Meeting 1059 November 15, 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 16 people attended we established a Salon Futura jar Secretary’s report: the minutes from meeting 1058 were accepted as 'congratulations Buster Posey!' [woot!] the Treasurer reported that at meeting 1057 we took in $27.75 in the regular jar the Vice President reported that he won a Nova Award & there is NO new 'Drink Tank' out – but there is a 'Journey Planet' out right now The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements: Adrienne announced that there are cons coming up in the next 2 weeks – SorcererCon and SMOFcon [and Jo stated he would be running FAR from here during them] Dave G announced that he & Spring are planning their annual party [probably Jan 1st] – that there is a poll about it on Spring's LJ, so please go there and vote Mo announced that she has a friend who has lost 190 lbs and now needs size 4 clothes Lisa announced that 'the widget is now 36' Ken announced that Matt Smith will be on the Craig Ferguson show tomorrow night Reviews Chris reviewed the Steampunk 12th night as a whole bunch of fun – it met his expectations and was awesome - & reviewed Evelyn's 1st 10 page hand-written science fiction short story as having the best deus ex machina EVAR – and reviewed a book by Scott Westerfeld, 'Behemoth' as fantastically designed, absolutely gorgeous and well-written – he enjoyed it a lot, worth $17.17 at Cargo Cult books [Mike recommended 'Dervish House' by Ian McDonald] another Chris reviewed 'Grim Reaper' by Steve Alton as excellent and almost worth full price Dave G reviewed World Fantasy con in Ohio as it was fun – and he was able to watch some of the World Series at the hotel bar – and he highly recommends it; he also reviewed the Flying Karamazov Brothers as a very enjoyable show – well worth full price Then we did more auctions – cassettes for $1.50; ornaments for $0.50; & books for $0.50, $0.50, $0.50 The rumor of the week was: 'The TSA's motto is 'passenger degradation comes free with the price of your ticket'' We adjourned at = 8:50 -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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