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Minutes for December 9, 2008

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Attendance: 17
Meeting Start: 12:05 and five minutes after I should have.

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: No newbies.
Movie: The bad movie is Fright Show. Saw Bolt.
Office Resource: Still there. Please don’t put anything in the fridge. Original Zombies is back.
Trivia: Xeen wins. I wish I had more than the answer: They will have unintended consequences.
Party: Going well. This is his sixth party. He needs to start collecting money for next semester.
Fundraising: There will be a contest for weirdest thing purchased on Amazon.
Discussion Group: Happened. New topic: How Ghandi can defeat Bad Horse?
No Report: Instead of refereeing, Erik played and won.

Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Still busy with the Oresteia. May not get to go home over X-mas. Car is fixed. Cell phone is charged. Managed to insult the head of the department.
Constable: He repeats his no report. Classes are over. His portfolio has pictures and he did not delete them all. Took photo of a dealer.
Com Officer: Has been having bad social days with girls making comments about her weight.
Grand Nagus: Stayed up to write a paper, but didn’t write it. His Sims burnt down the town. Used secret police to collect people who disagreed with philosophy.
First Officer: Ended up in a ditch trying to get here. Makes awesome, un-jostled cookies.
Captain: Remade his D&D character.

Old Business: Movie-fest is on the way.
New Business: Elections.
Captain. Winner: Adam.

  • Adam: Is using his normal platform: Shrug. Pumpkin pie. Secret plan to fix TV cart.
  • Forrest: False promises of pumpkin pie, then real pumpkin pie promises.
  • Jack: He is a recovering Saga Frontier addict. He rules under 7 characters, not the 8th leader that ruins game.
  • Proxy Seth: Seth despises Seth. His platform is that he will not come to Psi Phi and be beneficial.
  • Proxy Abby: Mildly interesting and coherent. Vote for her so she’ll continue bringing her candy cane vibrator.

First Officer. Winner: Sarah.

  • Bob: Lots of lasers and blam-ing. Almost as cool as Johnathan Frakes.
  • Sarah: Ashley says she’s cute, so you should vote for her. Brings cookies, but will not be bringing sex toys for awkward reports.
  • Proxy Abby: Platform is set exceptionally low, so why not vote for lowest candidate?

Com Officer. Winner: Ashley.

  • Ashley: Sarah says Ashley is cute, vote for her. Better than girls in class, due to ability to be Com Officer, write, and be alive.
  • Erik: Is lazy, loud, and has terrible handwriting.

Nagus. Winner: Jack.

  • Jack: He figured out mistakes of the previous Nagus and will never put solitary person in charge of checking account again.
  • Collier: I like numbers.

Chief. Winner: Anti-Mike.

  • Anti-Mike: Knows how to run websites and is now heavy project free!
  • Proxy Dave: Because Dave is in Colorado Springs and needs a ray of sunshine in his life.
  • Fluffy: Learns programming quickly.

Constable. Winner: Jon.

  • Erik: Running on a slander campaign. Change is terrible. Forrest is shuddery. It is not fun to watch Jon hit himself. Fluffy is… shrug.
  • Forrest: Mike’s a terrible person, so you should vote for him. Lots of skill with the bapper.
  • Jon: Have held all but two positions. Will hit self if appropriate.
  • Fluffy: Is a newbie. He mixed up Mike and Erik, so Mike will win constable?

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    Other Organizations
    Anime: Will be yelling at Funimation for fake licensing.
    MCS: Unofficially meeting.
    Order of Xeen: Xeen punched a speech kid for pushing all buttons.
    Other: D&D will not be on Saturday.
    LAN still happening.

    Quotes
    Jon: Someone bap him for excessive punctuation.

    Erik: You’re my agent. Every time he does it, just give him a few.

    Erik: It’s real world: pixie dust edition.

    Adam: Jon, you just need to leave out the punctuation.
    ?: No spaces even.

    Forrest: Tank Girl art book…
    Adam: Ah. I thought it was something else.
    Forrest: NOT Tub Girl.

