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That place is nice!

It's the thing that makes me the money to get tattooed...we office guys have our secrets too...we won't ask about your tatty guns if you don't ask about our Add 'em Up Glowy Screens. ;)

Thanks @Lochlan I appreciate the information, hmmmm...maybe it would just be better to stay at the hotel and travel into the city like @ian...but I would like to check out that site. I'll shoot you an email. Thanks @Boohdah, i will check out the food thread too. I have an appt with Valerie Vargas and I have contacted two other guys and I am just waitin on confirmation. I am very excited about the whole deal, going to SF, getting tattooed, seeing some badass tattooers and tattoos, meeting some people from here. Seems like it will be a fun weekend.

Sooooo...I'm gonna head out to SF for the SoG convention...I dont necessarily want to stay out by the airport. I'm originally from Oakland (moved when I was a baby) and I havent been to the City in about 14 years. I thought about staying in the neighborhood by AT&T park. Like around Harrison and 5th. It seems pretty close to a BART station (and about about a mile and a half from Black Heart). I just want to make sure i can make the walk back from the station at night with less than a 50/50 chance of getting mugged (I'm not fearful of walking around in cities, but I'd like to have an idea of what I am getting into). Any advice appreciated! thanks!

I think when I realized I didnt have to have a "reason" to get a tattoo, and it didnt have to have a "meaning" it changed my perspective immensely. I credit this site and actually getting off my ass and going to a lot of different shops and seeing what the hell is really going on with tattooing. I think the biggest mistake people make when they come here is that the dont do some lurking first. I learned a lot more about what tattooing is about by just listening to the interviews, reading the posts of people who are either tattooers or serious collectors. Now that I get what a good tattoo is, its enough. I dig just going to a shop, knowing the artists are all kick ass, and then just picking a piece of flash off the wall cause I just love tattoos. I dont have to go to therapy before hand to disect my relationship with my mom and pick an image that shows our conflicts blah blah blah I'm not gonna lie, I like the attention of posting a new tattoo...I think we all kinda do to a certain extent. But yeah, shut up and get tattooed is kinda my mantra at this point I guess.

@Dan S Love your perspective. I have a lot of respect for it.

Congrats (?) @gougetheeyes You'll do a good job, hopefully you won't have too much "moderating" to do!

I know @reverend1 is in a band, he is a kickass guitar player.

Can't be enough skulls, that's for sure. Seriously considering the rooster from the sriracha hot sauce bottle. God I love that stuff, lol.

Oh Hells Yeah Rev. You can not go wrong there.

Cool! We will have to have a good beer and talk about fishing.

I'm flying out for this. Hope to meet some of you.

This is why I post here. *tear in eye*

Hey Rev! These guys won't steer you wrong. How far are you willing to travel?

Well DUH Just kiddin lol

Simple. Skull, duh. ;)

Ribs are always a party. Crap, I need to make a rib appointment.

:confused: ;) A panther, duh.

I live in a really dry climate and tend to scab pretty badly...I'm going to try the lotion prior to the tattoo thing...couldnt hurt.

I think my body needs a break. I had an issue with my last tattoo healing...I have been tattooed a lot in the last year, I wonder if I just need to relax for 6 months.

I've downsized and sold most of my gear. I'm down to a Faded Gibson LP Studio, through a little Vox AC4tv and various pedals. Actually looking for a good fuzzy fuzz pedal. And I have a Simon and Patrick acoustic. I dont play as much anymore...

I'm waiting for filler. I'm also trying to make efficient use of the space I have left (although I have a LOT of space left).

I saw it Friday. I dug it. Greatest movie ever? no. Badass and actually worth paying to see? yep.

so, is the proper terminology BoneSkull, or SkullBone. Just checking.

I've been thinking about eventually getting some little tattoos to fill in some spots that are too big to just go stars and dots, but too small for something really big and eloaborate...like little skulls, or ham on a bone, little roses... I have a really small 4 leaf clover with my name in a banner...I'm just curious too see other little tattoos.