Meeting 1053

October 4, 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 pm

23   people attended

Secretary’s report: the minutes from meeting 1052 were accepted as 'playoff
bound'

Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $23.35 in the regular jar

the Vice President was not here

The President had nothing fannish to report

Announcements:
Diane announced that she is gainfully unemployed and ecstatic; plus if
anyone needs an admin, she's here

Dave C announced that after months of negotiation, he has the new Terry
Pratchett book & also announced that Tony Curtis had died

Adrienne announced that there'll be an Oct 8-10 Beatles Fest West at the
Scottish Rites Center in SF

?? announced that Steve Alten's new book will be 'Grim Reaper, End of Days'

Spring announced that James Gurney [the guy who did 'Dinotopia'] will be
doing a lecture Wednesday at the CA College of the Arts

Ed announced that he is now employed and doing something amazing

Andy announced that Oct 14-16 at the Santa Clara convention center will be
the Pacific International Quilt Fest

Josh announced that Zack Snyder may be doing the new Superman movie

Reviews:
Adrienne reviewed 'Law and Order UK' as interesting with fun accents

Ed reviewed 'The Fuller Memorandum' by Charles Stross as a Laundry book and
much darker in tone than the other 2

Andy reviewed the October Peers Dance 'the Evil League of Evil Ball'  as it
was packed and an absolute utter blast and worth absolutely full price

Dave C reviewed 'Sharktopus' as sooooo bad, so he reviewed 'Hot Fuzz'
instead – a movie so nice, he watched it twice

Sarah reviewed seeing 'Metropolis' as most of the movie is intact now, it's
worth full price and seeing it is breath-taking; Josh follow-on'd that
seeing it this time that the movie finally made sense to him

Jo reviewed 'The Town' [or as he put it, 'some movie'] as a rather good
film, well-directed and he enjoyed it; Dave C follow-on'd, giving props to
Ben Affleck; then Jo reviewed Highway 9 at night on a motorcycles as not fun
& reviewed his Monday nights now as mostly full

Dann reviewed 'Rock and Roll Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Ape' as
brain-damaging & warns us against watching it, then Mo follow-on'd that she
loves this movie

Trey reviewed Gail Carriger's books, 'Souless', 'Changeless' and 'Blameless'
as steampunk, parasol fantasy – and engaging and worth his time to read

Then we did auctions – videotapes for $5.00 & $0.25;  books for $0.75,
$0.25, $0.15, & $0.25;  magazines for $0.50 & $0.50;  address books for
$0.20 & $1.00 & a pirate flag for $3.50

The rumor of the week was: 'the moon is a harsh rumor'

We adjourned at = 9:20 pm

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