SFLIS Minutes - August 27, 2003

- We start out by discussing what we should blame Josh for.
  How about Iraq?  Or AnimeIowa.
- Speaking of AnimeIowa, it happened last weekend.
  Attendance was a little over 1600, or maybe 1800 or whatever, depending
  on who you ask.  We'll know the official number eventually.  There were
  a lot of people.  They're in the black again, like last year.
  AnimeIowa had lots of cheeseballs left over.  Several people took
  pictures of them stacked floor to ceiling in the bathroom of the room
  across the hall from the consuite.
  One dealer got kicked out for selling a weapon to a minor.
  They're talking about banning stuff next year that's not licensed in the
  US or a Japanese import.  In other words, no bootlegs, no SM CDs, etc.
  The cosplay was crowded as usual.
- There are two anime cons in Chicago in October, two weeks apart.
  Kazecon is the same weekend as ICON - Oct. 10-12.
- We might have a Shovel Marty's Driveway party in January.  He'll provide
  spoons for us to use.  But he'll be nice - tablespoons instead of
  teaspoons.
- They'll be showing the extended DVD versions of Fellowship of the Ring
  and The Two Towers in theaters for a week or so before Return of the
  King opens.  How about watching all three of them back to back in one
  day?
  What's the director going to do next?  King Kong.
  He's just made a series of high-quality movies from the best-selling
  books of the 20th century.  What can he possibly do to follow this?
  The Bible: The Extended Version.  10 movies with exclusive behind the
  scenes footage.
  War and Peace.  He could make this into two moves.  First one would be
  'War' and the second one would be 'Peace.'
  Asmiov's Foundation trilogy?
  A musical comedy based on Machiavelli's 'The Prince?'
  Lord of the Rings porn:  'Lord of the G-Strings.'  Supposedly, it really
  exists.  The seedy side of Middle Earth.  Rivendell, the red light
  district, good elves gone bad.
- Ok, back to AnimeIowa.  There were several people dressed up as Chii
  from ChoBits who were acting very cute and 'in character,' and would
  not shut up.  What can you do if this starts to bother you?  Well, you
  could always find their on/off switch and try turning them off......
- Anime showing Sunday Sept. 7, C125 Poppajohn Business Bldg.  1-8pm.
  Showing stuff like Popoton and a bunch of others that most people have
  never heard of.
- Newscasters get the big words right but stumble over things like 'and'
  and 'the.'  Sometimes they do better when they're drunk.
  We hear some amusing meteorologist stories and stories about people
  freaking out during weather alerts.  And tornados.  And there are people
  out there who say they actually prefer earthquakes to tornados, even
  though tornados usually give you a lot more warning than earthquakes do.
- The president officially calls the meeting.  So naturally, we ask what
  we're going to call it.
  Fred.  The next one will be Jose.
  We're done.
  There's a Mindbridge meeting next week.