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Meeting 1112

November 21, 2011

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 8pm - with FEELING!

28 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes for meeting 1111 were accepted as '15'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $29.35 in the regular jar & 13.25 in the party jar

The VP did a late drop in & reported that issue 'Drink Tank #300' is out – with commentary for it to be included in issue #299 ^ he'll be the fan GoH for Contario

The President reported that a BASFAn is interviewed in this month's 'Playboy' - Craig Ferguson [whom Adrienne bought a membership for]


Announcements:
Ken announced that this Friday there will be a Legion of Rassilon meeting - at 7:30 at 'the usual place' = 1st & Trimble & he also announced that he's hosting 4 hours or terrible, horrible songs on KFJC on Thursday from 10am till 2pm

[evil] Kevin announced that the October issue of 'Yipe' is now available on efanzines.com

Dave C announced that there's a LosCon coming up this weekend in LA

Lisa announced that 'Sturgeon's Law' is now in the OED

JC announced that there'll be a Time Tunnel toy show, Sat Dec 3rd & he'll have a booth there himself &announced that he has a display in the Steampunk exhibit in Museo in Anaheim

Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters has meet -n- greets coming up on Dec 1 at the San Mateo County Recorder's office at 2:30pm & on Dec 8 at 5pm at Trials Pub - plus there's a charity event called 'Zorro by Night' on Dec 1 for the Peralta Historical park in Oakland

Bill announced SMOFcon will be in Amsterdam

Fred announced that 'Drink Tank #300' is out, 272 pages long

Marshall announced that FurCon is coming up, Jan 12-15 & he needs help personally in Conops - and others also need staff - the next staff meeting is Dec 17, Saturday, 1pm in the SJ conv center

Reviews:
Dave C reviewed 'Phoenix Rising' - by Pip Ballantine & Tea Morris as steampunk and fun to read

JC reviewed 'Immortals' as highly entertaining & awesome

I continued to review 'Skyrim' as even more tons of fun & way worth full price

Jo reviewed being on a small island as the fish was good, the people were friendly & that even though the guilder was the official currency, everyone used dollars & he reviewed the latest 'Twilight' flick as 'not the worst thing he's ever been dragged to see'; Chris followed - saying that “THE FILM” was like a Hungarian drug film - the 'Citizen Kane' of werewolves imprinting on babies movies and possibly the best part of that night

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Meeting 1112

November 21, 2011

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 8pm - with FEELING!

28 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes for meeting 1111 were accepted as '15'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $29.35 in the regular jar & 13.25 in the party jar

The VP did a late drop in & reported that issue 'Drink Tank #300' is out – with commentary for it to be included in issue #299 ^ he'll be the fan GoH for Contario

The President reported that a BASFAn is interviewed in this month's 'Playboy' - Craig Ferguson [whom Adrienne bought a membership for]


Announcements:
Ken announced that this Friday there will be a Legion of Rassilon meeting - at 7:30 at 'the usual place' = 1st & Trimble & he also announced that he's hosting 4 hours or terrible, horrible songs on KFJC on Thursday from 10am till 2pm

[evil] Kevin announced that the October issue of 'Yipe' is now available on efanzines.com

Dave C announced that there's a LosCon coming up this weekend in LA

Lisa announced that 'Sturgeon's Law' is now in the OED

JC announced that there'll be a Time Tunnel toy show, Sat Dec 3rd & he'll have a booth there himself &announced that he has a display in the Steampunk exhibit in Museo in Anaheim

Adrienne announced that Bay Area Ghost Hunters has meet -n- greets coming up on Dec 1 at the San Mateo County Recorder's office at 2:30pm & on Dec 8 at 5pm at Trials Pub - plus there's a charity event called 'Zorro by Night' on Dec 1 for the Peralta Historical park in Oakland

Bill announced SMOFcon will be in Amsterdam

Fred announced that 'Drink Tank #300' is out, 272 pages long

Marshall announced that FurCon is coming up, Jan 12-15 & he needs help personally in Conops - and others also need staff - the next staff meeting is Dec 17, Saturday, 1pm in the SJ conv center

Reviews:
Dave C reviewed 'Phoenix Rising' - by Pip Ballantine & Tea Morris as steampunk and fun to read

JC reviewed 'Immortals' as highly entertaining & awesome

I continued to review 'Skyrim' as even more tons of fun & way worth full price

Jo reviewed being on a small island as the fish was good, the people were friendly & that even though the guilder was the official currency, everyone used dollars & he reviewed the latest 'Twilight' flick as 'not the worst thing he's ever been dragged to see'; Chris followed - saying that “THE FILM” was like a Hungarian drug film - the 'Citizen Kane' of werewolves imprinting on babies movies and possibly the best part of that night

<<then I didn't miss much, I was told>>

Andy reviewed 'The Fabulous Devas of Hollywood' review at the Retrodome as very, very good - worth full price

Chris reviewed the city of Alameda as very science-fictional

Dave C reviewed OryCon as that he spent most of his time at the Dealer's Room - did Okay - and did get to see some programming


We then did auctions

we adjourned at 9:32 pm

Rumor of the Week: 'I'm a little steampunk, short and stout...'
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