The Rumor of the Now.

Vintage (And Just Plain Old) SF Books For Sale

2008-05-08T04:00:35Z

Hello all!

Sorry to be a lurker and then barge in for selfish reasons, but being unemployed stinks. Not being able to pay rent? Stinks more. So...

Long story short, I'm a Bay Area local with some relatively rare (and some downright common) vintage SF for sale at what I believe to be very reasonable prices. There are some non-SF titles, too, but the list is sorted by type and easy to browse. Details behind the cut tag.

Some Lovely Books, On Sale For Surprisingly Reasonable Prices

Note - there are three tabs to the document. Yes, I took the lazy way out and directly exported an Excel sheet to html. It looks okay on Firefox. Let me know if it's hellish on your browser.

First tab - Sci Fi tomes o'interest. Ranging from the somewhat hard-to-find to really quite common, but in good condition for their age. Lots of UK first (paperback) editions.

Second tab - Non-SF books that might be of interest. Fiction and non-fiction, some of it downright odd.

Third tab - the bargain basement stuff. Mostly SF, all $1 and $2/book for whatever reason. Read over the descriptions as some of them aren't in good shape.

First person to call dibs and pay gets the items. If two people call dibs simultaneously, I'll let you know and you two can haggle it out (ie, yes, I'm willing to go to private bids, but I doubt that situation will arise).

I take PayPal and cash. As I've been forced into a merchant account, I prefer cash, but if that ain't possible, it ain't. What's a lousy 2% fee? ;)

Shipping and such: Prices do NOT include shipping. Any books that must be shipped will be sent USPS first class/airmail, with receipt and insurance.

Massive preference given to Bay Area folks willing to pick up, of course, as that saves us all the faff of shipping. Plus, you can look at the book, before paying up. I will be in the south bay on Saturday afternoon/evening, at a social event (those of you who know about it, know what I'm talking about) and will be glad to bring items down to handoff, there.

I will only truck down to the BASFA meeting on a Monday if I've got $30 of potential sales on my hands, as BART & CalTrain costs me $20, r/t. Diminishing returns, and all that so, er, see above re: being in the south bay on the 10th. Elsewise, other arrangements can be discussed.

If you have any questions about any of the books, just ask. I'm willing to take photos if the descriptions don't do enough for you.

PS - OOPS! To contact me, drop a line to britgeekgrrl(at)livejournal(dot)com and I'll get back to you.

BASFA minutes for May 5

2008-05-07T00:51:47Z

Meeting 927

May 5, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:01 - [for pony!]

25 people attended
a party jar was established

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 926 were accepted as 'Kevin's displaying a thought balloon' & the minutes of meeting CC26 were accepted as 'are you caught up, Barbara?'

Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $1.00 in the regular jar [& $1.00 in the CC26 meeting jar]

no VP, week 2

The President had nothing fannish to report

The Party Committee reported that there was a BASFA party at Costume Con - during the Masquerade, it was lightly attended & he had fun. He has had confirmation that there WILL be a BASFA party at Baycon & he desperately needs volunteers to help with the party

Announcements
[evil] Kevin announced that CostumeCon 26 has already had more than 20,000 photos submitted for their archives and if you have more to send in, send them to sendphotos@cc26.org

Dave G announced that Spring is looking for African-themed fabrics

Adrienne announced that Denvention is 'partnered' with United Air - and claims to have discounted air-fares - and that the fare from American, leaving SJ is still cheaper

Fred announced that there's a comic convention May 17-18 at the SJ convention center, called Super Con

[Galen made a pun]

Dave C announced that a new Cargo Cult catalog is out - for March/April

Reviews:
Harold reviewed the California wildflowers as spectacular, reviewed 'Forbidden Kingdom' as one of the best martial arts movies he's seen, worth matinee; I follow-on'd that I enjoyed it and thought it worth high matinee

Fred reviewed 'The Singing Revolution' as excellent, he recommends it highly & thought it was absolutely fascinating

Stellen reviewed the Maker's Faire as it cost $25 and was well worth it - lots and lots ov very odd things

Martin reviewed 'The True Meaning of Smekday' by Adam Rex as fun, worth reading and quite good

[evil] Kevin reviewed CC26 as he was rather active during it; there were 876 attendees - maybe more - and there were adventures; all in all worth the last 7 years of his life; [then there were follow-on's] Dave C commented that Dealer's Room ran well and the Gilded Bat won for 'best evil merchandise' with their spiked Mongolian gauntlet; Adrienne commented that she heard nothing but good things about the con; Andy recommended the ScharffenBerger Chocolate tour and made the experience seem drool-worthy; Eric follow-on'd that the ScharffenBerger tour is well worth the trip

I reviewed 'Iron Man' as hella fun - with great casting and worth full price, twice; Ed follow-on'd and totally agreed that it was great & worth full price & Trey followed that he very much enjoyed it and rated it as worth high matinee

Joe reviewed the Livermore wine festival as very pleasant & worth doing again

Fred told everyone to go see the Babbage engine at the Computer History Museum

we then did auctions: magazine & ring for $0.25; books for Chris for $0.50; a video for $0.50; then a box of videos for [tall] Kevin for $1.07

We adjourned at = 9:32

And the rumor of the week was: 'Happy Dealers come to California'

BASFA minutes for April 28

2008-04-29T18:51:47Z

Meeting 926

April 28, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:00 - [lightly]

12 people attended

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 925 were accepted as 'mad as sticks'

no Treasurer or Treasurer's report

no VP or VP Report

The President had nothing fannish

The Sports Committee reported he still has 2 sets of 2 tickets each for Giants games that he'd like to try selling

Announcements
Eric announced that Chris Garcia won his bid to run Corflu in 2011 [site TBA]

Stellan announced that the Maker Fair will be this weekend, May 3-4 at the San Mateo fairground

[tall] Kevin announced that Cheryl is en-route back to England

Reviews:
Joni reviewed 'Devil Inside' by Jenna Black as it had an interesting premise that was not well-realized and rated it as 'there are other things to read in this world'

[tall] Kevin reviewed CC26 as worth full price - at the door - and possibly the most fun con he has ever attended and it reminded him why he likes conventions; I follow-on'd that the costumes were wonderful & I had a marvellous time; Eric follow-on'd that more than 20,000 photos had already be downloaded to Chaz's 1 terabyte drive [then there was a bit of SMOF smackdown site selection neepery]

Trey reviewed 'Lego Star Wars 2' as he reached 100% and was continually amused to see an Xwing wearing a Groucho Marx nose and glasses - that the game was a great deal of fun

We adjourned at = 8:33

And the rumor of the week was: 'as overheard from [evil] Kevin - Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last!'

