Meeting 1097

August 8, 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 - looking for Captain Kirk's ego

33 people attended

The minutes for meeting 1096 were accepted as '4th dimensional space whales'

the Treasurer reported that meeting 1096 took in $2.75 in the regular jar &
$3.00 in the party jar

The VP reported that there's a 'Drink Tank' out with a Mo Starkey cover &
there will be a new 'Drink Tank' out 'soon' along with 2 'Journey Planets',
a 'L*I*S*P' & a 'Claims Department' - & he's planning to do something stupid
-> looking for 300 contributors for 'Drink Tank' #300; send them to
gar...@computerhistory.org

The President had nothing fannish to report except the upcoming Garcia
meltdown

It was moved and passed to annex the Montego Bay area as a part of the Bay
area for purposes of holding a BASFA meeting there, during Renovation

The meeting NUMBER for the Renovation BASFA meeting will be '7 come 11'

Ken did a 'Sports Committee-ish' report that there will be no Creature
Features night at the Giants this year & Dave G will be placing a Giants
tickets order for the Giants game on Aug 25 vs the Astros tomorrow, so talk
to him

Announcements:
Jo announced that he will be here next Monday with his van

Dave C announced that there is a move to erect a Robocop statue in Detroit &
announced that an Alaskan distillery has a salmon vodka

[tall] Kevin announced that Worldcon starts a week from this Wednesday and
runs from Wednesday till Sunday this time - says 'visit the business
meetings' & announced that 2100 Hugo ballots were cast - a record 46% of
eligible turnout & announced that Renovation will have live coverage at
their website of the Hugo awards - and that there will be text coverage as
well at thehugoawards.org & for Twitter check [hash tag] Hugos & also
announced that he is in the process of house buying

Howeird announced fannish birthdays [including Dustin Hoffman's]

Valerie announced that she is editing essays on how Harry Potter has
affected our culture

Adrienne announced that the Winchester Mystery house is holding auditions &
that she is concerned about the lack of interest in the ghost walk special
event for Renovation - may cancel it ]& announced that on Aug 6 Bay Area
Ghost Hunters will have a psychic at noon at the Livermore public library,
$10.00]

Andy announced that Renovation Masquerade registration is still open &
announced that next year has the San Diego Comic Con booked opposite
ReaderCon

Lisa announced that Westercon 66 will have a fan table at Renovation & would
appreciate some help

Radar announced that the 3rd annual Zombie Crawl will be in San Jose, August
31

Reviews:
I reviewed 'Harry Potter 7.2' as it was fun, worth seeing and worth full
price for 2D; Carole follow-on'd agreeing the 3D wasn't worth it & that even
allowing for changes from the book it was a good movie; Bill also mostly
agreed with that

[evil] Kevin reviewed the Shasta Estates as absolutely worth full price for
senior convalescence - recommending it

Adrienne reviewed episode 1 of 'The Franchise' as fun & worth seeing; then
reviewed a mockumentary called 'Come Fly with Me' as funny & excellent,
highly recommended

Jo reviewed 'Cowboys vs Aliens' as it was much better than he was expecting
- with lots of good man-flesh and a nice nipple scene - a decent mash-up,
worth full price; Chris follow-on'd that it was awesome and excellent

Diane reviewed the Fireside Inn in Montego Bay as 'absolutely do NOT go
there' & then reviewed the Sea Pines Golf Resort in Los Osos as
exceptionally good, extremely accessible - she wanted to bring the staff
home with her and it made her want to learn golf

Dave C reviewed the AMC Lowes at SF Metro as possibly the creepiest place he
has ever seen; reviewed 'Attack the Block' - an alien invasion flick - as
the heroes are a London street gang & it's worth full price & reviewed the
book 'Kitty & the Midnight Hour' by Carrie Vaughn as worth full price

Chris reviewed the slow cooker as the single best thing humankind has
invented & he highly recommends the triple crock pot by Crock Industries &
reviewed 'The Birth of Japanese American Baseball' as a wonderful
documentary & really good

Blackfeather reviewed 'Planet of the Apes' as too full of plot holes for him

Trey reviewed 'Captain America' as a nearly criminal waste of Hugo Weaving -
that the actor doing Cap was very good - it was worth matinee & not a waste
of time

We did auctions = birthday auctioned off Andy for $17.00 to Lisa & Bill;
sold books for $7.00 & $5.00;  a game for $3.00;  magazines for $2.00 &
$4.00,  CDs for $10.00,  & a bag plus 5” floppies for $0.25

we adjourned at 10:05 pm

Rumor of the Week:  'Mo Starkey's Hugo 2011 acceptance speech will be
nominated as best dramatic short form for 2012'



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