*Meeting 874*
*April 30, 2007*
Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
*Began 8:00, brought to you by . . . otters*
*22 people attended*
We established a party jar
*Secretary's report*: the minutes of meeting 873 were accepted as
'Mmmmmm delicious otters'
*Treasurer's report: last week we took in $84.50 in the regular jar &
$21.52 in the party jar*
*VP reported that the art book is here and that there is NO new 'Drink
Tank' or 'SFinSF' out this week - but there is a new issue of 'Pixel' out*
*The President had nothing fannish to report [and this time there were
follow-ons]*
*The Party Committee reported there are conventions coming up and he
needs volunteer bodies to help him run these parties - especially if he
does 2 nights*
*The AhwaneeCon committee reported they had a thingie in the Westercon
PR & there will be snarky puzzles and word searches in their own next PR*
*Then we did early auctions = birthday auctioned off Michael Siladi for
$13.00 to himself; then auctioned off Harold's Costco card for $3.00 to
Harold; then auctioned books for $3.50, $1.00, $1.50, $0.25, $3.50,
$2.50, $4.00, $0.77, & 1990 Star Wars calender for $4.00*
*Announcements*
Michael Siladi announced that rates for Baycon go up on May 1 to $75 &
their room block is going fast - & Westercon's PR #2 is about to go out
Fred announced that the Maker's Faire will be May 19-20, is family
friendly & should be fun, check www.makersfaire.com
Chris announced that the 15th year anniversary of the Psychotronic Film
Festival will be this Saturday at 7pm at Foothill
Howeird announced that 'Jekyll and Hyde the Musical' will be running
through May 19 at the Lucy Sterne theatre with the Palo Alto players
[evil] Kevin announced that the Costume Con 26 room block is now open at
the Doubletree - but that getting a suite takes some extra effort &
announced that the Unconventional Foundation has money & that Andy
Trembley is now a board member this Thursday - and they have banners
that you can put on your site
Cheryl announced that Variety Children's Charity is looking for a
part-time admin person & John Scalzi apologizing for making the
MacArthur Maze all melty
*Reviews*:
Andy reviewed last week's Dr Who as a rollicking good time - still worth
stealing & reviewed St George Spirits as the chipotle chile vodka as
'holy mother of god'
Cheryl reviewed the Ellen Klages reading as funny, enjoyable and
entertaining
I reviewed 'Hot Fuzz' as very funny and worth seeing twice, while Trey
stated that Nick Angel is his hero
Chris reviewed 'Blades of Glory' as the funniest movie he'd seen that
week, worth seeing if only for the decapitations & the new AMC Cupertino
Square has that new fragrance smell but the people working there are as
dumb as a box of rocks
Fred reviewed 'The White House Murder Case' at the SJ playhouse as a
riot - go see it 0 and he reviewed a CD of country music called 'Folk
Uke' as worth full price
Dave G reviewed the John Scalzi reading as very entertaining & Tim Pratt
has begun his conquest of literature [there were follow-ons] and then he
reviewed 'Torpedo Juice' by Tim Dorsey as having a lovable loony serial
killer as the main character - worth paperback price for airline reading
& reviewed 'Next' as it wasn't bad, worth matinee
Ed reviewed the newest Scalzi book as he enjoyed it a great deal, thinks
it worth full price & reviewed 'Yellow Eyes' by Ringo as he enjoyed the
heck our of it and it's worth full price
*We adjourned at =* 9:40
*And the rumor of the week was* that = 'otter pops is otters'
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