J. Bob Alotta and Toshi Reagon benefit/birthday Party

It was a strange night… I arrived at this event super early, cause I was in the neighborhood, planned to go to the Y and found it closed, so just dazed my way into Sputnik around 9pm. It was me reading Valencia at the bar, and Toshi Reagon chillin with friends a few stools down. A typical Saturday night, then life got even more normal when my friend showed up and discovered her wallet had been lost/stollen. I switched into serious iphone/google/police report mode and 2 hours later things were pretty much settled. We canceled the cards, felt shitty and went back to Sputnik for a dance. The music was House, not my favorite, but the crowd was fun and the cuase excellent.

“j. bob alotta is a media activist, story teller,

worker, preacher, rabbi, builder of community.

whether its on the screen or at the dinner table,

s/he believes in gathering the tribe.”

The birthday celebration for Bob was also a fundraiser for

“4REELTHO: the narrative arm of our project.

our goal: to tell stories borne from the world in which we actually live.

TRUTH2POWER is the documentary/educational arm of our project.

our goal: to create the world we believe this could be.

which is to say, our work / our stories are unapologetically multi-racial, gender

variant, urban, sexy, strong, resistant & uppity.”

www.4reeltho.com

Sounds amazing. I threw down some of my meager earnings, and Betty even showed up for a quick second. Along with some older Frenchies who bumbed a flame off of us. I had to speak French a couple of times that night. The skills you almost forget you have, until you need to remember. We ate cake and rolled out onto the street around 3. A night well spent.