ink and skin

What's this?

More of my flesh on display?

Surely not!

It's a super special double feature today as I was so lazy after my last session. I'm submitting myself to more needleful torture in a week's time so there'll be even more photo love then. I felt bad for not having a photo of me laughing deliriously so instead I took one of me wearing my post tattoo t-shirt:

Yes, that is a free promo shirt from my days in retail. Also: I am incapable of actually looking at the camera.

...drumroll please...

Yep, there are photos of my new tattoo (and rather naked self) over at Inked Oddity. It all feels rather anticlimactic now doesn't it?

freaking out

Tomorrow marks the start of a shiny new tattoo for me and, as a few of you have requested, I've finally got round to posting my existing tattoos. You can find the post over at Inked Oddity. You may not appreciate this yet but it was actually quite a sacrifice on my part:

• I had to actually take photos (or have them taken) of myself a traumatic experience if ever there was one.
  
• I then had to install the software for my digital camera as I've been putting it off for weeks.
  
• Discovering I have literally the world's widest shoulders, and thus another exciting new paranoia, didn't help matters.
  
• I'm thoroughly fed up with photobucket so I started a flickr account.
  
• Ooooh look at the shiny features to play with!
  
• Actually writing the post was the easy part.
  

An hour and a half later it's done. Well? What are you still here for. Scoot on over there. Psha, after all the time and effort I go to for you people (and my vanity).

ps. Wish me luck!

something rantish for the weekend

There is one hell of a rant up over at my tattoo blog. Note to self: avoid mentioning plans for a full back piece when out with people you've known since the age of eleven. It never ends well.

Enjoy!

I know, I know

I'm utterly rubbish with my total lack of updates (I'm pretending that people care, don't burst my bubble) a new post (hopefully of the amusing or insightful variety) will be up here tomorrow.

In the mean time the next part of my custom tattoo saga is up over at Inked Oddity, you could read it - ya know if you're bored or something.

alex... SMASH

I have been fuming all morning about various things, my evil ex-landlady, the fact that I have still to start any actual lab work and I've been here for over a year, but mostly my bile has been directed at an opinion piece from this Saturday's Times which landed in my inbox this morning.

As it is an article on the subject of tattooing (and the ignorant, unwashed and sluttish sheep who get them) I have posted my response to it over at Inked Oddity.

Go read it! Warning: the comments associated with said newspaper column will make you seethe (and if they don't: shame on you!)