Minutes of Meeting #1828 Monday, September 29, 2025 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary meeting held online AND meeting live at Parktown Pizza [at Meridian & Hillsdale in SJ] https://www.parktownpizza.com
And online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83807383506?pwd=VnNNTXJ1YXlLS0RQVVB2VERXUTQ2dz09 Called to order at 8 pm 7live/10online beings attended the meeting The minutes of meeting 1827 were accepted 'as is' Proxy Treasurer's report = Regular: $15,805.32 Party: $230.58 Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to: [email protected] Though we have accrued $156.34 since the resumption of live meetings. the VP had nothing fannish to report the President reported that he will be absent next week no old or new business ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ken announced that Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 30 at 7 p.m. the 3 Below Theatre in San Jose will be showing The Right Stuff followed by a Q&A (with an unnamed guest speaker…) It looks like it’s part of a whole series in October called Lights, Camera, Liftoff! To the Moon and Beyond Space Exploration In Cinema with The Farthest: Voyager In Space on 10/7, Good Night Oppy on 10/14, Apollo 13 on 10/21 and Above & Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow on 10/28. 3belowtheaters.com/lights-camera-liftoff/ Yochanan announced that 3Below is also running other series on different topics and recommends checking their website to see what is being offered see = https://3belowtheaters.com/ Rick announced that the city of Redwood City has a working commercial port & has 'Redwood City Port Fest' this weekend, for details see = https://www.redwoodcityport.com/ Gerry announced that 'We are headed for Minnesota and will probably miss the next meeting. Have fun.' Reviews: Yochanan reviewed 'Space Woman', shown at 3Below, a documentary about Eileen Collins, as he enjoyed it very much & found it exciting. He highly recommends & rates it as worth full price see = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnhqHdxNsgk and Yochanan also reviewed this season of 'Murderbot' on Apple Plus [the only season, so far], enjoying the dark humor and acting. He has also read the books and loved them all, consuming them like chips and wanting more. He loves the books and rates the series as A++. Rick was amazed at how good the adaptation was and found it spectacular. see = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30444310/ and Yochanan reviewed 'The Long Walk' as 'it wasn't bad, but...' & thought it was just okay see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk_(2025_film) Rick reviewed the first season of 'Alien: Earth' on FX as it has a capable cast and he found the series 'interesting'. He says it suffers from 'stupid plot syndrome' and recommends that you stop watching it after episode 5, not caring for the last 3 of 8 episodes see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth Craig commented that he likes small regional conventions and reviewed ArmadilloCon in Texas as he found it to be quite wonderful. He had a great time there. Comment = Armadillocon is in Austin. https://armadillocon.org/d47/ Worth going just to see the bats. Craig also plans to attend Orycon and is sad that it will be the last one. see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OryCon and the rumor of the week was = 'BASFAns will star in 'Sanctuary Moon' we adjourned at = 8:29pm there were no auctions -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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