BASFA minutes for June 8

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Minutes of Meeting #1864
Monday, June 8, 2026

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
meeting held online AND meeting live at Parktown Pizza [at Meridian & Hillsdale in SJ]
https://www.parktownpizza.com

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Called to order at 8 pm
4live/7online beings attended the meeting

The minutes of meeting 1863 were accepted as 'THE Kitty!'

Proxy Treasurer's report = Regular: $15,805.32
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to: dwgallaher@gmail.com
Though we have accrued $165.59 since the resumption of live meetings.

the VP had nothing fannish to report

the President had nothing fannish to report

There were no committee reports

There was no old or new business

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Yochanan announced that actor Anthony Stewart Head died

Lisa announced that Casa Doom is having a meeting 2pm June 14, Sunday for a reading
see = https://mythsoc.org/groups.htm

Reviews:

Yochanan reviewed 'Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance', season 1 on Netflix, that was then cancelled - as he enjoyed it. He had some trouble getting into it initially because he kept seeing the muppets as puppets, but enjoyed the depth of the world lore. He felt it dragged a little & thinks the movie was better. He also recommends seeing the 'making of' special even more than the series.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Crystal:_Age_of_Resistance
Yochanan also reviewed 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' by Ransom Riggs as he found it to be an amazing story. He then went and watched the movie based on it, finding the movie to be loud and bombastic. The book was exceptionally good and photos in the book are integral to the plot. He really, really likes the book & recommends it.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Peregrine%27s_Home_for_Peculiar_Children
Yochanan also reviewed a Fathom event movie - 'The Amazing Digital Circus: the Last Act' & found it to be unusual & guardedly worth full price at $18. He thinks the series is fairly interesting & 'quite, quite unusual' with animation that is sometimes cartoonish.
see = https://www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/the-amazing-digital-circus/

Ken reviewed having seen last Thursday 'Toxic Avenger, the Musical' as a lot of silly fun. He rates it as definitely worth full price & the cast of 5 was excellent.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toxic_Avenger_(musical)
and see = https://losaltosstage.org/the-toxic-avenger/

Rick reviewed another episode of 'Star City' on Apple TV Plus as very well done. He recommends it and plans to watch future episodes. Yochanan also enjoyed it, but finds that everything is very dark - dark clothes and dark-haired and all look very British.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_City_(TV_series)

Duncan reviewed 'Spiderman Noir' as seeing it in color does not help the show & maybe it's better in black & white. He can't recommend it after seeing the first 3 episodes.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_Noir

we adjourned at = 8:37 pm

Rumor of the Week: 'The cat's heat is already here'

there were no auctions