Meeting 1206 September 9, 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 pm - with pie 29 people attended A party jar was established The minutes of meeting 1205 were accepted as 'rejected' & the minutes of meeting 1205.2 were accepted as 'wait ... wait ... wait' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $1.50 in the regular jar & $2.00 in the party jar the Vice President reported that a new episode of '5 Cons' has been posted & another episode will be up 'soon' - plus that there is no new 'Drink Tank' out yet The President had nothing fannish to report - but did say 'hi' to Steve DeWinter who 'found us randomly on the internet' Announcements: Ken announced that the Legion of Rasselon meeting will be at the IHOP on Steven's Creek near Lawrence on Friday Aug 27 [evil] Kevin announced that Best Buck in the Bay will be Sept 21-22, with rodeo school on Sept 20 - check http://www.bayarearodeo.org/ JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast will post part 1 of their worldcon episode this Wednesday Ric announced that fanboy planet podcast, episode 324 is available now & announced that there's a Kickstarter for Unwoman that ends in 15 hours Dave G announced that Vinticon is still taking memberships and people died this week Reviews: Lonestar was reviewed a lot and sounded like fun Ric reviewed 'The Sandman' by Gaiman as excellent, beautiful and worth buying it Adrienne reviewed staying in San Antonio extra time with Mo as wonderful, even if she didn't see any ghosts; Bill followed, advising to stay out of the heat of the day & that he enjoyed the riverwalk Mo reviewed the heat in Texas as horrible & that perch were dying in the river - but she really loved the Alamo Bill reviewed 'The Wolverine' as having a very twisty plot & worth between matinee & full price - stay for the cookie Yochanan reviewed 'The World's End' as he liked it; reviewed 'City of Bones' as very pretty & reviewed the Asian Art Museum as 'go see it' Brad reviewed Spinrad as he just finished reading some of his books and that they haven't dated, then reviewed visiting the Johnson presidential library as worth it - but prepare ahead of time by calling them and letting them know what you want to look at Dave C reviewed a trilogy of Ringo's books, starting with 'Ghost' as not very impressive Josh reviewed Baxter & Pratchett's 'The Long Earth' as excellent except 'for the last half of the last page' & reviewed the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay as he is now forever spoiled for any other hotel as it was amazing Ken reviewed a Campbell restaurant in Campbell that is now 'Sorelle' as an Italian bistro that's worth full price Spike reviewed San Antonio as the food they visited was very good & that the 3-hour-each-way Robert E Howard bus tour was heroically worth it Diane reviewed 'the end of summer party' as superb and worth double full price then we did auctions we adjourned at 10 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'wait ... wait ... wait' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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