BASFA minutes for April 21

2008-04-22T23:09:35Z

Meeting 925

April 21, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:00 - [with thingies]

24 people attended
a party jar was established
a TAFF jar was established

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 924 were accepted as 'porn chowder'

Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $11.73 in the regular jar [and there were no other jars]

VP Report - a new 'Drink Tank' is out - issue 166-ish, maybe, a thing happened, he went to England and wrote 50,000 words on it for TAFF and the chicken strips are excellent

The President had nothing fannish to report - but did say 'hi' to visitors from afar, Teddy and Tom, here for Costume Con

A motion passed to name Teddy and Tom BASFA's ambassador to the Far Isles & since Teddy is currently their dead monarch, teddy was named ambassador to the dead, while Tom is the ambassador for the living

And then Andy paid for BASFA memberships for both Teddy & Tom

Note - if there is a BASFA meeting at CC26 the meeting number will be 'CC26'

Announcements
Frank Wu announced that he found a pile of BASFA tshirts and brought a bag of them for us to paw thru. ['Swag!']

Glenn announced that the SJ Museum of Art is showing robot art [about robots, not by robots] through Oct 19

[evil] Kevin announced that CostumeCon 26 will be this weekend & the prereg numbers are 650 and they only have 800 program books [there were follow ons about the con]

Reviews:
Fred reviewed Cheryl's podcast as pretty good, informative and worth full price

Glenn reviewed 'Freedom & Necessity' by Steven Brust and Emma Bull as a novel written in journal form and he enjoyed it & reviewed that old punch cards make good bookmarks

Chris reviewed shipping a difference engine as don't use DHL - they dropped it - and they'll still have the party May 10th at the Computer History Museum, and he reviewed the Sonoma Film Festival as great - with free food and free drink before each film and worth full price since he volunteered and reviewed England as he got pictures of a swarm of paparazzi stalking a celebrity as ironic and reviewed wandering around and getting lost in the streets of London as worth full price [35 pounds] to take the taxi back to his hotel

Andy reviewed the Little Sheep Mongolian hot Pot in San Mateo as difficult to find parking for and nice, with scary Chinese liquor and was worth full price & reviewed Blue Ginger in Milpitas as the food was good, it had the world's worst signage, was expensive and almost worth full price & reviewed trying to install Windows XP on an old machine as -not- worth full price

Frank reviewed seeing movies as research as fun; 'Street Kings' was worth matinee, but he paid full price for it; 'Forbidden Kingdom' was worth matinee, but he paid full price for it again; '21' [silence ... we stared at Frank] was reviewed as not very good, '10,000 BC' as he liked it and it was a mindless spectacular and he walked out of 'Prom Night' and rated it as not worth sneaking into

Dave G reviewed live netcasts as a wonder of modern technology

[tall] Kevin reviewed Indian cricket and Indian commercials as fun and entertaining

Lisa reviewed the CC26 program book as well done and produced very quickly

we then did auctions: Mo's lemon curd for $5.00; squirrel gum for $0.50; licorice Altoids for $2.00; a booklet of Japanese recipes for $1.00; then birthday auctioned off Cheryl for $35.00 to [tall] Kevin & birthday auctioned off Cricket for $10.00 to Dave C

We adjourned at = 9:39

And the rumor of the week was: 'your corflu is strong, but mine is stronger'

BASFA minutes for April 14

2008-04-16T03:05:30Z

Meeting 924

April 14, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:00 - [as I read elf porn]

23 people attended
no jar was established

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 923 were accepted as 'alright'

Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $15.50 in the regular jar and $12.75 in the party jar

there was no VP [week 2]

The President had nothing fannish to report

A motion passed to rename Glenn as 'the late Glenn Glazier' for the duration of the meeting

Announcements
Cheryl announced that the next SFin SF reading will be April 20, 6pm, outside the Montgomery Tubes check for details at SFinSF.org & she announced that she is paying $5.00 for a BASFA membership for John Scalzi [as long as he agrees]

Mike announced that Peppino D'Agostino will be playing at the Mission City Coffee Roasting Company, Friday, April 25, 8pm

Lisa announced that CostumeCon 26 will be in 11 days & [evil] Kevin is counting the days, plus pre-reg for CC26 closes April 15 and she can take money here

Dave C announced that Reyn Spooner has discontinued his Disney line of shirts

Julie announced that she went to the ERPS meeting and she is now an ERPS board member

[tall] Kevin announced that on April 15 the voting closes for the Locus poll

'the late Glenn Glazier' announced that KFOX is putting all the covers for their contest are posted on kfox.com

[evil] Kevin announced that he is part of a publicity blitz for IBM that has been on NPR and the BBC

Ed announced that the SJAA holds a star party every moonless night at Camden & Bascon, SJ and they'll have an auction on Sunday

Carole announced her elbow is now healed

Andy announced that 'Was not Was' was released earlier this month

Reviews:
Julie reviewed Contact as really good, with lots of good speakers & dealers. She reviewed 'Torchwood' as she hopes it continues & commented that the new 'Dr Who' companion will take some getting used to [there were follow-ons]

Fred reviewed Yuri's Night as he had a wonderful time and it was worth full price

Dave C reviewed driving a Jeep 4x4 as it was like driving a tank, a bouncing ponderous tank & reviewed BBC America's 'Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares' as his new addiction and worth full price

'the late Glenn Glazier' reviewed taking a nice drive to Napa and buying cheese and then buying various meats ['a bowl of heart attack' = from Andy] & reviewed Chili's steak dinner as very good - then there were follow-ins about how good Raphael is

Dave G reviewed a creation con - 'the SciFi Summit' in Southern CA as there were lots of Spocks there but sales were slow, but they made money so it was worth full price

Joe wandered off-topic ['we have topics'] and waxed rhapsodic about the fun of driving really fast

Andy reviewed the Beard Papa coffee flavored cream pastry as it tastes like coffee & reviewed this year's Eurovision music videos as the worst lineup ever; the videos are up on the eurovision.tv website

Cheryl reviewed a Southampton alumni event held in SF at the house of the consul general as she had a good time

Fred reviewed 'Lysistrata' at City Lights [somewhat modernized] as worth full price and recommended

we then did auctions: books for $0.50, $0.25 & $2.00

We adjourned at = 9:42

And the rumor of the week was: '0 dollars for Chris'

BASFA minutes for April 7

2008-04-08T23:19:35Z

Meeting 923

April 7, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8-ish - with our own sound fx

