The musician I mentioned in my DragonCon review is George Hrab
http://georgehrab.com/
On 9/7/20 9:33 PM, Ken Patterson via Basfa wrote:
*Meeting #1566 - Monday, 7 September, 2020*
Called to order at 20:05
Total of 11 log-ins
The minutes of meeting 1565 were accepted as: Probably available somewhere.
Treasurer. Same as last week?
Vice President: Nothing Fannish to report.
Vice President for Life (Tamera Capp): Being sucked in to Harry Potter
political fics, as well as writing her own Harry Potter fic.
President: Not present.
No committees reporting.
No new business.
DaveC posed a question to the group. And was answered.
*Announcements:*
Gerald:
Launch window: 0200-0430 GMT on 11th (10:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. EDT on
(10th/11th)
Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak Island, Alaska
A commercial small satellite launch vehicle developed by Astra will make
its first orbital launch attempt. Astra says there will be no payloads
on this test flight. Scrubbed on Aug. 2 due to upper level winds and
boat in range. Scrubbed on Aug. 4 and Aug. 6. Delayed from Aug. 30 due
to poor weather forecast. [Aug. 28] see: www.spaceflightnow.com
<http://www.spaceflightnow.com>
Lisa:
Festival of the Living Rooms #4 this weekend FB and YouTube.
Performances by many, including the Capps! Music by people around the
world from their living rooms.
facebook.com/groups/1606369249486666
<http://facebook.com/groups/1606369249486666>
Howierd:
Climatalogical: Denver is going form 100 to snow at 3am.
The Capps are living this.
*Reviews*
FredM:
Caught part of Dragoncon over the weekend. Payed the $10, to make sure
he could see George Robb. Also watched a couple other skeptic track
panels. Fell down on finding the full schedule grid (at the end of the
20-page getting started doc.) Some tracks run the whole convention (so
much that it’s almost its own con!)
Cliff went to part of it. No Discord community like other OnlineCons.
Liked some of the old panels, including some of the past panels. Panel
on cooking, eating and growing food on Mars was riveting. The $10 grants
access to the panels for the whole year.
Howierd:
Star Trek Lower Decks imdb.com/title/tt9184820/
<http://imdb.com/title/tt9184820/> Was avoiding because he’s kind of
lazy watching Comcast more than his streaming, and not fond of
animation based on live action. Not disappointed, but not that good.
Characters more frenetic than they need to be. Good job of cultural
things on other planets. Goes further than they cold have for the
Enterprise… Surprised at the romantic (and non-romantic) pairings. All
in all, wouldn’t pay extra for it, but worth full price.
Valerie: Enjoying it. Trying to spoof its own franchise. More realistic
humans vs. utopian ideal in the live-action shows. They actually feel a
bit like con-goers! Fun in-show referencing the history.
Ken: Interesting to note that it kind of follows from the original
animated series with a cat-person.
Cliff: Recommends the DC Fontana story “Yesteryear”, a Larry Niven story
and a sequel to Tribbles.
DaveC
Finished watching season 1 of Stargirl. Enjoyed it very much. 20 years
after the Justice Society of Amerca is all killed off by the Injustice
Society. Stepdaughter of the sole survivor is chosen by the cosmic lamp.
Enjoyable. Material taken most seriously of DC TV adaptations – more
intelligently written. Recommends.
Valerie: Was not impressed by episode 1 - so conventional… But then she
gets her group together, and has came around on it. Feels like runaways.
Gayle
DC Fonatana nostalgia trip… Was recently reading reviews of Galaxy Quest
on IMDB. People who thought it was not funny seemed to be non-Americans.
Asked DC what she thought of it was, and the response was that she was
ROTFL. Gayle would gives it an 8/10 stars.
Cliff: Showing off his Obama Hope style “Never Give Up…” mug. Was
opposite The Matrix for the Hugo. Cory Doctorow was presenting the award
for that category and said “Never Give Up…” and a roar from the audience
finished with “Never surrender.” The co-cretors were excited to win.
Cliff was so the nerdy kid who’s parents were glad when he was outside,
that he had to show the film to his parents. Re-watched the ending and
noticed that Guy expects to die (but doesn’t)
MetOpera Streaming: The Tempest. Got caught up in it. Modernization of
Shakespeare. Scenery was beautiful, singers wonderful.
*Rumor of the Week: *
California fires are larger on the inside.
Adjourned at: 21:08
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