BASFA Meeting #1515
Monday, August 26, 2019 at 20:00 - 21:18

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas

10 people were in attendance.

Meeting was called to order at 20:00

A Party Jar was established

Secretary Report

Minutes of meeting #1514 were posted online, and accepted as: Ken is 
everything. 

Minutes of meeting #WC77 
The meeting, was held in a pub, and was short. Around 15 people attended. No 
ambassadors were appointed. Acknowledged that a convention had occurred, and 
that they had fun. 

The minutes of meeting #WC77 were accepted as: To the best of JohnO’s memory.


Treasurer Report

#1514 
Regular: $1.75 Total: $15,499.39 
Party: $0.00 Total: $ 205.08 


Vice President Report
Nothing fannish to report.

President Report
President not present.

Committee Reports
None

New Business
None

Announcements

ValerieF
The Santa Clara Library is having a Comic Con. Free, adorable, kiddie, fun. 
October 12 - all day. Silicon Valley Authors will have a table there.  
(santaclaraca.gov/government/departments/library/events/comic-con 
<http://santaclaraca.gov/government/departments/library/events/comic-con>)
She will be doing signing for her picture book Chelm for the Holidays at Books, 
Inc. Mountain View on October 6. booksinc.net/MountainView 
<http://booksinc.net/MountainView> 

DaveC 
The statue of Rocky and Bullwinkle is returning to Sunset Blvd. The West 
Hollywood City Council has agreed to a permanent location for the statue. It'll 
be across from where Tower Records used to be. 


JohnO
Commissioner Bradford Lyau was presented with the Moskowitz Archive Award at 
Worldcon. file770.com/tag/sam-moskowitz-archive-award/ 
<http://file770.com/tag/sam-moskowitz-archive-award/> 


Reviews

LisaH
Saw Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies at the 3Below Theaters. A one woman show, and 
the writer/performer really understands Bette. Try to catch it if it comes 
around to your area. Has been impressed with the 3Below’s guest artist series.  
3belowtheaters.com <http://3belowtheaters.com/> 

HaroldH
Hair Love – a short film (with a feature length cookie) – is a charming, 
heart-worming story of a father and daughter dealing with the absence of the 
mother, centering around the father trying to work with the girl’s afro-curly 
hair. 

The Angry Birds Movie 2 is an exercise at cramming as much humor into a movie 
as possible. Some of it doesn't work. But worth it to see Hair Love.


ValerieF
Was at Silicon Valley Comic–Con and did some speaking and signing. Nice con, 
but less programming than usual. Not much in the schedule once you remove the 
signing sessions. Be nice if the con could get back to where it was a couple 
years ago.
JohnO: They apparently hired a new management company that doesn't know how to 
manage a con.
Candace: The Silicon Valley Authors table did well, but the dealers room seemed 
lackluster overall (as other dealers were not doing as well.)


ChrisO
Her and John binged the anime series My Roommate is a Cat. It’s the story of an 
author who doesn't like to be around people and the cat that adopted him. The 
episodes are structured with the human POV in the first half, and the cat POV 
for the second. Very good. Japanese with subtitles. On Crunchyroll.  
crunchyroll.com/my-roommate-is-a-cat 
<http://crunchyroll.com/my-roommate-is-a-cat> 

Worldcon 77 Reviews

JohnO
Flew Aer Lingus. Helpful and courteous. Was up for nearly 36 hours by the time 
they got in to their accommodations in Dublin. Toured around Ireland before the 
con (a storm came in when boating around Skellig Michael.) Had lots of fun at 
the con. Was supposed to just photograph the Hugos and Masque, but there were 
some no-shows of other photographers so he was assigned other panels. Went to a 
couple panels, but don't remember them. Spider Robinson came late (after a 
dehydration issue) and had not been previously announced. (See John's FB for a 
write up). Sun at 10 a..m. the Library Bards performed - they still did a great 
job (despite the early show!) Finally saw the Doubleclicks live on Friday 
night! Masquerade was really good. 39 entries. Agreed with the Hugo voting 
results (they may not have been all his top picks.) The Campbell Award winner 
caused a bit of a stir. The convention center had an area set up as a pub named 
after Martin Hoare (Martin's) Always had people in it. 

Dave
There were also a couple food trucks at either end, and a gin bar. Martin's did 
get quite crowded, especially during the Hugo’s–though the telly had no sound 
and relied on captions which were poorly produced (Cream of Thrones!?!) [JohnO: 
it was an AI captioning system, as you can see it thinking about the words…] 
Saw a few interesting panels. Convention center looked like the top of a 
JukeBox. Was a bit too small. Crowd flow was interesting. Small amount of 
photographers were in the masquerade’s fan photo area. Went to a panel by Mary 
Robinette Kowal: Rapid Fire Readings of Ignoble Award Winners. Ok dealers room, 
fine Art Show (a tram ride away) Food was meh onsite, people went to grocery 
stores. A lot of walking plus full Irish breakfast and managed to not gain 
weight! Beer and Cider at Martin’s was excellent. Was at the old farts party, 
and had a fun time watching James Bacon break down. 

ChirsO
Really appreciate how they managed the crowd-flow chaos, with added seats for 
the holding areas for those who need it. Masquerade was run wonderfully by 
evilKevin with Dr.Chris as stage manager. She worked as stage ninja. Almost had 
a contestant walk off the front of the stage, but was stopped in time. Night 
time events had a line to get wristbands for the events (access people had a 
shorter line.) John Scalzi's dance made her dance, despite having no energy! 
Ric MC’d the Masquerade, and did Powerpoint Karaoke while the judges 
deliberated. Good time - exhausted.

Auction

The meeting was adjourned at 21:18, and the Rumor of the Week was: Still 
smaller than the Dublin meeting. 




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