Contains spelling corrections Minutes of Meeting # 1454 Monday, June 11, 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 26(+/-) people in attendance. A party jar was established The Minutes of meeting #1453 were posted prior to the meeting and were accepted as: Tony Award Winning Harry Potter night at the San Jose Giants Treasurer Report. #1453 Regular $2.25 Party $11.75 Total Regular $ 15,333.81 Party $ -49.26 The VP had nothing fannish to report The President was MIA with the flemish Secretary Committee Reports Party The next BASFA party will be at Worldcon 76 on the Fri & Sat at the Fairmount. Sports SJ Giants Harry Patter Night, Friday June 15: Tickets have been acquired and are being distributed to those who have paid. If you are interested, tickets can still be added on. Contact Ken at ba...@p4tt.com <mailto:ba...@p4tt.com> by Wednesday, June 13. Announcements tallKevin Nevada primary is tomorrow, and Kevin’s political fate will be determined - for a position on the North Lyon County Fire Protection District Board of Directors. The fire board is a non-partisan position, unlike others (which default to GOP & AIP). There are 4 slots on the ballot for 2 positions. Lance Looking for a job. Tech writing. We have brochures and book marks, along with posters for WC76. Lisa Memorial for Harold on Friday at Worldcon 76 in the Fairmount. Harold Zeldathon Champions, charity live streaming event. Supporting St. Jude. Friday June 15 through the following Thursday. zeldathon.net <http://zeldathon.net/> Bradford Will be giving a presentation on writing non-fiction at the San Mateo County Fair. Exhibition Hall from 4:30-5:30. Diane Worldcon 76 will be at WesterCon in Denver over the July 4th weekend. If you can help, please let her know. These are the final appearances before Worldcon 76! Also looking for a job. Jerry Worldcon 76 Tours are now open for registration, and sold 9 tickets! Mystery Houses, Atom Smashers, Start Up Garages and pub Crawls. Log into your Worldcon 76 membership, and look at the add-ons page. tallKevin - site selection is now available online, with supporting membership add-ons online. There’s a NASFiC (2019) and WorldCon (2020). Utah is the only candidate for the NASFiC (to combine with WesterCon72). New Zealand for the WorldCon bid. Vote - because it’s not impossible to loose. Reviews Mo Been watching Comrade Detective - a Russian police procedural. It was very popular program (a bit Starsky & Hutch minus the cars). Investigating murders while towing the party line. From the ‘90s. It’s on Netflix. Gayle IMDB’d it, and it’s a comedy/parody! Bradford SF Comic Con in Oakland (natch) One of the smaller, but crowded. Only 2 comic book dealers. Now has all the BatMan’s with Joker covers (#53). Only needs #57 & #58 to complete his run. Jonathan Frakes was there. They traded waves. Dianne Read books, recommends… Long Juju Man (YA), Binti: The Night Masquerade (both by Nnedi Okorafor), AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (a collection), Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (a Star Wars collection celebrating 40 years with 40 Stories.) Fred Book: Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi is better than he expected. Good pacing, did not get bored. There was an auction. Meeting adjourned at: 21:10 and the rumor of the week was: Klaatu Barada Three-peat™
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