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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2019-06-13 05:41 am

June 10 BASFA minutes

Minutes of Meeting #1504
Monday, June 10, 2019

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas

Called to order at 8 pm, sweatily
21 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1503 were accepted as 'escape from New York'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $5.00 in the regular jar & $3.50 in the party jar

the VP had nothing fannish to report

the President had nothing fannish to report

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
[tall] Kevin announced that there is still time to vote on site selection for Tonopah, NV for Westercon 2021 [the Westercon 2 years from now] - that the vote takes place at Spikecon / Westercon 72, July 4-7 in Layton, Utah, where he will run the Tonopah table & be fan GoH [so could also use some help with the table, too]

[little] Harold announced that the next Zeldathon marathon will start June 13 & run thru June 19, for details check #Zeldathon

Doug Berry announced that this month marks his 1 year anniversary as a crossing guard

REVIEWS:
Andy reviewed 'Good Omens' on Amazon Prime as an absolutely fantastic adaptation of the book - completely worth having an Amazon Prime sub for & Ken agrees; & then reviewed 'Archer 1999' as 'Just when you thought the show couldn't get weirder', still hilarious & the voice cast is amazing & reviewed 'Historical Roasts' on Netflix as batting 1 for 3, but still worth watching & then reviewed 'Weird City' as an anthology series with an amazing cast & he recommends it

Valerie reviewed 'Cursed Child' as okay with nice special fx & reviewed 'Puffs' as cute & fun & available on Amazon & reviewed Book Expo America as a lovely con & recommends it

Doug reviewed 'Yellow Dirt' by Judy Pasternak as a devastating read

John O reviewed more Hugo nominated reads - 'Spinning Silver' is very enjoyable. 'Space Opera' was a fun read & 'Trail of Lightning' was also nice - now he's onto the novellas; then reviewed 'Pets 2' as fun & reviewed Adam Savage's 'Savage Builds' as worth watching

Kennita reviewed 'Rocketman' as an excellent bio-pic, with excellent everything, recommended & worth full price

[little] Harold reviewed Adriana Figueroa's concert as worth 2 hours of your time & recommended TheRunawayGuys on youtube

Dave C reviewed 'Godzilla, king of the Monsters' as worth matinee & John O reviewed it as 'monsters cool, humans zero'

We did auctions

we adjourned at 9:05

Rumor of the week was 'Drive safely or Doug will be cross'