Meeting 1148 July 30, 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 8ish - with better coverage of the Olympics here than offered by NBC We established a party jar 30 people attended The minutes of meeting 1147 were accepted as 'missing in action' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $2.88 in the regular jar and $4.00 in the party jar The VP has a new issue of 'Drink Tank' out - with a Mo cover - & the theme of the next 'Journey Planet' will be about James Bonds The President reported that he went to SoCalif and saw a BASFAn there - Craig Ferguson - & that in minutes 23 & 45 you can see the backs of his [and my own] heads The AdHoc Cinema Committee's mouthpiece reports that 'Hair' is showing at the Retrodome this weekend The Sports Committee reported that 10 BASFAns asked for tickets to the Giants/Cubs game at Wrigley Field during ChiCon 7 - on Friday Aug 31 - and that he now has purchased them Announcements: Adrienne announced that on there'll be a Ghost Tour in Chicago, first day of the Worldcon, Thursday, Aug 30 - the Haunted City tour, in a tour bus, $26 in advance, $28 as a walk up & also announced that the Bay Area Ghost Hunters group now numbers 800 members Chris announced that the Eaton Conference at UC Riverside has announced their honorees for next February & he announced that he'll be running Fanzine Lounge at Worldcon & it will be in function space [so no beer] Josh announced that there will be an Alton Brown lecture soon at the SJ Convention Center [he is arranging it for February or March next year] Lisa announced that there's a convention coming up: Mythcon this weekend at UC Berkeley - check for info at www.mythcon.org Mo announced that she has won an award for original art [& we cheered her] Dave G announced that there are 27 hours left to vote on the Hugos Reviews: Chris reviewed Sacramento as his favorite city in the world, it's pretty & reviewed his sense of direction as moronic & reviewed getting lost as aethetically pleasing & reviewed the Peking Restauraunt in fairmont as awesome - the best Chinese food place ever! Adrienne reviewed sharing a hotel room with Mo at the Hilton Anders West with Mo as they had loud neighbors & the bathroom was small; while Mo reviewed the rest of the room as being reasonably large - with an excellent climate control & then they had a drive-by Gallahering ; [tall] Kevin commented on the mall near there as having not wee-configured sidewalks - but that there's a nice thrift bakery close by & it's a 3 hour train ride from the Bay Area [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Airplane', seen at the Retrodome as fun & Josh reviewed it as he thought it was worth full price AND shaving his head for, while Chris thought it was awesome Bradford reviewed San Diego as he saw Ringo Starr perform there & enjoyed the show JC reviewed that seeing an old theatre demolished raised a strong sense of nostalgia in him we did auctions we adjourned at 9:27 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'God! Oh God! Oh dear God!' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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