BASFA Meeting 12978 June 2015 Trey Haddad, PresidentKen Patterson, VicePresidentDave Gallaher, TreasurerGalen Tripp, Sergeant atArmsBarbara Johnson-Haddad,Secretaryheld at Coco's, 1206Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale President and Secretaryabsent VP presidingAdrienne Foster, actingminute taker Began promptly at 8:00p.m. amidst a lot of convention trip planning 31 people were present, beforeand during We established a jar forMarcia Minsky, a fellow fan who is in distress The minutes for meeting1296 were corrected to report that there were recommendations to fly to Sasquanin Spokane, WA, from Oakland Airport. They were then accepted as "imply thatblank." Treasurer said that wehave money, but a payment to the Party Committee put its funds in the negative. VP had nothing fannish toreport. The president wasn'tthere to say he had nothing fannish to report. The Sports Committee isstill exploring possible outings for the BASFA membership. Announcements: JC says NerdVana Podcast will post part 2 of its"Free Comic Book Day & Happy Hour at Slave Labor Graphics"episode on Wednesday. It can be found at http://nerdvanapodcast.com/ JC added that an official trailer for the new movie, The Martian, based on the novel by AndyWeir, has been released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue4PCI0NamI Dara has also graduated from middle school. Ric without a k said thenext San Jose Peekatchu will be August 11 at Café Stritch and have a "Lieto Me" theme. Doors open at 6 p.m. with a 7 o'clock preshow and the mainevent begins at 8. Fanboy Planet podcasthas released episode 399.1, which can be found at http://www.fanboyplanet.com/. Episode400 will be recorded live at 7 Stars Bar & Grill on June 13th at2 p.m. He also believes the new SyFy show, Killjoys, will be worth seeing and also noticed that the networkhasn't been showing its trailer for Childhood'sEnd. I announced the entrydeadline for the Sasquan writers workshop is June 24. For more info, please goto: http://sasquan.org/program/writers-workshop/ Chris and Kathryn D.announced that their landlord of 15 years gave them notice and they decided tomove to Atlanta. Gerry N. has a new story,"Last Call," that will be included in the forthcoming anthology How Beer Saved the World II. Tom is on the staff forthe fanzine lounge at Sasquan and says there will be plenty of kewl displaysthere, including memorials to Peggy Rae Sapienza and Susan Wood. Mo announced she had somespot illustrations published in the textbook, Playing with Math, edited by Sue Vanhatten. She is also happy to be back and busy downsizing her estate. Kevin R. said Westercon68 (http://westercon68.org/) is coming andhe'll be hosting a Worldcon bid party for Helsinki in 2017 (http://www.helsinkiin2017.org/). Carole went to CostumeCon33 where she won an award. She is also doing costume programming for Sasquan. Reviews: Carole liked thedifferent kind of greenness on the East Coast. Balticon was fun. George R.R. Martin will be guest of honor nextyear. She also went to the All-Hands meeting in Spokane and believesthings are shaping up well. Fred attended SkeptiCalin Oakland and thought the speakers gave really good presentations. He had agreat time and highly recommends it. Ric saw Sense8, which is for mature audiences. Ithas very graphic sex scenes, but it is very good. He recommends it. After seeing previous seasons of Defiance and Dark Matter,he recommends the new ones that are about to start airing. Beth and JC visited ChrisG., Vanessa and the penguins last weekend and said they looked wonderful. Chriswas very paternal. Tom went to Eastercon inthe UK and visited some museums while there, including Bletchley Park, where hesaw the Bombe. He also recommends the book StationX, by Michael Smith, which is about codebreaking. Brad saw Mad Max in 3D and was mesmerized. Saysit's definitely worth full price. He also saw Tomorrowlandand believes it was made 30 years too late. There were lots of followons.Carole wanted Hugh Laurie's coat. Dave C. wanted to like it, but thought Lauriewas stereotyped as the villain with the British accent. Kevin R. loved itsvision of the future as a utopia. Overall, the comments were mixed, but it isdefinitely worth matinee price. Brad also went to one of the Warriors's championship games andsaid it was the right one. He likes the Oracle Arena and thinks it's a shamethe team will be leaving it. Bill said CostumeCon wasn'this niche, but it had a lot of great costumes. He enjoyed seeing more of theEast Coast and visiting an old plantation house. Overlooks were spoiled by fogwhile they were there. He and Carole also went to Balticon, which he calledhalf a Worldcon. He believes Balticon is worth attending once. Chris D. gave The Complete Cosmicomics, by ItaloCalvino (translated by William Weaver, Tim Parks & Martin McLaughlin), 5stars for his review on Goodreads. For more details, go to https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222745-the-complete-cosmicomics. Lisa went to PEERS'sDoctor's Dance and did "Let's Do the TimeLord Again." It was a lot offun and she really recommends PEERS's functions. Carole said their motto is"Costumes admired, but not required." Dave G. recommends Coco'ssundaes with hot fudge. We did auctions. Rumor of the Week: "Ken shot first." We adjourned 9:50 p.m.
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