gougetheeyes

Welcome! Where you located in Belgium?

Doubt it'll happen. Seems to me that every time a city or town proposes new laws like this they're actually fishing for feedback in their weird way. I can't remember specifics (this is why I write stuff down) but I feel like similar things have happened in NY (or maybe Oklahoma when they made it legal a few years back?) and they wait for a response and then tend to adjust the proposal. Am I making this up?

@ironchef way too nice of you! Like @Iwar said, @steve1461686340 deserves so much credit for making this all happen in the first place. I'm happy to give up my slot so that there doesn't need to be a Norwegian/NorCal Indian Wrestling Death Match (though I hope this happens on the 19th). It's extraordinarily thoughtful of you to think of us @ironchef and I'm only happy I can also be a part of the same board that's been so great for myself.

I forgot you were in NY so we should get up to drink a beer or other beverage soon regardless! Cheers, dude!!

Haven't been to 930 since I last lived in PG but it's impossible to forget that dude. Really nice guy from what I remember, such sad news. @ShawnPorter rough year man, so sorry.

Welcome @falco4758 -- you found a good place for it!

Welcome dude, good luck getting it finished!

Welcome @ptgold -- are your ideas starting to come together?

"inkings"

Just saw Tomas Gracia is going to be over on the east coast in October.. Might need to make an appointment for somethin' outer spacey!

I dig that little clover in there. I also think this thread wins for best title.

It makes me mindful of that simultaneously eternal and fleeting quality of life and of the body....

This just got deep. Welcome!

Again, if this breaks the rules fell free to remove it. No hard feelings.

Shawn, I don't see how this could be breaking any rules and I certainly wouldn't want to take this down. You could always start your own thread in "Random Crap," but this is definitely more important than "Random Crap," and I hope everyone sees this.

You're doing a great thing and I will donate tomorrow morning when it's not 4AM and when I'm slightly more lucid and when I haven't worked a shift. Best to you dude, I'm sure you'll beat the $500 mark.

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Went to the State of Grace BBQ yesterday, where I met several people with super killer backs, torsos and suits by Horitomo, Horitaka and Drew Flores. And I took part in my first group "shirts off" pic:

And here's my with Horitomo (top) and Horitaka (bottom). Super awesome dudes, and Drew makes a mean carne asada!

Also, I love that @hogg is the one with the MOST SERIOUS POSTURE OF ALL TIME in these photos. Aside from the red Vans. #notoliverpecker

I've found about 5 different pictures that pieced together in a drawing, that should make it close to what the car looked like.

Sounds like you're ready to roll.

Nice contributions everyone, makes me feel all warm inside. @hogg Porky Pig would be great!!!!

But nobody can tell you what to get dude.. Just go with your gut!

Hey there! Your intro thread is the perfect spot to post just such a query.. Got a photo? Where are you located?

I have no clue how to tie them in together and it's annoying the hell out of me.

"Tie 'em in" by getting something totally unrelated.

I think some of you may have seen that Waverly makes green soap air fresheners?

One in my bathroom.

un scented dove white soap.

YES. Had a little conversation about this a while back and this dude was horrified I was using bar soap because it's full of bacteria and blahblahblah.. But it's worked out great, especially since that's the soap I've been using since I was a kid.

Welcome man, I'd say you're off to a good start!

Can't make this shit up. Two recent conversations from the bar.

Number One!

Me: What're you up to tonight?

Girl: Well I supposed to get tattooed but my tattoo artists rejected me!

Me: What?! What happened?

Girl: (Pulls out a piece of paper with a crazy long math/physics equation and begins to unfold to show me.) Well, I was supposed to get this on my finger, but--

Me: (Bursts out laughing) Yeah, that ain't going on your finger...

Girl: He laughed at me, too!

Me: Yeah. Sorry to laugh, it's just so long you won't be able to get it that small and still see what it is. What about on your arm, or wrapping around your wrist?

Girl: Yeah, that's what he suggested, too. Especially because it's my only tattoo or whatever. But I'm a programmer and I want to look at it while I'm working at the keyboard. He also suggested that I shouldn't get it in white.

Me: White.. ink?

Girl: Yeah. Because it's for me. And I don't want anyone else to just be able to see it like that.

Me: Sounds like maybe you should think about it some more..

After that initial talk we had a pretty cool conversation about the equation and the dual reality somethingorother it pertains to. She was a super smart person in that realm for sure. I left her with the suggestion of getting a cat in a box as a much cooler design (part of this theory about a cat being in a box with the lid closed and there being two realities..) but she was pretty set on the equation.

Number Two!

The set up here.. it was late, this chick was at the bar for a while so obviously a little drunk.

Girl: Hey, you get your tattoos here?

Me: Yeah, mostly, at this point kind of all over.

Girl: Where should I go?

Me: Hard to go wrong in this neighborhood, Three kings, Eight of Swords, Adorned, Saved...

Girl: Are they open?

Me: When...?

Girl: Now.

Me: It's almost two in the morning -- no shops are open right now.

Girl: Really? None??

Me: You could go into the city and check out West 4th St. but I really encourage you to not do that.

Girl: So.. there are no tattoo shops open in Brooklyn right now is what you're telling me.

Me: That's what I'm telling you.

Girl: (Takes her drinks that I made her and begins to walk away.) Fuck this borough.

And I thought that would be the end of it! She came back and wanted to talk some more.

Girl: So, it says XXSHOPXX is right off of XXSTREETXX -- is that close by?

Me: It's not far but I'm telling you it's not open. Why don't you just wait?

Girl: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. My friend over there is only in town tonight and we won't be in the same city again for like maybe a couple years.

Me: Well that might work better, you can both get great tattoos in your respective cities and they'll probably be way better than trying to get it in at like 2 AM. You could get something awesome!

Girl: Nope, you don't get what I'm saying.

Me: (Past the point of patience and I can't walk away because I'm making them another round of drinks.) It sounds like you probably shouldn't get tattooed. It sounds like a bad idea is what I think you're saying.

Girl: Well aren't they all?

Me: I'm sorry..?

Girl: All of this (pointing to my arms) -- you can't tell me any of this is actually a good idea.

Me: Did you really just say that?

Girl: Well, I mean, come on.. when you're 90. They're going to look like shit.

Me: No, they're going to look awesome and I'm going to be an awesome 90 yr old with tattoos that I didn't get at fucking two in the morning. This is going to be your last round, I'll have the server bring your check over and you can still make it over to West 4th, the cab ride shouldn't be much more than $20!

Girl: Whatever.

Me: Have a good night! Good luck!

Hope I'm not sounding like too much of an asshole.. My bar persona is always ten thousand times nicer than my real life demeanor but this second girl really pushed it. I'll put up with a lot of idiots and I know how to handle plenty of bullshit but when you outright insult me in my own bar..? You're done. I hope she went and got tattooed.. everyone gets the tattoo they deserve!

A coworker of mine keeps referring to my tattoos as "mobile art."

As in.. because it's on you, it's mobile?? I don't follow.. Maybe she needs to have her yearly review moved up.

Didn't when I started out and boy do I wish I had. More than the planning, wish I'd known just a bit more about style and color and what I liked and why I liked it and how it looked on me. Or maybe it's that I've just changed my opinions and understand the bigger picture. But as far as how I look to other people being a "tattooed person," no. Only that this place is full of guys and gals with a handful of tattoos so it just spurs me on to get even more.. if that makes sense. All or nothing.

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this place

"This place," meaning Williamsburg and Greenpoint.