Minutes of Meeting #1536 Monday, January 20, 2020 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 yummy brownie 16 people attended We established a party jar - lots to Dave The minutes of meeting 1533 were accepted as 'she has not spoken' the Treasurer reported that at meeting 1535 we took in $0.25 in the regular jar & $0.75 in the party jar the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lisa announced that Westercon PR1 is out & early bird pricing for it ends on March 1 & announced that her latest afghan is finished Ken announced that this Friday & next Friday there will be Legion of Rasselon meetings at the Dennies in Campbell on Bascom Avenue, 7:30 pm Fred announced that FogCon's suggestions are open now John O announced that Consonance will be in 2 months on March 20 - 22 REVIEWS: Stephen was at an industry convention in NYC & saw 'Beetlejuice' on Broadway & thought it was terrific, with great set design & the plot was focused more on Bettlejuice's character, but he did not appreciate that 2 drinks there cost $50 Ken reviewed taking a road trip with Geri when they went to Phoenix and back as they stopped at many places that all sounded nice & the wedding of his eldest nephew was was enjoyable, overall a terrific trip John O reviewed 'Dolittle' as having no relation to the book or prior movie, but was still fun, worth full price but probably not 3D, reviewed 'Knives Out' as a fun little mystery, JC followed & agreed, then John reviewed Seanan McGuire's book 5 in the Wandering Children series = 'Come Tumbling Down' as a good read & pointed out that "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is a 2-part play performed on 2 different stages Valerie reviewed 'Avenue 5' - the Hugh Laurie as captain of a space cruise - as lots of establishing facts this episode & the passengers were the best worst people to be trapped on one with & reviewed the latest episode of Dr Who as done well Lisa reviewed FurCon as the theme was cyberstuff, the science panels were good, other panels were weaker, that the art show & dealers had lots of sketch art & the con was kind of disappointing we did auctions we adjourned at 8:48 Rumor of the week was 'We can hate the pun but love the punner' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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