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Jan.11.2012
I don’t know whether wishing his penis bon voyage would have taken him places or not, but the guy is now doomed to be living off his ‘suitcase’. MSNBC’s The Body Odd reports:
The 21-year-old Iranian man found himself between a rock and a hard place after he got a tattoo in Persian script reading "...
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Sep.13.2011
I’d accepted a dinner invitation from an acquaintance. I’d met Sarah two weeks previous at the Alternative Café when I was video shooting Tom Faia and The Juice performing their original songs. Part literary gothic counterbalancing Emo nerdish fashion, I’d given Sarah my card without judging, told...
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Mar.14.2011
I know I might have, one time or the other, implied I might give an arm and a leg for Kafka but - in truth - I don't think I would even go as far as this fellow. All power to him, however. There were many other Kafka images to choose.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Zoom Tattoo on Rob Todd's...
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Mar.07.2011
The Blue Tattoo is out now in paperback (Bison Books), with a postscript and a newly discovered letter in wich Olive describes meeting and marrying John Fairchild in 1865. Even as a white Mohave with a chin tattoo, Olive did not "settle" in marriage. "I was that day," she...
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Jan.14.2011
Know how to freak people in Los Angeles out now? Go into a dance club/bar/theater establishment and tell the patrons that their Zodiac Sign has changed.
Yesterday my lovely doorman friend at my favorite improv establishment (who, is three months older than I) had a horrible revelation when I...
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Aug.04.2010
I’ve been a blog slacker lately. Scott has been on tour and things always get uber-hectic around here when daddy is gone. Plus I’ve had novel revisions due and an icepick through the eye headache.
Tariku’s new favorite thing is to give me tattoos. In this picture it’s just bath crayon but he’s...
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Apr.09.2010
As we saw last week, 刺 (SHI, sa(su), sa(saru), sa(shi), sashi, toge: to stab, pierce, prick, sting; thorn; business card) primarily means “to stab,” so it plays a role in many brutal words. Examining this kanji, you can quickly have your fill of stabbings, puncture wounds, and the like:
刺し傷 (...
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Apr.02.2010
Let’s start with a quiz. The kanji 刺 primarily means “to stab.” Given that, what do you think the following words might mean?
刺身 The second kanji means “body.” 刺青 The second kanji means “blue.” 名刺 The first kanji means “name.”
I’ll block the answers with Alberto’s haiku calendar...
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Mar.11.2010
Blood Falls at Taylor Glacier, Antarctica.
Makes me think of the demon Diabolo spewing out his gruesome vengeance in Tattoo.
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Sep.14.2009
I was very close to my husband's mom. She passed away suddenly less than two weeks ago and I'm still in that foggy state of disbelief that she is gone. As my husband was named the executor, we were there (in Canada...we live in the U.S.) for about a week and so I was able to squeeze in a little...
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