Meeting 1030 May 3, 2010
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 at 8 pm Verizon time We established a 'special' [Marina] jar 30 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1029 were accepted as 'eaten by a grue' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $2.25 in the regular jar and $15.60 in the special jar the Vice President reported that there is a new 'Drink tank' out & will be a new 'Exhibition Hall' out shortly - that 'Gentleman Broncos' were mocking and then ran out of the room The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee wanted to report that our Bay Area teams are well on their way towards total domination Announcements: Dave C announced that the soundtrack for the off-Broadway is available now but that Cargo Cult won't be carrying it Andy announced that he and [evil] Kevin won't be at next week's meeting due to spending relaxing time after Costume Con [and various other people will also be at Costume Con] Stellan announced that it's less than 3 weeks until Maker's Faire = May 21-23 & Howeird follow-on'd that a rocket will be launched there Glenn announced that there will be conventions in the future; there were follow-ons = Baycon is also at the end of the month, and Silicon is sponsoring Fanime's art show & that Fanime & Silicon are bringing Wendy Pini out to the con [tall] Kevin announced that this Saturday is National Train Day Reviews: Glenn reviewed breakfast at Harris Ranch as the best breakfast he ever had and that Lexus has been treating him very, very well - he also reviewed Patricia McKillip's book 'Book of Astrix Wolfe' as it seemed to have mild hallucinatory effect & is really very good Dave C reviewed Nick Pollata's 'Bureau 13, Judgment Night' as 'who needs a plot, we've got action!' & it's fun and worth getting; Trey follow-on'd that the next book in the series, 'Doomsday Exam' is even better & Glenn then recommended 'Atrocity Archives' by Charlie Stross I reviewed 'How to Train your Dragon' as predictable, but fun and worth matinee Gordon reviewed Hal Holbrook's 'Mark Twain Tonight' as excellent Andy reviewed 'robot unicorn attack' as possibly the gayest game ever made, it's a fun side scroller available at Adult Swim & completely batshit insane Bill reviewed 'Martian Fluxx' as recommended, fun & worth full price [tall] Kevin reviewed fake virus scans as bad and Winax as very, very bad & not worth the price of admission & shows the virtue of having multiple computers we did auctions: 'landlord curd' for $5.00; books & magazines for $1.00; a Nippon program guide, magazines & con videos for $0.05; books for $3.00, $1.00, $2.00; & a 'to victory' poster for $25.00 [aka 20 Euros] We adjourned at = 9:23 And the rumor of the week was: 'I Robot will be sued by Apple' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
_______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
