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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2013-03-19 04:07 pm

March 18 BASFA minutes

Meeting 1181
March 18, 2013

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, 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 at 8 pm with Andy having hair
22 people attended

A party jar was established

The minutes of meeting 1180 were eventually accepted as 'here we go again'

the Treasur wasn't there

The Vice President reported there's a new new 'Drink Tank' out on efanzines.com - and a new 'Exhibition Hall' out too - plus he airlifted yellow jackets out of his bathroom

The President reported that BASFA received a postcard solicitation

Announcements:
Ken announced that people died

[evil] Kevin announced that this year's Transgendered Day of Visibility will be celebrated at Billie deFrank this Saturday, 3-6pm & then 7-11pm at Chars Place for Hair for for a dance and cocktails & announced that PR3 for Westercon went live this weekend & announced that he's assembling articles for 'Yipe' about hats

Ric announced that Fanboy Planet podcast #302 will be recorded Wednesday at Cafe Stritch & announced that April 2 will be the next Pachachachachachacha event, also at cafe Stritch - check fanboyplanet.com

JC announced that Nerdvana episode #10 will start to be released Wednesday

Adrienne announced [in Chris's voice] that a Wonder Woman celebration will be Tuesday night at the main SFPL & announced that Bay Area Ghosthunters is now the largest paranormal group on Meetup.com with 1000+ members

Dave C announced that Norwescon is coming up in 10 days

Reviews:
Adrienne reviewed 'Oz the Great & Powerful' as she had fun & it's worth seeing in 3D, worth full price; Diane commented that she saw it in 2D and was delighted by having seen it

Diane reviewed 'Domino Falls' by Steve Barnes as an incredibly fun read with good characters

Dave C reviewed Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe - a review and commentary about TV as it's funny and worth full price

Fred reviewed the Anarchist's book fair as okay, reviewed the terra cotta figures at the Asian Art Museum, visiting from China as well done & he enjoyed it & worth the $5 extra fee for the recorder & reviewed SFinSF as nice

then we did auctions

we adjourned at 9:39 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'eeeeeeewwwwwwww!'