BASFA minutes for March 30

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BASFA Meeting 1287
March 30, 2015

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 8:09 pm - because .. reasons
28 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1286 were accepted as 'Mo better'

There was no Treasurer & thus no report

The Vice President was missing [week 1]

The President had nothing fannish to report

The Party Committee reported that there will be a party at BabsCon this Saturday at 8pm

Announcements:
Ken announced that 'Life of Brian' will be shown at the Blue Light cinema at 7pm Thursday, April 2, check lifeofbrianmovie.eventbrite.com & Geri has made beards & announced that a 'Thunderbirds are Go' series will be on UK TV

JC announced that Mo is out of the hospital, but is changing passwords and all because the hospital lost her purse & he announced that Nerdvana Podcast, episode 37, part 2 will be out Wednesday & announced that his gallbladder comes out on Thursday

Ric announced that Fanboy Planet is due out & announced that there'll be a PechaKucha at Cafe Stritch on Tuesday, 6pm+

Aatheus announced that Big Wow, a comics, media & cosplay event, will be at the SJ Convention Center, April 18-19

Bradford announced that 'The Walking Dead' will get a spinoff series this summer & announced that he completed getting the full run of the 'Brave & the Bold' comic series

[evil] Kevin announced that there is a Robogames event at the San Mateo event center this weekend & he will have 2 entries

there

Reviews:
Andy reviewed Eurovision as fun & not bad

Ric reviewed the newest Humble Bundle as astonishing, reviewed the new James Bond trailer as it looks good; reviewed 'iZombie' as charming & reviewed 'Kingsman' as mostly okay

Dave C reviewed the 'Paul Blart 2' trailer as 'nope nope nope' & reviewed a horror of a book 'Your House is on Fire' by Stefan Kiesbye as the cover art has nothing to do with the overall creepy book

[evil] Chris reviewed Andy Duncan's 'The Pottawatomie Giant and other stories' as readable & reviewed an obit for Terry Pratchett in the Economist as good

Bradford reviewed the 'The Walking Dead' season finale as one of their better ones & Ric stated he has trust issues, the Andy announced that Otter Pops are made from otters

Aatheus reviewed an Icelandic beer, 'Einstok' toasted porter as excellent & worth the imported price & reviewed 'City Skylines' on Steam.com as what Simcity should have been & reviewed 'Ready Flare One' as a wonderful homage, narrated by Wil Wheaton & worth full price

Fred reviewed audiobooks narrated by Wil Wheaton as he's enjoyed all he's heard & reviewed [evil] Kevin's jacket as a stunning visual display

Dave C raviewed 'Battle Creek' as another police proceedural & Andy suggests searching out commercial TV insurance fanfic because it's the funniest stuff he's read all day

there was nothing to auction

we adjourned at 9:18

and the rumor of the week was: 'The next BASFA meeting will be a police proceedural'