BASFA minutes for Sept 23

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Meeting 1208
September 23, 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 7:59 pm - with the question - 'what did the fox say?'
26 people attended

A Nippon 2007 jar was established

The minutes of meeting 1207 were accepted as 'next week'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took money

the Vice President reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' out - and soon there will be another 'Drink Tank' out - and the 'Drink Tank' after that will be a tribute issue for Delphine Woods & a new 'Exhibition Hall' is out

The President had nothing fannish to report


Announcements:
Ken announced that the Legion of Rasselon meeting will be at the IHOP on Steven's Creek near Lawrence on Friday Sept 27 at 7:30

JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast will post part 2 of their young adult podcast this Wednesday - and announced that his mother retired at the age of 71

Doug announced that he had a stroke - but is here - and that it left him with aphasia [so he has had a 'buffering' sign made] - & he also has a new business = 'Gridlore Studios'

John O announced that he finished his photo sets from Worldcon/LonestarCon; [tall] Kevin followed, saying that the livestream from the Hugos is now up online

Diane announced that Anton Schwartz will have his jazz quartet playing at Studio Pink House on Friday, Sept 27 at 8pm at 14577 Big Basin Way in Saratoga

Bradley announced that he has the complete showcase now

Andy announced that shinies will be on display at the Pacific International Quilt Festival at the Santa Clara convention center, Oct 17-20

Chris O announced that Les Mis will be at Stage One in Newark, CA for the next 3 weekends, check www.stage1theatre.org

[fuzzy] Chris announced that Lynda says 'hi'

Reviews:
[fuzzy] Chris reviewed 'The Family' as really, really good & reviewed a TV show = 'The Neighbors' as funny & reviewed 'The Borgias' as sweet and messed up

JC reviewed Diane's hands as 'hands of magic' and recommended her

Andy reviewed 3 days of no internet and a gay cowboy rodeo as an absolute blast, lots of fun and worth full price - plus sponsoring belt buckles & [evil] Kevin reviewed the mud as interesting & their social experiment worked well

I reviewed 'Riddick' as a fun movie, worth full price, possibly twice and less misogynistic than I expected; Trey commented that he was disappointed by it because Riddick regenerated too quickly

Dierdre reviewed the Milford writer's workshop [held in Wales] - saying it was held on an organic farm ... with sheep - and was just awesome fun and worth triple the price

[another] Barbara reviewed Robin Hobbs books as Hobbs is now her favorite author - especially the Liveship Trilogy - it's all very worthwhile reading

JC reviewed iOS 7 as overall a slightly new look and recommends turning off push

Dave C reviewed the TV show 'Sleepy Hollow' as one desperate lurch after another

then we did auctions

we adjourned at 9:23 pm

and the rumor of the week was: '2 buck ain't that cheap'