Meeting 1003 October 19, 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 8pm - with otters We established a party jar 23 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1001 were accepted & the minutes of meeting 1002 were accepted as 'finally surpassing Scheherazade' the Treasurer reported that we have money there was no VP The President reported that HeroCon is this weekend at the Doubletree Announcements: Glenn announced that memberships for World Fantasy Con are STILL sold out - and then listed various future convention times in the farther future [evil] Kevin announced that 'Yipe' issue zero is out and they registers yipezine.com; comments or questions can be directed to [email protected] he will be at the SJ Improv tomorrow night as a presenter Joni announced that her school missed he September issue of 'Shonen Jump' and she would like to buy it for the library Dave C announced that the Nimitz is getting repaired and 'thank you Congress' Lisa announced that 'Computer Week' stated that MySpace has switched to solid state drives and her son works for the company supplying these drives Reviews: Glenn reviewed the Raider game as a pigeon flew along with one of the plays [check YouTube] and the Raiders managed to beat the Eagles Dave C reviewed 'The Tooth Fairy' by Graham Joyce as dark fantasy, very peculiar & worth paperback price, reviewed 'Venture Brothers season 4' as strange as usual; & reviewed the SYFY's retread of 'Voltron' as it gives new meaning to the phrase 'limited animation' & avoid it Joni reviewed 'Zombieland' as a warm, touching comedy, worth full price; & reviewed 'Whip It' as fun - but the Silicon Valley Roller Girls were even more fun & reviewed Mieville's 'City in the City' as literary - it could be considered a mystery and is worth reading Fred reviewed meeting APE as he went and had a very good time & bought a DVD there called 'Zombie Christ' that was very funny and worth the $10 he paid Carole reviewed the Pacific International Quilt Festival as n ice but not exciting Andy reviewed SYFY's revision of 'The Dunwich Horror' as 'this makes their 'Flash Gordon' look good' - he lost SAN points [and I recommended 'The Ressurected' with Chris Sarandon as a good Cthulhu flick] Dave G reviewed the weather as 'it rained a little bit' and flooded the lobby of his work building we did auctions: books for $0.50, $0.50; $0.25, $0.25; videos and CD for $0.25; videos for $3.00, $3.50 & $0.25; mixed media for $0.25 & toys for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:18 And the rumor of the week was: 'this renaming of the swine flu is brought to you by the Pork Advisory Board' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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