Called to order at 20:03
Total of 6/5 in attendance
Officer Reports:
Secretary
The minutes of meeting 1870 were accepted as ‘listing but still floating’
Treasurer
Regular: $15,805.32
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal – sent to: dwgallaher@gmail.com
Though we did accrue $165.59 since the resumption of live meetings.
Vice President
The last two Mondays of August I will not be in town. There is a chance that on the 24th I will not be in a position to join remotely (that’s our travel day) but should be able to Zoom in on the 31st from WorldCon. We’ll need someone to present the Zoom for the in-person portion of the meeting on those two dates.
Also, if you haven’t received the email, Michael Wallis changed our email list over to a new service called Gaggle (the old Mailman service was discontinued by our hosting service). If you didn’t get the email, and want to be on the list, pop over to basfa.org and click “Join List” or, click here
Also, also, while I had Michael Wallis’ attention, I asked him to spin up a WordPress installation. There is a parallel site running at basfa.org/basfa. Comments appreciated, functionality requests will be entertained. The hope is to make that our primary site.
President
Not present
Committees:
None.
New Business:
None.
Announcements:
Ken
RIP British actor Tom Chadbon (Duggan in the Doctor Who story City of Death) & RIP British legend Bill Oddie (one-third of of the Goonies) & RIP British puppeteer Ronnie le Drew (Zippy of the children’s show Rainbow, plus a couple of Muppet films)
not dead yet, but… The UK’s iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the country’s largest telescope for nearly 70 years, is in danger of closing by 1 April, 2028 unless alternative funding can be found.
Yochanan
The Doctor’s voice [from Star Trek Voyager & Star Trek Academy] is going away from WAZE.
‘Dark Matter’ will have a 2nd season & the trailer has dropped
click here for more
Reviews
Yochanan
‘The Odyssey‘ as extremely cinematic with incredibly thunderous audio & used a great deal of practical effects. He found it engrossing and really well done & worth full price. He really liked it.
- Rick: commented that quite a lot of money has been spent through the years getting Matt Damon home
‘Click‘, a movie from 2006, as a dark comedy and somewhat of a cautionary tale with some actual emotional moments & is worth watching because of the later half of the movie
‘Uncertain Trajectories: Speculative Fiction from Silicon Valley (Uncertain Stars Book 1)‘, edited by Valerie Frankel & containing a fair number of stories written by BASFA members. He found the stories to be really well-written & thought it worth full price
Rick
Another episode of House of the Dragon and very well done with some shocking developments & worth watching
Rick also reviewed the most recent episode of ‘Silo‘ and themes of being trapped and paranoia continues to be developed
Ken
The new season of Star Trek ‘Strange New Worlds’ as slow to release on Paramount Plus – but the first episode was really exciting & full of spoilers & is a time travel episode.
- Yochanan: There is something wrong with Paramount’s streaming but considered this a fun episode once he was finally able to view the episode & liked it
Rumor of the Week
‘So how much does a Hemingway?’
Adjourned at: 20:47
There was no auction
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