Meeting 1011 December 14, 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 8ish - with me finishing a book We established a party jar 20 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1010 were accepted as 'the eye of BASFA' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $3.86 in the regular jar and $5.04 in the party jar the Vice President reported that there was a new 'Drink Tank' out ... and only slightly 'ish' The President had nothing fannish to report - and we did say 'hi' to Steven, a BayCon-er from long time back just visiting us for the 1st time The Vice President moved -> ... well, no, he didn't Dave moved that Chris be referred to as 'Sir not appearing in these minutes' and that did pass Announcements: Joe announced that Skype is doing great things and is fun to work for Dave G announced that there will be a party at the House of Spike on Jan 2 at 7pm Dave C announced that there is a convention coming up: Further Confusion - at the Fairmont in January & that Cargo Cult will be there 'Sir not appearing in these minutes' announced that TAFF voting will end on Dec 24 and that you can pay on the site with Paypal [evil] Kevin announced that there is a convention coming up: Arisia - the week before FurCon in January and that he and Andy will be Fan GoHs there & announced that 'Yipe' 1.3 is now out Ken announced that there is NO Legion of Rasselon meeting this month Reviews: Harold reviewed 'Invictus' as an excellent film, totally feel-good, uplifting and recommended Adrienne reviewed being at the Gene Burns' Cookie Exchange as she had a lot of fun, there were great cookies there, her 'spirited eggnog cookies' were picked to compete among 25 others from among 400+ entries and that while she was not one of the winners, she got great swag Andy reviewed the Syfy 'Alice' as it was better than Syfy's 'Flash Gordon' but still ham-handed; NOT 4-hours of his life totally wasted & not worth self-mutilation; [evil] Kevin follow-on'd that at least it managed to have a happy ending 'Sir not appearing in these minutes' reviewed a Cargo Cult supplied book = 'The Corpse wore Pasties' by Johnny Porkpie as it was a lot of fun & entertaining, worth $7.99; reviewed the Psychotronic Film Festival as it showed a lot of great films - and then those others ones, too & was worth the $5 that Linda paid when she took him to see it; & reviewed 'Up in the Air' as wrist-slittingly good, wonderfully depressing, well-acted and fantastic and worth full price - plus Linda is getting him 'Boilerplate' for Christmas [evil] Kevin reviewed the PENSWAG donation show as full of foxes & at the Snow Ball Miss Debra roller-skated and lived to tell about it, then they did wine tasting and had fun Dave C reviewed the 'Fabulous Mr Fox' as fun & reviewed 'The Terror' by Dan Simmons as grim & detailed, worth full price paperback & reviewed a Southwest airlines flight as the least stressful flight he's had in a while Glenn reviewed a seafood dish he had as absolutely amazing we did auctions: we auctioned off books for $1.00; then videos for $2.50 & $1.25 We adjourned at = 9:14 And the rumor of the week was: 'Andy and Kevin need a Syfy channel safe-word' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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