Minutes of Meeting #1562 Monday, August 10, 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 18 various beings attended The minutes of meeting 1561 were accepted as 'already viral & enough already' the Treasurer was not present, but our totals are = regular total is $15,632.83; party total is $230.58 the VP had nothing fannish to report but greeted Edward Pease, attending a BASFA meeting for the 1st time the President was not present ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lisa announced that there is a charity livestream going on called Sidequest [already raised more than $43K] - put on by the Zeldathon folks, find it at https://zeldathon.net/ & on Twitch = check supermcgamer Howeird announced that Boskone's online sister con, reCONvene 2020, is coming together and getting ready for its debut on Saturday, August 15, 2020. check = https://boskone.org/ - and he submitted several photographs to their art page & he announced that Heidi, his new kitty, has been adopted for a week now [awwww!] REVIEWS: Rick reviewed the German series 'Dark' & highly recommends it to those who enjoy complex narratives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_(TV_series) Fred reviewed 'Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia' by Samuel R. Delany, a book from the 1970's & started slowly & deals with gender and identity, likely ground-breaking for the time, but is still well-done John O reviewed 'Treasure Planet' as from Disney's bad times and not that bad as a duplicate of their own 'Treasure Island' & worth seeing; then reviewed 'The Seeker, the Dark is Rising' as a fairly faithful rendering of the book 'Dark is Rising' & definitely recommended - found on Amazon; then reviewed Scalzi's final book of the Interdependency trilogy 'The Last Emperox' as ending up the series well; then reviewed the Baycon minicon as there were some good panels and advice there - and there were several follow-ons also check = https://baycon.org/baycon-charity-2020/ Gayle reviewed ConZealand panels on Youtube as enjoyable and warns that she worries there may be a sunset time, after which the content may not be available Cliff reviewed Sarah Pinsker's 1st novel, 'A Song for a New Day' - about a pandemic, which was sf when it was written - and everyone in his book group agreed that it was very good & highly recommended we adjourned at 8:47 pm Rumor of the week was = 'Next Week on Cooking with Rick' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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