    Forrest: There’s no period. I can’t say period.
    Xeen: You just did.

    Erik: They decided to have a black-out game.
    Anti-Mike: Great. Now he’ll never find his way home.

    Forrest: It was woefully under-fooded.

    Jon: It’s about as bad as confusing Bad Horse with Ghandi.

    Erik: I move that Psi Phi kills those two girls in Ashley’s class.
    Adam: I can’t condone that as Psi Phi…
    Jon: It could be a black-ops group, like the Anti-French Club.

    Jack: Sigh.
    Adam: We’re broke.
    Group: Great report.

    Erik: Put him in the vault! Put him in the fridge! Put the fridge in–
    Jack: No! I only accept legal tender!
    Jon beats up Fluffy to make him legal tender.

    Jack: I’ll either rend the flesh from my body because it was a good idea at the time… or my heart will become so melancholy that it’ll stop beating.

    Jon: You dropped something.
    Jack: …Oh, okay. I’ll fix that.

    Erik: We went out and measured. It’s growing an inch closer to campus every day.

    Adam: We’re playing golf. Move on!

    Jon: Bludgeoned to death by candy cane vibrator.

    Erik: I like hitting people, so I listen.

    Jon: If we had a zombie in the club, would it be a revivalist campaign?

    Jack: Is this my first or second semester doing this?
    Sarah: Second.
    Anti-Mike: He can count, vote for him!

    Xeen: Vote for me. I’ll do as well as the other guy.

    Jack: I don’t want to hear about you one-handedly wielding anything with a website.

    Jon: Dammit! I’m an officer!

News for December 09, 2008

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  • Batman director, Christopher Nolan admitted that he’s been thinking of a third Batman film. He has been jotting down ideas that haven’t quite worked out yet and he’s wary of the curse of the third film. “I wouldn’t want to do one if it weren’t going to be as good as the first or second. That’s not respectful to the fans.”
  • In Bill Willingham’s comic book epic Fables, Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Prince Charming, and scores of other characters from folklore are forced to live together in exile in Manhattan. Now ABC has ordered a pilot based on the trials and tribulations of these legendary characters living in our modern world.
  • The “difficult and irrational” Twilight director, Catherine Hardwicke has been let go after making Summit Pictures $160 million. This means she will not be working on the sequel, “Daywalker Vampires go to a Tanning Salon.”
  • Forrest Ackerman, creator of Famous Monsters magazine and Ray Bradbury’s former literary agent, has died at age 91.
  • Beverly Garland, whose long and varied acting career ranged from B-movie cult stardom in movies such as “Not of This Earth” and “It Conquered the World” to the sitcom “My Three Sons,” has died. She was 82.
  • While we wait for the DVD release of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, you can vist Joss Whedon’s world of super-villainy – and discover the secret origin of sidekick Moist – in a brand new webcomic written by Fringe’s Zack Whedon. Moist:Humidity Rising can be found on MySpace.
  • Battlestar Galactica‘s auctioning frackloads of stuff- bloody outfits from late night Cylon torture sessions, President Roslin’s crazy pills, just about everything that ever sat on Adama’s desk, and just in time for the holiday’s Cylon resurrection tubs and life-size Cylon raiders, priced at a mere $30,000 to $40,000.
  • NBC has shortened Knight Rider’s season from 21 episodes to 17. Ruh-ro…
  • Tank Girl now has a coffee table sized book of artwork now available. Besides all of the Tank Girl covers for Deadline magazine, where she got her start, the book includes tons of design sketches, and one rejected script for a Tank Girl adventure. There’s also a previously unpublished comic book, the 16s, and a ton of other random Tank Girl art, mostly but not entirely by original artist Jamie Hewlett.
  • CNN just laid off its entire Space/Tech/Environment reporting unit. That means that one of the United States’ biggest TV news sources thinks that space and the environment just aren’t worth reporting on in any depth or with any consistency.
  • The Atari Ghostbusters game, which has seen it’s shares of troubles, now has a brand new trailer and an actual release date of June 2009. It looks awesome, and should be viewed for sheer nostalgia and quality of animation factors alone.
  • The Music Branch Executive Committee of the Academy has reversed its decision declaring their score for “The Dark Knight” ineligible for the 2008 Academy Awards. The score was disqualified due to five names being listed as composers on the music cue sheet.
  • Punisher: War Zone, had a pitiful start, grossing $4.3 million on around 2,700 screens at 2,508 theaters. It was the smallest opening ever for a Marvel Comics adaptation by far, even lower than Howard the Duck, and was a quarter of the previous Punisher movie’s opening in terms of attendance.
  • Vin Diesel is hoping to replicate the success of Gibson’s Aramaic-language film The Passion of the Christ and to a lesser extent the Yucatec Maya-scripted Apocalypto by starting production of his own adaptation of the life of Hannibal Barca in the original Punic.

