BASFA Meeting 1302 July 13, 2015 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale
Began 8 pm with tiara talk 23 people attended We established a party recepticle The regular jar was renamed the 'party pooper jar' for the duration of the meeting Another motion failed The minutes of meeting 1300 were accepted as 'cheaper than bailing out Goldman Sachs' The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $7.25 in the regular jar & $4.75 in the party basket The Vice President gave a retrospective of the 10-th year 1st meeting between Ken & Geri The President had nothing fannish to report The Outings Committee thanked those who came out for last Friday's SJ Giants Star Wars [who won in the 12th, despite bad refereeing] Announcements: JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast episode 41 had been recorded & that part 1 will be out Wednesday & announced that Nerdvana Podcast will be at Kepler's bookstore on Tuesday at 7:30pm Carole announced that Sasquan is about to finalize their programming schedule & it's looking really nice - and that [evil] Kevin will be the Masquerade MC; then [tall] Kevin mentioned that both the Business Meeting & the Match Game will be in room 300-B Lisa announced that Little Harold has graduated from SJ State Little Harold announced that Nintendo's president died last week Jenny announced that she brought pre-support info for the Montreal in 2017 bid & John O reminds that the Hugo ballot deadline is July 31 Reviews: [tall] Kevin reviewed his Westercon travels as fascinating Bill reviewed his travels as Carole was a mosquito entre' & that it was worth mostly full price to visit relatives, even though they had to miss Westercon Brenna reviewed 'The Body Pirate' by Van Aaron Hughs in F&SF's July-Aug 2015 issue as she was delighted by it Brad reviewed the SFRA conference as 'these grad students are getting younger and younger' & reviewed a visit to Metropolis Comics as it is by appointment only & reviewed Westercon as his hotel was terrible, but his panels went well & he enjoyed the con & bought stuff from Dave Westercon was also reviewed by JC, Lisa, both Daves, [tall] Kevin, Big Harold & there was an agreement that the convention was mostly good, panels were very good, Dealers Room was sporadic, Registration had problems and the hotel was -terrible- Beth reviewed Andy Weir's book 'The Martian' as very good John O reviewed 'Minions' as not much plot or characterization, but very silly & worth full price for 2D & reviewed Scalzi's 'Locked In' as he enjoyed it, recommends it, but doesn't think it will be a Hugo nominee for him next year Lisa reviewed Disneyland as the new electric parade is gorgeous, they missed the Muppet singalong that has been replaced with a 'Frozen' show & she had a good time; Tall Harold praised the Scooter folk; Dave C also went & thinks the electric parade needs more floats & the fireworks display was loud Dave G reviewed Convergence as a fun little con We did auctions we adjourned at 9:33 and the rumor of the week was: 'Learning Welsh is much harder than learning Klingon' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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