Minutes of Meeting # 1449 Monday, May 7, 2018 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas
Called to order at 20:00 with 18 people in attendance. A party jar was established The minutes of meeting #1448 were posted online prior to the meeting and were accepted as: Six of one, twelve dozen of another. Treasurer Report. #1448 Regular $0.01 Party $9.77 Total Regular $15,322.73 Party $<tbd> The VP had nothing fannish. The President was MIA with the Secretary Committee Reports Sports Tickets still available for the SF Giants (first) Star Wars Night on Friday, May 18 $30/each Price includes Star Wars premium. Contact Dave Gallaher. Tickets also available for the SJ Giants Harry Patter Night on Friday, June 15 at 7pm. Martinelli’s VIP Deck $52/each includes food and beverage. Contact [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Announcements Harold(the Younger) Zeldathon is next month, but another charity gaming just happened - The Runaway Guys Colosseum raised $112,600 for Direct Relief (directrelief.org). Adrienne Will be sporadic at BASFA through August, as she is busy putting together a ghost walk for WorldCon76, plus a ton of personal business. If anybody has any ghost stories about downtown SJ (or know anyone) please contact Adrienne. She would love to have some first hand stories for her ghost walk. evilKevin CostumeCon is in San Diego this coming weekend. WorldCon76 is hosting a light lunch on Saturday, which will feature the Eurovision final’s live feed. Radar will also be at CostumeCon, bidding for CostumeCon39 in San Jose in 3 years (April 16 to 19, 2021). Site selection is this weekend. The theme is “Things that go bump in the night.” Reviews Bill Saw The Avengers: Infinity War on opening weekend. captain America: Civil War was a superhero movie. Wonder Woman was a superhero with war. Infinity War is a war movie with superheroes. Lot going on. Worth full price. Mo: Typical of Marvel storytelling in superheroes v superheroes, then joining together to fight a big bad. Carole: Stan Lee has a cute cameo. Theres an easter egg worth staying for. Valerie Went to WestSac Expo yesterday. Cute little Star Wars weekend expo. Mostly a dealers room with a little programming (with some Star Wars actors). Discovered that there’s a Fentons at the Nut Tree (excellent!) The Holy Land by Robert Zubrin. The aliens land and it’s a allegory for the founding of Israel with aliens. The book is 10 years old. Quite impressed. Vikas: Saw the author talk. He’s very assertive and strongly opinionated. Interesting person. Vikas Saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Absolutely enjoyed it. Favorite Star Wars film after Return of the Jedi. Liked how Kylo Ren was trying to lure Rey to his side. Quite solid, worth watching again. Gerold Confessions of a Con Runner: Contact ended up about $6500 in the red. Only had 70 of the 140 attendees needed. Was up against SiliCon Valley ComicCon and other things, plus speaker and programming information went out a little too late. Cautionary tale for other cons. Will do the con again in 2020, probably at UCSC for less cost than in the SiliCon Valley. [several follow-ons say it happens to a lot of cons.] Adrienne Got her SFGiants gnome. Went for the club level. Crowd was horrendous for a second game in a double header. Lost the first game, but won the second. Took off in the 7th inning stretch to avoid the crush. Mo: Very clean in the club level, and pleasant. Enjoyable. Recommend it if you can splurge. San Jose and Other Famous Places by Harry Farrell. Former San Jose News reporter. Kind of a memoir of his time on the news, and presidential visits. Discovered that the book was published by one of her dads clients (he did the book’s binding!) Mccormick and Schmidt in downtown SJ has the best lobster bisque. Rosie McCann’s in Santana Row is also really good quality food. Mo 20th season of Midsomer Murders is available on Acorn. 3rd episode has a small ComicCon. New coroner and forensic by Annette Badland. If you like mysteries, watch it. Bradford Two weekends ago was the George Schlesser Memorial Seminar. Brad’s topic was Robert A. Heinlein Revisited. Placed him in an 18th century philosophical context and 19th century romanticism. Audience response was tepid, but some great one-on-one responses. There were many authors were at the event. Ken & Jerry Rock of Ages at Palo Alto Players. Fun show. Ladies will enjoy their Stacee Jaxx (very Stephen Tyler like, and very shirtless…) A bit more of a comedy than the film version, with some plot differences. Last shows this week - Thursday through Sunday. There was an auction. The meeting adjourned at: 21:06 and the Rumor of the week was: Jar Jar Binks will be the last Jedi
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