Minutes: Sep. 23, 2001 Recorded by Cassia Martin Sent to hrsfa-announce 23 Sep 2001 --------------------------------------------------- The Sergeant At Arms called the meeting to order. Wyld Hunt: We decided that it would be cool for this to happen somewhat close to a full moon. This weekend was too close, for planning purposes, so it will be on the next full moon, Oct. 27th. Granted, this is also Freshman parent's weekend, but, what the hey, than we can confuse the sober freshmen. We love our stag (Kristin Waller)! Henri volunteered both his room, for preparations, and himself, as huntmaster. "We have a stag, we have a huntmaster - therefore we have a hunt." The Coming of the Hour: The Eerily Enlightened Poobal: "All Hail Chronos." The Congregation: "All Hail Chronos." The Coming of the Hour will be on Oct. 28th, starting at 2 am, ending at approximately 2 am, and lasting about one hour. The Eerily Enlightened Poobal (ie, Dennis Clark (dclark)) is looking for a clockbearer (preferably a freshman) and members for a plainchant group. Email him. Fall Party! This will actually happen in the Fall! Sometime in November, 'cause there is plenty of good stuff happening in October already. We need a room for this, and the Quincyites have tentatively volunteered, pending agreement from the rest of the roommates. SIGs: Milk and Cookies: Through the wonderful auspices of the Leverett House Arts Society, Milk and Cookies will continue to meet in the Leverett JCR. For those of you who don't know, pajamas are optional, stuffed animals are less optional. (Stories, fire, milk, cookies.... good stuff.) There will be a M&C on Sep. 29th, 9 pm, and a second one on Oct 20th. Reading SIG: Has decided to meet at Tuesdays at 6:30 pm, somewhere in the vicinity of the Lowell Dining Hall. We have decided to use the anthology "The Ascent of Wonder" as much as possible, which is $30. Tell Dennis if you want one; he's trying to order 'em through Pandy's. This week, Dennis has made photocopies of the stories we are going to read for the people who requested them. If you want 'em, talk to him, I don't know if it's too late. The stories are "Sound of Thunder," by Ray Bradbury, and "Guy w/ the Eyes" by somebody else. He has also lined up our first guest, Marshall Poe, the new house somethingorother for Lowell, who wants to talk to us about "Alien." Writers SIG: In interested in writing, talking about writing, constructively criticizing writing, etc., talk to Ben (bmmiller). The tentative meeting time is Monday at 8 pm. IgNobels: Oct. 4th, a week from this Thursday. If you want to be part of the delegation, email bartlett@fas. The theme of the Igs this year is complexity, so we kinda wanna dress up as travelling salesmen... or artists w/ 3 colors... or something NP-completish. Also, if you want to help out with running the Igs proper, talk to Dan, and he'll get you in touch with the official peeps. 4 noble members of Masochism SIG (including me!) woke up at 8 am on Thursday to poster for the IgNobels. Masochism SIG: Will meet tomorrow morning at 8 am to poster for the IgNobels. Be there, or feel very, very guily. Star Trek Enterprise non-SIG: The opening is this Wednesday, from 8-10 pm. There will be HRSFAish gettogethers to watch either on Wednesday and/or this weekend. (It will be taped for those who are celebrating Yom Kippur.) Furthermore, during the year, Enterprise will go from 8-9, followed by Junkyard Wars on the learning channel... This could be very cool. Buffy/Angel SIG: Angel is opening at 9 pm tomorrow. We will be in the Lowell Grille. (This was described as the corner of Lowell closest to Boston. This is completely unhelpful, and therefore, if you need directions, you should pester Charles (cwoods@fas) early and often.) The premiere is called "Hearthrob," and in addition to any intrinsic coolness, there will be a new trailer for the LotR movie in the commercials. Buffy season premiere will be 2 hours long, on Oct. 2nd, and Charles has procured the Lowell JCR for the event. The tuesday, Dennis will be organizing a movie outing to the Brattle to see