Meeting 834 July 17, 2006
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:04 [warmly] 20 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 832 were accepted as ’Catholic boy’ & the minutes of meeting 833 were accepted as ‘absorbent’ Treasurer’s report was that we took in $30.41 last week There was a vote to change the meeting agenda to hold auctions now that failed The VP reported that there are 3 new issues of ‘Drink Tank’ out, a new TAFF-sine and a new SFinSF The President had nothing fannish to repor Dave C then complimented BASFA’s president and presented him with a . . . present We said ‘hi’ to Nancy and Kurt, visiting us from the East Coast The Hollister in ’08 bid committee reported that he had numbers and ‘our totals funds raised will make you plotz’ Announcements Ken announced that the Cinema San Pedro movie for this Wednesday night will be ‘Double Indemnity’ Chris announced that both Rich Brown [of fanzine fame] and Mickey Spillane died this last week Adrienne announced that there’ll be an ewaste disposal opportunity at SJSU July 21-23 Frank Wu announced that the animated ‘Guidilon’ will be premiered at Conostoga in Tulsa and also shown at Worldcon [evil] Kevin announced that you have 2 weeks left to vote on the Hugos Reviews: Harold reviewed ‘A Scanner Darkly’ as quite engrossing, a very good film and definitely worth matinee Julie reviewed a collection of Phillip K Dick stories as kind of neat and well worth the library visit on a hot day & reviewed ‘Pirates’ as good and worth matinee; Dave C follow-on’d that ‘Pirates’ was a lot of fun and worth at least matinee; Chris reviewed it as ‘awesome’, I follow-on’d that it was wonderful whenever Sparrow was on-screen and worth full price - and the hamster wheel of death was excellent Andy reviewed Construction as he was only there for half of it, liked what he saw and thought it worth a day membership for; Dave C follow-on’d that the Saturday night ‘Zoo’ game was fun Chris reviewed ‘the World Series of Pop Culture’ as the greatest thing ever and reviewed Evelyn’s reaction to ‘Pirates’ as well worth full price I reviewed ‘Knott’s Berry Farm’ as more fun than ‘Disneyland’ - and the better bargain to visit; Trey follow-on’d that both parks were fun to visit Adrienne reviewed ‘Murphys Historic Hotel’ as don’t rent one of their historic rooms during hot weather & reviewed wine shopping as she got a variety of wines; Spring follow-on’d that they visited 10 tasting rooms and the hotel there was dismal Kurt reviewed Kepler’s bookstore as their science fictions section was abysmal, that he rated it +10 for balls and -3 for selection Kurt announced that Nancy was free but that he was starting a job We auctioned off stuff, posters for $1.00; videos for $0.25; the ‘Hoax’ book for $8.00 for the Hollister bid; other books for $5.50, $1.00 & $0.50; a box of magazine for $0.25 & a box of movie trailers for $1.00 We adjourned at = 9:26 pm And the rumor of the week was = ‘coming up, ‘Pirates of the Carribean, Hamster Dance of Death’ _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
