Meeting 1190
May 20, 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 8:00 pm - sans podcastry
29 people attended

A party jar was established

The minutes of meeting 1189 were accepted as 'secretary's gone wild'

the Treasurer reported that last week the regular jar took in $20.25 & the
party jar took in $28.25

the Vice President reported that there are no new fanzines out - EXCEPT for
a new 'Drink Tank' with a Mo ['the thrill'] Starkey cover & he'll be fan
GoH this weekend at Conquest

The President had nothing fannish to report

the Party Committee reported that there will be a BASFA party at Baycon on
Sunday

Then Jo wondered if BASFA existed on wikipedia & then we wandered off into
philosophy


Announcements:
JC announced that the latest Nerdvana podcast was recorded over the weekend
- a 'Dr Who season 7 wrap up show' & should be up this Wednesday - check
www.nerdvanapodcast.com - then there was neepery about what season it
really was & then he announced that they also posted a 'Star Trek' movie
impulse review

Adrienne announced that fans died and she'd like to know more details

[evil] Kevin announced that there will be an Ordinary Room Party at Baycon
Friday-ish & that Westercon is now selling kid-in-tow & youth memberships
for Westercon 66 - details on the website - & he heard his chaps won an
award in Denver & announced that Westercon 66 will have a brief planning
meeting on Monday

Ken announced that there will be no Legion of Rasselon meeting this Friday,
due to cons - but there WILL be one next Friday & he announced that KFJC's
[89.7] month of mayhem will have a 'very grey' mayhem episode next Monday
from 2-6pm

Valerie announced that she has a new book out [and another on the way] -
'Winning the Game of Thrones' - & it's free on Amazon this week & next week
'Winter is Coming' comes out and life is busy

Beth announced that she is soliciting donations for an end of year [grade
7] cool things auction

Ric announced that episode 307 of the FanboyPlanet podcast was recorded
yesterday & is out now & that his review of 'Into Darkness' will be up
tonight & he's looking for people who need presentation experience

John O announced that Fanime, Baycon, Clockwork Alchemy & Kublacon are this
next weekend - remember to bathe - and announced that Sunday night they'll
have their Taiko group playing at Baycon & Howeird commented that taiko is
not an astronomy presentation

Chris announced that her cancer is not aggressive and not prone to spread
[all hail lazy cancer!]

Howeird announced that Ye Olde Towne Band will be giving free concerts from
May through September on the last Sunday of every month at Shoup park,
1:30pm & announced that he bought a car yesterday that he then exchanged
for a different car - a Toyota Corrola & the Toyota Sunnyvale guys were
totally professional

Lance has Westercon 66 booksmarks

Mo announced that she's art director for Fanime & urged us to visit her

Jo announced that he has a book out & a 2nd one approved - both tech
manuals & announced that Andrew Offutt died

Aatheus announced that the 'Iron Sky' folks are planning a part 2 &
starting to crowd source for it


Reviews:
'Star Trek into Darkness' was reviewed a lot, mostly positively; "Was the
science creamy or lumpy?" - "What science?"

Ric & Mo reviewed Big Wow - a comic festival - as lots of fun and enjoyable

JC reviewed the latest Dr Who episode as inspired - and folks agreed

The Nebula awards weekend was reviewed a lot as -very- good

Andy reviewed the Eurovision songfest as really a lot of fun & worth
stealing & getting together with friends with to heckle

Adrienne reviewed Bjuold's 'Captain Vorpatril's Alliance' as she liked it
more than 'Red Shirts'

Aatheus reviewed 'Steins' as an exceptionally good bar with good food & an
excellent chicken poutine, definitely worth full price & reviewed 'Hydrogen
Sonata' [by Iain Banks] as an excellent read

Jo reviewed Missouri as misery & they visited a wild animal park outside of
Springfield as awesome & a good time; he doesn't really get Branson & said
that drinking is the state sport

John O reviewed Makers Faire as he spent all his time there with his taiko
group & it appeared crowded

Howeird reviewed "The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination' - short
stories - as all good, some excellent and some world class - well worth
full price

Chris reviewed 'sweatercats.com' as really cute cat artwork [
https://www.facebook.com/sweatercats]

Mo reviewed Adrienne's Taurus birthday party bash as worth full price &
wonderful


then we did auctions

we adjourned at 10:10 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'lazy cancer is the best cancer'


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