The Last Sci Fi Event(s) of the Year

From left to right: Peter, Sean, Eka and Adriana. Get it??

To celebrate the end of the last week of classes, your SFS leaders have decreed that the following three events will take place:

1- Final Quidditch game. Meet in the club office at 4:30 pm, Friday April 8th. We're hoping to get enough people to play our first-ever un-abridged game, bludgers, snitch and all! Make it happen people.

2- Final Movie Night and potluck, and election announcements. Meet in the office or in Buchanan D 215 at 5:30 pm, Friday April 8th. We will be watching Death Race 2000 and the original 1966 Adam West Batman! Holy memoranda folks, make a note not to miss it!
Bring food for the potluck, but do not, I repeat do NOT bring a dessert unless your last name starts with a letter between S and Z. We will know if you do, and judge you.

Also, at this movie night we will announce the winners of our election, your exec for next year. This one requires your participation. Vote in the election if you haven't already, like right now! One of the positions is actually contested! Here are the candidates:

President:

Lucie Brown

Vice-president:

Madison Braga: (no empty campaign promises available)

Myles Wirth: Living on campus, I'd be willing and able to spend a lot of time in the office, increasing its hours of operation as a hang-out location-slash-rest stop for everyone during the day. I also excel at writing blog posts full of moving, staggeringly beautiful prose. I have an almost startling capacity for menial tasks, and my loyalty to the Society is unquestionable. Additionally, I'm rather good-looking.

Emily Hartig: Good day, fellow club members! I have unfortunately been quite invisible this year (and especially this past term) at events, as my life was forcibly taken over by the Theatre, and this is precisely one of the reasons I am interested in becoming your vice president for next year! I'm also interested in learning more about how the club runs. I hope to be around more, keep that fridge fully stocked, and procrastinate on my thesis by doing Fantastical Things (instead of by watching Star Trek in my room like I have been...). I hope to spend my summer refreshing myself by teaching children how to whack each other with foam swords and the like. So, vote for me if you like fun! Live long and prosper.

Secretary:

Azhia Larson

Treasurer:

Erin Schneider

Librarian:

Iris Liu

Assistant Librarian:

Chris Preston

Social Coordinator:

Hunter Cochrane

aand, 3- The one you've been waiting for. The foam sword weekend battle royale, with Dim Sum! Here is what Peter has to say about it: 

[M]eet at the SFS at 11:00am. We'll be going out en masse for Dim Sum. After this, we'll go out and buy supplies with which to construct additional foam swords to supplement our arsenal. If you've wanted a custom sword, you will learn how to make one. After we've made the swords, we'll hit each other with them! Between the food and the swords, this will likely cost about $15-$20.

Sounds pretty frickin' awesome.

That is all. 

It's the final countdown!

We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell?

Look it up. And get pumped. Cause we're heading into the final stretch of this term, and we still need people to run for the key club leadership positions. If you've ever dreamed of being President, Vice President, Treasurer or Mascot of the SFS, all you have to do is send us an email and you will be in the running! If no one steps up, we're kind of screwed!

Other reasons to get pumped up this week include:
Foam sword fighting! Wednesday at 11:00 am and Saturday at 1:00 pm. Meet in the club room and go fight in a field.
Quidditch! Friday at 4:30 pm, an hour before the movie starts. Meet in the club room and go fight in a field.
Movie night! Friday at 5:30 pm in Buchanan D201. Meet at the room, or in the club. This week's movies are
Eragon and the animated Lord of the Rings. Both highly mockable, so it should be a good time.

Come crawl out of your study caves for a bit and be entertained!

Space Madness!

This just in: amazing sci fi-themed party next Saturday (March 5) at Club 23 West. There will be dancing. There will be flashy lights. There will be people in shiny bodysuits. And oh yes, there will be costume prizes! So dress up as something awesome!

You can pick up tickets here http://canada.wantickets.com/Events/ShowEvent.aspx?eventId=86860 for only $10, or try just showing up with your UBC ID. Students have been known to get in for free if they show up before 11 pm. 

More info on this page: http://plancast.com/p/3qtx/space-madness-2011-sci-fi-theme-ball

Also, please enjoy this Ren and Stimpy episode, which is also called Space Madness.

Thirsty Thirsty SFSers

Our latest movie night featured two animated films about people looking for planets (or planet-making ships, whatev...) Titan A.E. and Treasure Planet. I think that this face will be haunting many of our dreams for the next few nights. But it will be formed out of swirling blue nebula clouds :\ ....

The only thing missing from the evening's entertainment was soda, and of course, we all missed the delicious Cheetah energy drink that has become a traditional beverage at movie nights. We will be resupplied soon, I promise. 

3 Things That Already Happened

If you have been receiving emails from Peter lately, you will be aware of three events that were not hyped on the blog in advance. My apologies. It all happened so fast!

1. SFS Booksale - for three days we braved the cold and valiantly tried to give away a portion of our vast library, exchanging classic (and incredibly bizarre) books for people's pocket change, pocket lint, cookie crumbs, kind words, and whatever else they might have to offer. Boba Fett was there to warm up the crowds, and we had a special one-day visit from Yves the rogue Sand Trooper, posing in pictures to raise money for the Alternate Shelter Society. Amazing costumes guys! I hope to post pictures here soon.

2. Movie night - this one kind of popped up unexpectedly, but featured two quality films: Dark City and Strange Days. Altered reality and dead prostitutes for everyone!

3. Weekend Lord of the Rings Marathon - this one could have gone better, but the FilmSoc generously lent us their club room and awesome TV so that we could watch the whole trilogy (extended version) in the course of one Saturday afternoon. We apologize for accidentally setting off their security alarm ;)

Stay tuned for next week's movie night announcement, which will appear before Friday, I promise.

Late Breaking News: Vampire double feature tonight!!!

Sorry for the delay folks. In case you saw us at our book sale this week and want to check out one of our bi-weekly movie nights, here's the info.
Where: Buchanan D 201
When: 5:30 pm
What we're watching: Let the Right One In (that Swedish vampire movie) and Thirst (a Korean movie about a priest who is accidentally turned into a vampire in a failed medical experiment). They both look pretty awesome.

Also: we will have free pizza, and we will be selling cheap candy and pop. Bring your appetite and some quarters!

Ahem, hem...

Just thought that some of my fellow geeks might like to see this. It's a little web comic that I've been doing, which shamelessly rips off real Spider-Man comics and changes the story into something like a teen drama or soap opera.

The blog is at http://spidersoap.blog.com - feel free to comment or email with pet projects of your own that you would like to share. Because that's what the SFS is all about. Sharing. And free pizza.