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Nov 28 BASFA minutes
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November 28, 2011
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 8pm - with talk of Morlocks
28 people attended
We established a party jar
The minutes for meeting 1112 were accepted as 'needless to say, the meeting broke'
the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $13.00 in the regular jar & 2.75 in the party jar
The VP reported there is no new issue of 'Drink Tank - but there IS a new 'Journey Planet' out on efanzines.com & he's watching lots of versions of 'Bladerunner' and that Frank Wu is here tonight → and then Frank bought a BASFA membership for Spacekat/Briana Wu
The President welcomed Briana & reminded Adrienne to write to Craig Ferguson
And THEN Briana called for a new election for VP. The ballot ended up with Briana and Chris as candidates - and after a stirring round of speeches and votes - Chris Garcia was re-elected as BASFA's VP
Announcements:
Ken announced that this Dec 3, Saturday there will be a Pyschotronic Film Festival at Foothill college - at 7:30 in room 5015, $5 at the door and $2 for parking & he also announced that he's hosting 4 hours of songs from the Psychotronic Film Festival on KFJC this Thursday from 10am till 2pm & also announced that Ken Russell died
Dann announced that he has been hired as a contractor for some income but he is still looking for more work
Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters has meet -n- greets coming up on Dec 1 at the San Mateo County Recorder's office at 2:30pm & on Dec 8 at 5pm at Trials Pub
Andy announced there are a few hours more till midnight - while ChiCon is having an extended Black Friday sale of Worldcon memberships for $15 off & announced that Photoflex is having a factory sale on Dec 4 [see = http://www.photoflex.com/img/phfx/mail/2010_11_30_html/index.html] & announced that on Dec 1 Westercon 66 membership rates go up to $65.00
Josh announced that Chez Panisse is sponsoring a lecture track at Berkeley called 'Edible Education' at Berkeley's Wheeler hall - and there are webcasts of these lecture.
[see = http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/news-events]
Reviews:
Chris reviewed 'Hugo' - as clockwork, not steampunk and the best movie he's seen this year - and there were uniformly positive comments following this; and he also reviewed 'The Descendants' as shockingly good, worth full price & then reviewed 'The Muppets' as very funny and “Oh crap” - with other comments having varied responses & then he reviewed different DVDs of 'Bladerunner' as being of varied quality - but the 1992 director's cut is the best and the 1st theatrical release was also good.
Bill reviewed the drive to Loscon as not worth full price, that Loscon seemed sparsely populated and the drive back was better
Briana espoused heresy in her review of 'Skyrim' as being confusing, boring and she didn't like the art and Frank followed that it was a muddled medieval mess
Adrienne reviewed seasons 2 and 3 of 'The Big Bang Theory' as the show is quite excellent fun and she bought them for wonderfully low prices
Dann reviewed 'Pirate Radio' as very good - very worth watching & highly recommended & Mo followed that it was a lot of fun to watch
We then did birthday and regular auctions
we adjourned at 9:32 pm
Rumor of the Week: 'Lemme hear you say Wu!'
November 28, 2011
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 8pm - with talk of Morlocks
28 people attended
We established a party jar
The minutes for meeting 1112 were accepted as 'needless to say, the meeting broke'
the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $13.00 in the regular jar & 2.75 in the party jar
The VP reported there is no new issue of 'Drink Tank - but there IS a new 'Journey Planet' out on efanzines.com & he's watching lots of versions of 'Bladerunner' and that Frank Wu is here tonight → and then Frank bought a BASFA membership for Spacekat/Briana Wu
The President welcomed Briana & reminded Adrienne to write to Craig Ferguson
And THEN Briana called for a new election for VP. The ballot ended up with Briana and Chris as candidates - and after a stirring round of speeches and votes - Chris Garcia was re-elected as BASFA's VP
Announcements:
Ken announced that this Dec 3, Saturday there will be a Pyschotronic Film Festival at Foothill college - at 7:30 in room 5015, $5 at the door and $2 for parking & he also announced that he's hosting 4 hours of songs from the Psychotronic Film Festival on KFJC this Thursday from 10am till 2pm & also announced that Ken Russell died
Dann announced that he has been hired as a contractor for some income but he is still looking for more work
Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters has meet -n- greets coming up on Dec 1 at the San Mateo County Recorder's office at 2:30pm & on Dec 8 at 5pm at Trials Pub
Andy announced there are a few hours more till midnight - while ChiCon is having an extended Black Friday sale of Worldcon memberships for $15 off & announced that Photoflex is having a factory sale on Dec 4 [see = http://www.photoflex.com/img/phfx/mail/2010_11_30_html/index.html] & announced that on Dec 1 Westercon 66 membership rates go up to $65.00
Josh announced that Chez Panisse is sponsoring a lecture track at Berkeley called 'Edible Education' at Berkeley's Wheeler hall - and there are webcasts of these lecture.
[see = http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/news-events]
Reviews:
Chris reviewed 'Hugo' - as clockwork, not steampunk and the best movie he's seen this year - and there were uniformly positive comments following this; and he also reviewed 'The Descendants' as shockingly good, worth full price & then reviewed 'The Muppets' as very funny and “Oh crap” - with other comments having varied responses & then he reviewed different DVDs of 'Bladerunner' as being of varied quality - but the 1992 director's cut is the best and the 1st theatrical release was also good.
Bill reviewed the drive to Loscon as not worth full price, that Loscon seemed sparsely populated and the drive back was better
Briana espoused heresy in her review of 'Skyrim' as being confusing, boring and she didn't like the art and Frank followed that it was a muddled medieval mess
Adrienne reviewed seasons 2 and 3 of 'The Big Bang Theory' as the show is quite excellent fun and she bought them for wonderfully low prices
Dann reviewed 'Pirate Radio' as very good - very worth watching & highly recommended & Mo followed that it was a lot of fun to watch
We then did birthday and regular auctions
we adjourned at 9:32 pm
Rumor of the Week: 'Lemme hear you say Wu!'