the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Be warned: this is vey, very bad. Gaming SIG: has had a couple of fun, non-productive meetings. There will be a Diplomacy game on Columbus Day, (Oct. 8th) starting at 11 am. Email avila if interested. Adam Daniels, Monica Velasquez, and Julia Lunetta are both running cool things. (Shadow Run, D&D, and World Tree?) There was a prior email sent out, so I won't elaborate. Contact them. Cool Movies *ig: will go out over email, and will be cool. MST3K: if you are interested in creating or delivering an MST3K script, to be put on at VeriCon, email twlim. Gaiman/Ellison/etc. will be talking at MIT on Oct. 6th and will be very, very cool. Everyone wants to go, and nobody knows anything more than that. If anyone has any info, especially on how to get tickets, spill. Membership: At the meeting, the instructions to become a member were to give Tony $5, and make sure I got your name. At the moment, the instructions are to give Tony $8, and make sure I get your name. (If you never got a card, you were supposed to. Bug Tony.) Mailing Lists: Recently a lot of stuff has been going out over -announce, because that's all that most new people are signed up on. This is wrong. HRSFA has three mailing lists: hrsfa-announce. Is only for SIG announcements, HRSFA-wide events, and big sf news (like x author just died). hrsfa-discuss. For most cool things that you want to point out, or discussions of possible events, or working out times, or other randomness. Any reply from -announce goes automatically to -discuss, so if you're trying to reply to a specific person, check your headers carefully before sending. (Don't worry, everyone does it at some point.) hrsfa-social. Pick-up gaming, movie outings, pretty much what it sounds like. A good rule of thumb is that if you have to be in the area to care whether something is happening, it belongs on -social. So sign on, and join in the fun! VeriCon!!! Our big new thing, that worked really well last year. It is HRSFAs convention, happening during intersession (at the end of January). "It will be funk cool, and we need people to make it even more funky cool." Email TseWei (twlim) if you want to help; we could definitely use people. Also, although this is somewhat Gaming SIG, Dennis still wants applicants for his Sandman LARP that he is trial-running in December. (dclark) Library: Rebecca want to help in reorganizing and shelfing the boxes that are packed haphazardly in the library. (Apparently, she started doing this herself, but kept getting tempted to read stuff. She needs distraction.) So, the current plan is on Sunday 1-4pm, go help Rebecca alphabatize stuff. ("Yay, Sarah!") Bizarreness SIG: (Ender has the Utena Live Action Musical. ) Some years ago, Tom Lotze entrusted Bizarreness SIG to Erin Larkspur, and it was good... However, she feels that Bizarreness SIG has become too lazy because of the continued assumption that she is in charge. So, she asked the officers to sacrifice her to release the force of Bizarreness to the HRSFA collective. So she put on a filmy blood-red dress, climbed on the altar (ie, desk), and amidst some quacking, was killed by Dennis Clark. She promises that her spirit will still show up at SIG meetings. Munchies SIG: Moira ate some of Erin's corpse, and then over the rest of Erin's dead body, Lime Tostitos took over Munchies SIG. The Sergeant at Arms closed the meeting, and as usual, we adjourned to Gaming SIG, and Cassia still hasn't gotten her greek homework done.... -Cassia, infernal ------------------- Calendar of Events ------------------- ( ) Sep 28-29th M+C, library cleanup (|| ) Oct 5-6th IgNobels, Gaiman/Ellison (|||) Oct 12-13th (Presidential Inauguration) ( ||) Oct 19-20th M+C (Head of the Charles) ( ) Oct 26-27th Myld Hunt, Hour (Freshmen Parents Weekend) ^ | --- Cassia's pathetic attempt to simulate the moon phases in ASCII. [This is the HRSFA announcement list. To unsubscribe, please send the one-line message "unsubscribe hrsfa-announce" to majordomo@hcs.harvard.edu. Please send questions about this list to hrsfa@hcs.harvard.edu]