25 people attended
We established a party jar

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 921 were accepted as 'unread' & the minutes of meeting 922 were accepted as 'the sum of 2 difference machines'

there was no Treasurer or Treasurer's report this week

there was no VP or VP report

The President reminded us that CostumeCon 26 will be in 3 weeks

The Party Committee reported that he's in negotiation for rooms for parties at Baycon & Furcon

Announcements
[evil] Kevin announced that CostumeCon needs your help to unload trucks or watch the unloading the Thursday before con - please contact CC26's volunteers

Glenn asked if there were any good Korean BBQ places in Santa Clara

Lisa announced that pre-reg for CC26 closes April 15 and she can take money here [Galen follow-on'd that he also can take money]

Dave C announced that General Petreus appears in front of Congress tomorrow

Mike announced that Geoff Muldaur will play at the Cayuga Vault, Friday 8pm in Santa Cruz

Howeird passed out pretty fliers, saying that 'Man of La Mancha' starts May 17 [and he plays both the Governor & the innkeeper] - call 408-266-4734 for more information

Cheryl announced that April 15 is closing day for the Locus poll & announced that the 'Challenge Cheryl' series is up at cherylmorgan.com and is a good excuse to answer silly questions

[tall] Kevin announced that he has 3 pairs [2/each] of Giants tickets that he would like to sell since he can't make those games; the days are for May 9, May 15 and June 16

Dave C made a motion that failed

Reviews:
Ken reviewed 2 weeks spent on honeymoon in the United Kingdom as they saw a lot of people they knew, got hailed on, Jerry drank whiskey, they shopped, it was a fun trip, if pricey

Joe reviewed bailing out his water bed as the end of an era

Andy reviewed 'French and Saunders' = 'Let the Eat Cake' as absolutely hilarious and crude & hysterically stupid - and if you can find it, it's worth full price

Adrienne reviewed Danielle Steel's 'The Ghost' as bad - even for a romance novel & reviewed 'Ghosts of San Francisco' as fun, but folklore and nor well researched & reviewed that net puffs hurt

Maureen reviewed being a con guest for Icon 27 as really nice & she got to meet her hero, Murphy Anderson - who was just amazing & worth full price

Ed reviewed Ringo's 'A Deeper Blue' and Unto the Breach' as he enjoyed them, the 2nd was a really excellent book and he's been really enjoying the series & reviewed 'A Scanner Darkly' as schizophrenic and strange & worth dollar rental, just barely

Lisa reviewed '21' as a lot of fun & worth matinee

Fred reviewed 'Lysistrata' at City Lights [somewhat modernized] as worth full price and recommended

we then did auctions: books for $0.50, $1.00, $1.50, a video for $1.00 by Galen for Joe that was given to [tall] Kevin, a comic for $2.00, & Dr. Who stuff for $2.00 & $1.00

We adjourned at = 9:43

And the rumor of the week was: 'Free Tibet with purchase of China'

The Clubhouse Question

2008-04-08T15:05:21Z

If you were at last night's meeting, you will have heard about (and had a chance to read a draft of) Cheryl's answer to the question "Why Doesn't BASFA Have a Clubhouse?" After feedback from the folks last night, Cheryl has published the answer, which I'm sure will be of interest to all members and maybe to others interested in the mysterious ways of our Great Fannish Powerhouse.

BayCon Art Show Info

2008-04-08T07:26:52Z

Here is the email I received from the BayCon Art Show maven, which I mentioned at Monday night's meeting:

From: Carl Zwanzig [cpz@tuunq.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [BC08-artshow]: Ping

Hi,

Info on the Baycon art show is finally available online. While it should
soon be on www.baycon.org, you can also download the rules, entry form,
etc from http://www.tuunq.com/BayconArt/. Also, sometime in the near future
I hope to have control and bid sheets that can be completed on your own
computer. Please let me know if you're interested in these.

The forms were created using OpenOffice, a free office productivity suite
(from www.openoffice.org). You can download the "odt" files and fill them
in using OpenOffice Writer.

z!
Baycon art show

BASFA minutes for March 24

2008-03-26T00:49:55Z

Meeting 921

March 24, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:03

24 people attended
We did not establish a party jar

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 920 were accepted

Treasurer's report was that at meeting 920 we took in $31.00 in the regular jar & $5.35 in the party jar

there was no VP

The President had nothing fannish to report

Announcements
[tall] Kevin announced that the Hugo nominations came out and that both Cheryl and Chris were nominated; and also announced that Cheryl was currently on a plane flying here and should be here next week

Fred announced that that the Worldcon hotels have had some cancellations, so check with them if you couldn't get in before

Joni announced that season passes for Great America are on sale now for good prices in groups of 4+

Julie announced that she got to bartend at Bella Roma [a place she helped with an organ transplant before & that Contact is coming up on April 4-6 at NASA-Ames, check www.contactconference.com

Mike announced that baseball season starts at 3am

Andy announced that he did a bunch of updates on the Hugo recommendations LJ today

I announced that I'll be away next week so someone will have to take meeting minutes [Glenn? ^_^]

Reviews:
Howeird reviewed the Psychotronic Film Festival at Foothill as he won a DVD there that was not a B movie - but was more of a C minus and worth full price except for the loud mouthed idiot behind him

[tall] Kevin reviewed Norwescon as the Match Game went off well, although it only gelled an hour beforehand, that the performance of Girl Genius Radio Theatre was great and he saw part 3 of 'Revenge of the Weasel Queen', that the con is way too big for the function space, he enjoyed himself and felt it worth the trip; Dave G follow-on'd that he spent much of the con on an airplane and that the con was 'interesting' [and various other comments made]

Joe reviewed trying to quit caffeine as it mostly sucks and is grim

[evil] Kevin reviewed part 1 of 'The Colour of Magic' as beautiful and wonderful and definitely worth stealing and then buying

Andy reviewed spending a part of the weekend converting from Windows to Linux as Ubuntu installs quickly & it's worth it to be free

Julie reviewed 'Torchwood' like chocolate - dark and satisfying but boring at times

John Hertz phoned in a greeting and reports that Lunacon also fails the badge test

we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off Joe for $6.00 to Garth, cupcakes for $1.25, cookies for $1.00, books for $0.50 for [evil] Kevin and $0.50 & comics for $1.00

We adjourned at = 9:19

And the rumor of the week was: 'pina colada rumors of the week, now with rum.'

