June 11 BASFA minutes

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Minutes of Meeting # 1454
Monday, June 11, 2018

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas

Called to order at 20:00, with 26(+/-) people in attendance.

A party jar was established

The Minutes of meeting #1453 were posted prior to the meeting and were accepted as: Tony Award Winning Harry Potter night at the San Jose Giants

Treasurer Report.

#1453
Regular $2.25
Party $11.75

Total
Regular $ 15,333.81
Party $ -49.26


The VP had nothing fannish to report

The President was MIA with the flemish Secretary

Committee Reports

PartyThe next BASFA party will be at WorldCon76 on the Fri & Sat at the Fairmount.

SportsSJ Giants Harry Patter Night, Friday June 15: Tickets have been acquired and are being distributed to those who have paid. If you are interested, tickets can still be added on. Contact Ken at basfa@p4tt.com by Wednesday, June 13.

Announcements

tallKevin Nevada primary is tomorrow, and Kevin’s political fate will be determined - for a position on the North Lyon County Fire Protection District Board of Directors. The fire board is a non-partisan position, unlike others (which default to GOP & AIP). There are 4 slots on the ballot for 2 positions.

Lance Looking for a job. Tech writing.
We have brochures and book marks, along with posters for WC76.

Lisa Memorial for Harold on Friday at WorldCon76 in the Fairmount.

Harold Zeldathon Champions, charity live streaming event. Supporting St. Jude. Friday June 15 through the following Thursday. zeldathon.net

Bradford Will be giving a presentation on writing non-fiction at the San Mateo County Fair. Exhibition Hall from 4:30-5:30.

Diane WordCon76 will be at WesterCon in Denver over the July 4th weekend. If you can help, please let her know. These are the final appearances before WordCon76!
Also looking for a job.

Jerry WordCon76 Tours are now open for registration, and sold 9 tickets! Mystery Houses, Atom Smashers, Start Up Garages and pub Crawls. Log into your WordCon76 membership, and look at the add-ons page.
tallKevin - site selection is now available online, with supporting membership add-ons online. There’s a NASFiC (2019) and WorldCon (2020). Utah is the only candidate for the NASFiC (to combine with WesterCon72). New Zealand for the WorldCon bid. Vote - because it’s not impossible to loose.


Reviews

Mo Been watching Comrade Detective - a Russian police procedural. It was very popular program (a bit Starsky & Hutch minus the cars). Investigating murders while towing the party line. From the ‘90s. It’s on Netflix.
Gayle IMDB’d it, and it’s a comedy/parody!

Bradford SF Comic Con in Oakland (natch) One of the smaller, but crowded. Only 2 comic book dealers. Now has all the BatMan’s with Joker covers (#53). Only needs #57 & #58 to complete his run. Jonathan Frakes was there. They traded waves.

Dianne Read books, recommends… Long Juju Man (YA), Binti: The Night Masquerade (both by Nnedi Okorafor), AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (a collection), Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (a Star Wars collection celebrating 40 years with 40 Stories.)

Fred Book: Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi is better than he expected. Good pacing, did not get bored.

There was an auction.

Meeting adjourned at: 21:10 and the rumor of the week was: Klaatu Barada Three-peat™

June 18 BASFA minutes

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Minutes of Meeting #1455
Monday, June 18, 2018

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas

Called to order at 8 pm
28 people attended

we established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1454 were accepted as 'already posted on the internet'

the Treasurer reported that we took in $0.25 in the regular jar & $29.00 in the party jar

the VP had nothing fannish to report but was glad to see the President back

the President had nothing fannish to report

The Sports Committee reported that the BASFA outing to see the SJ Giants happened & thanked everyone who came out & then JC thanked Ken for the effort he made on our behalf

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The secretary announced that there were items of clothing on the back table as give-aways

[young] Harold announced that the Zeldathon Champions, a charity live streaming event is still going on - and that they have now raised a total of 2 million, supporting St. Jude. check zeldathon.net for more information

Ken announced that this Wednesday in SF is the SF Lesbian Gay Freedom Band Gala at the War Memorial Opera House [see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/40th-anniversary-gala-dinner-celebration-war-memorial-green-room-tickets-44923068106]
& he announced that the Palo Alto Players are performing 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' at the Lucie Stern theatre through July 1 [see https://patch.com/california/paloalto/calendar/event/20180616/351888/palo-alto-players-presents-the-man-who-came-to-dinner]
& he announced that this Friday is the Legion of Rassilon meeting; 7:30 pm at the Denny’s in Campbell, near the Pruneyard on Bascom
& he announced that this Sunday is the SF Pride Parade & that he & Geri will be in the Grand Master's Division .. at 10-ish [for more, see http://www.sfpride.org/]
& he announced that he might not be at next Monday's meeting because he is due to have an gastrointestinal endoscopy

Chris O commented that it is still not to late to help the Pride Parade by joining the Safety Crew & there will be training for it on June 20, check [http://www.sfpride.org/volunteer/]

Spring announced that Puppeteers for Fear will be putting on Cthulhu the Musical on June 26 at Alley Cat Books [for more check https://puppeteersforfears.com/]

Carole & Bill announced that yesterday was their 18 wedding anniversary

JC announced that next Baycon's theme is 'Insert Coin to Continue' and will be held over Memorial Day weekend, tentatively at the San Ramon Marriott & announced that Katlyn will attend Cal Poly Pomona

Lisa announced that she will be going to Westercan & there will be a memorial for Harold on Thursday & a memorial for Harold at Worldcon 76 on Friday

John O announced that Bay Area fan Sara Zimmerman passed away last week

[evil] Kevin announced that there will be a Worldcon 76 party at Westercon on Friday

REVIEWS:

John O reviewed seeing 'Genesis of the Daleks' as it was fun to see it on the big screen - and that it should be available on the season 12 blue-ray

Fred reviewed Mur Lafferty's 'Six Wakes' as well-written, entertaining & highly recommended - Dave [Wallis] followed, saying it was thought provoking

Vikas reviewed the Drake Awards Gala event as dressy, classy and a nice event
[see https://commitchange.com/ca/mountain-view/seti-institute/events/the-2018-drake-award]

Gayle reviewed Fran Wilde's 'Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand' as she'll have to read it a second time to truly appreciate it

JC reviewed an outing to the Pirate Festival in Vallejo as it was really nice and worth full price

the secretary reviewed being sick as 'too much phlegm' and reviewed 'Solo' as much better than expected, worth full price, twice

Dave [Wallis] reviewed 'Infinity War' as the ultimate MCU movie - generally well done & interesting & also reviewed having read many of the Hugo finalists as entertaining & he's still working to catch up on his reading

Lisa reviewed 'Won't you Be My Neighbor', the Mister Rogers documentary, as wonderful & Ken followed, saying - 'yes - bring tissues'

Chris O reviewed 'Incredibles 2' as worth full price, twice & recommended

Bill reviewed the BASFA SJ Giants outing as the weather was lovely, the food adequate and the company was excellent

we had auctions

we adjourned at 9:20

Rumor of the week was 'what happened to the SJ Giants wasn't cricket'