Minutes of Meeting #1547 Monday, April 27, 2020 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held online, in exile
Called to order at 8:08pm 16 beings, a cat & a Porg attended The minutes of meeting 1545 were accepted as 'zoom meeting course 101' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $0 Our regular total is $15,631.83; party total is $230.58 It was suggested that BASFA open a Paypal account - this will be investigated the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cliff announced that he has sold a story & been paid [the important part!] & that his bibliography is here: http://www.cliffwinnig.com/Cliffs_Space/Bibliography.html Gayle announced that the Metropolitan Opera has its members working from home cooperatively; Lisa follow-on'd that her uncle used to compare & contrast the NY as versus the SF opera seasons John O announced that Freddy Brown, a Filker from Ontario Canada, lost his battle with cancer this week & announced that Charlie Jane Anders' Hugo nom'd book - "The City in the Middle of the Night" - is available on most ebook sites for $2.99 Valerie announced that she is nearly done with another book REVIEWS: Valerie reviewed My Youtube how to cite videos as it has awkward phrasing and the closed captioning is annoying; she really enjoyed Malvolia in National Theatre's Twelfth Night, playing through Thursday & reviewed 'Love Never Dies' as controversial, but not wholly terrible & she is curious about what Andrew Lloyd Webber will release next week Lisa reviewed 'Love Never Dies' as it did not hold her attention Dave Wallace reviewed the Hugo nom'd 'Good Omens' miniseries as really, really good & was impressed with the acting & story, highly recommended & reviewed a John Scalzi book, 'The Last Emperox' as worth reading, Rick followed, saying he is having a blast of a time reading the book Cliff reviewed a 'Picard' as made by a Berkeley native & he has enjoyed it & recommends it, Bob followed that his personal taste did not find it enjoyable & Cliff reviewed Patrick Stewart reading a Shakespeare sonnet a day on Facebook as a lot of fun = https://mymodernmet.com/patrick-stewart-shakespeares-sonnets/ John O reviewed his Hugo Reading the novella, 'To Be Taught, If Fortunate' by Becky Chambers as interesting & reviewed the novel, 'Gideon the Ninth' by Tamsyn Muir as extremely Goth - several folks followed, agreeing as to the degree of Goth Gayle reviewed that she has enjoyed the Met opera performances being streamed, check metopera.org and THANK YOU Fred! [Yes! Put urls in chat please] we adjourned at 9:08 pm Rumor of the week was = In the future the gothic novels will be printed with black ink on black paper. -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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