Meeting 915

February 11, 2008

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

Began 8:00 [because I had prime rib]

20 people attended
We established a TAFF jar

Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 914 as 'Soylent 
green is Phoebe'

no Treasurer - but the proxy treasurer report via Dave C was that at 
meeting 914 we took in $0.50 in the regular jar & $2.26 in the TAFF jar &

there was no VP - but Joe volunteered to do the VP report - not 
realizing the danger [of taking over the -job-] that he was putting 
himself into

The President introduced us to Brenden - visiting us after having seen 
the webpage [when asked to talk about himself, his comment was to shake 
his head and say, "I'm good."]

Announcements
Dave C announced that Paris Hilton's movie, 'The Hottie and the Naughty' 
- took in a grand total of $25,000 in its release week [there were 
follow-on's]

Joe announced that there are 2 conventions this weekend, PantheaCon, 
locally - and Gallifrey down south

Andy announced that the last Evil genius party before CostumeCon will be 
held at Gallifrey, Friday - and Ken follow-on'd that Evil Geniuses will 
host a Dalek party in their room on Saturday night

Lisa announced that her grandson turns 2 today and has thus far survived

Mike announced that Amichi's Pizza is celebrating their 20th anniversary 
tomorrow and for a day they'll be selling at 1988 prices - in downtown 
Mountain view

Trey announced that Roy Scheider died yesterday

Reviews:
Julie reviewed 'The God Machine' as a book about the history of 
helicopters & commented upon Roy Scheider's fantasy ties, with a 
reference to the movie 'Blue Thunder' & also said one of the folks on 
her Fair Organ Preservation Society mailing list recommends 
'Masterpieces of the East'

Andy reviewed 'Slice of New York', next to Stevens Creek Surplus, as 
seriously good NY pizza, worth full price & reviewed 'Torchwood' episode 
4 as it continue the dark spiral the series is doing this year - it's 
weird and dark and worth stealing [there were follow-on's] & reviewed 
the new CD by John Barrowman as the worst pop power ballads of the 70's 
& 'Another Side' is not worth stealing [there were follow-ons]

Joe reviewed Mexico as utterly brilliant & they ran into a brigade of 
dolphins [amazing], swam with a pod of whales [they WERE the pod people] 
& ate dinner with bats - had a lot of fun & was worth full price

Ken reviewed The Cliff House as the place has been remodeled & lacked 
the classic ambiance - not worth going there again, but the food wasn't 
bad & reviewed 'Across the Universe' as worth Net-flicking, the actors 
did their own singing & the DVD extras were interesting & he reviewed 
Jerry's wedding dress preview as fabulous

Dave C follow-on'd last week's session by recommending LeGuin's 'On 
Serious Literature'

Trey reviewed Kim Harrison's first 4 books as a neo-gothy, fantasy 
hard-boiled detective girl series - with a lot of revisionist mythology 
going on there & he likes the supporting characters - worth used pb

Julie announced that the Tolkien estate is suing New Line Cinema since 
they haven't received their7% from the last movie

we then auctions off some: books and a CD for $2.00, books for $3.00, 
$0.25, $0.25, $0.50, $0.50, $0.50 & $0.25

We adjourned at = 9:20

And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Barbara writes fast'
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