BASFA minutes for Sept 14

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BASFA Meeting 1311
September 14, 2015

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, 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 arm wiggles
28 people attended

we established a [redacted] jar

The minutes of meeting 1310 were accepted as 'thank you Brenna'

The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $1.75 in the regular jar & took in $14.84 in the [redacted] jar

The Vice President asked questions and did stuff

The President had nothing fannish to report

The Sports Committee has a question out to the SJ Earthquakes that has yet to be answered


Announcements:
Lisa announced that Convolution is coming up and mentioned fire rumors

JC announced more fire rumors & announced that Milpitas High will play at Levi Stadium, so go support them and oggle the stadium & announced that Nerdvana Podcast is still experiencing Windows 10 problems

Spike announced that PreReg for Convolution closes soon

Beth announced that her Donors Choose project fully funded & announced that Katlyn will be active in Opera SJ's 'Marriage of Figaro' in mid-November

Steve [deWinter] announced that his book ['A Tale of Two Cities with Dragons'] is out and a copy is in the BASFA auction

Ken announced that the Cartoon Art Museum has closed

Reviews:
Bill reviewed driving in the Rocky Mountains West as 'smoky' and that they met fans while driving around and had a nice time

Diane reviewed a book of short stories, 'Pangaea' as wonderful

Adrienne reviewed 'Man from UNCLE' as okay

Brad reviewed 'Fear the Walking Dead' as okay

Mo reviewed PAX Prime & Sasquan as good times, good people, good food and she had a wonderful time

We did auctions

we adjourned at 9:30pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'More mirrors, less smoke'

Sept 21 BASFA minutes

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BASFA Meeting 1312
September 21, 2015

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, 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 moth vomit
31 people attended

a party jar was established


The minutes of meeting 1311 were accepted as 'zero percent contained'

The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $7.50 in the regular jar & took in $27.25 in the [redacted] jar

The Vice President gave a birthday card to Chuck & said there were cassettes on the back table for free-zies or donation

The President had nothing fannish to report

The Sports Committee still has a question out to the SJ Earthquakes that has yet to be answered

Announcements:
Ken announced that the new Muppets show starts tomorrow & announced that this Friday is the monthly Legion of Rasselon

meeting at 7:30 at the Ihop on Steven's Creek & the 280

[evil] Kevin announced that Convolution is coming up and that the Barbarella party is a 'go'

JC announced that it's the 40th anniversary of a rather awful, locally produced movie, 'The Milpitas Monster' and the Great

Mall will have a showing of it at 7pm, Oct 30 for $10

John O announced that there is a new fire in the Carmel Valley

Bill announced that TwitchCon is in SF this weekend

Josh announced that there is a Tiki Tuesday at the SJ South bar with new tiki drinks & announced that DC will acknowledge

Phil Fingers contribution to Batman

Mo announced that she's a panelist at Convolution & will be Fan GoH at Windycon

Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghosthunters now have more than 1500 members & announced that her folks' place is going on

the market

Lisa announced that Convolution is still looking for staff

Dave C announced that he has a SMOF relic with him & it is going up for BASFA auction

Reviews:
Brad reviewed the book-on-tape version of 'Lord of the Rings' as highly recommended & reviewed current events as

controversial

Gail reviewed Hawaii-con as very good and interesting, especially the panels on Hawaiian culture & commented that the

dealer's room was a bit questionable

John O reviewed 'The Martian' by Andy Weir as a quick read & really, really good & said it will soon be a movie

Dave C reviewed the Fathom event of 'Dr Who' as lightly attended and not worth full price, Adrienne followed, saying she &

Lisa also went and she also thought it was only okay & not worth full price

JC reviewed Levi stadium as a great stadium

Old Harold reviewed 'The Enchanted Forest Chronicle' by Patricia Wrede, bought at BASFA auction as excellent


We did auctions

we adjourned at 9:16 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'We may have a fan, but it doesn't mean we're cool'