Minutes of Meeting #1563 Monday, August 17, 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 20 various beings attended The minutes of meeting 1562 were accepted as 'warmly posted' 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 the President had nothing fannish to report, except that virtual conventions are a thing now ANNOUNCEMENTS: Valerie announced that Nasfic is this weekend - along with = Panels at YouTube.com/NYCC, https://columbus2020nasfic.org/ aug 21-23 Eurocon: futuricon.eu oct 2-4, costing 10 euros https://confluence-sff.org/ Oct 2-4 free https://2020.octocon.com/ Irish con oct 10-11 https://www.multiversecon.org/ oct 15 free Silicon/SVCC: coming in Oct & on oct 3, free https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/brooklyn-book-festival-2020-virtual-online-programming-free-lynn-nottage-salman-rushdie-coronavirus/ Also = sept 5 comicfest https://eisenhowerlibrary.org/comicfest2020/?fbclid=IwAR2rMhcLWAi8fovW8dLBRWnGg0SuNOUOZ-0XoA43WR2nk-cn9n1uymcxiL8 Gerry announced that tomorrow morning Space X will have another launch at 7:30am, he thinks - but check = www.spaceflightnow.com Gayle announced that the PAS (Pacific Astronomical Society) featured Dr. Elinor Gates of Lick Observatory and it’s on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swzKnB7JbGg REVIEWS: Gerry reviewed a campaign speech by Michelle Obama as amazing & available online & also reviewed 'Ice Bound' by Jerri Nielson as a science fiction novel without the fiction & really a must-read book Trey reviewed reading 'World War Z', as he's not yet finished it but comments that the movie is nothing like the book, whereas the book is a compendium of short stories of how humans survived a zombie apocalypse and is an optimistic take on the topic & he recommends it Valerie reviewed Jackbox games as a delightful online party game collection. Also, here are free online games, check = https://lifehacker.com/our-13-favorite-free-games-to-play-over-video-chat-1844648370?fbclid=IwAR2iaFTBAcmArN8L7RjlIGcEvyDjlQSou0V6PC_aOSuGDy94pqvjYLW-F4w John O reviewed Disney's 'Artemis Fowl' as not a deep movie, is on rails, is worth matinee & reviewed the live action 'Jungle Book' as faithful to the animation & the characterizations are very well done, would have been worth seeing in the theater & also reviewed the opening night of the Democratic National Convention as setting up the next 5 days of the con Aatheus reviewed a brush fire in Milpitas as it helped provide a good sunset & gives it half a star & also reviewed 'Arrival' as enjoyable & worth matinee Dave C reviewed 'Doctor Who: Scratchman' by Tom Baker as a 4th Doctor story & has a good turn of phrase & he recommends the book; there were follow-ons Duncan reviewed an app called 'next spaceflight' as delightful & it gives worldwide coverage; he highly recommends it we adjourned at 8:35 pm Rumor of the week was = 'Fandom will not die, it will only mutate' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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