BASFA Minutes for March 17

2008-03-19T00:30:37Z

Meeting 920

March 17, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:00 [greenly]

25 people attended
We established a party jar

we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off Joni for $6.00 to Garth, cupcakes for $1.50, cookies for $1.50, $2.00, $0.75, $1.00, $1.50, & a magazine for $0.25

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 919 were accepted as 'life is short enough people'

Treasurer's report was that at meeting 919 we took in $6.00 in the regular jar, $3.77 in the FFAT jar to bring Chris back & $4.75 in the party jar

there was no VP

The President had nothing fannish to report

It was moved and passed to excuse Chris Garcia's absences and not to start the counter for him to lose his office until April, provided that he holds a BASFA meeting at Eastercon

Announcements
Fred announced that Yuri's night is coming soon - details at http://yurisnightbayarea.net

Lisa announced that little Harold's birthday was today; he's 19

Cheryl announced that 'I'm here' [to applause], but she flies off to Florida tomorrow & announced that England has noted an invasion by a weapon of masked wrestling [but trusts he will find his way home again]

Dave G announced that he's heard Chris will hold a party at Eastercon

Dave C made an inquiry about who has Blue Ray players - in regards to Cargo Cult information

[tall] Kevin announced that Norwescon is this weekend - as are many other conventions

Galen announced that he is a direct descendant of John Carter of Mars

[evil] Kevin mentioned matchitforPratchett.org

Reviews:
Harold reviewed boxing as a bad month for the Marquez brothers & charged too much for it & reviewed Dropkick Murphy's reissue as a kind of celtic-punk-oi band & they're loud - screaming their lyrics. They're -um - LOUD - and the CD is overpriced

Lisa reviewed 'Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day' as a beautiful late-30's-style romantic comedy, the actresses are great, it's lots of fun and worth full price

Cheryl reviewed an SFinSF reading as marvellous and much fun was had by all & reviewed England as cold and wet - but some of the wet is from tears because Wales won at rugby ['the English would be hard-pressed to beat an egg']

Dave C reviewed the New York Dolls, performing in SF as the 2 original [surviving[ members are moving a bit more slowly, but it was an excellent show, worth full price and he reviewed the book 'Superheroes in my Pants' by Mark Ebanier, a compilation of essays, as a fun retrospective, a fine book and worth trade paperback

Ken reviewed the Lynxis 500N series as not worth buying, unpacking, repackaging and returning to Fry's

Howeird reviewed 'The Counterfeiter' as wonderfully done, extremely well-acted, worth box office [it's subtitled] & reviewed Governor Spitzer as following in the footsteps of Governor Rockefeller

We adjourned at = 9:00

And the rumor of the week was: 'Ann MacCaffrey's last book will be 'Dragonslayer of Pern'.'

BASFA minutes for March 10

2008-03-11T22:55:23Z

Meeting 919

March 10, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:10 [blaming it on daylight savings time]

19 people attended

We established a FFAT jar to bring Chris back from England
We established a party jar

Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 917 were accepted as 'better late than never' & the minutes of meeting 918 were accepted as 'leap minutes'

Treasurer's report was that at meeting 918 we took in $4.79 in the regular jar & $1.75 in the party jar

there was no VP

The President had nothing fannish to report

Announcements
Dave G announced that his company is also hiring techie people - and if interested see him

Howeird announced that May 17 is the opening for 'Man of la Mancha' & he's been cast as the Governor; it's being presented by the Saritoga Drama Group, running through the end of June & check www.saritogadrama.org

[tall] Kevin announced that emails have been going out to selected folk about being Hugo nominees &announced that Cheryl is coming back tomorrow

Glenn announced that Gary Gygax failed his last saving throw

[evil] Kevin announced that there's a CostumeCon meeting in the [Doubletree] boardroom at 10am, Saturday

Reviews:
Fred proxy reviewed [for Joni] 'The Mysteries of Harris Burdock' by Chris vonAllsburg as worth full price

Howeird reviewed Consonance as a veritable who's who of famous filkers and he enjoyed having his mind bent ... twice - not only worth full price, but worth the procrastinator's at the door fee

Andy reviewed spending the weekend having out with drag queens [with hair colors 'not found in nature] for Coronation as the show started within 'fannish standard' time, the pacing was iffy, it ran late & they left early but their after-party ran until 5am - flawed but fun and worth full price

Ken reviewed the Lynxis 500N series as not worth buying, unpacking, repackaging and returning to Fry's

Trey reviewed Comcast's 'on demand' feature as quite handy to have - since it allows us to view a Sharks game up to 24 hours after it was played - and does not cost us any extra fee

we then did auctions: a notepad for $0.50, CDs for $3.25; CD and a book for $1.75 & a DVD game & CD for $2.00

We adjourned at = 9:15

And there was no rumor of the week

BASFA minutes for March 3

2008-03-05T04:38:40Z

Meeting 918

March 3, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:02

25 people attended
We established a party jar

Secretary’s report: we postponed accepting the minutes of meeting 917 until next week [since I forgot to bring them to the meeting]

Treasurer's report was that at meeting 917 we took in $45.55 in the regular jar & $26.00 in the party jar

there was no VP

The President had nothing fannish to report

Announcements
Julie announced that Gerry Nordley is looking for volunteers to help out at Contact

Ken announced that he is handing out crayons and copies of Ken & Jerry's Commemorative Coloring Book

Mike announced that the 'Adventures of Briscoe County Jr' are out now on DVD - expensive - and that deepdiscount.com had it on special

Andy announced that there is no convention this weekend that he's going to, but he'll be at the San Jose IRLM Coronation this weekend, check the website at www.irlm.org

Lisa announced that Consonance is this weekend at the Crown Plaza in Milpitas & there will be a wedding held at con [Chaos Savitsky and Selkit being wed]

Dave G announced that his company is hiring sales people - if interested see him

Reviews:
Adrienne reviewed 'The Other Boleyn Girl' as interesting & didn't let historical facts get in the way of their movie, there was computer-generated scenery, nice costumes - and then follow-on's - one that even mentioned the movie

Julie reviewed local Daly City politics as she was surprised that so much talking could be done without anyone actually saying anything & worth attending to expand her horizons

[evil] Kevin reviewed Ken & Jerry's wedding as that he and Andy were pencilled in as the '2 butch guys in security uniforms' only that they got the 'u' wrong, the food was amazing, the wedding was great fun and was absolutely worth full price - there were follow-on's [including one about beer ingredients]

Joe reviewed a party of his that spanned 3 rooms, went past the PG rating and was definitely awesome

Mike reviewed 'Jodhaa Akbar' as the dance sequences were better than the battle scenes & well worth full price [is playing at the Mercado]

