Meeting 1033 May 24, 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-ish We established a 'special' [Marina] jar 22 people attended Secretary’s report: the reading of minutes from meeting 1032 were postponed 1 week the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $12.25 in the regular jar and $13.25 in the special jar there was no Vice President present The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee was too depressed to report Announcements: Stellan announced that tomorrow is Towel Day Adrienne announced that both 'Medium' and 'Ghost Whisperer' have been renewed Sarah announced that she & Josh will have parties Friday, Saturday & Sunday at Baycon this weekend - all are invitation only and we are all invited Glenn announced that Baycon is this weekend & Westercon will have a table there and a party - plus that there will be conventions in the future [tall] Kevin announced that he will be in Oregon for the next 3 weeks Ken announced that this Friday is a Legion of Rasselon meeting - 1st and Trimble, 7:30pm - at the Carls Jr Lisa announced that Big Harold is getting better, albeit slowly [evil] Kevin announced that Andy is sick this week, but that this weekend marks their 5th year anniversary of their wedding on the beach Dave C announced that Book Expo America is happening this weekend in NY & the Other Change of Hobbit's 33rd year anniversary party will be this Thursday night Dave G announced that the playoffs have resulted in Philly and 'that other team' [Chicago] will be competing for Lord Stanley's Cup Reviews: Maker Faire was reviewed - Glenn had fun, 'god there's a lot of walking' and he likes girls with power tools; Fred also had a good time, the set-up was like it was before, which helped - it was a wonderful time; Stellan was there with ERPS, answering a lot of the same questions the whole time and lost his voice & still had a lot of fun [evil] Kevin reviewed the last episode of 'Lost' as about what he expected and reasonably well done Adrienne reviewed 'Palimpsest' as she would vote 'no award' before voting it a Hugo, then reviewed a Ghost Hunter's investigation as it had a grueling schedule that wore her out at the La Quinta in Hayward Jo reviewed that going to Coco's twice in one week was rough & he reviewed 'Robin Hood' as kind of fun, anachronistic and worth red box and reviewed having 3 dates in 1 day as complex & reviewed CJ Cherryh's Hammerfall universe as amazingly well done Dave C reviewed Gene Wolfe's 'An Evil Guest' as it's like taking sushi, sprinkling it with Parmesan cheese and then calling it Italian, then reviewed 'The Frogs of War' by Andrew Harman as not very good & he's been reading Kuttner's 'Robots have no Tails' Sarah reviewed 'Kick Ass' as fun and very violent [tall] Kevin reviewed seeing Giant's/A's inter-league play as it has used up all of his desire to visit Oakland Coliseum Ed reviewed John Barnes' 'Directive 51' as an interesting concept but not one of his best Trey reviewed 'Saltation' by Miller & Lee as enjoyable & reviewed Jim Butcher's 'Changes' as he was favorably impressed we did auctions: birthday auctioned off Eric for $5.00 to Glenn; then auctioned off magazines for $0.50, $1.00, $0.25, $0.50; & books for $3.00 & $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:25 And the rumor of the week was: 'They weren't hot dog wrappers, they're lost souls' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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