Meeting 1143 June 25, 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 at 8pm, with mad props to Josh! We established a party jar 32 people attended The minutes of meeting 1142 were accepted as 'who is Kaiser Permanente?' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $7.90 in the regular jar and $1.25 in the party jar The VP reported 'Hi Ric, hi Deb, hi BASFA' relayed from Lynda and then he said that the next issue of 'Drink Tank' will have a Mo cover & there should be a new 'Journey Planet' out 'soon' & the next issue of 'Apex' will have an article he wrote in it The President had nothing fannish to report The AdHoc Cinema Committee says that the Retrodome will have 'Young Frankenstein' there in 2 weeks - show up ... & in costume The Sports Committee reports that it's 7-0 Giants vs Dodgers in the 3rd inning and he won't be at Westercon Announcements: Ken announced that this Friday he will get a degree from Foothill College Andy announced that Westercon will be in Seattle in 2 weeks & that they will host parties on Friday & Saturday night - they could use help; [tall] Kevin added that there will be a 'thru the wormhole' Tonopah party Friday & will chair the Westercon Business meeting on Friday as well & will be absent from BASFA for the next 2 weeks; Lynn says she'll be at Westercon & doing a concert Saturday at 7:30; & Bill, Carole & Lisa will all be there too [evil] Kevin announced that there will be 'totally normal' parties Friday & Saturday nights & the secret decoder ring is up on running on their site & Chris announced that Frank Wu is Westercon's artist GoH Ric announced that the next Pachakachakachakachachacha will be in San Jose & he is now affiliated with SPUR & announced that Janet Higgins says that RVawardsaz.com is not going out of business Chris then volunteered to be on a club awards committee Bob announced that on Sunday the A's won a game Chris announced that there was a controversy in the world of Steampunk & some of it was really good stuff - check lavietidhar.blogspot.com <<the secretary checked & said link did not exist in any form - however there IS = http://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/ which seems to be what Chris was talking about>> Reviews: Debbie reviewed a Gail Carriger reading as lovely and Gail had a wonderful hat Bob reviewed a Borderlands event with 3 authors - David Brin, AM Dellamonica & JA Pitts as a marvellous experience, he had a great time Lynn reviewed Hawaii as wonderful & she found more kinds of Spam there than you could possibly imagine Ric reviewed Hawaii as he prefers maui & its moonscape, enjoyed the volcano tour & reviewed 'Cards against Humanity' as helped into existance by Kickstarter & available on Amazon [for $25 & $10 for the expansion] & he recommends both Dave C reviewed 'Masked' by Lou Anders - a superhero anthology - as worth trade papaerback & interesting - and reviewed a 'documentary' = 'Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter' as it needed a larger budget & thought the book was better; Ric commented it was more 'Crouching Lincoln, Hidden Vampire' & Dave C then reviewed the Youtube of 'Gamer Girl, Country Boy' as worth checking out I reviewed 'Brave' as very pretty and fluffy and fun to watch - that I enjoyed the bears and Meridia's hair - and thought it worth full price; Carole very much enjoyed it [worth matinee]; Bill found it pretty but predictable Bill reviewed 'Slabscape' as he will be very disappointed if it turns out to be a computer simulation & reviewed the 'Avengers' as there were too many multipurpose devices, but still found it worth full price - and a second viewing; Diane reviewed it as a delightful romp & Brad sees it is now #28 on the all-time list Carole reviewed the Coast Starlight as a nice train ride, but at 11-12 hours, make sure to bring your own food Diane reviewed Ian MacDonald's 'Cyberabad Days' as well-written and very good and she may have another new favorite author Dave G reviewed SETIcon as generally pleasant & they had a good time [it drew 500-600]; Brad reviewed it as he went and enjoyed the panels on extra-solar planets & got good pictures we did auctions we adjourned at 9:41 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'Crouching Lincoln, hidden vampires' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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