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.
o 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 <http://kfjc.org> for two weeks.
o 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.
o Carole: Queueing for evening shows not handled well. Was
outside in rain and wind.
+ eVilKevin: Firecode would not allow that crowd inside
o 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.
o 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.
o 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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