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'


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