Meeting 1007 November 16, 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 me wondering why I wasn't home playing 'Dragon Age' We established a party jar 28 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1006 were accepted as 'accepted' the Treasurer reported that 'we got money' The Vice President reported that there's a new 'Drink Tank out and there'll be a whole lot of steampunk cons in 2010 [10 of them?] - and 'hi Cheryl' The President reported that he's happy to see many club members in good health again and 'It's not yet Ed time.' The Party Committee reported that he needs help with FurCon - needs panelists for an invertebrate panel - and needs help with both the SorcererCon and FurCon parties and that he has 2 free con memberships for those who help him Announcements: Glenn announced that he has a new job with Linden Labs/Second Life & that San Jose is now uncontested for the 2010 SMOFcon Andy announced that St Georges Spirits will have an open house this Saturday, Nov 21 at Hanger 2801, tickets are on sale now; call 510/864-0635 Harold announced that the Leonid meteor shower is tonight Ken announced that next Friday - after Thanksgiving - is the Legion of Rasselon meeting = 7pm, 1st and Trimble Dave C announced that he has a copy of 'Ash' with him & couldn't recall who had ordered it Cheryl announced that she brought her Hugo award to the meeting [Oooo! Shiny!] Warren announced that he was a guest at Kaiser - got our 'get well' card ... and got well Mo announced that she is selling things [art and books] so if interested, contact her & she's doing programming for SorcererCon [book a room at the Doubletree & get 2 free SorcererCon memberships] and still is looking for panelists Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters will have a meet and greet on December 13 in San Jose at Trial's Pub Lisa announced that she & Big Harold are approaching their 32nd wedding anniversary & will celebrate it at LosCon this year Dave G announced that Twitter has moved into his work building in SF & are hiring Blackfeather announced that he is back in the area and is looking for someone to carpool with down to LosCon - and a hotel room share too Reviews: Chris reviewed WindyCon as really fun, awesome and definitely worth the time spent on it; worth full price Glenn reviewed 'Where the Wild Things Are' as he really liked it; worth full price Fred reviewed 'Makers' by Cory Doctorow as well-written, he enjoyed it and recommends it; worth full price Dave C reviewed '2012' as mindless fun, an entertaining roller-coaster, worth matinee; then reviewed the new 'Prisoner' as it's not must-see, it's not compelling, it's got a very vague, uninteresting hero; there were follow-on's which summed up as everyone hated it and it managed to be boring Ed reviewed 'Monsters and Aliens' on DVD as only worth DVD & reviewed 'The Men who Stared at Goats' as he should've waited for DVD to see it Lynn reviewed a cake cook-off on the Foot Network as OMG, then OMG again - there was a cake detonation and a fire extinguisher was required Mo reviewed 'Dark Star the Special Edition' on DVD as the movie is still funny and clever and the extras are great [and way too many of us began doing quotes from the movie] Harold reviewed the new 'Scrooge' Disney production as over-blown, over-done and not very good; Lise follow-on'd and disagreed - she enjoyed it very, very much; Adrienne was very impressed with the art; then Harold reviewed 'Pirate Radio' as it has a kick-ass soundtrack & worth matinee; then reviewed '2012' as it had the worst movie science since Bugs Bunny met Marvin the Martian Adrienne reviewed lunch at the Oak room at the St Francis Hotel as very expensive but very attentive service and the food was very good & the locale is awesome Andy reviewed 'Dr Who - Waters of Mars' as worth stealing & the 'SFinSF' reading was a lot of fun Lisa reviewed 'Coco before Channel' as a wonderful movie, excellently costumed, really well done [evil] Kevin reviewed Hamthrax as not worth having Cheryl [brought along a copy of each book she reviewedfor us so we could check them out] & she reviewed and recommended for buying & Hugo nominations: 'Fables' [a graphic novel], 'Captain Britain and MI13 3: Vampire State ' by Paul Cornell [graphic novel]; 'Grandville' by Bryan Talbot [as steampunk furries do Tarantino & a graphic novel] - and then for best-related books showed us 'Powers, the Secret Histories' -as everything you've ever wanted to know about Tim Powers & 'Boilderplate; as Forrest Gump meets steampunk historical fiction we did auctions: birthday auctioned off Warren for $4.00 to Lynn; then books for $0.50, $1.50,$0.75, $5.00, & $2.00, then videos for $5.00 & $2.00 We adjourned at = 9:51 And the rumor of the week was: 'Yes, there is slash fiction of Chris Garcia touching Frank Wu's Hugo' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' 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