BASFA Meeting 1363 September 12, 2016 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at the Black Bear Diner
Began 8 pm, with dessert 26 people attended we established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1362 were accepted as 'Oh no they're not' The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $6.50 in the regular jar & $4.20 in the party jar The Vice President reported that the Retrodome kills theatres The President greeted Neil W - who was visiting us for the first time because of JC Announcements: JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast is back, baby & a huge gret of datatude is owed to Steve Nelson & they will be posting 3 podcasts a week for a while. Episode 44, parts 2 & 3 are out now and episode 45 will be out Friday & they will be doing the Convolution Podcast on Saturday of the con & next week is their Hallowe'en tribute Adrienne announced that she has 2 boxes of household supplies, some of them opened, for anyone interested & announced that next Monday is 'Talk like a Pirate Day' Steven announced that he has a new podcast = SciFiSciFiSciFi, doing short reivews of books and is on episode 10 and available on iTunes Dave C announced that there's a convention coming up, Jan 14-15, Comic Excitement in LA at the Staple Center Kaitlyn announced that her music department at Santa Clara High is doing a fund raiser on Oct 2nd, from 10 am till 2pm, selling all sorts of mattresses Reviews: Carole reviewed a wedding as nice enough in a mildly hokey sort of way Fred reviewed a SFinSF event with Robert Silverberg as he really enjoyed hearing about SF fannish history John O reviewed 'Suicide Squad' as he enjoyed it & thought Harley Quinn steals the show & reviewed 'Kubo' as visually beautiful, really enjoyable hero's journey, recommended & worth full price Gayle reviewed a Finnish fanzine bought at BASFA auction as an interesting read & their website is http://www.finnishweird.net/ Gerry reviewed a TV biopic on Churchill, 'Churchill's Secret' as worth a couple of hours to watch Fred reviewed a party where he played fizzball for the first time as a good time was had by all we did auctions we adjourned at 8:52 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'Huge grets of datatude are better than small ones' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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