BASFA Meeting #1521
Monday, October 7, 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 Denny’s, Milpitas
Called to order at 20:00 with 15 People in attendance
Established a Party Jar
Secretary Report
The minutes of meeting #1520 were posted online and accepted as: Reading in
exile
Treasurer Report
Meeting #1520
Regular Jar: $2.00 | $15,543.79
Party Jar: $11.00 | $259.08
Vice President Report
Thanks to Denny’s for taking us on short notice.
Black Bear only closed this week for kitchen remodel. This should also help
precipitate the alcohol licensing issue.
No President Report
No Committee Report
New Business
Ken Patterson
We’ll need to make sure our contact info with Black Bear is up to date so these
sort of things may not happen in future.
Announcements
Fred
Season 3 of The Orville will be late in 2020 (on Hulu). Seth is busy, and wants
to do a really good job.
Andrew: Shorter season, but longer (full hours, not commercial TV hours)
Carole
On Saturday, November 9 she and Bill be hosting a PenSFA party at their house
at 8 pm. Encouraged to bring finger food or desserts to share. Contact her for
more info.
Ken
I had a show on Sunday celebrating the 50th anniversary of Monty Python’s
Flying Circus. It’s on the broadcast archive at kfjc.org for two weeks.
DaveC: There was an article about how Python was saved from the BBC’s tape
wiping prcatice.
Reviews
evilKevin
On Sunday he ran the Rock and Roll 10k/half marathon. It seemed smaller this
year. Great weather in the first hour. Ran three minutes faster. Finished fifth
in his division, and 78 overall. Yay, but ow!
Bill
A month and a half ago he and Carole were at the Worldcon in Dublin. Hotels
were around the convention center, with the parties in the center. Crowd size
was not properly anticipated. Some events were in a nearby theatre. Had fun
with panels. Smallish art show. Masque was quite good. For the evening
activities, you had to queue at noon to get seating assignment. They would have
to do better facility management if they want him to go again. Line management
did improve from the first day.
Carole: Queueing for evening shows not handled well. Was outside in rain and
wind.
eVilKevin: Firecode would not allow that crowd inside
Carole: Art show was so far away. Was going to exhibit, but glad she didn’t.
Heard that sales didn’t seem to do well.
DaveG: Initial apprehension, but Spring did better.
evilKevin: Small pieces moved, but larger ones didn’t.
Gerald: From an author’s viewpoint, signings were moved from the dealers room
to the third floor - and attendance was sparse. If possible, it should be where
the books are being sold.
Carole
This weekend she and Bill went to play about Ghandi at the Cuberly community
center, buy the Natak company (a local Indian theatre group) Well produced for
amateur/semi-pro. Different understanding of Ghandi than the film (which he was
god like, where the play had him more flawed) They do four to six plays a year.
Worth while.
Bill: What stood out was the Indian treatment of Ghandi as a holy man–and holy
men do strange things...
Fred
Read “Not Fade Away” by Cliff Winnig, in the colloection Straight Out of
Deadwood (from Baen) Came out a few days ago. Fairly good. Old Wild West with
strange creatures. Not his normal fare, but was worth full price (eBook)
Ken & Jerry
We saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail the Quote-along on Friday and Hairspray
the Sing-along on Saturday. Great fun, especially with all the people who had
never seen either in the audience.
There was an auction
Meeting adjourned at 20:55 and the Rumor of the Week was: Next Monday BASFA
will be meeting somewhere in California.
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