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Jan 20 BASFA minutes
Meeting 1225
January 20, 2014
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 8:03 - with some thoughts on FurCon
24 people attended
A party jar was established
The minutes of meeting 1224 were accepted as 'secretary death stare'
the Treasurer was not here
the Vice President was not here
The President had nothing fannish to report
Reminder = there will be 4 Hugo nomination meetings, held Feb 3 & 10 - and March 3 & 10
Announcements:
Lisa announced that there will be a play coming up called 'Silent Sky' about sexism and star-gazing
Ken announced that the Legion of Rasselon meeting will be at the IHOP on Steven's Creek near Lawrence, 7:30 pm Friday Jan 24 & announced that the new Retrodome will show 'The Princess Bride' quote-a-long this weekend & that he & Geri plan to visit Disneyland in Hong Kong in the near future
Tom announced that Potlatch is still crowd-sourcing for panel suggestions - check www.potlatch.sf.org - dates Feb 21-22-23
Beth announced that she is doing a classroom project involving football jerseys - so needs to borrow football jerseys - contact her
JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast episode 22, part 3, & episode 23, part 1, will both be released this Wednesday
Reviews:
Lisa reviewed FurCon as being a lot of fun - with good science panels & good gaming design information there - she enjoyed it - and there were some follow-ons
Brad reviewed having given a panel talk some time back and now he found a book called 'The Cave & the Lion' based on the same idea
Tom reviewed a book - 'Touched by an Alien' by Gini Koch as silly but enjoyable & also reviewed a fanzine, 'Trapdoor' by Robert Lichtman, as the writing is awesome & it's available on efanzines.com
Bill reviewed 'The Year's Best SF', edited by Dozois as it didn't fit in his bag - but still a good read and worth reading
Carole reviewed her new handmade coat as worth the effort
Beth reviewed Lynda as a pie maker extraordinaire - and that the banana-toffee pie she made was so very good
Adrienne reviewed Oscar contenders - 'Despicable Me 2' as cute, worth cable & Carole agreed that it ws enjoyable
JC reviewed playing 'Dalmuti' as it's even better when played with a full group, hats and the right chairs
Mo reviewed shopping at Safeway as the decorated cake was lonely after the 49ers lost
Josh reviewed Gregorie as he has poutine on the menu & that taking the toppings off it and putting them on the potato puffs was worth way more than full price
then we did auctions - tasty, tasty auctions
we adjourned at 9:12 pm
and the rumor of the week was: 'none of my pots have latches'
January 20, 2014
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 8:03 - with some thoughts on FurCon
24 people attended
A party jar was established
The minutes of meeting 1224 were accepted as 'secretary death stare'
the Treasurer was not here
the Vice President was not here
The President had nothing fannish to report
Reminder = there will be 4 Hugo nomination meetings, held Feb 3 & 10 - and March 3 & 10
Announcements:
Lisa announced that there will be a play coming up called 'Silent Sky' about sexism and star-gazing
Ken announced that the Legion of Rasselon meeting will be at the IHOP on Steven's Creek near Lawrence, 7:30 pm Friday Jan 24 & announced that the new Retrodome will show 'The Princess Bride' quote-a-long this weekend & that he & Geri plan to visit Disneyland in Hong Kong in the near future
Tom announced that Potlatch is still crowd-sourcing for panel suggestions - check www.potlatch.sf.org - dates Feb 21-22-23
Beth announced that she is doing a classroom project involving football jerseys - so needs to borrow football jerseys - contact her
JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast episode 22, part 3, & episode 23, part 1, will both be released this Wednesday
Reviews:
Lisa reviewed FurCon as being a lot of fun - with good science panels & good gaming design information there - she enjoyed it - and there were some follow-ons
Brad reviewed having given a panel talk some time back and now he found a book called 'The Cave & the Lion' based on the same idea
Tom reviewed a book - 'Touched by an Alien' by Gini Koch as silly but enjoyable & also reviewed a fanzine, 'Trapdoor' by Robert Lichtman, as the writing is awesome & it's available on efanzines.com
Bill reviewed 'The Year's Best SF', edited by Dozois as it didn't fit in his bag - but still a good read and worth reading
Carole reviewed her new handmade coat as worth the effort
Beth reviewed Lynda as a pie maker extraordinaire - and that the banana-toffee pie she made was so very good
Adrienne reviewed Oscar contenders - 'Despicable Me 2' as cute, worth cable & Carole agreed that it ws enjoyable
JC reviewed playing 'Dalmuti' as it's even better when played with a full group, hats and the right chairs
Mo reviewed shopping at Safeway as the decorated cake was lonely after the 49ers lost
Josh reviewed Gregorie as he has poutine on the menu & that taking the toppings off it and putting them on the potato puffs was worth way more than full price
then we did auctions - tasty, tasty auctions
we adjourned at 9:12 pm
and the rumor of the week was: 'none of my pots have latches'