Meeting 1153 September 3, 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 - taking ourselves lightly 12 people attended The minutes of meeting 1152 were accepted as 'Mo-bettah Hugo' there was no Treasurer or proxy report The VP was not here The President had nothing fannish to report, except that he also mourns the murder of City of Heroes that is being killed with no warning by evil corporate lackeys The AdHoc Cinema Committee reported that 'Spaceballs' is showing at the Retrodome this weekend & the Saturday showing is the quote-a-long Announcements: Aatheus proxy announced that 'Iron sky' will be showing in redwood City Sept 20 if they sell enough pre-ordered ticked by Sept 11 [they need 60 to commit] - check www.tugg.com/events/1462 I announced my sadness about the CoH murder and recommended trying Star Wars the old Republic mmo Mike announced that the mercado is showing 'Flying Swords of Dragon Gate' in Imax this week Ric announced that PechaKucha will be Sept 14 in San Jose at 3pm & he's doing a Sept 16th web-seminar about powerpoint JC announced a death & introduced us to his wife, Beth [hi Beth!] Ken announced that Mo won a Hugo & announced [redacted] Debbie announced that Westercon 2013 hotel reservations is up and running Reviews: I reviewed Star Wars the old Republic mmo as a fun online game to play. The mmo is free to play to level 15, I'm on the Ebon hawk server & have been -very- impressed by the storylines Ric reviewed the Hugo-cast as great - until the 'cast was killed by Ustream - but he got to see Mo win [and there was more neepery about that] Debbie reviewed 'the Girl in the Steel Corset' by Kady Cross as a YA steampunk book that she enjoyed and it had an actual ending Ed reviewed Worldcon as fun and interesting - after he spent 5 days in the hospital - but he did NOT like Chicago; he approved of the large Dealer's Room & the art show was good - and he's still looking for a 'Galaxy' 1980, volume 40, #1 JC reviewed 'Bullet in the face' as 6 episodes of dark comedy that is awesome & highly recommended & he absolutely loves it - check IFC & then [redacted] Josh reviewed the UCBerkeley home opener as the renovations are awesome & the Bears lost & reviewed 'The Fisherman's Wife' as highly recommended & hilarious - it's playing at the Impact Theatre for the next 4 weeks Ken reviewed 'Moulon Rouge' as fun & fantastic and a pretty good crowd & reviewed the Dr Who episode seen Saturday as you really need to see the end We did auctions we adjourned at 9:13 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'this rumor redacted redacted redacted' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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