Meeting 6: Slaughterhouse-Five

July 28, 2009

8:47pm

--Coppinger opens meeting

--Sarah says "Poo-tee-weet"

--Meeting opens with round of "tralfamadorian" pronunciations

--Sarah brings out tralfamadorian made by she and Austin-general consensus is that its "real good" or "very good" or "good, I like it"

--Member E.Todd asked for Austin's phone to be taken away due to prior abuse

--What was Vonnegut trying to convey?
---Austin: what life was like if ruled by fate
---Sarah: enjoying every moment

(8:53pm: pizza rolls served by Phan)

--time travel or flashbacks?

--AC, AT, ET=time travel

--"direct foreshadowing"-tells you what is going to happen

9:03pm: Austin phone buzzer-Finkler says "good think that's over here," Andrea smiles like a baby

--Satirizing of death? So it goes
---Austin desensitized-general agreement

--Funny? Kilgore Trout, author, wife

9:09pm: Andrea off on a tangent about how many children Pilgrim fathered--online quiz--led to a good question

--Was he really abducted or was this a figment of his imagination

9:12pm: Eric mentions Vonnegut's use of "wang"
--blue and ivory

9:18pm: Coppinger: why is this book considered an all-time great?

(Courtney, under her breath, whispers "I gotta go pee" and leaves to the bathroom)

--Adam T: war and weird story

--Eric-it's kind of a...novel...way to look at war

--AC: to someone not in war, aliens and war are equally foreign

9:31pm: really good discussion-no one is acting up

--Vonnegut=Kilgore Trout?

--discussion of appropriateness for school, required reading, humor, etc.

9:44pm: a lot of reminiscing, sharing favorite moments, some whole, some small group

9:45pm: Eric pointed out crazy baseball play-causes distraction, he apologizes

STARS
AC: 4.5
AT: 5
SM: 3.14
AA: 4
AP: 3.5
CF: 4
ET: 4.25

(during ratings review, CF on computer, it was related to this, then I saw an mlb gamecast being showed to AC and propped up as a distraction. Couldn't just wait a few more minutes? Plus, was clearly distracting based on not having heard the rankings that were being reviewed. Plus, AC was clearly not interested and thus free of blame because when CPU hibernated he did not revive it. Plus, a poorly timed Peyton Manning story led to a distraction. Good story, but again, it could have waited.)

--Next chooser discussion

--Member ATodd will choose as only remaining NMS member not to choose

--Deadline set at 8/1/09

--Shouldnt be a problem-he has a couple idears

--AC allowed ET to adjourn meeting because he is President

--Meeting ended at 10:18

--Post meeting commentary: Let's try for early October and 2 meetings by X-Mas. Whoooooo!!!