Meeting 1006 November 9, 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 sparkle-pires and Chris' secret powers We established a party jar The Vice President was schooled by Mo 19 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1005 were accepted as 'Next World Fantasy Con is not yet sold out' ... and I made change there was no Treasurer The Vice President reported that there's a new 'Drink Tank out and a new 'Exhibition Hall' is out, too - and he'll be the Fan GoH at WindyCon next week The President welcomed Elizabeth and we said 'hi' [didn't scare her off]; she's a math student and science fiction fan who biked here from Stanford The Party Committee reported that Ed wants to step down as BASFA party maven after Westercon 2011, so make plans to supplant him "It's not yet Ed time." [various tumult] "Now it's Ed time." Announcements: Ed announced that he needs help with the BASFA party at SorcererCon, to be held on Friday night - and that he has 2 free con memberships for those who help him; Mo follow-on'd that if you book a room at the Doubletree that you'll get 2 free SorcererCon memberships for doing so - and that Bill Blair is a media GoH and Beth Gilligan is writer GoH Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters will have a meet and greet on Nov 14, noon, at the St Francis hotel in the Oak room & another meet and greet on December 13 in San Jose at Trial's Pub & that Bill Murray is on Letterman tonight Chris announced that WindyCon is next week in Chicago and he's the fan GoH there & announced that he's doing a London issue for 'Journey Planet' and needs contributions for it & announced that 'New Moon' comes out in 8 days Stellan announced that he wants someone to go with him to see the Star trek experience <<BASFA OUTING, anyone?>> and announced that 330' long is the new world record for a California roll Ken announced that the new version of the 'Prisoner' airs on AMC this Sunday, 8pm Diana Koivunen announced that she's looking for work as a tech writer [& Lynn Gold said she was good at it] Reviews: Ed reviewed the cover for a Dick Lupoff's book with cover art by our own Michael McLaughlin Adrienne reviewed going to Dave and Busters as fun - and reviewed 'Zombieland' as endearing and worth full price Dave C reviewed checking out blogs and noting that editors really enjoyed WFC's con suite Chris reviewed SteamCon as awesome and wonderful and the hotel was gorgeous - worth full price, he enjoyed WFC's con suite & reviewed 'The Men who Stare at Goats' as a difficult film, worth seeing on video & reviewed watching short films as he got bored, then saw the 'Vampire's Assistant' and thought it was mediocre Mo reviewed Chris' reviews as they made her tires and then reviewed 'Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Ape' as funny stuff Ken reviewed seeing John Cleese in his '1 woman show' as he 'found John Cleese to be very tall' and recommended it, definitely worth full price we did auctions: videos for $0.25, books for $1.75, $1.00, $0.50, $0.50, $0.25, $0.25, $3.00, $0.25, $0.25, $0.50, $0.25, a book of stickers for $0.10 & books and a plushie for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:30 in memory of the fall of the Berlin wall And the rumor of the week was: 'Mr. Garcia, tear down this beard!' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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