Bob reviewed Roseville as not worth full price

Fred reviewed Potlatch as 188 attended and it was fun, cute and worth full price

Harold reviewed Mexican boxing as 12 rounds of using style and technique to beat the hell out of each other & worth having cable & that Comcast let him watch 5 episodes of 'Torchwood' in a row

Stellen reviewed a Man-Kzin war book by Chafe, 'Destiny's Forge' as a brick of a book & heavy on culture, fairly epic and worth e-book

[tall] Kevin reviewed some SF author drama as amusing

we then did auctions: a DVD for $1.00, a VHS tape for $2.75 & books for $0.25

We adjourned at = 9:10

And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Ben & Jerry will introduce a new flavor - deep cut bodice'

BASFA minutes for Feb 25

2008-02-26T23:47:10Z

Meeting 917

February 25, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:04

29 people attended
We established a TAFF jar

Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 915 as 'borderline laryngitis' & accepted the minutes of meeting 916 as 'on the web'

Treasurer's report was that at meeting 915 we took in $12.50 in the regular jar & $6.83 in the TAFF jar & at meeting 916 we took in $3.00 in the regular jar

the VP reported that he goes to England on March 14 [the comments went a bit blue then], he says there's a new 'Drink Tank' out and a new 'SFinSF' as well

The President teased the members with a comment about wanting to report something fannish - but had nothing fannish to report [and stated that 'the state of your panties is your own affair']

Miko suggested a rule modification & it failed

Announcements
Ken announced that there's a wedding this Friday - for Ken & Jerry [and there was much merriment]

[evil] Kevin announced something [that Joe's comment drowned out] that happens March 8th, check the website at www.irlm.org

Dave C announced that Norwescon starts March 20 at the SeaTac Doubletree & features the return of Girl Genius radio [and tall Kevin will be there, hosting 'Match Game']

[tall] Kevin also reminded folks to mail in their Hugo ballots

Lynn Gold announced that Consonance will be March 7-9 at the Crown Plaza in Milpitas & there will be a wedding held at con [Chaos Savitsky and Selkit being wed]

Glenn announced that February has 29 days this month

Dave G announced that in honor of Ken & Jerry's wedding that Spring will have a Tupperware party, Saturday, march 1 at 4pm at the House of Spike [and there will also be jewelry there]

Dave C announced the reunion of the Bonzo Dog Dooda Band

we then did auctions: books for $1.00, $1.00, $1.00, $0.50, $0.50, $0.50, $1.75, $3.00, a box of VHS tapes for $10.00, a stack of comics for $0.50, a box of books for $4.00, another box of books for $1.00, Kermit books for $1.50, and a glowy lamp for $10.00

Reviews:
Glenn reviewed the 'Funny Times' a humor clipping service as funny and reviewed the food at 'uno Mas' as better than Cocos [there were grumbles of disagreement]

Adrienne reviewed 'Juno' as she really liked it and was impressed, reviewed 'Michael Clayton' as an enjoyable film, reviewed her migraine as fierce and reviewed the 2nd season of 'Rome' as she loved the costumes & it was well worth rental or on TV

Chris reviewed Wondercon as a nice time and he spent an obscene amount on comics there - he saw an awesome Sumo demo, lusted for the 7th Worldcon book, reviewed going to a baptism on Sunday as 'excellent' & reviewed 2 DVDs of avant garde films as 'as long as there's a mime or harlequin in it, it counts as avant garde' & Dave C follow-on'd that the Moscone South is too big for Wondercon

Lisa reviewed 'Definitely Maybe' as cute and sweet and definitely worth matinee

Harold reviewed HBO boxing events as the dullest thing on TV - even worse than golf

Andy gave short 'Torchwood' reviews & reviewed Gallifrey as intoxicating and worth full price & reviewed the SF Coronation as worth driving to in the rain, full price [and there were many, many jokes made about ... size issues - it got a bit blue and Glenn wept with laughter]

Dave C reviewed Kim Newman's 'Secret Files of the Diogenes Club' as fun, worth trade paperback full price

[evil] Kevin reviewed 'Asteroid' on the SciFi Channel as twice as long as 'Meteor' and not as good

Stellen reviewed 'Skyrates' online as the avatars are furries, the graphics are good and it's reasonably fast play - and free, check skyrates.net

We adjourned at = 9:50

And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Masked Mexican Sumo wrestling, coming soon'

No Xena, Just Tupperware, and new stuff from Springtime Creations!

2008-02-25T00:58:36Z

Just wanted to remind you all of the second open studio event (and Tupperware extravaganza!) coming up this Saturday at 4 p.m. Not many folks have replied, and I'd really like to gauge the amount of delicious food that I've got planned for the event!
See a copy of my evite here , and let me know if you are interested!!!!

Thanks!

BASFA Minutes for meeting number (last week +1)

2008-02-19T15:40:44Z

Meeting number (Last week +1) began at 8:02 with 9 members present. No President, No secretary, no problem! We pressed Harold into service as notetaker and the VP took the reins.

These minutes are typed up by Chris from those notes taken by Harold.

No President's Report

No Tresurer's Report, though it was assumed that we got money

VP Report- New Drink Tanks out, SF/SF comes out on Wednesday and that's it.

Annoucements
Fred announced that there was an SFSF reading this Saturday at the Hobert building- 582 Market st. And then there's Potlatch in Seattle the last weekend in February.

Eric announced that there's a CC26 meeting at the DoubleTree on 2/23.

Chris brought up the Wondercon is this weekend in SF (2/22-2/24) and there'll be an X-Files movies panel along with folks from Sarah Conners Chronicles. Chris will wear bells.

Howeird announced the Radio Hour at Saratoga CIty Hall. It's a recreation of old timey radio plus 10 minutes on either side of backstage drama.

Reviews
Howeird reviewed DVD of Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer as not as bad as Spidey 3. Good CGI, blown chance at naked Jessica Alba. Worth Netflixing.

Stellan reviewed iFly in Union City as non-flying skydiving. Riding on a cushion of air (like a Ryder truck) and it's 50 bucks for a couple of minutes floating time. Arrive early for training video, you learn handsignals. Worth it to have done it and not have to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

Chris read a book. Kitty Takes a Holiday by Carrie Vaughn. Werewolf talk radio. Entertaining, well-paced, well-written fun. He also watched Festen (The Celebration in English) Depressing/Funny. Sexual abuse, strung-out sister. You know, a family film.

Mike reviewed Gallifrey as the hotel was horrible with tiny little bathrooms. Lots of fun for the con itself and he signed up for next year. Lots of panels, more than a thousand folks showed up. Not underpopulated and not too crowded either except for the live commentary panels.

