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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2022-12-19 09:57 pm

And December 12 BASFA minutes

Meeting #1684 - Monday, 12 December, 2022

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

***NEW*** ZOOM Meeting Registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZckc...

Called to order at 20:00
Total of 12 log-ins

Secretary = The minutes of meeting 1683 were posted online, and were accepted as: Released from the Gulag!

Treasurer
Regular: $15,748.81
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to = dwgallaher@gmail.com

Vice President = Nothing Fannish to report.

President = Not present.

Announcements:
Lisa: Earl Grey (kitty) has got out again. Any tips for retaining felines would be helpful.

Ken: Chris Boucher passed away. He was the last of the ‘60s & ‘70s Doctor Who writers, also Blake’s 7 script editor, and creator of Star Cops.
Dance-Along Nutcracker this Saturday (3 & 7 p.m.) and Sunday (11 a.m. & 3 p.m.) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. sflgfb.org

Gayle: SF Ballet is also doing it’s Nutcracker sfballet.org (Gayle has already seen it) Set in SF around the time of the PanPacific Expo.

Ric: LLNL's National Ignition Facility recently achieved "ignition", where input energy from the 192 lasers generated an equal amount of output energy from the fusion pellet. Official announcement is due tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/.../nuclear-fusion-energy...

Reviews
Craig: Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday special (D+) Fine, not great. Lesser budget Rocky cameos. Well worth watching. Stand-alone.
(DVD from Library) ST: Lower Decks. Really enjoying. Campy, rude, crude, funny. Full of references. Recommend.

Gerald: Success of SLS mission (Artemis), unmanned capsule around the moon and returned (like Apollo 10 did). Furthest vehicle to go out and return to Earth. Retrograde (ish) orbit of the moon.
Joe Bland (chair of Sac L5 Sac.) host of Breakfast on the Moon (Zoom) last one was a few days ago. Got to interview Gearld Griffin Apollo 17 lead flight director, and rand Johnson Space Center. Videos may make it to YouTube.

Yochanan: (A-Prime) Watched Infinitum: Subject Unknown, lower budget film. Has Ian McKellen in it (for a brief moment). Different. Not dissatisfied B/B+ About parallel universes. Eerrie, cerebral. Empty streets (filmed during lockdown) Enjoyed it.
(D+) The Owl House, animated series. Okay. Same people as Gravity Falls. Made for teens. About a hispanic girl who wants to become a witch. Good, not great.

ChrisO: Living is good. 2 weeks in hospital, and not being allowed to get up walk around, is bad.

Rumor of the Week: BASFA Jolly good fun ad infinitum!

Adjourned at: 20:01