Minutes of Meeting #1560
Monday, July 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 8:05 pm
19 various beings attended

The minutes of meeting 1559 were accepted as 'tacked to the internet tree'

the Treasurer was at Ken's place & we have money & our totals are =
regular total is $15,632.83; party total is $230.58

the masked VP had nothing fannish to report & will get the August Zoom
meeting schedule out soon

the President had nothing fannish to report

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Howeird announced that technology is failing, specifically the tech in his
car

REVIEWS:
John O reviewed Disney's 1985 'Black Cauldron' as a very good example of
bad animation & the bad story adaptation ruins the actual story.  He also
reviewed 2003's 'Brother Bear' as fabulous & definitely recommended, then
reviewed 'The Relentless Moon: A Lady Astronaut Novel' by Mary Robinette
Kowal as the 4th in that series & it involves different characters from the
other 3 since 'documenting a trip to Mars is really boring' & comments that
the new characters are interesting & the mystery is well done & he very
much recommends it.  John also commented that this year's Hugo noms have
generally not been to his taste

Howeird reviewed that he loves Kowal's writing style, but is not fond of
'blow up the planet books' & then reviewed Amazon Prime's 'Epoch' - which
is a 2001 movie being streamed thru Amazon - as the plot is 'a study in how
many movies we can steal things from'
see = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233657/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Lisa reviewed Max Miller's 'Tasting History' on Youtube as really really
well done, terribly enjoyable & recommended
see = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaGKqPZnGp_7N80hcHySGQ

Gayle reviewed that she finally figured out how to see her personal
WorldCon schedule, but it only shows NZ times & printing the schedule
results in mostly blank pages & will have to work on getting the times &
dates down.  For her Hugo voting, she enjoyed 'The Blur in the Corner of
Your Eye' novelette by Sarah Pinsker as it had a nice surprise ending & she
liked the documentary 'Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin' as best related work;
then Rick Moen reminded us that voting for site selection is nearly done

Gerry reviewed that he is being very challenged by the new technology that
is required for this year's virtual Worldcon & will try to attend his
panels - but no guarantees at this point & he's feeling frustrated

Ken reviewed turning 50 in lockdown as it's been different & not really
worth full price.  He had a 4 hour Zoom meeting during part of it, but it's
been kind of strange at times & probably the best party they could manage

we adjourned at 8:35 pm

Rumor of the week was = 'Someone put the difficulty level for 2020 on 'hard
mode'


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