Minutes of Meeting #1437 Monday, February 12, 2018 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, with croaking 22 people attended we established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1436 were accepted as 'saving Barbara's voice' the Treasurer was absent the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fred announced that Humble Bundle has one collection of novels with female protagonists, another bundle with electronics and a 3rd with Chuck Tingle stories Gerry announced that Contact will be held April 6-8 at the Sunnyvale Domain Hotel & has flyers Ken announced that the Camera 3 in SJ will be showing all 4 of the Oscar nominated shorts Diane announced that she has Worldcon 76 flyers & there will be Hugo Nomination chat after the meeting [evil] Kevin announced that there are Worldcon 76 parties at cons all over the place & urged us to take & distribute flyers Mo announced that she does not currently have a phone Reviews Dave Wallis reviewed Zoe Quinn's book 'Crash Override' as it qualifies for 'best related' & recommends it; Mo also recommended the book, knows Zoe & some of what she went thru Bill reviewed a trip to Wisconsin for a family visit as very cold but a nice visit & Carole agreed that it was very cold Brad reviewed the SF Antiquarian Book festival as he had a wonderful time, saw Peter Beagle there and had lunch with him; then also reviewed a talk given by Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory as very enjoyable Dave C reviewed 'Norse Mythology' by Neil Gaiman as it's about Norse mythology and very enjoyable, the 'literary equivalent of comfort food' - Mo also enjoyed it Mo reviewed seeing 'Winchester' again as she still enjoyed it, she did not enjoy losing her phone, then visited the Winchester Mystery house & their tour got to visit the basement & other new place & she loved it & recommends it, she also reviewed the Netflix series 'Altered Carbon' as very interesting & enjoyable Andy reviewed doing lots of fun & geeky things over the weekend - including attending the Fanboy Planet 500th podcast recording & that it was a good show Diane reviewed 'Clay's Ark' by Octavia Butler as very well written, enjoyable & worth full price there were no auctions because of the Hugos discussion after the meeting we adjourned at 8:39 Rumor of the week = 'It's an itsy bitsy teeny weenie Black Bear Diner BASFA meeting' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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