Meeting 1155 September 17, 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 24 people attended A party jar was established The minutes of meeting 1154 were accepted as 'Chris Garcia, MIA' the Treasurer showed up late and did not report The VP was MIA The President said 'hi' to Sten, originally from Sweden & now in the area - and had nothing fannish to report The AdHoc Cinema Committee reported that 'Hairspray the Musical' is showing at the Retrodome this weekend & that 'Iron Sky' will show [confirmed] in Cupertino at the AMC Cupertino Square Sept 20, 7:30pm [tickets obtained from tugg.com] - [there is also an 'Iron Sky' Sept 19, 7:30pm showing -confirmed- at the Santa Clara AMC Mercado] Announcements: [tall] Kevin announced that on Wednesday there will be a talk given by Christian Wolmar, a British rails expert, on his new book about US rail, 'The Great Railroad Revolution', at 6pm, at the Mechanic's Institute, 51 Polk St, SF JC announced that his daughter's soccer team are now 3-0 & that Sept 28 is the premiere of this season's 'Big Bang Theory' Howeird announced that he is in a production of 'Anything Goes', playing at the Satitoga Civic Theatre, Friday, Saturdays and Sunday thru October 6th and he recommends it Ed announced that 'have Spacesuit will Travel' is due out in 2013 Bradford announced that he has had his 3rd academic review of his book Lisa announced that Sept 22 is Hobbit Day & that [evil] Kevin won't be here tonight Reviews: Harold reviewed 'Iron Sky' as it's funny, makes reference to other films & has extensive credits - worth paying to see twice & recommended Josh reviewed the 'Ring Cycle' [all 4 parts] on KQUD/KQEH as he really liked it, the set didn't upstage the actors & is worth seeing and even buying Fred reviewed DragonCon as huge & crowded, a lot of fun & he has a wonderful time - then Mo commented that Jan Price does their parade [tall] Kevin reviewed the train ride back from Worldcon as it's warm in San Antonio & the train was early everywhere - they got into LA at 4am Dave C reviewed 'The Janus Affair' by Ballantine & Morris as steampunk fantasy, enjoyable and fun We did auctions we adjourned at 9:20 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'BASFA is one step closer to completing its Swedish fan collection' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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