Geo Escapes The Matrix by Big June
The other night I was giving a friend an impromptu tour of the Clinton Hills area in Brooklyn when we came across one of my favorite swanky little watering holes, Sputnik’s. I’d been taking notes on local hot spots and wanted to get Sputnik’s address, but I didn’t have a pen and I didn’t want to save the info in my phone, separating it from my other notes on paper.
That’s when I met Geo. Geo was the only person out of the 15 to 20 there who actually had an ink pen in his possession. I mean I can’t fault everyone else. I mean, with all the Blackberry’s and Smart phones flying off the shelves who needs an ink pen? I even wrote the draft to this article on my Pocket PC. I mentioned to Geo that he was probably the only person in the world who still carried an ink pen, and that’s when the dialogue started. (more…)