Thru no fault of the E.H.M.T.: a Steampunk Hamlet correction.
The play runs thru May 29th. It was a pretty decent production .. if you get a
chance get over to Concord to see it.
I think perhaps Chris meant to say that he was going to see it this (past)
weekend, not that it was the last weekend. Though of course this coming weekend
would be your last weekend to see the play if you were going to BayCon over the
holiday weekend.
www.b8compnay.com/events for dates/times.
Since Chris is attending the BASFA meeting tonight, I'm sure he'll give you a
full review.
-linda
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 14:15:41 -0700
From: ajfos...@pacbell.net
To: Subject: [Basfa] BASFA minutes for May 10
Meeting 1030
May 10, 2010
Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale
Began at 8:01 pm
President and secretary went AWOL
Vice President presided
Adrienne Foster emergency holographic minute taker
We established a 'special' [Marina] jar
16 people attended
The reading of the minutes of 1029 were postponed.
The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $16.19 in the regular jar and
$38.78 in the “special” (Marina’s baby) jar. The latter totals $85.78 as of the
end of meeting 1029.
Dave also added that his parents’ garage is being cleaned out
and some stuff is trickling into BASFA auctions.
The Vice President reported that there is a new Drink Tank out & there’s a
convention coming up.
No President’s report
The party committee reported there will be no Silicon party this year, since
there will be no Silicon, but there will be BASFA parties at BayCon, Sorcercon,
and SMOFcon.
The Sports Committee said the Sharks advanced in the hockey finals, but KNBR
chose to talk about the As’ perfect game instead.
Announcements:
Ken is working the graveyard shift at KFJC and is doing a special on Eurovision
contestants on May 19.
Glenn said today would have been the 53rd birthday of Sid Vicious and he has
fab art for Westercon 64 by Phil Folio.
Adrienne said the 2010 Ghost Hunters Conference will be held May 21–23 at the
LaQuinta Inn & Suites on Hesperian Boulevard in Hayward. (Go to
http://www.ghost-trackers.org/2010_conference.htm for more details.) BAGH is
also putting together a ghost hunting panel for BayCon 2010, including Loyd
Auerbach, Charlotte Kosa, Shannon McCabe and Paul Dale Roberts.
Eric lost something at the last meeting he is trying locate.
Dave C. said Peter O’Donnell died.
Jo says he’s now living in Sunnyvale.
Chris G. said Lena Horne and Frank Frazetta died. This is also the last week to
see Steampunk Hamlet at Butterfield 8.
Reviews:
Stellan said a project he was working on was “very educational,” with Chris
having to call the room to order. Stellan added he sees a lot of pink plastic
dust in his future.
Dave C went to Sacramento to see Conan O’Brien and “the self-pleasuring panda”
live. He said it was worth the trip to Sacto.
Glenn needed a new tranny in his car after work was just done on it. The Lexus
repair shop was worth 80% of what he paid for it.
Fred reviewed an Altreader, which was on sale at Fry’s for $79.99. Definitely
worth discount price.
Kevin S. took a train ride from Sacto to Bakersfield for National Train Day.
Admission to a train museum was included with the fare. Since he used up credit
he already had, it was worth what he paid to make up the cost. It was not worth
the loss of the power source for his computer. He mistakenly left it on the
train.
Chris G. saw 9, which was a remake of 8½, and said it was crap and he still
couldn’t figure out what was going on despite watching it twice.
Then he watched 24 Hour Party People and said it was about
people partying.
He also saw Iron Man 2: Iron Harder and believes Sam Rockwell
is one of the greatest science fiction actors ever.
He saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and believes is
correlates with the As’ pitching the perfect game.
Stellan followed on saying that the author, Stieg Larrson,
wrote three books before he died [this title is presently available at
Costco—AJF], and it took Stellan a while to recognize Mickey Rorke in Iron Man
2.
We did auctions.
Rumor of the week:
“Only Marina can bring order to this group.”
We adjourned at 9:27.
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