Meeting 1112 November 21, 2011
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale Began 8pm - with FEELING! 28 people attended We established a party jar The minutes for meeting 1111 were accepted as '15' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $29.35 in the regular jar & 13.25 in the party jar The VP did a late drop in & reported that issue 'Drink Tank #300' is out – with commentary for it to be included in issue #299 ^ he'll be the fan GoH for Contario The President reported that a BASFAn is interviewed in this month's 'Playboy' - Craig Ferguson [whom Adrienne bought a membership for] Announcements: Ken announced that this Friday there will be a Legion of Rassilon meeting - at 7:30 at 'the usual place' = 1st & Trimble & he also announced that he's hosting 4 hours or terrible, horrible songs on KFJC on Thursday from 10am till 2pm [evil] Kevin announced that the October issue of 'Yipe' is now available on efanzines.com Dave C announced that there's a LosCon coming up this weekend in LA Lisa announced that 'Sturgeon's Law' is now in the OED JC announced that there'll be a Time Tunnel toy show, Sat Dec 3rd & he'll have a booth there himself &announced that he has a display in the Steampunk exhibit in Museo in Anaheim Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters has meet -n- greets coming up on Dec 1 at the San Mateo County Recorder's office at 2:30pm & on Dec 8 at 5pm at Trials Pub - plus there's a charity event called 'Zorro by Night' on Dec 1 for the Peralta Historical park in Oakland Bill announced SMOFcon will be in Amsterdam Fred announced that 'Drink Tank #300' is out, 272 pages long Marshall announced that FurCon is coming up, Jan 12-15 & he needs help personally in Conops - and others also need staff - the next staff meeting is Dec 17, Saturday, 1pm in the SJ conv center Reviews: Dave C reviewed 'Phoenix Rising' - by Pip Ballantine & Tea Morris as steampunk and fun to read JC reviewed 'Immortals' as highly entertaining & awesome I continued to review 'Skyrim' as even more tons of fun & way worth full price Jo reviewed being on a small island as the fish was good, the people were friendly & that even though the guilder was the official currency, everyone used dollars & he reviewed the latest 'Twilight' flick as 'not the worst thing he's ever been dragged to see'; Chris followed - saying that “THE FILM” was like a Hungarian drug film - the 'Citizen Kane' of werewolves imprinting on babies movies and possibly the best part of that night <<then I didn't miss much, I was told>> Andy reviewed 'The Fabulous Devas of Hollywood' review at the Retrodome as very, very good - worth full price Chris reviewed the city of Alameda as very science-fictional Dave C reviewed OryCon as that he spent most of his time at the Dealer's Room - did Okay - and did get to see some programming We then did auctions we adjourned at 9:32 pm Rumor of the Week: 'I'm a little steampunk, short and stout...' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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