BASFA Meeting 1269
24 November 2014
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
President, Vice President
and Secretary absent
Treasurer presiding, with
Dave Clark starting the show
Adrienne Foster, acting
minute taker
Began around 8:03 p.m. with
the usual hubbub
32 people were there, but
as usual, some left before the meeting started
A party jar was
established
The minutes for meeting
1268 were accepted as Ew!
Treasurer said we have
money, but since he's been away a couple of weeks, he needs to catch up to
provide specifics.
There was no VP report.
There was no proxy for
the president to say he had nothing fannish to report.
We reviewed the
Numismatic Responsibility Act and a few new attendees introduced themselves.
I reported that the BASFA
Meetup group is up to 62 members and would like to add Atheus to the committee
so we can add details for our room parties at conventions.
Party committee announced
plans for a party at Further Confusion on January 18. He has also made
arrangements for another convention and is currently consulting BayCon 2015.
Sports committee reported
it is considering either May 1 (vs. the Angels) or May 8 (vs. the Marlins) for
our annual outing to see our World Series champion San Francisco Giants play
next year. There was also talk of reserving the Martinelli's booth for a San
Jose Giants game too.
Announcements:
Ken said today was
the 50th anniversary for the Century 21 theatre.
He also reminded everyone that the Legion of Rassilon will be
held this Friday at the IHOP in Santa Clara and that it will start at 7 p.m., a
half hour earlier than usual. For more details, please see the LOR web page:
http://www.legionofrassilon.com/
Andy said San Jose in
2018 is throwing a bid party at Loscon 41 in Los Angeles on Friday, November
28. Although he and Kevin R. will not be there, others are covering the party
and a table. If interested, they could use more volunteers for both. The bid
has also requested a fan table for Further Confusion 2015.
Beth said episode 35 of the Nerdvana Podcast will be available on Wednesday.
You'll find that
at: http://nerdvanapodcast.com/
She also added
that she and her students turned in all of the Box Tops required to earn her
class a pizza party.
Bob said he did the cover for Quantum Vision 3, an anthology that will be
available at Loscon 41.
JohnO said George R.R. Martin was recently in town and
toured Kepler's, Barnes & Noble at Stevens Creek & San Tomas, and
Hickleberry's to autograph every copy of his books they had. Although he never
mentioned it, a newscast reported his true motivation for coming here was to
visit a child for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Dave C. says we're facing rising prices of chocolate.
Reviews:
I reviewed the movie St. Vincent as touching and worth full
price. Mo enjoyed it as well and was disappointed it had been promoted like a
Bad Santa/Bad Teacher type of movie.
Kevin R. reviewed the 1969 movie Satyricon as a series of fragmented stories
about sex. It is a
movie worth taking the time to see without any children around. Andy said it
was strange, but Mo added it is film history.
Bob recently had a busy birthday month where he pushed his
personal and professional boundaries and recommends other people do it too.
JohnO did a Hunger
Games marathon with Chris O. and really enjoyed the movie. He believes they
are worth full price, although he'd reconsider doing another marathon again.
The only negative he had against Mockingjay is that it's only half the movie.
He insists Oscar-winning Jennifer Lawrence is
a great actress.
He also saw the
trailer for Insurgent and rated it as
WTF?
Dave C. read Alf the
Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson, as sort of a Romeo & Juliet story where
the girl gives Alf a book instead of them both dying. Very good and readable
and available at Cargo Cult Books.
Brad said he watched a TMC Planet of the Apes marathon as white noise while
working on
something and thought the fourth one was pretty good. Of the series, he says 1
and 4 are the best.
Chris D. gave the stage production of Testament at ACT a thumbs down.
He gave another
stage production of La Bohème a
thumbs up.
Lisa saw Big Hero 6 and enjoyed it. It was worth sticking through the credits
for the cookie.
Atheus says it's bad form to leave a movie before the credits are over.
Diane recommends a clip on YouTube. I missed the title.
Larry recommends Steven Moffat's Jekyll as absolutely top notch television.
Chris K. encourages everyone to read The Dresden Files.
Dave G. saw a play, The
Old Woman, at U.C. Berkeley, found it interesting and recommends it, but
someone said it closed already.
We did auctions.
Rumor of the Week:
"When in doubt,
Chris."
We adjourned 9:44 p.m._______________________________________________
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