Meeting 895

September 24, 2007

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:05, smushed together at Baker's Square

31 people attended
We established a party jar

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 894 were accepted as 'let's 
see him get out of THIS box'

[no Treasurer] the proxy Treasurer's report is that last week we took in 
$37.25 in the regular jar & $24.00 in the party jar

The VP reported 'so there I was, hand to god!' [Andy: 'So god, where did 
the bad fan touch you?'] - there's a new SFinSF out, a new Drink Tank is 
out & there'll be another new Drink Tank out Wednesday

The President reported that the VP brought a book in which to scribe 
pithy sayings in for the BASFA Times & otherwise had nothing fannish to 
report

The proxy Site Selection Committee arranged that we will meet at the 
Baker's Square in Los Gatos next week, Oct 1 [located at 165 Los 
Gatos-Saritoga Ave, at University Ave]

The BASFA Times Committee showed us the cover for the BASFA Times & he 
has had 3 articles turned in for it but they still need stuff - send it 
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Party Committee reported that they should be in room 273 on Friday 
or Saturday at Silicon

Announcements
Dave C announced that the Stupids will play Sunday at the Comedy 
Festival in Golden Gate Park & announced that the Friends of the SF 
Public Library book sale will be this week at Fort Mason

Andy announced that he put Frank Wu's presentation [of apostrophe 
pronunciation] on the BASFA LJ & it was noticed - appreciated - and 
there's been a request to do this at Arisia - plus Silicon is in 2 weeks 
and the Evil Genius party will be Saturday night & they hope to attend 
the Saturday morning Peninsula Wearable Arts meeting; there were 
follow-ons that SFinSF will also have a party - on Friday night at 
Silicon, that there'll be an SFinSF panel at 10am on Sunday & they'll do 
a Saturday podcast

Ken announced that KTEH is moving Dr Who to 7pm Thursday and 10pm 
Saturdays - plus the Legion of Rasselon will be meeting this Friday

[evil] Kevin announced that Heroes is starting up again & announced that 
the Friday Silicon party hosted in their room will be Pancho's Crosstime 
Cantina

[tall] Kevin announced that SFSFC is offering to pay a scholarship of 
$500 to folks who will attend SMOFcon in Boston this December and then 
write an article about it

Reviews:
Chris reviewed 'Across the Universe' as it had some problems, was a bit 
scattershot & heavy handed, it was visually gorgeous, but was fun and 
definitely worth $4.00 for the film, $2.25 for the theatre, $1.00 for 
the lemonade & with parking was worth $8.00

[tall] Kevin reviewed Nippon 2007 as they did okay, he saw a whole lot 
of one room while there, the con had a lot of enthusiasm, there were 
some problems, lots of late event starts, the party floor was terrible 
[scent and heat wise] - but they did a good job overall [WAY better than 
TorCon]

Andy reviewed the Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot restaurant as the 
placemats are hysterical & it was very good hot pot with incredible 
variety & probably worth full price [they still have to settle for the 
bill with the guys they went with] - but don't go there with a huge mob 
of friends - take no more than 10 & he reviewed 'Vin Santo' in Willow 
Glen, as under new ownership, they have a new menu and the meals are 
personalized for you - a 4 course meal will cost $50.00 and the food was 
great, give them a few weeks and they'll be incredible

Harold reviewed Ebay university at the Marriott in Santa Clara as the 
presenter read the slides too much - and the materials shown were about 
2 years old - so the course was worth about $25.00 and not the $59 that 
he had to paid for it

Ed reviewed that Nathan and Caroline are doing great out in the wilds & 
reviewed 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra' as funny & worth full price & 
reviewed 'El Diablo' as interesting & worth full price

Mike reviewed 'Arrival' by Shaun Tan - a story done completely in 
pictures - as surreal and very good

[evil] Kevin reviewed his folk's surprise 50th anniversary party as a 
huge success - worth full price and even driving 500 miles for [and 
based on some of the off-line description, it sounds like it was 
incredibly well organized, a lot of fun & the photo shoot was hilarious]

Julie reviewed 'The Smallest Show on Earth' on DVD [with a very young 
Peter Sellers playing a very old man] as worth full price

Then we auctioned off books for $1.00; $2.50; $2.50; $1.00; $0.25; 
$0.50; $1.25; $1.00; $2.00; $2.00; $0.25; a bag o' stuff for $3.00; and 
one last thing for $2.00

We adjourned at = 9:37

And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Barbara's touching me!'
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