Minutes of Meeting #1436 Monday, February 5, 2018 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas
Called to order at 20:00 with 20 people in attendance A party jar was established The minutes of meeting #1435 were accepted as: Unseen by mortal Ken. Treasurer Reported that at meeting #1435 $7.50 was taken in the party jar. The party account is currently negative (post FurCon). The VP had nothing fannish, but welcomed Rod from Sunnyvale. The President was MIA with the secretary. Committee Reports Sports: Tickets Friday May, 18 (7:15pm) SF Giants v. Rockies. Star Wars Night, with SW premium. Infield View Reserved. $30/person. See Dave G for tickets. San Jose Giants Harry Potter Night looks to be on Friday, June 15. Martinelli’s VIP deck is $52/person (includes BBQ & 2 drinks) We need to get 25 people signed up for this. Email ba...@p4tt.com <mailto:ba...@p4tt.com> if you are interested. Announcements Ric This Sunday 2/11 all invited to enjoy free admission to 7Stars Bar & Grill for the recording of the 50-th episode of the FanBoyPlanet Podcast. Guests from the past. Special drink menu. 3pm until it finishes… Stephen The Scifi-Scifi-Scifi 71st episode coming up, reviewing Charlie Stross’ Atrocity Archive. The podcast is Hugo eligible! Adrienne This saturday 2/10 BAGH is doing a marathon of Winchester meetups. 11:20am showing of the movie, lunch 1:30 -3ish at Yardhouse with Elizabeth Crum (who stayed overnight at the house). 3:30pm, the epxlore more tour of the winchester house. Costumes from the movie will also be on display. March 17, BAGH ghost hunt at the San Leandro train depot. Gerald Tomorrow at 10:30am (pt) Falcon Heavy rocket launch. twice the payload, quarter the cost. spaceflightnow.com <http://spaceflightnow.com/> will show it live. DaveC Yesterday 2/4 was Joshua Abraham Norton’s 200th birthday. Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States and protector of Mexico. evilKevin If you joined Worldcon (75,76 or 77) before Jan 1, 2018, you should have recieved the Hugo nominations info in your email. The host of the Hugos will be Artist GOH John Picacio. John has an initiative to sponsor memberships for Mexican & Mexican-American fans and professionals to attend WC76. johnpicacio.com <http://johnpicacio.com/> Dianne WC76 has 7 events on presidents’ day weekend, at cons all over! March has lost of events as well. Check with Dianne to help out. Ken 3Below has The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long this Thursday through Sunday. Limited seats on the weekend, but Thursday has many. 3belowtheaters.com <http://3belowtheaters.com/> Reviews Fred Monday last week, went (physically) to the Internet Archive and saw Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. Mostly silent home movies from early 1900 to about 1970. Was nice on the big screen, but will be online. Mo donates to IA. Recommend Harold & Maud as a time capsule of the bay area. DaveW After Ursula K LeGuin’s passing, has been reading through No Time to Spare, series of essays. Related work Hugo eligible. Listening to podcasts to prepare for Hugos including Sword & Laser and The Skiffy and Fanty Show, plus a couple others. Trying to keep up. Adrienne Last week found out that special premiere of the Winchester movie at Cine Arts. Was nice to see the house, exhibit and the movie in one night. Loosely based on Sarah Winchester, but she’s not the main character. Definitely a ghost story. Helen Mirren was wonderful. Worth full price. Mo Winchester. Went to reception, which allowed access to areas not normally accessible. Peasant and good company. Movie was OK. Tired of stuff jumping out going boo. Good ghost story. Paid attention to detail of the house in 1906. Winchester Inspired her to get the book Captive of the Labyrinth by Mary Jo Ignoffo. Dwells on the history of the Winchesters and their properties (San Jose to Burlingame) some of which are still there. Interesting history. Ric Mild review: Saw Sondheim on Sondheim. The portents and importance of the 3Below. Good parking, reserved seats, well made auditorium. Watched Altered Carbon (on Netflix) based on Richard Morgan novel. PKDick/BladeRunner-ish storyline. Rebel reawakened in prison is asked to solve the mystery of the wealthy man by the wealthy man. Looking forward to more. Star Trek: Discovery - If you gave up early because it’s not trekkie enough for you - it’s time to get caught up. Andrew DC TV universe shows have gone from great to death spiral of angst. New series Black Lightning is amazIng, has angst - but different angst. (Ric says it’s beautiful, and is a follow up to the 20 year old comic.) Mo recommends it. Last week saw Maigret series with Rowan Atkinson. Atkinson talked ITV into doing the new series, and gives a good quiet understated performance as the eponnomous detective. If you like historical mysteries (‘50s Paris) give it a go. They seem to be doing two movies a year. Netflix carries it here. MikeS Couple weeks ago saw Shen Yun, front an center. Terrific! They do a new show every year. Jerry called it the Falun Gong Show REMINDER: Next week will be the final Hugo recommendation meetings. Please do not bring auction items. Meeting adjourned at: 21:13 and the rumor of the week was: what about the auctions
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