BASFA minutes for Nov 17

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BASFA Meeting 1268
November 17, 2014

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 8:01
30 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1267 were accepted as 'fortunately rule 34 does not apply to the minutes'

The Treasurer was missing, but last week we took in $7.50 in the regular jar and $7.05 in the party jar

The Vice President was missing

The President had nothing fannish to report ... but did say 'hi' to 2 people visiting us for the first time, attracted to us by the meetup.com site = Paul Mendoza and 'Howard'

Adrienne reported for the Meet-up Committee that the BASFA / meet-up.com site is now caught up

Announcements:
Josh announced that Impact Theatre in Berkeley will be putting on the Dragon Play through Dec 14

Dave C announced that Cargo Cult will not be at some Star Wars con in Anaheim, but that he WILL be at LosCon

Bill announced that Symphony Sillicon Valley will perform the Lord of the Rings sound tracks with the movies showing April 16-18, 2015 for $50 per show

Bradford announced that his deceased friend, George Slusser, established a research center/archive that is causing a controversy

Debbie announced that her department for the city of Saritoga will decorate itself in a Star Wars motif and is looking for loaner decorations

JC announced that Beth says 'hi' and announced that Nerdvana Podcast episode 34, part 4 will be released on Wednesday & that the Nerdvana Podcast recorded at Kepler Books went off splendidly

Mo announced that she has been invited to be Fan Artist GoH at Windycon, Nov 13,14,15, 2015

Andy announced that there is a new social media tool = Super! - for smartphones only & announced that there will be an SJ in 2018 bid party at LosCon & its email addy = parties@sjin2018.org

John O announced that his cataract surgery is in 2 weeks


Reviews:
Josh reviewed the Dragon Play as highly recommended and worth full price

Ken reviewed Atticare as not worth the time spent with them & reviewed the Batman blueray boxed set as uneven

I reviewed 'Birdman' as the story is okay, but the action behind stage is dead-on for accurately protraying the crazy - worth full price & Ric followed, saying that film is shot as one long tracking shot, visually stunning & highly recommended, then Trey reviewed it as worth matinee, but he's not 'theatre people'

Andy reviewed 'Big Hero Six' as fun, with perhaps the 'only realistic car-chase ever done in San Francisco', that the 3D was great and the short before it was excellent

Mo reviewed the Nerdvana Podcast at Kepler's as she had a great time

John O reviewed 'Interstellar' as absolutely amazing; Carole agreed, Bill enjoyed it, then reviewed 'Big Hero Six' as aimed at the tween audience, but still good

Tom reviewed the 'Stone Boatman' by Sarah Tolmie as a well-written, good story that may become a classic

we did auctions

we adjourned at 9:34 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'That's why we kept the rats'

[Trey added: 'The Treasurer is going to see this and say THAT'S why we kept the rats!']