Remember me? I used to post here. And I still do, I guess. Anyway:
I got a tattoo on Friday. A tattoo based on Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being. None of that tribal or Celtic crap for me… Give me obscure literary tattoos! Make me look smart! And I get extra credit for originality.
Okay, enough of that crap. I just wanted to show it off. Here’s a picture of it:
Okay, now I’m cool and women will be on me like a Republican on a tax cut. Right? Who’s first?
(I now want another one. keeping witht he literary theme, I’m thinking of a Star-Bellied Sneetch, or a Mockingbird, or “So It Goes” from Slaughterhouse 5.)
Okay, I’ll shut up now. Talk to you all again in another six months.
w00t! i’m getting a rather large and ornate bass guitar carved into my arm in colour at the end of august. if anyone knows what this is, it’s gonna be les claypool’s rainbow bass, which is a beautiful 6 string bass made frrom about 20 different types of wood… i’ll be sure to post pictures when it’s done…
That’s pretty cool; I always liked the way the inside of the hands holding the bowler make the outline of a dog’s head (ears going outside the hands’ thumbs), as if Karenin’s ghost were sitting there wearing the hat. Hope I described that adequately.
Oh, and by the way, as you are noticing already, getting tattooed is astonishingly addictive. I’d advise you to wait at least a year before getting another one, so the novelty of this one can wear off.
Well, if you can’t BE smart, you might as well LOOK smart. Not surprisingly, I’m with bittersweet on this one. At least Celtic designs have some history and symbolism behind them instead of representing some wannabe literati. Have your own opinion, but try not knocking something just because you don’t like it, m’kay?
Way to take the high road, WMN. On top of which, he was probably kidding and probably alluding to the trendiness of such tattoos at the present moment. Chill.
Hi, WMN. I’m also an American of Scots/Irish descent with a Celtic tattoo. Calm down. He just doesn’t like Celtic tattoos. It’s not a big deal. Really.
Beside, Milan Kundera is genuine literati. Nothing wannabe about Unbearable Lightness of Being. Now, if he gets the Slaughterhouse 5 tattoo, then you can complain about wannabe literati.
Wow – do you have a board policy here to give a new guy a hard time when they express an opinion? Because everyone missed the part about how I came right out and said that I overreacted. Mea Culpa – slap my wrist already!
[joke] Now I promise I won’t say anything more about someone’s ugly old tattoo!! [/joke]
Leave it to you guys to start out a tattoo thread and end up talking about pie in three replies!! Anyway…I don’t think the issue is celtic or tribal but originality. I hate to see girls with that same old sun tatto on their lower back [yawn] how boring. A tat should say something original about YOU! Joey, yours is very original - good job!
um, Sara Lee is just delivering them because, ah, I can’t leave my desk. Yeah, that’s right – I really made them myself, but these darn chains around my ankle don’t reach all the way out the door - only as far as the bathroom.
I want to get a tattoo – a Celtic symbol at that – but it would be personalized with my dead siblings names in the design.
