Meeting 1166 December 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 at 8pm 32 people attended A party jar was established The minutes of meeting 1165 were accepted as 'the Twinkie of Hastings' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $4.60 in the regular jar & $3.85 in the party jar The Vice President reported that Lynda says 'hi' - that the newest 'Journey Planet' should be up on efanzines.com any minute now - that there are -2- new 'Drink Tanks out - and a 3rd on the way The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee is looking at Friday, May 10 vs the Braves [for $29!] The AdHoc Outing Committee is making plans for a probable mid-week outing to see 'The Hobbit' in about 2 weeks Announcements: Dave G announced that their Solstice Porty will be 7-ish on Dec 29 - Saturday - and announced that Dec 5 is when Prohibition was repealed, so drink up - responsibly Dave C announced that there's a con coming up - May 10-12 - Blastercon in Woodland Hills, CA Sandra announced that the Bulls are playing hockey and she can obtain/give out tickets if we're interested Ken announced that they got the 'magic knife' [evil] Kevin announced that Westercon is doing a membership push so they can get a toastmaster - $65 [with $5 off if you use the secret word 'turkey'] - and announced that he's trying to get a holiday 'Yipe' out & is looking for pictures of holiday-themed sweaters - send to edi...@yipezine.com Tom announced that there's a new SFinSF out on efanzines.com - and check it out JC announced that episode #5 of the Nerdvana podcast should be out by tomorrow Reviews: Dave G reviewed SMOFcon as abbreviated, since he couldn't be there for the entire weekend, but it was a great convention for the sleep-deprived & he highly recommends Virgin America airlines Dave C reviewed 'American Horror Story - Asylum' as an insane show ['trying to be 'lost' but less coherant' - Andy] Chris reviewed the Los Gatos Christmas parade as awesome - it had clowns that terrified the kids & he reviewed using his crockpot as a science experiment as the result 'smelled of death' & he recommends a short film called 'Zombeo and Juliecula' Tom reviewed his Honda Fit EV as 'almost like being in the future' - fun - and worth double what he paid for it Ric reviewed 'Saga' by Brian K Vaughn as an amazing comic & highly recommended & then reviewed 'The Walking Dead' as there'll be no new episodes out for a while & that Telltale Games has released a zombie game for PC/360/Steam [Howeird: 'she loves him for his looks, he loves her for her brains'] Ken reviewed LonestarCon's website as horrible & reviewed 'Santastic!' at the Retrodome as a great little show We did auctions we adjourned at 9:22 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'That wasn't a bid' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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