Meeting 1084 May 9, 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 President and secretary were absent Vice President presiding Adrienne Foster, acting minute taker Began with abrupt punctuality at 8:00 p.m. 23 people attended We established a party jar Minutes for meeting 1083 were accepted as a maze of twisty little sentences all different Treasurer reported that last week we took $18.75 in the general fund; 0¢ in the party jar VP reported a new Drink Tank is out with a cover by our Hugo-nominated MO. He's currently putting together his "Handicapping the Hugos" ish and the Dune issue of Journey Planet is out. The president had nothing fannish to report, since he wasn't there. Sports committee reported it was a cold night at AT&T Park last Friday and there will be a Star Wars night. There are no plans to arrange a special group for BASFA. Announcements: Glenn reminded everyone that Westercon 64 is happening on Independence Day weekend. For more details, please go to: http://www.westercon64.org/ Bruce says that Google Earth is looking at skies now. Go to http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmado/2011/05/hkwef.jpg for that. Lisa announced that Mythcon memberships will be on sale at BayCon. Details can be found at: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/42/ Dave C. announced that the National Theatre will be doing Frankenstein at various locations around the Bay Area. On May 21 the world is going to end and he thanks familyradio.com for scheduling it on the weekend. Ken announced he's doing a "Mayhem" show on KFJC this Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reviews: Valerie thought that the Hunger Games books were an enjoyable post apocalyptic trilogy. Glenn said that up next on sports.com has some really amusing videos. Leprecon was a real relaxed convention and pleasant. Nothing bad happened to him enroute when he was being patted down by the TSA. He had a good time in Arizona. Adrienne reviewed the 1951 movie Rhubarb as worth seeing. The animals give amazing performances and it has a very young Leonard Nimoy playing one of the ball players. Harold said the Mosley fight was really boring. Carole reviewed CostumeCon in New Jersey as decent, but she had an issue with one of the masquerade judges. The next CostumeCon will be in Phoenix. Andy was non-committal about his Continental flight. Their Tiki Dalek won an award and has been invited to be an exhibit at Renovation. He said CostumeCon was worth going to Hasbrook Heights, NJ. Kevin judged the historical masquerade and despite feeling a little out of his element, was aware of details the others weren't. He doesn't want to do this every year. MO reviewed an exhibit at ATAP (All Things Are Possible) as remarkable. Eight students were given the same art assignment and seeing how they interpreted it was put on display. She was impressed and highly recommends it. It's small and open to the public. Really worth full price. Dann says a YouTube video called "Swing Girls" is awesome and well worth looking up. Fred went to a SF in SF gathering and highly recommends it. Chris saw Thor and enjoyed it until he saw J. Michael Strazcynski did the story. Worth a little better than matinee. He thought "A Fistful of Paintballs" on Community is the greatest TV episode ever. He also said that another YouTube video, "Roll a D6," is genius and worth having a computer. We did auctions. Rumor of the Week: "It will be picking marine mammal out of its teeth for decades." Adjourned 9:41 p.m.
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