Harold reviewed something with the initials WRM. I think it was a positive review. I'm not sure. Seriously, it's less than 12 hours later and I totally blanked. No clue.

The group failed to formulate a Rumor of the Week.
Chris

Canary in the mine shaft

2008-02-17T01:48:27Z

Finally caught whatever is going around here [after being exposed by a half dozen people]. In a way, I'm glad I managed to withstand it this long - and in another I am -very- glad that it appears to be a milder case of the [sinus/sore throat/aches/fever/chills] - so I have hopes that I'll get over it quickly.

I don't think I'm contagious any more, at least - so I should be able to be at BASFA in 2 days to take minutes. [However, if anyone wants to -tell- me to stay home ... and that they'll take the minutes - then I'll happily do that, instead.]

BASFA minutes for Feb 11

2008-02-12T23:39:16Z

Meeting 915

February 11, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:00 [because I had prime rib]

20 people attended
We established a TAFF jar

Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 914 as 'Soylent green is Phoebe'

no Treasurer - but the proxy treasurer report via Dave C was that at meeting 914 we took in $0.50 in the regular jar & $2.26 in the TAFF jar &

there was no VP - but Joe volunteered to do the VP report - not realizing the danger [of taking over the -job-] that he was putting himself into

The President introduced us to Brenden - visiting us after having seen the webpage [when asked to talk about himself, his comment was to shake his head and say, "I'm good."]

Announcements
Dave C announced that Paris Hilton's movie, 'The Hottie and the Naughty' - took in a grand total of $25,000 in its release week [there were follow-on's]

Joe announced that there are 2 conventions this weekend, PantheaCon, locally - and Gallifrey down south

Andy announced that the last Evil genius party before CostumeCon will be held at Gallifrey, Friday - and Ken follow-on'd that Evil Geniuses will host a Dalek party in their room on Saturday night

Lisa announced that her grandson turns 2 today and has thus far survived

Mike announced that Amichi's Pizza is celebrating their 20th anniversary tomorrow and for a day they'll be selling at 1988 prices - in downtown Mountain view

Trey announced that Roy Scheider died yesterday

Reviews:
Julie reviewed 'The God Machine' as a book about the history of helicopters & commented upon Roy Scheider's fantasy ties, with a reference to the movie 'Blue Thunder' & also said one of the folks on her Fair Organ Preservation Society mailing list recommends 'Masterpieces of the East'

Andy reviewed 'Slice of New York', next to Stevens Creek Surplus, as seriously good NY pizza, worth full price & reviewed 'Torchwood' episode 4 as it continue the dark spiral the series is doing this year - it's weird and dark and worth stealing [there were follow-on's] & reviewed the new CD by John Barrowman as the worst pop power ballads of the 70's & 'Another Side' is not worth stealing [there were follow-ons]

Joe reviewed Mexico as utterly brilliant & they ran into a brigade of dolphins [amazing], swam with a pod of whales [they WERE the pod people] & ate dinner with bats - had a lot of fun & was worth full price

Ken reviewed The Cliff House as the place has been remodeled & lacked the classic ambiance - not worth going there again, but the food wasn't bad & reviewed 'Across the Universe' as worth Net-flicking, the actors did their own singing & the DVD extras were interesting & he reviewed Jerry's wedding dress preview as fabulous

Dave C follow-on'd last week's session by recommending LeGuin's 'On Serious Literature'

Trey reviewed Kim Harrison's first 4 books as a neo-gothy, fantasy hard-boiled detective girl series - with a lot of revisionist mythology going on there & he likes the supporting characters - worth used pb

Julie announced that the Tolkien estate is suing New Line Cinema since they haven't received their7% from the last movie

we then auctions off some: books and a CD for $2.00, books for $3.00, $0.25, $0.25, $0.50, $0.50, $0.50 & $0.25

We adjourned at = 9:20

And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Barbara writes fast'

2008 Hugo Award Recommendations

2008-02-08T00:58:50Z

I will shortly be posting BASFA's 2008 Hugo Recommendations received so far to hugo_recommend. (The first post is here.) The following is the key to the names of the people making specific recommendations. It is sorted alphabetically by initials.

AJF: Adrienne Foster
ATT: Andy Trembley
CJG: Chris Garcia
DC: David W. Clark
DWG: Dave Gallaher
DWM: Deirdre Saoirse Moen
FCM: Fred C. Moulton
FW: Frank Wu
GMG: Glenn Glazer
JR: Jo Rhett
JSP: Julie Porter
KAS: Kevin Standlee
KP: Ken Patterson
KPR: Kevin Roche
LDH: Lisa Deutsch Harrigan
SL: Stellan Lagerstrom
SS: Spring Schoenhuth
BJH: Barbara Johnson-Haddad
GG: Gordon Garb
JLT: Jim L. Terman

I think I may have mis-spelled some names due to not being able to make out your handwriting. If so, let me know and I'll fix it.

BASFA minutes for Feb 4

2008-02-05T22:58:14Z

Meeting 914

February 4, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:07 [because I had prime rib]

29 people attended

We established a TAFF jar

Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 912 as '9.8 for presentation' & accepted the minutes of meeting 913 as 'damn good cherry pie'

the Treasurer reported that at meeting 912 we took in $5.25 in the regular jar & $3.67 in the TAFF jar & at meeting 913 we took in $1.50 in the regular jar & $6.25 in the TAFF jar

there was no VP or VP report

The President reminded us that there will be Hugo nominations after the meeting

Announcements
Ken announced that the new issue of 'Raspberry World' is out and has an article by him therein [check their website at raspberryworld.net & he announced that KTEH will start the new David Tenet 'Dr Who' on April 10 & the 4th series will start in April on the Sci channel, along with the 'Sarah Jane Adventures'

Dave C announced that John McCain keeps calling his house - along with some guy called Romney & 'I don't know what to do' [there were follow-on's]

Kelly announced that SF in SF is doing a reading on Saturday, Feb 23, opening at 6pm at the Hobart Building in SF, with Paolo Bacigalupi & Carter Sholz

Glenn announced that today is Alice Cooper's 60th birthday

Dave G announced that Saturday, March 1 at 4pm is a Tupperware/Slash/jewelry party at the House of Spike

[evil] Kevin announced that there have been many updates made on the CostumeCon website - check out their entry forms for the historical masquerade & science fiction and fantasy costuming

Andy announced that the 19th opus of Gallifrey will be in 2 weeks at the LAX Marriott and will be the last Evil Genius party before Costume Con

Reviews:
Julie reviewed episode 3 of 'Torchwood' as very good but the ending was a bit weak - and there were follow-ons

