Meeting 1082 April 25, 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 at 8:00 pm - with much whooping 24 people attended We established a party jar The minutes for meeting 1081 were accepted as 'go go Godzilla!' there was no Treasurer or Treasurer's report The VP reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' & the next 'Drink Tank' after that will be about 'Forbidden Planet' & he got nominated for a 'couple of Hugos' and MO also got nominated for a Hugo and for next Easter he will be the Fanzine GoH at MiniCon The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee ninja reminds that the Giants outing will be real soon - Friday, May 6, at AT&T Park A motion was made to establish a regular discussion time and the sense of the meeting was positive, so Chris and Bruce then formed the 'Discussion Committee' Ken & Geri present bottles of wine to Chris and Mo to congratulate their Hugo nominations Chris moved to have the 'space clam' named the BASFA club mascot, but this failed Announcements: Ed announced that he saw Michael Wallis at an ERPs meeting and that Wallis's mom has a Worldcon membership for sale Howeird announced that May 7 is Trains Day & announced that tomorrow he is having a heart test done & positive thoughts will be appreciated & announced that he brought experimental pickles for tasting & auction Ken announced that the Legion of Rasselon meeting will be this Friday at the usual place and time [7:30pm, 1st & Trimble] Mike announced that there'll be a Doug Young guitar night at the Mission City Coffee Roasting Company in Santa Clara [2221 the Alameda] - on Sunday, May 1, 7-9pm for $5 Reviews: Valerie reviewed the Pop Culture Association Conference as there were a lot of papers delivered there and it was a friendly gathering [evil] Kevin reviewed the 1st new episode of this season's Dr Who as very dark and he recommends it & Andy follow-on's that [redacted] and others spoke a bit Chris reviewed his own voice as worth full price & reviewed 'Scream 4' as it had some problems - like the script - but he liked the short skirts in it & reviewed a customer last Sunday as 'best customer EVAR' & reviewed re-watching 'Twi' stuff had him try to re-read 'Twi 3' and -stopped-, wondering 'the HELL?!' and made reading 'Breaking Dawn' the equivalent of Dostoevsky Julie was left stunned by this but still managed to review her new toy - a bluray player with a Netflix package as definitely worth the price she paid for it Andy reviewed a blog, 'Adventures with the Wife in time' - a couple blogging about watching the full Dr Who run as utterly brilliant, completely cracktacular & recommends following it We did auctions: a book for $2.00; yummy pickles for $2.00; candy for $0.25, $0.25, $1.00 & $0.50 we adjourned at 9:38 pm Rumor of the Week: 'we will rouse from our coma to give at least 1 more rumor' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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