Meeting 1012 December 21, 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 you all weren't out watching 'Avatar' We established a party jar 22 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1011 were accepted there was no Treasurer the Vice President reported that there was a new 'Drink Tank' out - the 'death issue' and there was 'stuff and things' that he had forgotten - and he had TAFF ballots with him and the deadline for voting is Dec 22 The President had nothing fannish to report - and we won't be here on Dec 28 so Chris will have to do the president job The Vice President moved that Dave C be made the secretary for next meeting and it passed The Millenium Big committee was reminded that it had already stood down Announcements: Dave C announced that John Norman has a publisher again and that Gor #28 is now out Ken announced that the new Dr Who will be released on BBS Dec 25 and Jan 1 - and BBC America will have them on Dec 26 and Jan 2 Mike announced that 'It's a Wonderful Life' will be at the California Theatre and the Stanford Theatre Lisa announced that Alex's memorial will be on Jan 23, Saturday and details are on britgeekgirl's LJ - and now Lisa has a room on the party floor for FurCon that she would like to see someone take over for her Chris announced that people had died ... and we wandered off into obscure trivia Reviews: Dave C reviewed Stephen Gould's 'Questioning the Millenium' as an interesting read and recommends buying it Krys reviewed Robert Jordan's 'Gathering Sotmr' [written from beyond the grave] - as not a disappointment after all -- and Stellan asked 'So it was the Wheel of Overtime?' Then Krys reviewed 'Avatar' as 'it did not suck' and it was not 'Dances with Wolves' - no, if was 'Dances with Smurfs' - and she would SO move to Pandora; Howeird follow'on'd that he agreed, but it IS imaginative , so see it; then I follow-on'd that I enjoyed beyond all expectations, that the 3D did not annoy me or give me a headache and the visuals blew me away, worth seeing 3 times; then Fred follow-on'd that the visuals were indeed stunning; Chris followed that he hadn't seen it but heard the story was derivative and that Linda loved it ... and Glenn used the follow-ons to make a lame 'Wizards' reference Mo reviewed a book on artistic perspective = 'Secret Knowledge' by David Hockney as excellent Glenn reviewed Patricia McKillip's 'Riddlemaster of Hed' as high fantasy Chris reviewed 'The Sky' as full of sparkle we did auctions: we auctioned off books for $0.25, $0.75, $0.25, $0.55, $0.50. t-shirts for $0.25, $0.25, a magazine for $0.50, a t-shirt and a book for $0.25; then a calender for $1.25 We adjourned at = 9:10 And the rumor of the week was: 'Does Adolf Hitler sparkle?' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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