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' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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