Meeting 1167 December 10, 2012 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale
Began at 8pm - anticipating new movies 25 people attended A party jar was established The minutes of meeting 1166 were accepted as 'toad away' the Treasurer was missing The Vice President was missing The President said 'hi' to Steve - and then to Chris [who was hiding under a napkin - both of whom were visiting us for the 1st time The AdHoc Outing Committee urges everyone to go out and see the 'Hobbit' - 'whenever' & is having outings to the Psychtronic Film Festival on Saturday [$5 at Foothill College, parking lot #5, $3 for parking, 7pm, room 5015 & there'll be a raffle; plus an outing on Sunday at the Retrodome for the Stop Motion Christmas special from noon to 6pm and then at 7pm [same place] the Meshugah Nutcracker & some people will be in costume Announcements: Dave C announced that he has December's Cargo Cult catalogs out IN DECEMBER Reviews: [evil] Kevin reviewed ... stuff ... that was attended by Thinbot as an interesting anthropological study, but with extra drama Valerie -wanted- to review the 'Hobbit' but couldn't, so she reviewed books - many that she had managed to thanfully forget, but she did enjoy Cassandra Claire's 'Infernal Devices' and Alex Flynn's 'Beastly' Carole reviewed 'Rise of the Guardians' as a decent plot, great fun and worth seeing twice, Bill opined that someone had lots of fun writing the dialogue for it & he was entertained by it - and also by 'Wreck it Ralph' Diane reviewed Air NewZealand's flight safety film as worth searching out & reviewed 'The Immune' by Don Lucky Meisenheimer as the best 25 cents she's spent at a BASFA auction in a long time and a real good read [tall] Kevin mentioned a 'Hobbit' report - and there was some discussion about it Chuck reviewed 'Hitchcock' as the actors did a good job & he thought it was an okay film - worth matinee Mo reviewed SMOFcon as really good & she learned a great deal from it & reviewed Philidelphia as unseasonably warm & reviewed New Jersey as she saw it across a river Lisa reviewed Disneyland as they had a good time and the new rides are entertaining - & Dave C agreed with her Ken reviewed spending the weekend in SanFrancisco - as driving was challenging the last 5 miles in and out and the weather was good - the big shindig they went to was 'too loud' and the 'Dance Along Nutcracker' was fun Howeird reviewed Spring's decorating as 'decorating is hard, drinking is easy' Steve reviewed Terry Pratchett's 'Dodger' as if you like Pratchett's style, you'll like it We did auctions we adjourned at 9:36 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'Stop that! Stop that now!' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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