Thank you all for attending the party and congratulations to all our new officers: Chief of Operations: Ashley; Constable: Erik; Com Officer: Elly; Grand Nagus: Sarah; First Officer: Rachel; and Captain: Phil!
Monthly Archive for December, 2009
Because we didn’t have the poll function available in time, we voted at the last meeting of the semester.
The Winners
The winners are Elly and Erik!
Other Participants
Attendance: 21
Meeting Start: 12:00 am and 6 semesters later
Meeting End: 1:10am
News
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Elly’s here. The most people here of all semester. Abby was here. Dan was also here.
Office Resource: The office is still there.
Movie: Did not bring a bad movie. We just watched the Star Wars Holiday Special. Fuck you, Stephen.
Trivia: Alex has trivia. And is here to give it. Alex: I don’t know. Erik: How to please a woman! I win! I was completing your thought.
Fundraising: FAIL.
Party: Hey look! We did it! Club owes Jon $82.50.
Discussion Group: Probably not going anywhere.
No Report: Stephen had a no report. I refuse to write it down.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Is graduating. Still looking for a subleaser. Has no idea if he’s passing his highest class yet.
Constable: Here for the second week in a row–hasn’t happened this semester. Found out that having Everclear before bed gives him awesome vivid dreams. Automatically makes football more awesome. Is still awesome.
Com Officer: Got to help with the rat research lab. The rats are being introduced to a stimulant to see how that impacts cocaine-seeking behavior.
Grand Nagus: Now has a t-shirt that says I Love Grenades. Now on Exec Board of Accounting Honorary Society.
First Officer: Phil prepared for HJ for his professors. You get AIDS from sin, not blood and fluids.
Captain: Have been trying not to rip his own throat out because of the itching of his beard. Got to tell teacher that he was right about computers.
Old Business
- We finally voted on Zombiefest costumes. Elly and Erik win the gourmet candied apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory!
- Zombiefest is on the way.
New Business
Elections!
CHIEF–Ashley wins.
- Ashley: Can do shit. Will do this shit. I’m done.
- Adam: Can do this shit. Will do this shit. Don’t make Ashley do more shit.
- Dan (Proxy): Dan can do this shit, but will hate us all for voting him in.
CONSTABLE–Erik wins and is knighted
- Fluffy: I’m Jewish: Vote for me.
- Phil: I can read. I have mutton chops that look like a cop from the 1800′s. Promises of British cop hat and muttonchops
- Erik: Rise, riders of Theoden! Lord of the Rings speech. Everyone screams death.
- Taia: Will print a new copy of the Constitution.
COM OFFICER–Elly wins.
- Elly: Will do the job. And if you don’t vote for me, it’ll be Fluffy.
- Fluffy: Vote for Elly! (Nice try at reverse psychology.)
GRAND NAGUS–Sarah wins.
- Adam: Can do numbers. Also has all the CEFCU statements sent to his house.
- Fluffy: Is Jewish and, therefore, good with money.
- Sarah: Have managed to spend our cash so far. Really good at taking money and giving it to Jon or Forrest.
FIRST OFFICER–Rachel wins.
- Rachel: Ladies and jellybeans and gents and bums. Some weird speech occurred and I’m awesome.
- Erik: ALREADY ELECTED
- Adam: Been my own first officer for one and a half semester. Also willing to help Captain do what he’s been doing.
- Phil: Is the tallest out of all the first officers.
- Sarah: ALREADY ELECTED
- Fluffy’s Hair: Jon will be the voice of Fluffy’s hair. (Fluffy’s hair talks like Mickey Mouse.) Plans to kill myself soon, so please don’t vote for me.
CAPTAIN–Phil wins.
- Erik: ALREADY ELECTED.
- Phil: Has not missed a meeting the entire semester. Is still taller.
- Sarah: ALREADY ELECTED
- Alex: Is not an idiot, all the time, but… most of the time.
Other Organizations
MCS may need to have an emergency election? MCS is handed off to one of the Magic guy.
Quotes
Adam: Now may I end the meeting?
Adam: There are no other organizations~!
Jon: So the people behind Twilight want to make Dracula: The Teen Years!
Taia: Abby and Elly were playing a game together!
Adam: We know now that they’re not the same person with masks.
Phil: The last mention of Stephen in the Psi Phi minutes will be cursing his name.
Ashley: Doesn’t Forrest have the money? Where did he go?
Erik: He left because we were talking about the money.
Phil: Would you accept a hand job?
A-Mike: …Uh, and I’m looking forward to graduating and–
Phil: So, is that a later on the H-J thing?
Phil: Man up!
Ashley: At least he can grow a chin, Phil!
Jon: …What?
A-Mike: Fluffy had twice as many votes as his hair.
Adam: No, it itches every time I have my head! It itches all the time!
Phil: I just got to use the word gerrymandering in context!
Erik: When did Jews have a reign of terror?
A-Mike: We’re usually the object of the terror.
Ashley: Last time you made the muttonchop promise, you shaved them off.
Phil: But I grew them back!
A-Mike: You’re a flip-flopper!
Adam: I don’t have any secrets! I was saying I had secrets so you’d stop asking or someone else would take care of it.
Jon: I was hoping for that last one.
Erik: Nu-huh! You showed up for one 42 minute meeting, 43 minutes late!
Erik: I got the time wizard, bitch! Time magic! I ran for Captain a thousand years in the future!
- DC is turning 75 soon and is celebrating by restarting its two biggest franchises. Superman: Earth One will be written by J. Michael Straczynski, with art from Shane Davis, while Batman: Earth One will be by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank.
- Sony waited less than two months after the Zombieland’s premiere to sign off on production for a 3D sequel. No word on plot or title, but we can assume twinkie hunting will be involved.
