Meeting 1071 February 7, 2011
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 8-ish ... with Wendy 24 people attended we established a Salon Futura plate The President introduced a special guest at BASFA, Wendy Pini – of 'Elfquest' and 'Masque of the Red Death' fame. She said 'hi' and told us that Mo told her about BASFA [which did not scare her off] = and her anecdotes made us laugh. 'Masque of the Red Death' is Hugo eligible and will be realeased by Warp Graphics as a 400 lb graphic novel – check her website = masque-of-the-red-death.com Secretary’s report: the minutes from meeting 1070 were accepted as 'better than robbing 7-11s' the Treasurer reported remotely that at meeting 1070 we took in $1.00 in the regular jar & $2.25 in the Salon Futura jar – and the postcards have been mailed for the Fab 14th money motion vote the Vice President was not here The President reminded us that next Monday, Feb 14, is the money motion The Sports Committee Giant's outing discussion related that the game we are planning to descend upon is Willie Mays' 80th birthday & that Dave G has purchased tickets on the first base side REPOSTED REMINDER: our Hugo nomination discussions part 3 will be held tonight Announcements: Ken announced that he'll host a tribute to John Barry on KFJC10 am till 2pm tomorrow & he announced that the TV movie for Dr Who will be released tomorrow [evil] Kevin announced that Corflu is this weekend at the Domain & announced that prereg for Renovation hit 2700 Mo announced that Silicon's board of director's meeting will meet tomorrow at the Denny's at Lawrence and El Camino, 7:30 Howeird announced that he will exhibit his photos at Renovation & is eligible for nomination; he also announced that he is newly unemployed and looking for QA work in the streaming media area Lisa announced that other conventions are up-coming – Gallifrey, Consonance, Potlatch & FogCon among them Reviews Andy reviewed some of the Eurovision auditions as worth streaming Howeird reviewed South Bay's Musical Theatre's 'A Funny Thing Hasppened on the way to the Forum' as the best ever – just phenomenal and energetic – running Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday through Feb 19 – and high;y recommended – reviewed in greater depth in his LJ & he reviewed 'MegaPython vs Gateroid' as the special 'defects' were 'special – seeing the movie so you don't have to I reviewed 'The Mechanic' as better than the Bronson version and with a more satisfying ending – worth matinee & reviewed driving to Napa and back as horrowing Dave C reviewed the book 'Zombie Spaceship Wasteland' by Patton Oswalt as he recommends it Wendy recommends that we all go out and get the new release of 'Metropolis' out on DVD Lisa reviewed 'Agatha H and the Airship City' as interesting to not have the artwork – weird and kind of different Trey reviewed Jim Butcher's book 'Side Jobs' as uneven and the stories are in sequence – worth paperback We auctioned off a copy of 'Masque of the Red Death' for $20 We adjourned at = 9:22 pm The rumor of the week was: 'beware the 6 foot elf' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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