Meeting 2000

August 29, 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 Chris but without his Hugo

22 people attended

we established a party jar

The minutes for meeting 1099 were accepted as 'to the point'

the Treasurer arrived late  - but a proxy Treasurer report is that at
meeting 1099 we took in $9.55 in the regular jar & $7.10 in the party jar

The VP reported that there was no 'Drink Tank' out - he was resting on his
laurels and distracted by his shiny Hugo - but he plans to write one soon &
that the next 2 'Journey Planets' will have themes of Sherlock Holmes &
Bladerunner

The President had nothing fannish to report

Announcements:
Adrienne announced that she had had a miserable week & that local fan Paul
Metz had died

Ken announced that tomorrow he will be doing a fun radio show about John
Peel - a BBC radio DJ - on KFJC from 2-6pm

Dave C announced that the August 'Cargo Cult' catalog was out & he is having
some publisher drama

Jo announced that he will be working for Tango next week

Chris announced that Ann Vandemeer is no longer going to be editing 'Weird
Tales' and it makes him sad, like cancer

Reviews:
Chris reviewed 'Unwoman Uncovered Volume 1' of her doing covers of other
songs as fantastic & well worth getting & reviewed the last 2 episodes of
'True Blood' as a tease & still pretty good & reviewed Carrie Vaughn's
'After the Golden Age' as pretty good, worth paperback

Diane reviewed a tapas place, 'Alegrias' in SF on Van Ness as having
delightful food & Chris agreed'

Jo reviewed 'Crazy Stupid Love' as it surprised him, that it was geared for
adults & not predictable, had reasonable choices & was worth full price & he
reviewed Chris' acceptance speech for the Hugo as worthy of nomination for
best short dramatic film
http://videosift.com/video/Greatest-Hugo-Acceptance-Speech-of-All-Time

then Renovation was reviewed again ... a ton.  Adrienne thought the ap was
great & the free wifi was good when it worked & she was very impressed when
[tall] Kevin handled a part of the WSFS business meeting & hopes they let
him handle all of it next year & reviewed the Dr Who stuff with River Song
as very contrived; Carole commented that the Orlando in 2015 bid is not
technically all under the same roof;  Jo said the ap didn't work if the wifi
didn't work;  Dave C agreed about the Dr Who as being contrived; Bill
commented that filking had problems with where it was placed & the smoke was
bad & the con facilities were far flung; Carole liked the programming
volunteers;  Mo also thought it was too spread out & she missed seeing some
panels but others she did see were excellent - met great people and had a
great time & 'Vice President Adorable' gave the Masquerade 4 stars

Howeird said Ye Olde Town Band gave another free park concert and it was
bigger than before, they got a standing ovation & a retirement home took up
a collection for them; he reviewed Motorola's re-hiring of him as he's been
warmly welcomed back and it's been worth full price

Carole reviewed funding & bringing out an East Coast costumer to Worldcon as
well worth full price

Bill reviewed 'Cowboys vs Aliens' as truth in advertising & full of mindless
fun - worth either matinee or DVD & Carole approved of Daniel Craig as
eye-candy

Ed mused on attending his 1st Worldcon long ago as he went mainly to see
Alan E Nourse - who wrote 'Bladerunner' as he had a great time then

We did auctions =  buttons for $0.50;  books for $1.00, $0.25, $1.00, $0.25,
$2.00, $1.25, $1.00, $1.00, $1.00, $3.00, $0.75, $1.00;  books on CD for
$6.00;  various Worldcon things for $0.10, $0.10 & $0.10 & luggage for $0.50

we adjourned at 9:26 pm

Rumor of the Week:  'Chris' next project will be Mr Adorable's weep-along
blog'



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