Meeting #1418 October 2, 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, Milpitas
Called to order at 8 pm 26 people attended The minutes of meeting 1417 were accepted as 'it should always be so easy' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $0.50 in the regular jar & $0.50 in the aprty jar the VP had nothing fannish to report the President said 'hi' to 1st time visitor Jo, who has followed us on the web for a while The Party Committee reported that the next BASFA party will be this weekend at Convolution on Saturday, 8pm - & that help would be appreciated in set-up ANNOUNCEMENTS: [small] Harold announced that there was a not-calling-it-a-Zeldathon marathon that raised $26k and the next will be in December - check zeldathon.net JC announced that Convolution is this weekend at the San Ramon Marriott Aatheus announced that Milpitas is holding their 1st Octoberfest this Saturday, 11am till 4pm - the event is free but the beer is not Gerry announced that Space X is attempting 2 launches this weekend [evil] Kevin announced that there will be a Bat Rave Friday night of Convolution - with food, frivolity & costumes are welcome - & that there will be a Worldcon fan table at Convolution; Adrienne followed, saying that Bay Area Ghost Hunters will also have a presence at-con Adrienne announced that Mo's mom died yesterday REVIEWS: Gerry reviewed a CBS TV show, 'Wisdom of the Crowd' - crowd sourcing for crime detection - as it didn't really work Ric reviewed his visit to Tampa, FL as the hurricane missed it, but there was still a lot of damage a week later - and reviewed 'ST Discovery' as pretty much 1 episode split into 2 parts Vikos reviewed 'Alien Arrival' as pretty decent quality Netflix fare Lance reviewed 'The Hermit of Houston' in SFinSF as very much fun and Delany-like JC reviewed 'Battle of the Sexes' as a very entertaining film, worth full price & several agreed with him Brad reviewed the re-release of Gaiman's 'American Gods', with extra content, as it still flows well; he enjoyed it and recommends the book Andy reviewed seeing the reboot of Ducktales as it was still fun Dave C reviewed 'Here Comes Trouble' by Michael Moore as an enjoyable book & reviewed season 3 of 'Ricky & Morty' as still dark and strange there were auctions Adjourned 9:18 And the rumor of the week = 'Short and happy' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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