April 29 BASFA minutes

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Minutes of Meeting #1498
Monday, April 29, 2019

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 - with a dynasty of puns
24 people attended

we established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1496 were accepted as 'save a tree, we're running out of paper' - then [tall] Kevin gave the secretary a pad of paper

the Treasurer was missing

the VP had nothing fannish to report

the President had nothing fannish to report

The Sports Committee reported that the May 4th BASFA outing to the SJ Giants Star Wars night game is this weekend

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ken announced that KFJC's month of Mayhem starts on May 1 & that on May 5 he'll be doing a special Delia Derbyshire themed show there

Dave C announced that there is Gatorade in the auction tonight [and explained why]

[tall] Kevin announced that he is the Chair for the Tonopah totally-not-a-hoax Westercon 74, 2021 bid & he has flyers for distribution & it will be 'the first solar-powered Westercon'

JC announced that director John Singleton has died

REVIEWS:
'Endgame' was reviewed by many & it was epic

Bill reviewed Opera SJ's 'Madame Butterfly' as done adequately & he had a reasonably good time

Howeird reviewed 'Queen of the Mists' by the San Pedro Square Players & enjoyed it - he also reviewed a trip by Amtrak to the Grand Canyon as a very long trip & the Grand Canyon Railroad was 63 miles of the most boring terrain in existence

John O reviewed the latest Game of Thrones as WoW! WTF? Damn! & he reviewed some of his Hugo reading, Kowal's 'Calculating Stars' as incredibly good

Dave C reviewed Stross's latest 'Laundry' book, 'The Labyrinth Index' as a fine read, worth full price

Ken reviewed the season ender for 'Orville' as they knocked it out of the park

We did auctions

we adjourned at 9:33

Rumor of the week was 'BASFAns assemble!'