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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2023-11-01 03:18 am

BASFA minutes for October 30

Minutes of Meeting #1726
Monday, October 16, 2023

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

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Called to order at 20:01
Total of 11 log-ins

Secretary = The minutes of meeting 1727 were posted online, and were accepted as still one of the few acceptable things on the internet these days.

Treasurer = Regular: $15,805.32
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.

Committees: None present.

New Business: No new business.

Announcements:

Yochanan: Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the last day the 3Below is asking for volunteers to help move items from one storage to a new storage.

Reviews

Yochanan: Jules (movie, paid to watch on Prime) Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtain. worth every penny. Man’s life disrupted when a UFO lands in his back yard. Liked it a lot, highly recommend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_(film)

Rick: Bodies. (Netflix) Same body found in the same place in different times. Had high hopes, but gets tied up too neatly – and a bit pat. Similar to German series dark (this is Dark light?) Brilliant cast, brilliantly done. Worth your time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies_(2023_TV_series)
Enjoyed the Prime series The Peripheral. Brilliant series that got canned by Amazon after a year. Now reading the novels by William Gibson. Good, dense, uncompromising – and Amazon can’t cancel that!

Gerald: The Far Dark by Gregory Benford (Analog Nov/Dec 2023) Could be the last for the author (who had a stroke recently). Reasonably good story, hard to describe and not spoil. Interesting story. Craig looked up the author, and he seems to have gotten better, and is working with an other author (as of 3 weeks ago). Yochanan also liked the series. Good acting and great visuals. Recommends, despite the cliff-hangery ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral_(TV_series)

Rumor of the Week: Aging with Aliens: Close Encounters of the Lonely Kind

Adjourned at: 20:2617