Meeting 1139 May 28, 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 very 8-ish We established a party jar 26 people attended The minutes of meeting 1138 were accepted as '4-con hangover' the Treasurer reported that 'we have money' The VP was not present The President had nothing fannish to report The Party Committee had parties at Clockwork Alchemy on Friday night & at Baycon on Saturday & Sunday - all went quite well - and Aatheus is the new Party Maven Announcements: Ken announced that his Eurovision special is archived KFJC.com & his next special will be this Thursday, 10am-2pm - "Owl Stretching Time" Geri volunteered to be the Cimema Committee & announced that the AMC theatres will have a Frankenstein special event on June 6-7 Adrienne announced that there will be a Bay Area Ghost Hunters meet up this Saturday, 1pm at the Moss Beach Distillery, $42 to attend John O announced that next year BayCon's writer GoH is Lois McMasters Bujold & that the fan GoHs will be John & Chris O'Halloran Chris O announced that she is BayCon's reigning Fluxx champion Ed suggested that BASFA needs to advertize itself to draw in new blood Carole announced that Clockwork Alchemy did well this year and that there WILL be another Clockwork Alchemy next year [yay!] Dave G announced that Borderlands in SF will host Mary Robinette Kowal at 3pm & Mira Grant [Seanan McGuire] at 6pm & John O followed with the news that the Newsflesh series has been optioned Reviews: Lisa reviewed Clockwork Alchemy as really nice for a 1st-time convention - and that trying to go to 3 cons is insane; all who followed gave opinions about how excellent the con was - except for getting registered - & Ed mentioned that Baycon offered a linked membership discount for those trying to go to all 3 cons Diane reviewed BayCon as phenominal - worth her lost sleep, that the BASFA and Westercon parties were wonderful and that she WILL be going back; Dave C said Dealers Room was moved and that was a good change overall; & other comments about the con were positive and that it had a lot of good spirit, cheer & enthusiasm Mo reviewed Fanime as she & Dann worked the Art Show, that it was excellent and space for it will be quadrupled for next year - that the resin dragon was incredible & the costumes were tremendous; again all following comments were positive - except that registration was a bear, not helped by a power outage at one point Terri reviewed 'The Avengers' movie as full of eye candy for women, it was funny & extrememly loud - very enjoayable; John O said that in loud theatres you might miss the best line 'Puny god' - although Ed voted that 'Hulk ... smash' was the better line; & Dave G finally saw the shawarma scene Dave G reviewed the Nebula Awards Banquet as a lot of fun & recommended it John O reviewed Maker's Faire as growing bigger every year & amazingly cool to walk thru - you need to go both days to see everything - the parking is a problem & Fred suggested 'friending' them on Facebook so you can buy tickets to go at the best possible price [tall] Kevin reviewed seeing 'Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show' as well worth re-seeing and the $44 ticket price; Lisa also enjoyed it & applauded the set crew we did auctions we adjourned at 10:03 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'next year no Jersey Shore LARP' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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