Meeting 1074

February 28, 2011

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 fwy),
Sunnyvale

Began 8pm - deciding that radiofan is not significant

26   people attended

we established a Salon Futura jar
we established a party jar

Secretary’s report:  the minutes from meeting 1072 were accepted as 'spung'
& the minutes from meeting 1073 were accepted as 'there's an ape for that'

the Treasurer was not present, but a proxy treasurer's report was that at
meeting 1073 we took in $11.50 in the regular ja

the Vice President reported that he has 4 new 'zines out at efanzines.com -
'Journey Planet '#8, a new 'Claims Department' and 2 new 'Drink Tanks' - #'s
274, 275 - with more to come & that the deadline for submission to the
'Journey Planet' 'Dune' issue is March 15 and that he is writing a speech

The President reported that Rob & Val Campbell - BASFAns of long standing,
sent us a check for $25.00 to cover a decade of pun fines - and there was a
general sentiment of good feeling from the club about this

The Party Committee reported that he needs help, being almost $300 in the
hole from past parties - and needing contributions if BASFA wants a party
run at Westercon

Announcements:
Chris announced that this weekend is Consonance at the Newark/Fremont Hilton
& Lynn announced that  there'll be great guests there [check the website at
= http://www.consonance.org/

Fred announced that the Contact conference has been postponed

[evil] Kevin announced that his dad is doing remarkably well

Lynn also announced that the Craig Ferguson show filmed at Gallifrey and at
least 1 BASFAn was filmed - and that should be on TV tonight

Howeird & Ken announced that [evil] Kevin won for his island survival suit
[the tiki dalek]

Adrienne & Mike & Lisa announced that Shaun Tan's 'The Lost Thing' won an
Oscar & she announced that Karel is coming back to KGO for the 7pm-10pm
weekend slots & there were various follow-ons for the Oscars

Dave C announced that Potlatch will also be this weekend at the Domain &
tomorrow night the Letterman show will have a musical number from the
Spiderman musical

Chris announced that Cinequest is beginning

Bill announced that FogCon will be in 2 weeks - Andy added 'Holiday in
GoldenGate'

Reviews
Gallifrey 1 was multiply reviewed:  Andy said it was epic - bloated, insane
& tremendous - with great parties; [evil] Kevin was awesome in recovering
purloined vodka & the parties went until 4am, 4am and 2:30am; the tiki dalek
went for a successful cruise in the halls & the drive back was ... a drive -
worth full price; the live body count was over 2000; [evil] Kevin said there
are videos and pictures of the tiki dalek on Facebook and elsewhere; Lisa
reviewed that lobbycon started on Tuesday & it was an amazing time - it
stormed outside and was ugly but they were safe inside with the robot fish &
her donated handmade Dr Who scarf was auctioned off for $400 for the con's
charity; Dave C reviewed it as the Dealer's room was near double last year &
'Gallifrey been bery, bery good to me'; Ken reviewed that they got to
recycle their Spamalot costumes & were fabulously popular; Geri reviewed
'best con ever!'; Ken added 'go next year and get a room!'

John reviewed Oscar films showed together - Winter's Bone, Black Swan,
Inception & Social Network as a great experience - 12 straight hours of film
- then he watched the Oscars the next day and actually agreed with most of
the top picks; Adrienne follow-on'd that she also enjoyed the movies being
shown together

Dave C reviewed 'The Osiris Ritual' by George Mann as steampunkish but kind
of 'by the numbers' and worth paperback & reviewed 'Unknown' as worth full
price

Howeird reviewed 'Death of a Salesman' at the Pear theatre [
http://www.thepear.org/] as fairly well acted - worth full price & worth
making reservations for

Diane reviewed the 'Saffron Kitchen' by Yasmin Crowther as very well done &
even better done on DVD

Carole reviewed Conflict as a good time was had by all - despite sound
issues & worth full price

Adrienne reviewed 'Winter's Bone' as she loved it - 'Inception' & 'Black
Swan' as not her kind of movies & 'Social Network' as nice

Ken reviewed 'Xanadu the musical' at the Retrodome as very funny

Bob reviewed having fun with Mentos and soda with kids watching as great fun


We did auctions:  a video for $0.50;  a book for $0.25;  comic books for
$6.00  & DVDs for $6.00


We adjourned at = 10:11 pm

The rumor of the week was: 'President Trey is our beloved leader'


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