Correction: I was impressed with how Kevin Standlee handled the Westercon 64 business meeting and even more so after attend the WSFS meeting at Renovation, which Don Eastlake conducted. Kevin wasn't even sitting at the presiding officer's table. I had a real hard time following what was going on there and believe I may have even voted opposite how I intended because it wasn't clear what the issue was. Adrienne
--- On Tue, 8/30/11, melchar <melc...@gmail.com> wrote: From: melchar <melc...@gmail.com> Subject: [Basfa] BASFA minutes for Aug 29 To: "BASFA list" <ba...@basfa.org>, "chris garcia" <gar...@computerhistory.org> Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 6:49 PM 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' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com ******************* -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
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