Meeting 1120 January 16, 2012
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 8:00 pm - with a Fus-Ro-Dah 29 people attended We established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1119 were accepted as 'I want to see Chris hop on that wagon' The Treasurer was not present The VP reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' out - focused on 'Scanners' & there's a deadline approaching for the next one The President had nothing fannish to report Hugo nomination nights will be Jan30, Feb 6 & Feb 13 The Sports Committee notes the Australian Open is starting The Party Committee reported that there was a fun party at FurCon & the bar goes better with Cheese Announcements: Ken announced that the 10 year anniversary party for the Legion of Rassilon will be Jan 28, Saturday at the Carrows from 2-6 pm Bill announced that he & Carole will be at Conflict in Seattle in 2 weeks Carole announced that Clockwork Anime will host a steampunk con over the Memorial day weekend at the Doubletree Bradford announced that the Computer History museum is impressive Reviews: I reviewed 'Tinker Tailor' as a very good adaptation of the book & worth full price; Trey followed that the movie started at a sedate pace & got slower from there & Gary Oldman was exceptional Chris reviewed 'Nth Zine' as excellent, with reviews and fiction - then reviewed a wiki 'list of sandwiches' as the best wiki page ever Josh reviewed the Fancy Food show in ALL of Moscone Center as delightful - all the free samples you can nom - 'A Mecca of food', well worth full price Ric reviewed 'Repo the genetic Opera' as it has an amazing soundtrack & reviewed 'Cat Shit 1' as an amazing anime and worth the $20 for DVD because of all the extras Mo reviewed her cold as she hates it & reviewed the collection of 'Kolchak' TV shows and the original 2 movies as they still hold up well, worth full price Fred reviewed a podcast retrospective of Robert Anton Wilson as worthwhile and available thru Boing Boing Adrienne reviewed 'Game of Shadows' as an interesting interpretation but she needed to sleep more before going to the late showing Dann reviewed 'Warhorse' as incredible, beautifully filmed and worth full price Bob reviewed the Terry Pratchett podcast - 3 parts & on Youtube - as interesting, reviewed spending New Years Eve at an LA mall and the Orange County sf assoc had a nice NY eve party & he reviewed seeing the Rose Parade as it was wonderful, but definitely buy the seating and parking Lisa reviewed FurCon as great fun with decent parties; Dave commented that the Dealer's Room could not match his dreams of avarice, Mo thought there was a lot of diversity in furs this year & that next year's FC theme will be 'Furbidden Planet' Then we did auctions we adjourned at 10:03 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'Bay Area fans will have to be careful saying 'Go Giants' this week -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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