SFLIS Minutes - June 23, 2004

- Nightmare on Elm Street, the tv series.  Uh....yeah, whatever.
- We're going to Spiderman 2 after the meeting next week.  We'll try for
  Sycamore mall but if it's sold out, we'll go to Coral Ridge.  We will have
  someone buy the tickets for us in the morning.  We'll try for a show
  starting between 7 and 8:59.  So, how many are going?  So far it looks like
  4 or 5, but there may be more added to that later.
- Fist of the North Star figurines are passed around.  Action figurines.
  In the middle of fight scenes.  With body parts splattered around in
  various states of disrepair.  Graphic, but very interesting.
- Pictures of Phoebe are passed around.  That's one of the moons of Saturn,
  by the way.
  And speaking of space, an asteroid came pretty close to the earth during the
  last few days.  Did anyone notice?
- Anyone interested in a DVD night where we watch the extras, directors'
  commentaries, etc.?
- "When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?"  An
  article giving a serious discussion of the subject is passed around.
- "Teletubbies go to Paris."  Not really, but it's only a matter of time before
  they make a Teletubbies movie.  Should we go to see it as a group?
- What do you think of the first private manned space flight?
  From The Onion:  "Anything that will send the richest .01% of the population
  into the cold vacuum of space is fine with me."
- What is "bogarting?"  Only a few people here know.  Watch a Cheech and Chong
  movie to find out.  "Josh is bogarting the onion."
  It means to hog something and not share it.
- Wow, some SFLIS related news!
  At the July 11 SWAMP showing, during the dinner break, we'll probably have
  the first planning meeting for SWAMP Fest  (code name "Marty Gras").
  There's also an anime showing this Sunday, June 27, in Poppajohn.  1-8pm
  as usual.
- Chronicles of Riddik (or however it's spelled).  It's not pitch black.
  It's a VanDeisel film.  It had coolness in it, but only so much.  It's
  worth more than a matinee but not as much as an evening show.
- The 'Star Trak: Voyager' cast evidently did some interesting things in
  their time off.  Or at least a couple of the cast members did, judging by the
  sex scandal lawsuit.
- Trek Fest is this weekend in Riverside.  It's kind of like a county fair
  with a Star Trek theme.  They have tractor pulls.  In the past, they've had
  farmers in Starfleet uniforms driving combines in demolition derbies.
  Maybe they'll do that again this year.  It's fun to watch.  They have good
  food there too.
- Quote of the week:  "I don't want it to be hentai.  I just want it to be
  topless."  Tasteful nudity.
  Which leads to an interesting rambling discussion.
  Do pathogenic organisms suffer from asexual harrassment?
  Why do women in video games have such big chests?  To help with their
  balance?  Of course!  What other reason could there be?
- Ever wondered why the announcer's voice in every movie trailer sounds the
  same?  That's because the same guy has been doing all of them for the last
  40 years.
- There was an explosion in a chemistry lab at the UI last night.  A 5-gallon
  container of something went off, which set something else off, which hit
  the motor on the fume hood, which caused sparks which set some other things
  off, and they ended up with a nice little chain reaction.
- How Eisner killed the animation department at Disney.  They'd been using
  storyboards for years, but he made them switch to scripts, which didn't
  work as well for the animators.  But that's ok.  Disney owns all kinds of
  things - ABC, cruise ships, print media, the rights to Micky Mouse, etc.
  Soon they'll own enough to be completely self-sufficient in their own
  world.  Then it really will be a small world after all.  "It's a small
  world after all, it's a small world after all...."  And now we're wondering
  how long it's going to take to get that song out of our heads.
- And that's it for this week.