BASFA Meeting 1394 April 17, 2017 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
Was called to order at 20:02 With 15 people in attendance. A party jar was established. Evil Kevin read the minutes of 1393, and were approved as: I guess that just happened. Treasurer was not present The VP had nothing fannish to report The President was MIA with Secretary. Committee Reports Party: Next party is at Convolution, Saturday, October 7 at San Ramon Marriott. There may be a BayCon party. SJ Giants reminder: Please make your payment if you have already expressed an interest in the Saturday, 20 May Star War Night. Announcements JohnO There was a Con last weekend, Walker Stalker. He couldn't go as he was Lin call. There is a convention this weekend. SVCC. There will be a World Con 76 table there. Help would be appreciated. jo...@worldcon76.org if interested. Ken followed on that Gary Fischer will be there (Carrie's dog) and will be doing photo ops. Fred: OpenCulture.com : Has links to free O Riley books. Atheus: Fathom's Rifftrax Samurai Cop rerunning tomorrow. Reviews Adrienne: Spent weekend reviewing samples of Best Fancast Hugo finalists. Impressed with Tea and Jeopardy. Rageaholic goes below No Award. Listening to Big Finnish dramas at work. Doom Coaltion 2 with River Song and Doctor #8! Fun listening. JohnO: Previous weekend went to ColossusCon in Pleasanton. Basic small gate con. Some interesting dealers. 501st was there. Admission is intentionally inexpensive. Hugo Readings: Got the crap out of the way first: Alien Stripper, Bone from Behind by T Rex. Parody/Pastiche of Chuck Tingle. Came out stupid... Andy clarified that the author had no knowledge of Chuck Tingle, and she's just as baffled by the nomination (normally doesn't do Sci-Fi) Too Like the Lightning: A Novel (Terra Ignota) by Ada Palmer. Extremely difficult to get in the beginning, almost put it down after the first 20 pages. Pseudo 18th Century prose (including the My dear reader info dumps). Has gotten better. Recommends. Watched 7 episodes of Stranger Things. Really enjoyable. Andy: The drought is over, we had an Easter with Doctor Who! Final season of Moffat and Capaldi. New companion is apparently ordinary (yay!) Plays off of Capaldi in 5 minutes, than Clara did. Had fun with the formula of companion introduction story. Kevin follows on: Bill is gay, and was done really nice and natural. Adrienne enjoyed the episode. Better than series 9. Atheus: Saw new MST3K on Netflix. Some episode were too self aware, but still bonkers. FX and puppets have upgrades. Worth missing first day of a con. We had auctions and the rumor of the week was: We'll have more people here next Meeting. Meeting adjourned at: 21:02
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