December 19 BASFA minutes

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Minutes of Meeting #1685
Monday, December 19, 2022

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held online, in exile

***NEW*** ZOOM Meeting Registration link:
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Called to order at 8 pm
14 varied beings attended

The minutes of meeting 1684 were accepted as 'unseen by the secretary'

the Treasurer reported that we have money: Regular: $15,805.32; Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via Paypal - sent to = dwgallaher@gmail.com

the VP had nothing fannish to report, as is custom

the President had nothing fannish to report

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Ken announced that this Friday is the 4th Friday of the month, so there will be a Legion of Rassilon Friday, December 23 7:30 p.m. Dennys in Milpitas (333 S. Abbot Ave) near Calaveras and 880. This month we’ll finish up The Abominable Snowmen, with Patrick Troughton, and follow up with the Matt Smith story The Snowmen. There will also be a gift exchange raffle (bring a wrapped gift, get a ticket). lor.club - for more info check their Facebook page

Yochanan announced that this is the 2nd night of Hanukkah

Duncan announced that Longnow Video is currently live-streaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJHvTjCFcA & this involves wonderful old videos of our common history

REVIEWS:

Yochanan reviewed 'Tales of the Jedi', 6 different animated shorts, seen on Disney Plus. He had different reactions to each of them & recommends them for any Star Wars fan, but thinks they would be lost on other folk
& he reviewed 'Key out of Time' by Andre Norton as he enjoyed it a lot & Dave G followed, saying that he found the whole 'Time Traders' series to be very entertaining

Dave G reviewed the SF Symphony of 'Handel's Messiah' as a very lovely experience, once he reached the venue & rated it as being worth full price

Candy reviewed the SF Women's Choral Society as very good & found the 'Carol of the Bells' to have the most fascinating back-story

Gayle reviewed the SF Ballet's performance of the Nutcracker & enjoyed it; for further information, check sfballet.org

Trey reviewed the World Cup final game as a drama filled spectacle, heroics on both sides & definitely worth seeing, with many announcers saying it was the best of all times; Lisa agreed, saying +it was just an insane event

Duncan reviewed a film called 'Crimes of the Future', science fiction mixed with body horror & an interesting take on ways the future will deal with pollution & he recommends it

Gerry reviewed the Minnesota Vikings game of Saturday, when they set a record in the 2nd half for the greatest come-back in NFL history as he was quite impressed

we adjourned at 8:33pm

and the rumor of the week was = 'Imagine your phone is at 5% but lasts for 8 days! Now you can get an idea about Hanukkah'

And December 12 BASFA minutes

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Meeting #1684 - Monday, 12 December, 2022

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

***NEW*** ZOOM Meeting Registration link:
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Called to order at 20:00
Total of 12 log-ins

Secretary = The minutes of meeting 1683 were posted online, and were accepted as: Released from the Gulag!

Treasurer
Regular: $15,748.81
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to = dwgallaher@gmail.com

Vice President = Nothing Fannish to report.

President = Not present.

Announcements:
Lisa: Earl Grey (kitty) has got out again. Any tips for retaining felines would be helpful.

Ken: Chris Boucher passed away. He was the last of the ‘60s & ‘70s Doctor Who writers, also Blake’s 7 script editor, and creator of Star Cops.
Dance-Along Nutcracker this Saturday (3 & 7 p.m.) and Sunday (11 a.m. & 3 p.m.) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. sflgfb.org

Gayle: SF Ballet is also doing it’s Nutcracker sfballet.org (Gayle has already seen it) Set in SF around the time of the PanPacific Expo.

Ric: LLNL's National Ignition Facility recently achieved "ignition", where input energy from the 192 lasers generated an equal amount of output energy from the fusion pellet. Official announcement is due tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/.../nuclear-fusion-energy...

Reviews
Craig: Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday special (D+) Fine, not great. Lesser budget Rocky cameos. Well worth watching. Stand-alone.
(DVD from Library) ST: Lower Decks. Really enjoying. Campy, rude, crude, funny. Full of references. Recommend.

Gerald: Success of SLS mission (Artemis), unmanned capsule around the moon and returned (like Apollo 10 did). Furthest vehicle to go out and return to Earth. Retrograde (ish) orbit of the moon.
Joe Bland (chair of Sac L5 Sac.) host of Breakfast on the Moon (Zoom) last one was a few days ago. Got to interview Gearld Griffin Apollo 17 lead flight director, and rand Johnson Space Center. Videos may make it to YouTube.

Yochanan: (A-Prime) Watched Infinitum: Subject Unknown, lower budget film. Has Ian McKellen in it (for a brief moment). Different. Not dissatisfied B/B+ About parallel universes. Eerrie, cerebral. Empty streets (filmed during lockdown) Enjoyed it.
(D+) The Owl House, animated series. Okay. Same people as Gravity Falls. Made for teens. About a hispanic girl who wants to become a witch. Good, not great.

ChrisO: Living is good. 2 weeks in hospital, and not being allowed to get up walk around, is bad.

Rumor of the Week: BASFA Jolly good fun ad infinitum!

Adjourned at: 20:01