Meeting 1070 January 31, 2011
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 fwy), Sunnyvale Began very 8-ish 26 people attended we established a Salon Futura jar Secretary’s report: the minutes from meeting 1069 were accepted as 'there's an echo in here' the Treasurer reported that at meeting 1069 we took in $5.11 in the regular jar & $4.94 in the Salon Futura jar the Vice President reported that 'there is' [he made me write it that way!] -2- new 'Drink Tanks' out now, so check efanzines.com – that Corflu is coming anon & is accepting donations of books to distribute at Wondercon ['this is a book'] – that a new fan fund is starting up – the swff ['it's da Swiffer!'] and he that still needs contributions for his 'Dune' focus 'zine. The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee reported that tickets for the infield reserve, behind home plate are going for $28 & he'll pick up the tickets tomorrow for the May 6th, Friday, Giants home game to help celebrate Willie Mays' birthday! REPOSTED REMINDER: our Hugo nomination discussions be held tonight & on February 7. We ask that BASFAns show restraint in not bringing in auction items on those nights. Discussion will be after the regular meeting. Announcements: Andy announced that Cadbury creme egg insanity can be found at 'Eggvatar' = http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/Eggvatar/ & he announced that Chris Garcia was featured in an article in 'File 770' Ken announced that John Barry died & announced that the Globe theatre will show all of Shakespeare's plays in 2012 Julie announced that Pantheacon will be at the Doubletree on President's Day weekend Adrienne [& Dave G, [tall] Kevin & Chris] announced that today is the last day to join Renovation in order to make nominations for the Hugos Dave C announced that he had his first haircut in 3 months & announced that 'Sharktopus' will be released on DVD & bluray in March Lisa announced that Gallifrey One will be at the LAX Marriott Feb 18-20 Reviews Fred reviewed the play 'Compleat Female Stage Beauty' at SJ's City Lights as well done & interesting Chris reviewed 'Counterblast' – a DVD of the 1948 film – as 'it's important to know bad science fiction, too' – it's surprisingly twisty & turny - & he reviewed the Youtube 'Angry Birds Peace Conference' as health-endangeringly good Julie reviewed seeing the ghost of Bob Marley at Dicken's Faire as it's predictable now & reviewed the HBO Comcast on Demand as it has 3D movies & she saw 'Coraline' in 3D; that it is capable of giving a nephew nightmares & has some of the most amazing motion control she has ever seen – the 1st half is beautiful & the 2nd half falls apart plot-wise John reviewed “how to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe' by Charles Yu – as a 1st novel, very well done with absurdest twists & he recommends it Dave C reviewed 2 Connie Willis book parts – 'Blackout' & 'All Clear' – that feature the Oxford historians – as he wishes they had been shorter We adjourned at = 9:05 pm The rumor of the week was: 'the Israeli's have the killing joke' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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