Meeting 1144 July 2, 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 after 8 - with those of us NOT watching 'Spiderman' We established a party jar 22 people attended The minutes of meeting 1143 were accepted as 'excessively abbreviated' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $12.48 in the regular jar and $39.75 in the party jar The VP tried to see 'Spiderman' but he was one of the 700 turned away - and reported that there's a new issue of 'Drink Tank' out ... he thinks ... & a new 'Journey Planet' out 'soon' because he has the files for it on him now The President had nothing fannish to report The AdHoc Cinema Committee's mouthpiece reports that there'll be a 'quote-a-long' at the Retrodome for 'Young Frankenstein' this weekend ... & costumes are encouraged Announcements: Howeird announced that on July 4th there'll be various things at Shoup park in Los Altos - including music provided by Ye Olde Town Band Dave C announced that Dr Who has a plan to conquer America & that the June 2012 Cargo Cult catalog is now out Valerie announced that she has published a new book - 'The Free Guide to Self Publishing & Book Promotion' Mo announced that since the week is ultra-busy there will not be a 'Free 1st Friday' in San Jose & reminded us to PAY for our food Andy announced that the Summer Swedish outdoor season has begun - view on tv4play.se & svtplay.se - it's fun & wacky & announced that at Westercon their party suite [room #1363 = [evil] Kevin] will have parties Friday & Saturday & announced that he finished 'Leviathan Wakes' so he can do the review for Chris Reviews: Ken reviewed his gratduation as he was under-reported & it was probably still worth full price & the party the next day was fun - Mo agreed Harold reviewed a fight as 2 judges got it right & reviewed John Scalzi's 'Redshirts' as a quick & easy read - worth ebook price - with the codas being the best parts of the book & he also reviewed the 'Cracked' website & its parody of 'Game of Thrones' as it got him to see the series & is somewhat seductive Chris 'Brave' as a fun movie that he's 'bearish' about - it was pretty, he saw it twice & liked the preview - & was worth the 4 gift certificates he used - then there were neeps about 3D we did auctions we adjourned at 9:06 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'If the moon is cheese, then Jupiter is bacon' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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