Meeting 1010 December 7, 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 anticipation We established a party jar 23 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1009 were accepted as 'that's nice, that's verrah nice' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $14.23 in the regular jar and $5.25 in the party jar the Vice President reported that there were 2 new 'Drink Tanks' out, that 'soon' there will be a new 'SFinSF', that he will be running the fanzine lounge at Renovation & there's a new 'Exhibition Hall' out now The President had nothing fannish to report The Vice President made a motion and it was not seconded Announcements: [evil] Kevin announced that the Imperial Snow Ball is Dec 12, 7:30 at the Billy deFrank center in SF & that he may be performing as 'Miss Debra' & announced that a new issue of 'Yipe' is out now Glenn announced that SMOFcon for 2010 will be in San Jose in the Larkspur hotel, December 3-5, $50 until May 1 & Dave C may have flyers for it Ken announced that the Psychotronic Film Festival will be this weekend at Foothill JC this Saturday at 7pm Adrienne announced that she'll be one of the participants at Gene Burn's Dining Around annual Cookie Exchange this Saturday Dave C announced that there are new Cargo Cult catalogs out & that he can sell SMOFcon memberships Radar announced that there will be a big geek sale at her place this Saturday, from10 am till 5pm & see her about the Alex fund to help Johanna with funeral expenses Dave G announced that there will be a party at the House of Spike on Jan 2 & it will have a 'Dr Who' theme Chris announced that there is a forbes.com article on the 12 most influential video games that quotes him Carole announced that they will host a Sunday holiday brunch at their place on Dec 13 from 11am till 3pm Reviews: Chris reviewed the life day party at LosCon as wonderful & reviewed 'Transylmania' as not a good viewing experience & awful in ways he can almost forgive & reviewed that in his Cinequest viewing he saw the best SF short film EVAR - 'Night Mayor' Glenn reviewed Patricia MxKillip's 'Sygnet Duology' as really, really interesting, quite enjoyable, an enjoyable fantasy world & worth full price & reviewed SMOFcon as he got the chance to talk to lots of people & the SFSFC party went thru a lot of wine and cheese John reviewed the Photoflex sale as they went there bright & early to get the good stuff & it was packed - but they still got good deals Mo reviewed the audio drama 'Tender Morsels' as full of magic, very enjoyable & well done - she recommends it Lisa reviewed 'Blind Side' as a wonderful movie & very well done & she reviewed LosCon as worth full price & she had fun Fred reviewed the Tcho Chocolate factory on Pier 17 as he got good chocolate there ^ it's a fun place to get good chocolate at Chris reviewed the ST exhibit at the Tech as very good & worth the price & also reviewed SorcererCon as very small but very good and she hopes it continues Andy reviewed a silly topic on Twitter [badmusicals] as funny & they've been adding to the silly we did auctions: we auctioned off books for $0.25, $0.75, $0.25; then various stuff for $0.25; movie trailers for $0.25; bins for $0.25, magazine & a video for $0.50 & plushies for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:43 And the rumor of the week was: 'Zod lives' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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