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Grey areas…

Here is one of my latest attempts to ween myself off of putting black outlines around every tattoo I do.

The young man who requested this one wanted to show love for his ‘hood via a railroad crossing, which symbolized the meeting of the two areas he spent time in. To try and match the impressiveness […]

Yamaha SHS-10

First on the attic pile, my Yamaha shs-10 electronic keyboard, aka “key-tar”. For the stage performer who wants to show off the results of all those years of piano lessons without having to miss out on any of that dynamic frontman real estate that keeps you on the forefront of every mind in the crowd. […]

Typing in a day’s…

What started out as a potentially crappy day has come to a fairly satisfactory end. The day began with me losing water pressure while trying to wash my hair, which is a problem when it causes you to violate your hot water heater’s in-shower time limit. Wound up getting a few tattoos in, including a […]

rinseout

New year, second day. The fact that I’m posting this at all is a major accomplishment. Not only is this a major step in combating my underuse of available resources, it is a marked victory in all of the problems I’ve been having with my online access recently. Getting connected at all has been quite […]

Late-breaking new

After several months, I’ve finally gotten around to revamping the site. Following the inspiration of www.csszengarden.com, the whole thing is 100% css controlled; no tables, nowhere. The two weeks of sleepless tweaking was quite fun. It’s actually sort of hard for me to obey my urge to set aside all of the div id’s and […]

The sky is full of jetliners

I was sitting outside watching the clouds move. I like the way the faster moving clouds underneath passing the more distant ones above makes it look like the entire sky is falling. I noticed a twin engine jet trail crossing the part of the sky between me and the sun. About twenty seconds behind the […]

Logging it industrially

I’m wide awake after my first night of sleep in three days. Or is it two days? I can never calculate these things correctly. Basically, after 48 hours of MST3K, Mountain Dew, and dancing to “Life” by The Cardigans, I managed to pass out and stay that way for almost seven hours. During my rather […]

Disposable benefits

Having served a typical tattoo apprenticeship, making needles for and cleaning the tubes of an entire shop’s worth of artists, I am a firm believer in disposable tattoo tubes for serving walk-in clientele. Since my initial discarding of them back in 2000, my weapon of choice has been the 1" rubber grip series made by […]

Saving my Environment

I’ve spent the better part of the past three days losing the battle for personal temperature on two fronts. Georgia’s usually mis-timed attempt at winter temperatures has kicked in a little more effectively than expected, leaving anti-frostbite defense up to my suddenly uncooperative air conditioning technology. As a result, the recent past has invlolved a […]

That new-site-post smell…

My time over the past 2+ months has been split between hospital visits, drawing on people, and completing my copies of Silent Hill 4 and Psychonauts (which finally killed off the disk drive of one of my PS2s, dammit…). That is my official excuse for not maintaining a steady blog up to now. But […]

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