Meeting 1090 June 20, 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 pm - with a nod towards fascists & Chris Garcia officiating we established a party jar 24 people attended The minutes for meeting 1089 were accepted as 'florally enhanced' the Treasurer reported that at meeting 1089 we took in $28.71 in the regular jar & $41.75 in the party jar - and that Aatheus forgot the magazine he bought at BASFA auction last week The VP almost had nothing fannish to report as there was no new 'Drink Tank' out - but he is still looking for reviews of the Hugo nominated novels - send them to him at gar...@computerhistory.org The President was not present The Sports Committee reported that Star Wars at at the Giants will be Sept 4 It is possible that there will be a BASFA meeting at Coco's on July 4 Announcements: Bob announced that there is a new e2PMI out on efanzines.com with a gorgeous Mo cover Adrienne announced that there's a 'Chicago Ghost Conference III' Sept30-Oct 1 at the Portage theatre, membership $35.00 & an $83.00 room rate at the Comfort Inn Dave C announced that Neil Gaiman is coming out to talk in California - but the event is already sold out [evil] Kevin announced that he has the jam with Alex up on his LJ from the IBM centennial & that he'll be the Master of Ceremonies for the Westercon Masquerade - plus the Tiki Dalek was in the 'Dr Who Insider' Dann announced that starting July 6 and for the next 6 weeks there will be free concerts at the Santa Clara Central Park off Kiely ave Ken announced that there will be a Legion of Rasselon meeting at the Carl's Jr this Friday, 7:30 at 1st & Trimble Ed announced that Scalzi's 'Fuzzy Nation' was a good read Andy announced that an important olive-based fact will be published this Friday sometime on Twitter & Facebook Lisa announced that Westercon is in 2 weeks & there will likely be a BASFA meeting at the bar at 6pm - then [tall] Kevin follow-on'd that there will be 2 Match Games at Westercon Mo announced that they are moving and need boxes desperately Reviews: Jo reviewed 'Kung Fu Panda 2' as an excellent direct-to-DVD follow-on but that it wasn't exactly a movie Adrienne reviewed 'Feed' by Mira Grant [Seanan McGuire] as hard for her to struggle through and that there was too much exposition; Chris follow-on'd that he couldn't finish it, I follow-on'd that I found it a quick read and enjoyed it & especially enjoyed that the author lied to the readers because the protagonists were being lied to [tall] Kevnin - AKA 'Cuddles' reviewed that as he drove back from Oregon he passed from winter to spring to summer - and that it rained mightily upon him when he was in Oregon & he heartily recommends 'Camp 18' in Oregon as an excellent restaurant Ed [see announcements] also reviewed 'Super 8' as the best train crash ever - Chris followed that 'The Case' was an excellent little film & then Ed reviewed 'Green Lantern; as a well-done comic book Dave C reviewed the syfy 'Moby Dick' as he could only take 2 minutes of it before fleeing the house to go see 'Troll Hunter' - a 'documentary' & in comparison he gives it his full out recommendation & that it was worth full price [Bill's comment was 'so this was Mutual of Oslo's Wild Kingdom?'] Harold reviewed 'Falling Skies' as worth whatever the hell is shown Sundays ['Not Iron Chef! - last night was Battle lemon!'] - while Andy followed that it wasn't a complete crapfest & [evil] Kevin wanted his 4 hours back; then Harold reviewed 'Countdown' on Current TV as he plans to keep watching it & reviewed 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' as highly recommended in 3D and had pretentious narration [evil] Kevin reviewed a 'Vex of Velociraptors' as excellent Mo - AKA 'Fluffy' - reviewed 'King of Kong' as really worth watching Carole reviewed Whoopi Goldberg giving a talk ash she is a very enjoyable speaker who uses the 'f' word a lot, but it was still worth full price Chris reviewed 'Super 8' & '5 Guys Burgers' as both are highly recommended & reviewed 'Xmen 1st Class' as the fx were very good & worth $3.85 we adjourned at 9:28 pm Rumor of the Week: 'Chris wishes he had issues' And then there were auctions: birthday auctioned off Carole for $9.00 to Bill & then other things were sold -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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