Idle Hands...
Borf Was Here! In Borf''s (aka John Tsombikos) graffiti heyday, I was driving into DC at 4:30 a.m. to be at my client site on New York Avenue around 5. As much as I hate destruction of property, I was always curious to see where he was going to leave his next mark on the city. The sign above was the magnum opus, and I gasped and smiled when I saw it. It was only a matter of time before he got arrested. Almost twenty years later, I have a teenage son and while I know he's a good kid, I also know he's in the danger zone; those couple of summers between 16 and 18 where you have some degree of autonomy, a few bucks in the pocket, and a lot of time on your hands. This is when the experiments happen, first love, bros telling other bros they don't have the balls to do something, and then they take a geotagged video and post it on tik-tok. Morons. ...or, there's a better narrative where they volunteer, take that car to do something FREE, and refrain from spending the