Meeting 1087 May 30, 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-ish pm - with comments on reality TV we established a party jar 30 people attended The minutes for meeting 1086 were accepted as 'better than the Baycon dead dog party' the Treasurer reported that he had eaten and that at meeting 1086 we took in $28.75 in the regular jar & $13.25 in the party jar The VP reported that there's a new 'Claims Department' on efanzines.com - and a new issue of 'Exhibition Hall' is out and yes ... yes - the next 'Journey Planet' has no theme - with a deadline in mid-July & he plans to start 2 new zines - 'DANGER Zone' and 'Actual Bed Head' The President greeted our 2 guests - Baycon Guests of Honor - Mary Robinette Kowal & John Picacio Announcements: Lisa announced that Westercon has a Baycon discount for membership that is good till June 5th and she has all the Westercon reg stuff with her here & that registration can be done online with the code 'pancetta' Mike announced that there will be free concerts at Vasona Park every Saturday in June & July Bob announced that there is a new issue of E2PMI available on efanzines.comfrom about 10 days ago - also check http://www.radio-sf.com/home/fanzines/e2pmi-zine [evil] Kevin announced that the newest issue of 'Yipe' is about to come out & Jason has had a learning experience Chris announced that fan artist and writer Terry Jeeves had died Reviews: Baycon was reviewed - Mo found enthusiasm for Silicon there and sold many memberships & had a good time; Dave C was confined to the Dealer's room, sales were 'meh' and he witnessed a possible coup - saw the fireworks and then the car alarm chorus, worth full price; Bill had fun, saw good panels and noted that filking had a lot of noisy competition; Carole noted 'Hiss and Purr' took 2 hours, she had a good time & thought they ran too many similar panels at the same time in competition for the same audience; Lisa enjoyed what she saw but spent most of her time at either the Westercon table or the Westercon room party - and outside of their party it felt dead - she also felt the handicapped hotel rooms were tiny & designed bizarrely; Chris was very popular as a GoH tour guide & his fanzine lounge helped save the con for him - plus Chris helped pimp Mary Robinette Kowal's book 'Shades of Milk & Honey' [check www.shadesofmilkandhoney.com] & overall he had a wonderful time & enjoyed bringing both of Baycon's GoH's here to BASFA; [evil] Kevin desperately needed to relax and his panels went well - although he is allergic to unicorns - and they invented both 'The Miskatonic' and 'The Lovecraftian Hawaiian Spritzer' and the Tiki Dalek pwned the entire convention & had his own ribbon chain; Mary Robinette Kowal was in love with Tiki Dalek; Diane was sucked into Baycon by the power of the Tiki Dalek conga line; Adrienne thought the con's energy level was down & Dave G managed a very elaborate pun Then I reviewed '13 Assassins' as a vigorous movie about getting samurai killed, worth matinee & reviewed 'Kung Fu Panda 2' as not as good as the first movie but still better than most others, although the end credits aren't really worth sitting thru - still worth full price; Trey opined that both movies were worth matinee Dann reviewed the art show in Fanime as he was really impressed with what he saw & he has a ball every year he is there - the costuming is excellent and the energy level is extreme & 22,000 attendees were incredibly polite and well-managed; Mo follow-on'd that Fanime was wonderful, the city loves them and the costumes are fabulous John O reviewed Fanime as there were some light rail/transportation adventures & the con was bustling with activity - that artist alley was immense, larger than the dealer's room & definitely worth going down to check out Fred reviewed SkeptiCal - a small Berkeley skeptic's convention - as very interesting We did auctions: DVDs for $1.00, $0.25, $0.25, $0.25, $0.25 & $0.25; magazines for $0.25 & a box for $5.00 we adjourned at 9:47 pm Rumor of the Week: 'Looks like a good place to dump the body' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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