Minutes of Meeting #1498 Monday, April 29, 2019 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 - with a dynasty of puns 24 people attended we established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1496 were accepted as 'save a tree, we're running out of paper' - then [tall] Kevin gave the secretary a pad of paper the Treasurer was missing the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee reported that the May 4th BASFA outing to the SJ Giants Star Wars night game is this weekend ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ken announced that KFJC's month of Mayhem starts on May 1 & that on May 5 he'll be doing a special Delia Derbyshire themed show there Dave C announced that there is Gatorade in the auction tonight [and explained why] [tall] Kevin announced that he is the Chair for the Tonopah totally-not-a-hoax Westercon 74, 2021 bid & he has flyers for distribution & it will be 'the first solar-powered Westercon' JC announced that director John Singleton has died REVIEWS: 'Endgame' was reviewed by many & it was epic Bill reviewed Opera SJ's 'Madame Butterfly' as done adequately & he had a reasonably good time Howeird reviewed 'Queen of the Mists' by the San Pedro Square Players & enjoyed it - he also reviewed a trip by Amtrak to the Grand Canyon as a very long trip & the Grand Canyon Railroad was 63 miles of the most boring terrain in existence John O reviewed the latest Game of Thrones as WoW! WTF? Damn! & he reviewed some of his Hugo reading, Kowal's 'Calculating Stars' as incredibly good Dave C reviewed Stross's latest 'Laundry' book, 'The Labyrinth Index' as a fine read, worth full price Ken reviewed the season ender for 'Orville' as they knocked it out of the park We did auctions we adjourned at 9:33 Rumor of the week was 'BASFAns assemble!' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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