Meeting 1194
June 17, 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 - loudly
39 people attended

A party jar was established

The minutes of meeting 1193 were accepted as 'purloined bacon'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $12.50 in the regular jar
& $14.76 in the party jar and that at

meeting 1192 we took in $4.05 in the regular jar & $26.05 in the party jar

the Vice President reported that there is no new 'Drink Tank' out - but a
'Claims Department' should be out soon & he gave credit to Dave G for being
tall

The President said 'hi' to David Speakman - visiting us for the 1st time -
although he did do 'that BayCon review' & we said 'hi' to Barbara Pickering
who has been to cons before, but not been here before


Announcements:
[evil] Kevin announced that Westercon 66 is at 590 members now & they'll
have a mobile app for their schedule & Adrienne is leading a ghost walk -
sign up ahead of time on the Bay Area Ghosthunters site [$19 beforehand,
$20 on the day] & Jo says Jay Lake will be there [probably] & that one-day
memberships will be $25 for Fri & Sun & $30 for Saturday

JC announced that every Wednesday is Nerdvana Podcast day & they'll try a
24-hour podcast/vidcast at Westercon 66

Adrienne announced that 'Being Human' begins its 5th season July 13 on BBC
America

Ric announced that Fanboy Planet will try to recreate an event in honor of
'Man of Steel' and the first half will be spoiler free - then the next half
will have spoilers - the next episode will be recorded at Cafe Stritch this
Thursday evening and all are welcome and the food is great

Jo announced that his puppy is not doing well

Lisa announced that her birthday is June 27 and will be observed on June 29
at Raging Waters and they'll get a cabana & have an invitation for it on
Facebook

Reviews:
Jo reviewed JayCon / Jay's birthday as bigger than last year's [50+] and
really good - then he reviewed 'Man of Steel' as not the worst Superman
movie he's ever seen because Superman was not in it - the movie was then
exhaustively reviewed with some liking it, others not; then Jo ALSO
reviewed rereading CJ Cherryh books & also ALSO reviewed the latest
Dragonlance books as bad

Steven reviewed 'Children of Kings' by Deborah J Ross as a non-Bradley
Darkover book with solid relevance to the world & wrapped up way too fast

Ric warned people away from DC's 'Superman Unchained' book by Scott Snyder
& reviewed 'Ocean at the End of the Lane' by Gaiman as fun & he expects it
to win a lot of awards

Adrienne reviewed Zazzle again as the replacement order was also filled by
chimps and she didn't get a 'lady's' Tshirt; then she reviewed getting the
Balfour garden gnome from the A's game as it was worth getting up in the
morning for & Mo pointed out that they got equally fried by the sun on both
sides during the game

Bradford reviewed the other half of the book about Superman by Larry Tye as
worth reading

JC reviewed 'North America' on the Discovery Channel as absolutely gorgeous

[evil] Kevin reviewed the SciFi channel as 2 new shows are better than
'Flash Gordon' - one about Sinbad that is okay & the other, "Primeval New
World' as a reboot of the British show

Andy reviewed a British cop show 'Luthor' on BBC America as dark & nasty &
very good & then reviewed a Danish/Swedish show as it's going to get an
American remake

Mo reviewed 'Defiance' as 'the bells, the bells' and as cheesy, awkward fun

then we did auctions

we adjourned at 9:51 pm

and the rumor of the week was:  'Bacon always wins'


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