"Cygnet Duology"
Best,
Glenn
melchar wrote:
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 <http://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'
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