaster, but is looking for someone to help him out Dave C resolved something very funny - that was postponed indefinitely - and then given to Mo, so she could turn it into a cartoon Announcements: Glenn announced 'Go Raiders!' and that World Fantasy Con is Oct 31-Nov 1 and memberships are going fast Andy announced that he'll be running the Reno Worldcon Masquerade in 2011 & announced that 'Evil Robot Monkey' has been translated into Middle English & announced that one of the leads for World Fantasy Con, Oct 31-Nov 1, needs a room for the con - please contact him Linda announced that she and the Bella Donna Courtesans will be part of the Ashland, OR Shakespeare Festival this Friday and Saturday as the Green Show at 7pm Adrienne announced that Quartrecon is Jan 8-10, 2010, that Bouchercon will be October 2010 in San Francisco and she needs a ride home tonight Dave G announced go buy your memberships for World Fantasy Con Chris announced that the next issue of 'Journey Planet' will have an alternate history theme and he wants content = <[email protected]> & that he will be speaking at Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, March 12-14, 2010 Mo announced that she needs program participants for SorcererCon, held over Thanksgiving - and Silicon is coming up Oct 2-4 and she's running Art Show [tall] Kevin announced that there will be a 'Match Game SF', Sunday at 11:30am at Silicon & that next NorWesCon will also have a 'Match Game SF' we did auctions: birthday auctioned off [evil] Kevin for $20.00 to Andy; then a water bottle for $1.00; CDs and a lunchbox for $0.10; a bag for $2.25; art for $0.25; furry art for $1.00; books for $3.25; toys and magazines for $1.00 Reviews: Ed reviewed 'District 9' as excellent and worth full price Jo reviewed '9' as a visual delight and fun - worth full price; reviewed 'Push' as they left out a lot of necessary plot & reviewed Ardenwood Faire as charming and neat [Tall] Kevin reviewed jury duty for Alameda County as he managed to escape from Department 13 and the waiting room doesn't have wifi Dave C reviewed DiscworldCon as it went pretty well and the dealers were all happy there & worth going to Tempe to attend & reviewed Glen Cook's 'Dread Brass Shadows' as worth airplane Mo reviewed -her- airplane book by Adam Castro = 'Emissaries from the Dead' as an entertaining sf mystery; reviewed '9' as visually stunning and almost had a good story & reviewed 'Man with the Screaming Brain' as bad - but with funny dialogue and the specials on the DVD are excellent Chris reviewed Lonely Island, a comedy CD, as hilarious and worth borrowing from a friend; reviewed 'History San Jose' at Kelly Park as very cool and worth full price [free] plus the $6 parking - and he had a stale plink do-nut, also worth it [oddly, I missed him giving a 'Twilight' review] Lisa reviewed Disneyland as they're doing renovations there but that it was still fun We adjourned at = 9:55 And the rumor of the week was: 'We'll never get to reviews now' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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