Sept 30 BASFA minutes

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Minutes of Meeting #1520
Monday, September 30, 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-ish pm - with extra 'ish'
19 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1519 were accepted as 'the best news from the internet'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $21.75 in the regular jar & $22.75 in the party jar

the VP had nothing fannish to report

the President had nothing fannish to report

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dave C announced that he got paid for being sideswiped by the Amazon van

REVIEWS:
John O reviewed 'Ad Astra' in IMAX as the gravity was pretty, no matter HOW bad the plot was, the main character was unlikable & belief could not be suspended - highly -not- recommended; Chris O also did not like it, various other folk also did not like it, Gerry punned 'Bad Astra'

Dave C reviewed 'The Coldest War' by Ian Tregillis as the 2nd in a trilogy [book 1 = 'Bitter Seeds', book 3 = 'Necessary Evil'] as it's a fairly good read

[evil] Kevin reviewed 'Fetch' by Dave O'Neill as also a 2nd book in a series, fun and highly recommended

Fred reviewed 'Radicalization' by Cory Doctorow as a book of 4 novellas and he enjoyed it

we did auctions

we adjourned at 8:32

Rumor of the week was 'Bad Astra'