Meeting 1058 November 8, 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 – looking for a save point 26 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes from meeting 1056 were accepted as 'and so it goes'& the minutes from meeting 1057 were accepted as 'in memory of Alexander Haig' the Treasurer reported that at meeting 1057 we took in $2.50 in the regular jar the Vice President reported that he's doing NaNoWriMo & there is NO new 'Drink Tank' or any other fanzine out right now The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee reported 'The Giants won the World Series! Jo queried the sense of the meeting about him bringing in 80's cassettes for auction and got a 'sure, why not' response Announcements: Ken announced that Matt Smith was on USA Today Online & announced that Conan starts TBS tonight & announced that Fridays will see a fund raiser for Women's cricket at the Kaama Lounge /Santana row Carole announced that long-time fan Kaitlin died Sunday Dave C announced that the new Cargo cult catalog is out Adrienne announced that her AussieCon 4 review is out at epinions for our viewing pleasure Spike announced that she has Potlatch flyers – it will be in Sunnyvale at the Domain Chris announced that there will be 2 – no 3 – no, make that 4 – cons coming up = SteamCon 2, OryCon, WindyCon & NovaCon Andy announced that a new issue of the Inookreader will be coming out at SorcererCon and he's soliciting content Then we did birthday auctions: Chris was auctioned off for $9.00 to Jo; I was auctioned off for $7.00 to Trey; Bob Hole was auctioned off for $5.00 to me Reviews I reviewed 'Megamind' as a whole bucket of fun – worth seeing twice at full price; Trey follow-on'd that he also enjoyed the film, it's worth seeing and they got a lot of it right Mo reviewed her family reunion at Clayton, NM as 'Starbucks-less' & interesting & that the night sky there was spectacular and worth the whole trip to see Chris reviewed Le Bal des Vampires as he had a surprisingly awesome time; reviewed 'the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' as very, very good & highly recommended Dave C moved & it passed that any further film reviews by Chris at this meeting be done in Swedish Jo reviewed getting back into motor-biking as good fun & he's been listening to Elizabeth Moon audio books and enjoying them [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Declare' by Tim Powers as a 'Great Game' spy novel & worth slogging thru – worth BASFA auction price & reviewed John Darly's 'Dalek Building Workshop Manual' as very well built and will be useful to him and absolutely worth full price Dave C reviewed the race for Oakland's mayor as fun & reviewed BasCon as not very exciting & he's not unpacking the car & check www.mitchbenn.com for the song 'I'm Proud of the BBC' Then we did more auctions – a program book for $0.25; stationery for $0.25 & $0.25; cookies for $1.00; magazines for $2.00; $0.50 & $0.25; manga & stuff for $0.50; books for $0.05 & a model ship for $1.00 The rumor of the week was: 'Could you say that in Swedish please?' We adjourned at = 10 pm -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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