Air Hatch - Beans

Half the fun of being @ Von around the summer of 2009

Is standing outside w/ my DJ, Jason, the bouncer

Cracking jokes and rating all the pretty girls that are

Going up and down Bleeker to indulge in alcohol

And bad decisions.

What also attracts

Most people to Von had to do with the Italian

Restaurant next door named Bianca

George, the owner, used to travel back and forth

Between both places bringing food to customers

At Von or announce to patrons awaiting a

Table if one had opened.

A year later, rent increase caused Bianca to close

One tim, we’re standing outside and Gorge

Who grew up in the Bronx, may’ve been short

In stature but long in character, also possessed the

Rarity of being a true New Yorker.

George

Always kept us entertained w/ stories for days

Comes up to us just as Jason and I had just

Finished laughing.

George comes and goes

«Look, I can pop lock!!!»

Robotic animated jittery movements ensue

What makes it more of a riot is that he

Wasn’t laughing

«One time, I battled Mr. Freeze of the New York

City Breakers.»

Jason asked, «OH, yeah, what happened?»

«The kids in my neighborhood beat him up

And stole his sheepskin.»

We start dying laughing

«Damn, George is gorilla hood.»

He starts to tell us a story that another

Patron, Nick St. George, told him about

When he was in family court about this

Jamaican couple standing in front of the

Judge.

The woman tells the judge that she

Should keep the baby because she’s the

Mother.

The judge looks at the guy

Now George, in the worst imitation Jamaican

Accent says, «Judge, if I put a quarter

In a Coke machine and it comes out, is it

The machine’s or is it mine?»

As he was finishing this story

This crazy dude’s running up to random cars

Begging for change.

He’s mostly around

On the weekends but I guess today is

An exception.

Just imagine a dirty, life-sized Mantis coming up to your car

Knocking on your window screaming

«I shot the Pope!

I shot the Pope!!!

Now give me some change!!»

It’s not even funny anymore

He’s obnoxious and always accosting the

Customers on the way out the bar

I called him FUN GUY because he isn’t

«His name is Fun Guy, get it, Fungi»

STAY AWAY