Minutes for December 3, 2008

Published on December 3, 2008 in Minutes. 0 Comments

Attendance: 17
Meeting Start: 10:02 and 15 snowflakes

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: No newbies.
Movie: Sgt. Kabukiman is the bad movie.
Office Resource: Still there.
Trivia: What is the middle initial on James Kirk’s tombstone? Fluffy has trivia: R.
Party: Next week on Tuesday in the Harper/Wycoff room at 7pm. Psi Phi meeting after and nominations this meeting. Bring chips and goodies. No reimbursement this time around. Monica is the graduating senior–so she has movie picks.
Discussion Group: What are some life-altering, religion-making games?
No Report: Jon almost died on Black Friday. His window is stuck half open. Just For Fun moved.

Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: He was delayed three hours and missed the last flight. Spent the night in Chicago. The bus was an hour and a half late. He missed work. Luggage is gone. Car is dead: Frosts inside of windows. Stranded at the dealership. Joe complaining about jailtime.
Constable: Has been watching football with an old man waking up and making angry noise. It’s a bad idea to switch to FPS from Fallout 3; he thinks he’s going to VATS the enemy and instead blows himself up.
Com Officer: Bunny.
Grand Nagus: Found a life-style video game.
First Officer: Needs to stop reading books about death. She feels like she’s 40.
Captain: Had his 21st birthday. Purple liquid tasted like turpentine. Molten sugar. Brandy. Watched Accepted. Tequila. Then played DoTA. Friend ranted for three days about his being 10 seconds slower while drunk.

Old Business: Jon is not an officer.
New Business: Nominations!
Chief: Anti-Mike, Fluffy, Dave.
Captain: Adam, Forrest, Jack, Seth, Abby.
Nagus: Jack, Collier.
First Officer: Bob, Sarah, Abby.
Constable: Erik, Forrest, Jon, Fluffy.
Com Officer: Ashley, Erik.

Other Organizations
Anime: Meeting on Friday. Adam will be there.
MCS: Friday at 5pm. Jack received individualized spam.
Order of Xeen: Traveller will happen on Sunday at early time.
Theater: New Faces 2008: Fresh talent and freshmen who can’t act.
Other: No D&D because Adam will explode.

Meeting End: 11:01

Quotes
Adam: So, we’re going to remove all entertainment from Saturday mornings and replace them with commercials.
Jack: Hey! The CW still has quality entertainment.

Forrest: Shush. We’re doing this how I want to do it, not how you want to do it.

Erik: And when you are a terrible rip-off of a terrible game, what are you?

Fluffy: I’ll bring Starcraft.
Group: NO.
Forrest: I ban you from bringing Starcraft. If you bring it, I will set it on fire and ban you from Psi Phi.
Adam: He has the power.
Jon: Not the right.

Jack: See how mad I am? I’ll punch myself in the face. It would be a useful skill, especially in a hostage setting.

Jon: Or we can go to Bacci’s. It’s not like they have a no-talking rule.
Jack: They expect us now. I went in on Tuesday and they got confused: “Where’s the rest of you?”

Anti-Mike: Begin the tale of woe–
Forrest: –End the tale of woe.

