Meeting 1178 February 25, 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 cocaine trees far as the eye can see 26 people attended A party jar was established The minutes of meeting 1177 were accepted as 'accepted the minutes' the Treasurer reported that on Feb 4 the regular jar took in $7.75 & $3.75 in the party jar; that on Feb 11 the regular jar took in $2.75 & that on Feb 18 the regular jar took in nothing & the party jar took in $0.25 The Vice President reported that his '5 cons' doco has been funded on indiegogo - and that a new 'Drink Tank' is out - and that he has a new 'zine out = 'Klaus at Gunpoint' for film reviews The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements: Carole announced that Consonance is this weekend & announced that Condor will be in San Diego March 9-10 Cindi announced that FogCon is in Walnet Creek & there'll be an Ordinary Hotel Room party Saturday night Chris announced that Cinequest starts tomorrow and goes for 12 days, there was a follow on that the Silicon Valley Browncoats will have an outing to see 'Sparks' there on Saturday & then Chris also announced that Jan Finder [Wombat] is in hospital News today is that Wombat died Adrienne announced that the BBS is cancelling 'Being Human' JC announced that Nerdvana episode #9 will be released Wednesday - and this Saturday they will record 'Pulp the Celluloid', ep 10 Wednesday [evil] Kevin announce that barbot will return this Fri & Sat from 7-10pm, check for info at www.somarts.org & www.robogames.net/barbot Ric announced that Fanboy Planet #298a is now out & that #298b will be recorded at Cinequest & that PechaKucha #9 will be at Cafe Stritch, Wed, 6:30pm Feb 27th & announced that PechaKucha #10 will be April 2 & Chris says he'll present at that one Tom announced that Potlatch 23 will be selling memberships at FogCon Reviews: JC reviewed 'Beautiful Creatures' as having wonky pacing with nic fx - worth matinee Ric reviewed 'Silver linings Playbook' as such a good movie - the topic well-handled & highly recommended - Mo commented that it wasd excellent, worth full price Adrienne reviewed 'Randall & Hopkirk [Deceased]' as a lot of fun & worth buying on DVD - but it's a region 2 DVD Dave G reviewed Capricon - a midwest con - as it snowed - he enjoyed the con, it had good programming Tom reviewed the Flying Karamatsov Brothers 40th anniversary show as pretty good non-stop silliness Dave C reviewed Gallifrey as the Dealer's room was larger than last year & he saw Shelley Goldstein who was enjoyable Mo reviewed seeing 5 Oscar nom'd films as pretty spectacular - and recommends going to a marathon like that with a friend [tall] Kevin reviewed an Al Stewart concert as definitely worth full price ^ was lots of fun We did auctions we adjourned at 9:28 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'I just barely got Saturday' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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