Meeting 1193
June 10, 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 - with gecko Garcia junior
31 people attended

A party jar was established

The minutes of meeting 1192 were accepted as 'Lynda says wow'

the Treasurer was missing

Then [tall] Kevin moved that Chris be known as 'Bob Garcia' for the
remainder of the meeting & it failed, 17-8

Then it was moved that Andy Porter be referred to as 'Bob' for the
remainder of the meeting and it passed

the Vice President reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' out - with a
Chuck article

The President said 'hi' to Macy - Mo's daughter - visiting us for the 1st
time & hungover ['this is why the communists hate democracy' = Ric]


Announcements:
Chris announced that he wants content for 2 issues of 'Drink Tank' - the
Hugo for best novel issue, deadline June 27 & for an issue about Iain Banks
with a deadline of July 1st

Ric announced that he & Debbie are celebrating their 29th year anniversary

JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast taped their podcast at SLG & the 1st
part of it should show up on Wednesday

Dave C announced that 'My Mother the Car' is now available on Hulu; Mo
announced that she will never make Macy watch it, then Dave announced that
Dita von Teese will perform June 26-29 at the Filmore

Adrienne announced that Westercon's Writer's Workshop has been finalized &
she has 2 tickets for the Giants/Padres, June 17 game to give away

Mike announced that an exhibit, 'Art in Science Fiction' is in Burlingame's
New Peninsula Museum of Art, running through Aug 28 and it's very, very
good [free admission]

[evil] Kevin announced that the Art show for Westercon 66 is sold out &
they are at 564 members now - 'please tell your friends about the
convention and post about it on social media' & also announced that PR 4 is
about to come out

Carole announced that she needs a cat sitter for Westercon weekend

Andy announced a reminder to post about Westercon 66 on social media sites


Reviews:
Bradford reviewed a book about Superman by Larry Tye as very comprehensive

Fred reviewed an exhibit, 'Art in Science Fiction' as very, very good

Howeird reviewed reviewed the Dragon theatre in Redwood City, doing
progressive play developments there - and saw 'The Killing Jar' as the name
for the play was never explained in context & also saw 'Sexbot 2600' as it
seemed to test game designs and was better the 3rd time around - but doubts
it will be produced since it would need a lot of special fx & then reviewed
'Iron man 3' as stay and see the Easter egg at the end

Dave C reviewed 'Throne of the Crescent Moon' by Saladin Ahmed as very
enjoyable & better than 'Redshirts' [Tom agreed] & also reviewed 'Touched
by an Alien' by Gini Koch as he realized he was not the target audience for
it & reviewed 'Now you See Me' as he didn't really like any of the
characters in it - they were rather shallow - and the use of CGI was not
acceptable

Bill reviewed the latest Star Trek movie as reasonable for a summer movie
but not a very thoughtful -Star Trek- movie; Bob thought it was a great
demo reel for someone who wanted to direct a Star War movie ['Squiggles!'],
then Bill reviewed the Friday night Subzero festivity as he noted there
were a lot of 'our kind' there, the food trucks were great & it's worth
visiting once, Chris commented that he & Ric found a new kick-ass band
there 'Seaons'; Mo said it was the biggest crowd this year and highly
recommends it

Chris reviewed playing video games with Ric & Debbie at the Brett cave as
lots of fun & reviewed 'Warm Bodies' as an adorable romantic comedy zombie
film

Bob reviewed 'The Great Gatsby' as he kept hoping it would be over and
wouldn't 'pay the price to borrow it from a friend who stole it'

Adrienne reviewed 'The Internship' as not very funny, the story was okay &
the cinematography was nice & she

reviewed 'that freaking Zazzle thing of yours, Kevin' as the orders seemed
to be getting filled by chimps and so far she hasn't gotten her 'lady's'
Tshirt

Harold reviewed Texas as the trains are nice, the cinnamon rolls were
immense & the Lehman caves are beautiful - worth the $10 admission

And then there was a moment of sheer bliss, brought to us by a bag of
chicharones from the 4505 Meats company [http://4505meats.com] - and OMG
are they GOOD!!

[evil] Kevin reviewed the Sierra Stampede gay rodeo as small but wonderful,
despite 113 degree weather

I reviewed 'Artifice' by Alex Woolfson as really, really good & worth
buying in the dead tree format [available from Amazon]

JC reviewed a graphic novel, 'Model A' as really good - available at Amazon
& SLG


then we did auctions

we adjourned at 9:39 pm

and the rumor of the week was:  'Bob'


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