Minutes of Meeting # 1499
Monday, May 6, 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
The meeting was called to order at 20:00 with 20+/- people in attendance…
A party jar was established.
The minutes of meeting #1498–having been posted online–were accepted as
Barbara’s not here man...
Treasurer Report
#1498
Regular $5.25
Party $26.50
The Vice President nothing fannish to report
The President was MIA with the Secretary.
The Sports committee thanked everyone for coming to out to the San Jose Giants
Star Wars night game on May 4.
Announcements
Pat
BASFA member Terry Terry is a Great Grandmother for the 10th time. She will be
at BayCon.
Kennita
Going to BayCon but doesn’t have a room. Anyone have space (including floor)
get in touch with her.
BayCon Marriott may not be completely sold out. Go through baycon.org
DaveC
Baker & Taylor was already getting out of wholesale for DVD, but now also
dropping books. He’ll have to move to Ingram.
JohnO
Last week tallKevin was here promoting Tonopah in 21. If you want to vote for
the bid, you’ll need to vote at this year’s Westercon. Supporting memberships
avail until June 22.
Ken
Symphony Silicon Valley announced the final three Harry Potter films, and have
a series buy option.
The Delia Derbyshire Birthday special is available on the KFJC Broadcast
Archive for two weeks. kfjc.org/listen/archives
<https://www.kfjc.org/listen/archives>
Reviews
Fred
Was in Southfield, MI, at Penguicon. Opensource and SF/Gaming mashup. Loads of
fun. Hotel and con like eachother (room keys were con branded!) 1456 people.
Consuite was outstanding (esp for con of this size) Not as much literary, but
plenty of gaming and maker and opensource computing. Reccommend.
2019.penguicon.org <https://2019.penguicon.org/>
Vikas
May the 4th baseball game was lots of fun looking forwar to next one.
Gerald: Interesting game. First seven innings a disaster. San Jose loaded the
bases in the 8th got a run in, but the remainder were thwarted by a caught fly.
John: In training to learn the art of the Giants torture.
The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain Everything lecture series. Not a
casual listen, great audio series.
amazon.com/Theory-Everything-Quest-Explain-Reality/dp/B07K8YH9FQ
<https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Everything-Quest-Explain-Reality/dp/B07K8YH9FQ/ref=nodl_>
The Inexplicable Universe narr by Neil Degrasee–Tyson. Touches on a lot of
concepts that we’re still comping to grasps. More casual listening.
amazon.com/The-Inexplicable-Universe-Unsolved-Mysteries/dp/B00MBMRUBC
<https://www.amazon.com/The-Inexplicable-Universe-Unsolved-Mysteries/dp/B00MBMRUBC/ref=nodl_>
Andrew:
(Liked Avengers, but that’s not his review) If you like historical Fantasy
drama, NetFlix has co-funding, and just dropped the trailer for an Arabic high
school drama Jin. Had watched their Korean series Kingdom - medieval horror.
Beautifully shot. Pretty untill it gets murdur-y (then it pretyy and mrdery).
If you can stomach some horror...
eKevin: So many silly hats
Gerald: The Admiral Raging Waters - see it. Straight history.
Ken
He and Jerry went to Flower Drum Song this past Thursday. This is the recent
revival version that was rewritten by a Chinese-American writer–though they
couldn’t change any of the songs. A more authentic immigrant story. Full Asian
cast, and 90% Asian creative team–including music director, choreographer and
director (who put in some of her family history in the prologue!) Final run
this Thursday through Sunday.
There was an auction.
Meeting adjourned at: 20:39 and the rumor was: Let the wookie win.
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