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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2015-11-11 06:00 am

Nov 9 BASFA minutes

BASFA Meeting 1319
November 9, 2015

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, 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 8 pm with food
30 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1318 were accepted as 'Hail Sagan'

The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $71.50 in the regular jar & $0.75 in the party jar

The Vice President had nothing fannish to report

The President had nothing fannish to report

Announcements:
JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast episode 42, part 2 will be up Wednesday

Beth announced that Opera SJ's 'Marriage of Figaro' will be Nov 14,15,16, 22,24,29 at the California Theatre & that

Katlyn will be in it - and also in 'Young Frankenstein' early next year

Dave C announced that Trey is the supervising sound editor for 'Gotham'

Lisa announced that there will be a baycon this year, details TBA

Jon announced that he saw a sign saying that Dave C is sold on the streets & announced that Don Giovanni in Mountain View will hold a benefit for the Kiwanis club, a murder mystery dinner cafe and that he will be in the cast & announced that he saw a show called the Science Show that postulated that socializations causes beneficial brain chemical changes

Reviews:
[evil] Kevin reviewed the worst possible episode of the 'Tomorrow People' ever as worse than the TV version of Flash Gordon

Dave C reviewed the 50th anniversary gala Lamplighters show as mostly enjoyed, but he wished it had been better and he may have been the youngest one there

Josh reviewed seeing 'The Martian' a second time as still a very good film and worth full price

Jon reviewed a Silicon Valley Storytellers meet-up as interesting & informative

The new local 'Campbellcon' was reviewed as being not well run, disorganized and lacking programming

Fred reviewed the new James Bond movie, 'Spectre' as disappointing, worth nowhere near full price, but does recommend the Chinese restraunt Fulumum; Adrienne commented that she enjoyed the opening for 'Spectre' and Mo says that the Daniel Craig Bond films were presented as a franchise reboot

I reviewed the new content for Star Wars the Old Republic MMO as very good, all things considered

Ken reviewed seeing the 'official Blues Brothers' at the Heritage theatre as fun


We did auctions

we adjourned at 9:13 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'Barbara's minutes bring the boys to the yard'