Ken reviewed 'Brainiac Science Abuse' as they love explosions, innuendo and is a lot of fun to watch

Andy reviewed the lead balloon of Mythbusters as it kicked ass & reviewed Further Confusion as he's almost recovered from it, that the Evil Genius party went off really well, a great success, their panels went off well, judged the Masquerade on Saturday & landlorded the Santa Clara County Leather Assoc party Saturday night and it went off well, there were a few schedule glitches, FNL was the best ever, dead Dog was actually a lot of fun and the con was worth full price; there were follow-ons

[evil] Kevin reviewed 'Marde Gras de Vampir' as good costumes and dreadful theatrics & he reviewed the 2nd batch of St Georges Absinthe vert as they enjoyed the first drink of it and then poured hot cocoa for the next 3 hours & was worth the time spent

Gordon reviewed 'The 39 Steps' and "secret Agent' as he predicts that director will go far - worth full price

Dave C reviewed 'Service Included' by Phoebe Danrosch as fascinating reading, fun to read and is worth full price in hardcover

Glenn reviewed the audio book of 'Born Standing Up' by Steve Martin as funny and poignant, is worth full price, especially for his reading and inflection

Dave G reviewed the Creation Xena lovefest at the Burbank Bob Hope airport Marriott as there were 35 guys there and a whole lot of women, that the attendees seemed to have fun but weren't interested in buying jewelry; that it was an interesting experience & is one he hopes to never do again & was not worth any price at all

[tall] Kevin reviewed his company's management conference, held in Tahoe in the snow as not a smart idea and they had to pay him to go there, but he spent the weekends in Reno and can't recommend the Holiday Inn there, it's not near anything and is in a run down section of town, he also commented that looking at real estate off in the middle of nowhere made him very glad they had 4-wheel drive [there were follow-ons]

Daniel reviewed the DVD of 'Clerks 2' as a must buy for Kevin Smith fans - worth full price plus

We adjourned at = 9:26

And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Tupperware/Slash/Xena'

[Basfa] meeting notes 1/28/08

2008-02-05T07:41:39Z

Sent to the BASFA mailing list by Glenn Glazer; from the January 28 meeting.

Dave

------------------------------------

BASFA meeting number 913-ish began at 2002 hours, with Eric Larson
presiding as president and Glenn Glazer as the emergency holographic
secretary[1]. No actual officers were present.

It should be noted for the record that BASFA found itself outside of our
usual room having been preempted by what someone said was a stock club.

A regular jar and a TAFF jar were established.

The secretary rose under a point of personal privilege to note the
increased noise level when we are outside of a closed room. He
encouraged people to speak more loudly than usual and was only partially
successful. The secretary apologizes for the paucity of these notes,
but many people were difficult to hear.

A motion was made to postpone the reading of last week's minutes to next
week, which passed. Move to postpone the treasury report failed for
lack of a second under some out of order debate on whether it was even
meaningful or not.

A motion was made to have the officers contact Coco's management to
permanently resolve the room issue, which passed unanimously.

Orders of the day were altered to put officer reports last.

Announcements:

Glenn: Today is the 50th anniversary of the patent of the Lego brick.
Lisa followed on with Google modified its name on the home page for this.

Adrienne said she had a quickie. Glenn suggested this might not be the
sort of review we want here. After a nonplussed pause, she said there
was a Superbowl pool at work and others were welcome to join. Glenn
said that he wanted to repeal the Patriot act and Harold volunteered to
pay for the pun.

Reviews:

Harold reviewed the quiche and salad at Coco's as "Don't." and
Cloverfield as "so-so".
Dave Clark followed on with his disappointed surprise at this review
as he enjoyed it.

At this point Chris showed up, becoming the first real officer present,
but refused to take over leading the meeting.

Lisa reviewed FurCon. Lots of fun, 380 people in the furry parade.
Daniel followed on with "The most fun I've had at a Bay Area con."
It is a young group and worth full price.
Dave followed on by saying that the food at the hotel restaurant has
risen above the level of fuel.
Daniel rejoined this by saying that the service has never been
less than excellent.
Chris followed on by saying that for once he just went to
programming and still had a blast.
There was general discussion of a live action "chess" game that
appeared to have rules rather outside of normal chess like lightning bolts.
Glenn relayed a number of registration issues that Allie encountered
and noted.

Julie reviewed "Torchwood". 2nd episode very disturbing and may be cut
in America.
Adrienne followed on saying she really enjoyed the acting.

Chris reviewed the season finale of "Pushing Daisies" as having
excellent structure and acting.

Daniel went back in the orders of the day to announcements and announced
that the head of the Greek Orthodox Church and the head of the Mormon
church died on the same day. No one really knew what this meant, but it
was noted that they were never seen in the same place at the same time.

One book was auctioned to Glenn for $5.

Officer reports:

Chris said there were two and half issues of "Drunk Tank" coming up.
Two issues of DT proper and "one Little Thing". Glenn moved to have
Chris's Little Thing put in the same container as Adrienne's quickie and
was correctly ruled dilatory.

The meeting adjourned at 2037 hours with BASFA's rumor of the week being
"Coco's: Two groups enter, one group leaves."

[1] Damn it Kathryn, I'm a secretary, not a doctor!

Annual Open Studio, plus Tupperware Extravaganza!

2008-02-01T06:28:59Z

That's right!
Get your Tupperware, see a demonstration on how to bake a pineapple upside down cake using Tupperware (and eat the results), and get your jewelry, or loose gemstone fix out of the way.
Of course there will be refreshments, beverages, libations, tea, merriment, prizes, and fun (as fun as an open studio event can get).
Consider yourself a guest!
When? Saturday, March the First, Two thousand-eight
Time? 4 p.m. until ????
Where? The House of Spike (we can email directions to you if you haven’t been here before).

If you cannot make it, and would like to order some Tupperware, look through the ‘online catalog’, and let me know. We can get an order form to you, or email us at jewelry at springtimecreations dot com, and we’ll work out the details.
If you can rsvp through comments, or when I get an evite up (not there yet, but will let you know) comment there.