Jack: I spent a wonderful Thanksgiving with my girlfriend.
Jon: Does Monica know about this?
Monica: I keep trying to convince him to get another one, but he won’t listen!

Anti-Mike: Now I’m sitting here, waiting for the next bit of bad news.
Jack: I bought you a dog and killed it.
Anti-Mike: That’s good news, except for killing it.
Erik: I bought you a dog and kept it alive.

Erik: I beat 4 Pokemon games in Chemistry and decided that 5 weeks ago that I should take notes. The only that’s made it in is a sexual innuendo the teacher made.

Adam: it’s interesting that an activity called drinking makes you thirstier… It’s like eating mac and cheese. You keep eating and eating and get hungrier and it just makes me angry.

Anti-Mike: Do you know how to build a website?
Fluffy: I know how to build a program…

Jack: The poorly-lit ages.
Erik: The 45-watt ages.
Adam: The murky light before the dawn ages.

Anti-Mike: Who else wants to be the bitch of the club?

Adam: Last time you left me alone, I destroyed anything.

News for December 03, 2008

Published on December 3, 2008 in News. 0 Comments
  • According to Electronic Arts, China will be getting an exclusive Dungeon Keeper MMO. Chinese studio NetDragon Websoft has made a deal for the license in China, and will develop the game. No other info was made available at the announcement.
  • CBS has ordered the “back 5″ episodes for the new show the Eleventh Hour, giving it a full season of 18 shows, instead of the normal 22. The speculated reason for the odd number is the networks unhappiness at the show’s lack of retention of the CSI lead in audience, however Eleventh Hour still remains the 2nd most viewed new show. The Mentalist is number 1.
  • Guillermo Del Toro is going to direct the stop-motion feature adaptation of Roald Dahl’s fantastic novel The Witches, where a small boy gets trapped in a hotel while the annual convention of witches is taking place.
  • The new movie Suck follows the misadventures of an optimistically named rock band, The Winners, seemingly doomed to obscurity. Their fortunes change thanks to a meeting with a vampire (played by Dimitri Coats of Burning Brides), and they find themselves enjoying their newfound fame, at least until the bloodlust kicks in. Called “Spinal Tap meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” it’s really the cast that makes this one to watch. The Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley plays The Winners’ manager, and Malcolm McDowell appears as a vampire hunter who’s afraid of the dark. Moby plays on his vegan reputation as the lead singer of a rival band called the Secretaries of Steak (the meat not the wood). Iggy Pop takes on the role of a music producer, and Alice Cooper is a sinister, bloodsucking bartender.
  • STOP THE PRESSES STOP THE WORLD. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, the dvd itself is due out Dec 19, go now to our website and order it through our amazon link.
  • Fox is ending its long tradition of saturday morning cartoons and is instead going to be running infomercials in the time slot. But not really infomercials Fox Networks Group chairman Tony Vinciquerra said “These will be longform programs that highlights their product. In that regard, it will have a little better quality.” So….infomercials.
  • Alien Western, a sci-fi television film about giant, vicious, alien bugs that come to earth to gorge themselves on the uranium deposits found in the ground of an Old West town, began principal photography this week in Romania starring James Marsters as Sam Danville, an outlaw who is about to be hanged when the aliens land.
  • Hey you guys! Corey Feldman has claimed that The Goonies 2 is “just not to be” but to cover his bases, immediately followed with “Course now that I’ve said that they’ll do it.” No word on Lost Boys 3.
  • George Lucas’s senior thesis film from USC has been found. A Man and His Car, focused solely on Peter Brock and his Lotus 23 race car. Also knows as 1:42:08, the short is essentially a quickly edited representation of a racecar driver testing his vehicle. You can find it online.
  • ABC has scheduled crime drama “Castle,” starring Nathan Fillion, to air Monday nights at 10 p.m. starting March 9.
  • Director and former world karate and kickboxing champion, Lexi Alexander has just finished her new film Punisher: War Zone and now has her eyes set on Jonah Hex, a Western comic book anti-hero created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga and published by DC Comics.