Minor corrections, kindly addressed: >> Ric reviewed the 'Fringe' series finale as he really enjoyed it & >> herecommends a new comic called 'The Highway' by John Byrne as hard sf &also >> recommended a manga series 'The Drops of God' as really excellent Byrne's comic is called "The High Ways" which is a perfectly reasonable mistake innot taking my pausing to mean two words here. By the way, it's hard sci-fi somewhatrealistic space stuff: http://www.idwpublishing.com/news/article/2431And while I'm at that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Gouttes_de_Dieu >> We did auctions We did not. :-)
Ric Bretschneider ricbret.com Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:37:44 -0800 From: melc...@gmail.com To: ba...@basfa.org; gar...@computerhistory.org Subject: [Basfa] BASFA minutes for Jan 28 Meeting 1174 January 28, 2013 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 – with superheroic tropes and threats of Joe Biden 28 people attended A party jar was established The minutes of meeting 1173 were accepted as 'minutes not being reviewed' the Treasurer was not here The Vice President commented that he didn't know where to go & then reported that the newest 'Drink Tank' is in his hand now - and will be out soon The President had nothing fannish to report The Outing committee reported that they plan to go to the HMS Pinafore TNG at Dunklespiel Auditorium on Stanford campus, Saturday, Feb 2nd The Party Committee reports that the BASFA party at FurCon went well, they took in $180 in the jar and a good time was had by all Announcements: [tall] Kevin announced that Hugo nominations part 1 of 3 will be tonight - the other 2 nights will be = Feb 11 and Feb 18 Fred announced that Cory Doctorow will be at Borderlands books on Friday, Feb 8, 7pm-ish Dave C announced that BBC America is now broadcasting from the West Coast but the times are still being given as if it's the East Coast & announced that 'Other Change of Hobbit' appreciates its customer's business & announced that on Feb 1 the Greenway Court Theatre in LA is showing 'When You're in Love the Whole World is Jewish' Beth announced that her class was in the top 10 and will get a visit from Sharkie on Monday John O announced that they will be seeing the 'HMS Pinafore TNG' on Feb 2 & announced that John Coulton's arrangement of 'Baby Got Back' was lifted by 'Glee' so he has re-released the song Ric announced that Fanboy Planet's podcasts are reaching near 300 - #296 is out now 'Ambient Coughing' [evil] Kevin announced that PR2 for Westercon 66 is now out and they have a page at westercon66.org for folks to make programming suggestions & announced that their suite at Gallifrey 1 will host 3 events: Suite 110 will have, #1 'an ordinary room party', #2 will be a western-themed room party called 'Mercy' & #3 will be a tea - and he announced that Andy is home, not infecting us Chris announced that deadlines for 'Exhibition Hall' & 'Journey Planet' are Feb 15 Reviews: Dave C reviewed 'Hansel ^ Gretel' as less than he expected - like watching a faster, less witty 'Xena' episode & reviewed 'King of the Nerds' as unfortunate Mike reviewed 'Draw me a Story' as excellent and worth full price & to check out www.museumsoflosgatos.org - it's there thru Feb 24 Bradford reviewed Washington DC as great to hold an inauguration in - the trip as a whole was excellent & he had a great time; & he reviewed that Oxford Press has released an 11-volume history of sf as good but they left out some cogent information Tom reviewed '1312' by Robinson as a weird but good book, worth paperback & reviewed 'HMS Pinafore TNG' as worth full price - a beautiful production & those speaking to this agreed Ric reviewed the 'Fringe' series finale as he really enjoyed it & he recommends a new comic called 'The Highway' by John Byrne as hard sf & also recommended a manga series 'The Drops of God' as really excellent JC reviewed 'Movie 43' as all kinds of wrong and hysterically funny ['Something Awful' gave it a 0 of 50 rating] - rated as YMMV & Mo has only seen previews of it and says 'it looks like the kind of movie that would make her retch' [evil] Kevin reviewed the Retrodome farewell shindig as wonderful and sad and poignant & reviewed the 20th Century remake of 'Hidden Fortress' big-screen showing as the recent CGI additions were disappointing - [tall] Kevin pointed out the showing was quite literally priceless Ken reviewed the Retrodome's closing as very sentimental Chris reviewed '6 Guns for Snow White' as amazing & spectacular John reviewed Unwoman as she does really beautiful cello songs - definitely worth attending & buying her music We did auctions we adjourned at 9:40 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'bacon is not meat - it is pig candy' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com ******************* _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
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