Thanks, and hope to see you at the House of Spike!
-Spring and Dave

BASFA minutes for Jan 21

2008-01-23T23:33:07Z

Meeting 912

January 21, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began 8:01 [with hopes that were soon dashed]

35 people attended

We established a TAFF jar

Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 911 as 'motion to strike and replace with'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $30.15 in the regular jar, $10.86 in the party jar & $41.45 in the TAFF jar

VP reported that he he's almost finished with a new 'Drink Tank' - and he's already got a LoC for that issue - so there's time-shifting going on - and Further Confusion is coming up and he's in charge of the science track

The President reminded us that there will be Hugo nominations after the meeting

the BASFA Times committee reported that he has 3 pages and a cover for it - but wants MORE

Announcements
Lynn announced that Denvention's hotel block is open & announced that this Wednesday she'll be in a comedy showcase at Rooster T Feathers

Harold announced that the Razzies were announced & Eddie Murphy had 5 nominations for every role he played in 'Norbert'

Adrienne announced that you should get Worldcon memberships by the end of the month so you can make Hugo nominations & announced that there's a UFO conference in Laughlin, NV Feb 23-March1 & there'll be a 'Dark Shadows' fan festival in Burbank July 18-20

Andy announced that Further Confusion is this week & Soko Hardware in SJ [6th St] is closing and they're selling everything there at half off now & announced that the Evil genius party will be in room 247, Friday night & they'll be landlording the party Saturday night for the Santa Clara County Leather Assoc

Mike announced that 'Pop Top Trio' will play the Mission City Coffee Roasting Company on Saturday, 8pm, Jan 26

There is no #6

[and then declined to state]

Reviews:
Lisa reviewed 'Alvin & the Chipmunks' as fairly decent & worth matinee

Chris reviewed DVDs - 'The Ten' as even better on DVD & worth full price & 'The Family guy' was even better without the bleeps & worth full price

Harold reviewed 'The Paperback Apocalypse" by Robert Price, where the author waxes rapsodic on turgid theology as worth library rental

Kelly went to a SFinSF/Tachyon Press reading & it was quite lovely and a free event [tall Kevin recommends the back row with the comfy chairs]

Daniel reviewed Rustycon as the worst con since Petuniacon and over-programmed & the food service mystified him [there were follow-on's]

[evil] Kevin reviewed 'Resident Evil - Apocalypse' as worth cable with a hangover

Dave C reviewed 'Cloverfield' as the Blair/Godzilla Project - pretty good and fun & reviewed 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' as good and worth full price

[tall] Kevin reviewed 'Hawaii 50' on DVD as the counter girl didn't know of the series - at all - & each collection is worth buying at 25% off

Fred reviewed 'Persepolis', an Iranian anime - as highly recommended and worth full price

We adjourned at = 9:02

And the rumor of the week was that = ‘the theme for next year's FurCon will be nos-fur-atu'

In Memory of Bruce Pelz

2008-01-19T05:54:48Z

Long time members will remember that some years ago, shortly after Bruce Pelz died, BASFA had a vacancy in the job of vice president. In a fit of whimsy, we elected Bruce to the post, knowing that of course he would "time out" a few weeks later for non-attendance. Bruce's widow, Elayne, snorted in disdain and said "no" when I asked her if she thought that we were being disrespectful to Bruce's memory. Anyway, I note in their minutes from 10 January, LASFS takes note of BASFA's election as one of Bruce's posthumous achievements.

BASFA minutes for Jan 14

2008-01-16T00:53:08Z

Meeting 911
January 14, 2008

Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

Began very 8:ish

30 people attended

We established a party jar & a TAFF jar

Secretary’s report: we accepted the minutes of meeting 910 as 'brief'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $24.60 in the regular jar & $64.61 in the party jar

VP reported that he has moved and there's a new 'Drink Tank' out - and he's starting a new 'zine, 'Line Out'

The President had nothing fannish to report

Announcements
[tall] Kevin announced that there will be Hugo discussions after the club meeting tonight, next Monday and on the 1st week of February & he had print outs with him

Chris announced 'The Ten' is coming out on DVD, the funniest movie of 2007

Dave C announced that he brought freebies

Andy announced that this is the Smurfs 50th anniversary & there'll be a CGI movie out soon

[evil] Kevin announced that Further Confusion is in 2 weeks and there will be tanuki at the Evil Genius party there on Friday night

Ken announced that the actress who played Vampira died recently

Reviews:
Howeird reviewed Rustycon as there were lots of good costumes in the Masquerade, a very good filk circle; frank Wu follow-on'd that the hotel blew chunks but the con treated him like royalty

Dave C reviewed 'The Blonde' by Duane Swierczynski as strange and worth reading on an airplane; reviewed 'Alien vs Predator, Requiem' as likely to appear on TNT soon and if you've seen 'Night of the Living Dead' you've seen this movie, then Frank Wu did a follow-on that crashed the review

Lisa reviewed a book signing by James Owen as he's a very sweet man & will teach you to draw dragons

Joe reviewed racing as amazing and he'd never seen so many crashes in his life

Chris reviewed living in a new place as 'there I was, hand to God' and says '6 String Samurai' is a movie you have to see & that 8 year olds can really help you pack and moving was worth full price

We did speed auctions, selling books for $0.50; $0.25, $0.50; $2.50; $0.25; $5.00; & $7.00

We adjourned at = 8:52
And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Hot Card on Zimmer Bradley action'

Hugo Award Recommendation Nights

2008-01-14T19:01:13Z

Because this year's Worldcon is the first weekend of August, Hugo Award deadlines are moved up slightly. Therefore, if we're going to spend our traditional three meetings discussing Hugo Award recommendations and still give people a chance to cast their ballots before the deadline at the end of February, we need to get started now.

You can get a copy of this year's Hugo Awards ballot from Denvention's web site. If you are a member of Denvention Three or were a member of Nippon 2007, you probably received a ballot recently.

If you are/were not a member of either of these conventions, you have until the end of January to join Denvention Three as at least a supporting member. You can register online for this year's Worldcon at the Denvention web site.

Tonight (Monday, January 14), after the main BASFA meeting, the Hugo Award Recommendations Discussion Group will meet to start working our way up the ballot. Bring your recommendations for the following categories:

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer (not a Hugo,
but acts like one for our purposes)
Best Fan Artist
Best Fan Writer
Best Fanzine
Best Semiprozine

Next week (January 21), we'll discuss the middle portion of the ballot:

Best Professional Artist
Best Professional Editor, Long Form
Best Professional Editor, Short Form
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

I'm going to be out of town attending a management conference on January 28, and as I've been leading these discussions and nobody else seems to want to take up the cause, we'll have to take that night off. However, the following Monday, February 4, we'll finish the ballot:

Best Related Book
Best Short Story
Best Novelette
Best Novella
Best Novel

I intend to publish BASFA's recommendations to the LiveJournal Hugo Recommendations community (hugo_recommend) using the standards listed there so you can go back and browse everyone's recommendations by category. Of course, if you're a member of that community, you can post your own recommendations there and don't need to go through BASFA.