THE OBS FAMILY PICNIC! ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW!!!

- PARTY PEOPLE STILL IN THE HOUSE!

If you missed this picnic you missed a great event! Everyone that came out had a magnificent time! The weather was wonderful and made for a beautiful day in the park. Special thanks to JaSheika James & Christy Lavalais for joining me in the early morning to stake out our space! Kim Allen too who came out and placed signs to make it easy to locate us! We celebrated family, we celebrated Quinn Jones’ birthday, we celebrated new friends, and we celebrated Corey Moore’s success @ the HBFF! We danced to the “Ole School” sounds spun by Jela! Man, Jela brought out the turntables, set up the speakers and took us on a journey that had everyone in the park on their feet at one time or another. And if they weren’t on their feet their heads were bobbin’! There was dancing in the seats, on the sidewalk, several Soul Train lines, and of course the ‘Electric Slide’ slid in, in several locations! Writers let their inhibitions disappear and let go to regenerate the creative side! If you weren’t there I’m not telling, but we have writers that really can ‘bust a move’! I’m sure you’ll see pictures show up in a few places.

However, Jela wouldn’t have been able to groove us if it had not been for one of our newest OBS members Michael Wolfe! We had no power and Michael, made a special trip back to Pasadena to get his generator to help get our party started! So a very special thanks to Jela Perry & Michael Wolfe for the collaboration in the Park! Michael also had the gaming tables set up with prizes and water guns for the kids! We were slapping bones, looking for a “Clue”, and declaring champions in a day long “Spades Tournament”.

Thank you to all the people that helped to make the picnic happen, to those faithful members that made a point to show, those new members that are excited about OBS, the veterans that want to see it keep moving, and those former members that have heard the rumblings in the street that OBS is on the move. We even had Samm Brown & Natoma Keir of Radio Station KPFK 90.7 "For the Record" along with filmmakers Tiara & Angela, who are working on a pilot set to start filming in July. Thank you all.

I think we finally left the park about 8 PM… But before the music we out, we all danced to “We Are Family… I Had OBS with Me!”(I stole that from Rene!) Everyone had a fantastic time. As we made our way to the parking lot, several people said; ”We have to do this again! Same time next year…And then I heard, I could do it next month!” Well, I don’t know about next month, but “Same time, next year sounds really cool!”

Again, thank you all it was a Blast!

Jennifer