Minutes of Meeting #1458 Monday, July 9, 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 8 pm - without pie 19 people attended we established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1455 were accepted as 'posted online' the Treasurer reported that we took in $3.10 in the regular jar & $9.00 in the party jar the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report ANNOUNCEMENTS: Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters are doing a test run of their ghost walk for Worldcon 76 on Saturday, 4pm - check the meetup page for details Steven announced that SFSFSF - or SF3 has their podcast on sf3podcast.com Yochanon announced that HalfPrice Bookstore in Freemont is having a sale this week thru Sunday & you can get a coupon if you sign up with them for email announcements Brad announced that he submitted an article about the Retro-Hugos for the Worldcon 76 program book Diane announced that there will be events held at Worldcon 76 and she has flyers for the con for folks to distribute Andy announced that Columbus, Ohio submitted a bid for the 2020 Nasfic & that SeaTac is bidding for Westercon 72 & he & [evil] Kevin will be their Fan GoHs Ken announced that 3 Below theatres will be showing 'Lord of the Rings' movies this and next weekend - check 3belowtheaters.com for more info REVIEWS: JC reviewed an interior/exterior dashcam as quite pricey but incredibly good - he got a Blackvue Adrienne reviewed the 1st season blueray of Tom Baker as the Doctor as worth getting - she liked the letterboxing & the extras Yochanon reviewed 'Isle of Dogs' as he really liked it & he very much enjoyed the theatre it was being shown in - the Shattuck - so great movie & theatre, then also reviewed seeing the 'Wrath of Khan' & 'Star Trek, into Darkness' as a good pairing Andy reviewed Westercon 71 jokingly as being 'very high in Denver', that the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center was a good location, the space was used well, the programming was solid, masquerade was fun & the guests were excellent - but there weren't many parties per night, so they ran parties several nights - and found the convention well-attended & rated it worth full price [blond] Ross reviewed a trilogy on audible books by Dennis E Taylor - 'The Bobiverse Trilogy' as having a preserved head, cloning, interstellar travel and is well-written & thoughtful, he enjoyed it & Steven added that SFSFSF did a podcast on it we had auctions we adjourned at 9:12 Rumor of the week was 'Harlan Ellison is still dead' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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