BASFA minutes for January 27, 2025
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basfaMinutes of Meeting #1793
Monday, January 27, 2025
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
In-person at Parktown Pizza 3031 Meridian Ave, San Jose, CA 95124
And online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83807383506?pwd=VnNNTXJ1YXlLS0RQVVB2VERXUTQ2dz09
Called to order at 20:00
Total of 10/3 in attendance
Secretary = The minutes of meeting 1792 were posted online, and were accepted as: sent to Columbia.
Treasurer = Regular: $15,805.32
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to: dwgallaher@gmail.com
Though we did accrue $124.10 since the resumption of live meetings.
Vice President = Nothing fannish to report.
President = Not present.
Committees: None.
New Business: None.
Announcements:
Yochanan: Free Cookie Day Friday 1/31 at the grand opening of Crumbl Cookie Company on Cottle Rd. eventbrite.com/e/grand-opening-in-san-jose-ca-crumbl-cottle-tickets-1216827577039
And MST3K show Jan 29 8am Rocketship XM in honor of the lunar new year mst3k247.com
Gerald: Rocketship XM was meant to go to the moon, but went to Mars. Snuck in to cinemas before Heinlein’s destination moon.
Reviews:
Yochanan = Wolf Man (in cinemas) horror/fantasy. Directed by Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man (2020)). This one is pretty generic. Set in Oregon with a small cast. The wolf-man just looks creepy – not necessarily wolfy. You see the transformation from his POV. Not great. Matinee (B-/C+) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Man_(2025_film)
Also = Star Trek to San Francisco (CreationCon in Burlingame). Had a ball. Had a copper pass. Rat Pack show was lots of fun. Only one track in the main room. Some evening programming. Felt like most of the guests were fun. Sonequa Martin-Green was there on Sunday in the photo room, and she took some time with the fans. Won first show in a game show a (proze package included a Kirsty Allen signed photo, amongst others). Worth full price.
Gerald: Was in the dealers room, and the planning had a lot to be desired, with no flexibility. Reasonable amount of traffic, but not a much in sales as last year. Guests and people and costumes were wonderful. Organizers could have done better…
Jerry: Ken and I had a good time.
Rick = Star Trek: Section 31 (Paramount+) Michelle Yeoh is back. Was to be a series, but is now a movie. 90 minutes of amiably underwritten, save-the-cat boilerplate. Not entirely well worked out. Cast kind of phones it in. Good fight scenes. Worth watching at a friend’s. It was OK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31
Yochanan: Rick liked it more than he did. Bad Trek is better than no Trek, and this was no Trek… More an Oceans 11 caper…
Robin: Fell asleep during the film. Highlight was the Emperor Philippa Georgiou origin story (Yochanan agrees)
Also = Severance (AppleTV+) High concept future workplace that separates your persona into a work and outside life. Up to second episode of season 2. Evil corporate mayhem turned up to 11. Rave review, highly recommend. wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)
Gerald = Alternative Liberties, Bob Brown’s alt series collection, literary resistance to 45. Read a couple of the stories, and they were dark. Valerie says there’s a couple lighter stories in it. Will it be darker than reality. amazon.com/Alternative-Liberties-Alternatives-Bob-Brown/dp/1949476472
Rumor of the Week: Bad Trek is better than no Trek.
Monday, January 27, 2025
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
In-person at Parktown Pizza 3031 Meridian Ave, San Jose, CA 95124
And online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83807383506?pwd=VnNNTXJ1YXlLS0RQVVB2VERXUTQ2dz09
Called to order at 20:00
Total of 10/3 in attendance
Secretary = The minutes of meeting 1792 were posted online, and were accepted as: sent to Columbia.
Treasurer = Regular: $15,805.32
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to: dwgallaher@gmail.com
Though we did accrue $124.10 since the resumption of live meetings.
Vice President = Nothing fannish to report.
President = Not present.
Committees: None.
New Business: None.
Announcements:
Yochanan: Free Cookie Day Friday 1/31 at the grand opening of Crumbl Cookie Company on Cottle Rd. eventbrite.com/e/grand-opening-in-san-jose-ca-crumbl-cottle-tickets-1216827577039
And MST3K show Jan 29 8am Rocketship XM in honor of the lunar new year mst3k247.com
Gerald: Rocketship XM was meant to go to the moon, but went to Mars. Snuck in to cinemas before Heinlein’s destination moon.
Reviews:
Yochanan = Wolf Man (in cinemas) horror/fantasy. Directed by Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man (2020)). This one is pretty generic. Set in Oregon with a small cast. The wolf-man just looks creepy – not necessarily wolfy. You see the transformation from his POV. Not great. Matinee (B-/C+) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Man_(2025_film)
Also = Star Trek to San Francisco (CreationCon in Burlingame). Had a ball. Had a copper pass. Rat Pack show was lots of fun. Only one track in the main room. Some evening programming. Felt like most of the guests were fun. Sonequa Martin-Green was there on Sunday in the photo room, and she took some time with the fans. Won first show in a game show a (proze package included a Kirsty Allen signed photo, amongst others). Worth full price.
Gerald: Was in the dealers room, and the planning had a lot to be desired, with no flexibility. Reasonable amount of traffic, but not a much in sales as last year. Guests and people and costumes were wonderful. Organizers could have done better…
Jerry: Ken and I had a good time.
Rick = Star Trek: Section 31 (Paramount+) Michelle Yeoh is back. Was to be a series, but is now a movie. 90 minutes of amiably underwritten, save-the-cat boilerplate. Not entirely well worked out. Cast kind of phones it in. Good fight scenes. Worth watching at a friend’s. It was OK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31
Yochanan: Rick liked it more than he did. Bad Trek is better than no Trek, and this was no Trek… More an Oceans 11 caper…
Robin: Fell asleep during the film. Highlight was the Emperor Philippa Georgiou origin story (Yochanan agrees)
Also = Severance (AppleTV+) High concept future workplace that separates your persona into a work and outside life. Up to second episode of season 2. Evil corporate mayhem turned up to 11. Rave review, highly recommend. wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)
Gerald = Alternative Liberties, Bob Brown’s alt series collection, literary resistance to 45. Read a couple of the stories, and they were dark. Valerie says there’s a couple lighter stories in it. Will it be darker than reality. amazon.com/Alternative-Liberties-Alternatives-Bob-Brown/dp/1949476472
Rumor of the Week: Bad Trek is better than no Trek.
