Tattoos, punks, and pool

[gordonzola]

This thread deserves a post of its own. What’s the worst tattoo you have? What’s the worst tattoo you’ve ever seen?

And what’s up with the Epicenter worst tattoo competition? I never heard about it. slanderous? arispurr? kittynitro? radcarrots? lapsed? Don’t hold out on me. I don’t remember that. Was it after my time there?

I remember holding an informal poll about my tattoo idea there. Young Emma or old Emma? I never got that tattoo because I decided I didn’t really want it, but I was thinking of it because I have never seen a man get a tattoo of a woman who was a public figure. I mean, you see guys sometimes with their heroes or whatever, but the only women you ever see on men are either relatives or some kind of stupid sexist shit. Then I decided that I didn’t really want a picture of another person on my body.

Cheese on the other hand…

Speaking of Epicenter, you know what one of my favorite moments was? The pool tournament. It was near the beginning back before anyone was hating on each other. We were playing on the totally warped and fucked-up table salvaged from the Verbal Abuse house. All the factions of punk were represented and had dressed up a little. Mohawks were gelled, gutter punks had a fresh drunk on, straight-edgers were tidy and boring-looking, crusties were extra shiny. Every time someone sank a shot people would applaud quietly and politely like it was a golf tournament. This drove Tim Yo crazy, which encouraged us to keep at it.

And to bring this full circle, that was the day after I got my first tattoo. Btw, I should have won the tournament but I eight-ball scratched.

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[dairryiere.livejournal.com]

I enter myself in the worst tatoo contest.
A much beloved friend and I gave each other tattoos one night while we were drinking (always a bad idea), we are both not bad artist sober, but by the time it came to my turn we were both wasted.
I was feeling sentimental so I asked her to give me a cribbage board on my ankle. I have only had one person in the last 14 years figure out what it was. some people ask if it's an eraser, can of soda, block of cheese, or a domino. It drives friends who are tatoo artist crazy that I don't want it covered up or "fixed".

Worst I've seen. A crusty aquaintance was showing me this lawn mower he had just gotten tattooed above his pubic hair so he could shave a strip out and make it look like the mower had done it when a guy standing just outside the tattoo studio said "Oh yeah, well I've got a bitch tattooed to my dick." And unfortunately he pulled it out and showed me the gagged "bitch" that looked like she was tied to his penis. Uggghhhh!
I think this was at Miller Cottons in Berkeley.

[dairryiere.livejournal.com]

and I enter myself in the worst spelling/typing contest

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I love your cribbage board. I mean, once you told me what it was.

The bitch tattoo.... uh, speechless.