- Only a month after settling a lawsuit over Star Trek with CBS and Paramount, Harlan Ellison has offered to write the sequel to the JJ Abrams reboot. Ellison is known for writing the episode “City on the Edge of Forever” which is considered by many to be the best of the original franchise. Ellison and Rodenberry famously argued over script changes.
- The auction for the Terminator film franchise is set to end in February and unless someone swoops in, El Whedon may just win it for 10,000.
- The Portland Mercury’s online charity auction is auctioning an original Joelle Jones Dr Horrible comic, a Dark Horse Comics lithograph signed by Joss Whedon, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and artist Travis Charest, a limited edition Umbrella Academy t-shirt (as well as both collections of the series to date), the complete set of Dark Horse’s “One Shot Wonders” books (including Joss Whedon’s Sugar Shock, Hellboy, The Goon and Star Wars, as well as a Zack Whedon-signed Dr. Horrible) and Goon-branded soda.
- A five foot tall robotic dinosaur has been stolen from the Walking With Dinosaurs exhibit in Mexico. It’s worth about $89,650. Meanwhile some kid South of the border is having the best birthday party ever.
- Twilight studio, Summit is expanding its horizons. Brad Pitt’s Plan B company will be producing Vlad, which focuses on the early life of the inspiration behind the Dracula myth. Written by Queer As Folk and Sons of Anarchy actor Charlie Hunnam, music video director Anthony Mandler is in talks to direct the project and head up a rewrite in order to bring it closer to the studio’s vision of “a visually edgy and radical period movie” similar to 300.
- Enter a small downtown storefront, and enter the secret entrance behind the bookshelf and you will have found the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company. The store raises funds for the New York chapter of 826 National, a non-profit founded by authors Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida that helps students with creative and expository writing. Each outlet has its own fantastical shop, such as the Echo Park Time Travel Mart.
The Brooklyn shop sells everything from capes to robotic sharks to secret identities, but there’s something especially wonderful about the understated packaging of their home-brewed superpowers, which also come in Immortality (“not an effective strategy for putting off student loans”), Chaos (“not as fun as it sounds”), Cloning Fluid (“You’ll only have to buy one bottle. Ever.”), and Omnipotence.
- The Chronicles of Riddick crew is headed to New Zealand to look for locations for the third entry into the series.
- Lady GaGa has been turned into a comic book hero by a US artist. The cartoon adventures of the pop icon have been portrayed by Brian Einersen, who is selling his work exclusively through Marc Jacobs stores. “She will still use her powers of wit and style”, he said of Lady Gaga’s superhuman abilities.
- The upcoming sequel to superhero comedy Hancock has been put on hold to allow Will Smith to spend more time with his family, according to director Peter Berg. The moviemaker recently confirmed Smith and his co-star Charlize Theron will both reprise their roles in a follow-up to the hit 2008 movie.
- Andy Daly has joined the cast of “Yogi Bear,” Warner Bros.’ live-action/CG-animated pic that has begun shooting in New Zealand. Daly joins Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake and Tom Cavanaugh. He’ll play Mayor Brown, who uses the city budget for his personal fun, drives the city into bankruptcy and comes up with the idea of selling Jelly Stone Park to fix his mess.
- New Line Cinema and Twilight: New Moon producers, Temple Hill, are re-imaging the Nutcracker as an action adventure. Happy Holidays.
- Iron Man may have seemed as polished as fresh power-armor, but the movie actually had no screenplay at all, says Jeff Bridges. The chaos freaked him out, until he decided to think of it as a $200 million student film. …Bridges explained that the Marvel superhero movie rushed into production to make its release date, with the director and star making up scenes as they went along.
- The movie based on the board game Battleship will actually contain an epic battle between the battleships and aliens, with focus on current naval technologies.
- Disney’s Tron Legacy team is going to be remaking Disney’s PG-rated sci-fi terrifying movie, The Black Hole.
- Pride Prejudice and Zombies is going to be made into a 6-part miniseries and a sequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, will be coming out in March 2010.
- For the first time, scientists have grown a pork chop in a laboratory, a breakthrough that could lead to a future of meat that could be harvested without killing animals. Researchers at Eindhoven University, backed by funding from a sausage manufacturer and the Dutch government, have grown pork from cells harvested from a live pig. Although meat from goldfish has been grown from a lab, this is the first time mammal meat has been grown in-vitro.
- Part two of Doctor Who: The End of Time will air in the UK on January 1st, 2010. Assume that means US transmission will be January 2nd, then.
- In the Saltan province of Argentina, hundreds of residents of a small town witnessed the arrival of a massive UFO, which hovered over the local power station. And then all the town’s electricity and phones went out for several hours. The ship is of the same type people have been seeing since the 1950s. Witnesses reported seeing the cigar-shaped spaceship and a “gigantic luminous creature.”
- The science of science fiction gets its own Mythbusters-style show, called Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible. The first two episodes will air on the Science Channel on December 1, at 10pm. The first episode is titled “How to Explore the Universe,” and the second “How to Travel to a Parallel Universe.”
- Harlan Ellison is infamous for his decade-long feud with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry after he rewrote much of Ellison’s only Trek episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Now that the franchise is in the hands of J.J. Abrams, Ellison is offering his services for the second film in Abrams’ reboot (for a price, of course).
- Zombieland 2 will come out in 3D, probably sometime around 2012.
- There was recently a 10,000 person LAN, called Dreamhack, in Sweden.
- Chicago launched Wi-Max, where you can use the internet anywhere in Chicago for a price. It will soon be launched in any city with an NFL team.
- Eve Online Dominion came out yesterday.
- Mininova removed all of their pirated torrents on Thanksgiving.
- Actor changes for Iron Man 2.
- Left4Dead 2 has patched.