Thursday, August 23, 2007

Time for Tat?

So I got this tattoo the other day with skyler, who got a swashbuckling pirate dude in the same spot. We got them to celebrate a very portland sort of day, and also the fact that skyler scheduled his surgery for April, something he has been waiting to do for many many years. It was great, so I commemorated the occasion with this delightfully classic anchor being strangled boa-style by a very non-boa-type cobra snake.

It is starting to flake off around the head. Skyler's bubbled up and started falling off within hours, because he has hairy arms, and apparently the 25-cent type tattoos don't like to be applied over all that fuzz.

Jed thought it was real. Apparently he thinks I am the sort of person who enjoys anchor-strangling cobras. Our friendship is now in question.

But here's the thing. The more it sits there in my peripheral vision, the more I wish I did have an awesome tattoo right there. It looks good with this half-sleeve sweater. I could put something pretty right there instead of a serpentine sailor. Now I just have to figure out what.
Of course, now that my tattoo-artist buddy who lived here last year (and who did mercedes' octobiker) moved out to Minneapolis, there is no way in hell that I am going to get a tattoo in New Haven. The goal is to have an idea/design by my next visit to Portland.

Any suggestions?

5 comments:

merpez lamor said...

yay!

I will email skyler for to congrats on a date.

and you should totally get a tattoo.

I will keep my mind on that task. As much as I can keep my mind on any task.

michams said...

Eloise?

ptara said...

Wow, amazing. So much happened since I last looked at your blog. I was on a blog hiatus. Man, I don't think I'm even at the top. (And I panicked about that tatoo being real too, just cause of the first sentence, but that's understandable.)

merpez lamor said...

yay eloise!

could be a good one...

isn't there a part with a big staircase, and her running down it?

Although I guess that would be less good for that particular spot on your arm...

michams said...

ooh, there is... it's kind of small in the book, but it's a good one... and that might actually not be so bad for that spot. I'll think about it.