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Prettyyyyyyyyy pumped about this one, not gonna lie. Yesterday:

There's a vid too: https://instagram.com/p/5075TDTBNR/?taken-by=greggletron
By Greg Whitehead at Scapegoat in Portland, as usual.
My thigh feels like a wobbly hot water bottle today, and I don't even care. :o

Mors Tattoo
Here's one I snagged off his Instagram:

I was on my way to bed tonight and took a couple of mugs into the kitchen so I could put them in the dishwasher and I emerged with a bottle of rosé and a packet of mini-snickers and proceeded to stay up way later than I should and get shitfaced!
How awesome is that :D

He would probably have been just as creepy whether you were tattooed or not. Creeps gonna creep.

He would probably have been just as creepy whether you were tattooed or not. Creeps gonna creep.

Made the trip up to Davis to see George Hernandez and came away with this fun one:
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Got this today from Antonio Roque in Frederick, MD. I am totally amazed by it...and even my anti-tattoo mom likes it. :)

The winner of Tattoo of the month May 2015 is @Scott R with this bad ass Tony Hundahl tattoo. Congrats!!

Since @Scott R has won Tattoo of the Month once before, the LST shirt will be awarded @cltattooing who came in second. Congrats!!
Please PM @steve1461686340 with your shirt info (size and male or female) along with your address.

Disgusting, I hate religious zealots!
I Had an older man approach me the other day and asked WHY I did that to my beautiful skin. I told him I had waited my whole life for a beautiful piece and I love it. He then asked about when I get older like 40 and changed my mind.......I answered that I'm 43 and I'm quite able to make permanent life changing decisions. BUT Thanks anyways. It's funny though, that he would feel so uppity about my work since he had been panhandling before I walked up. I also had another man ask me what my tramp stamp said. I said excuse me...1 I'm not a tramp and 2 I don't have any tramp stamps. He answered It might help you get pregnant. :( WTF?
Oh then last night, Hubby and I were getting a beer at a local pub when some skezie guy started talking to me about my work then started stripping to show me all his....He then asked about hourly wages. It didn't bother me since he didn't ask how much it cost. I told him....He said HOLY SHIT! I NEVER pay more than 40 an hour and my guy even does it in my kitchen....I smiled and walked away quickly.

He would probably have been just as creepy whether you were tattooed or not. Creeps gonna creep.

He would probably have been just as creepy whether you were tattooed or not. Creeps gonna creep.

Not on me (I wish!) but I couldn't resist posting this here.
https://instagram.com/p/2XMZmTnXSj/

He would probably have been just as creepy whether you were tattooed or not. Creeps gonna creep.

He would probably have been just as creepy whether you were tattooed or not. Creeps gonna creep.

He would probably have been just as creepy whether you were tattooed or not. Creeps gonna creep.

It's easier to fit small tattoos around big tattoos than it is to fit big tattoos around small ones.

https://instagram.com/p/3P_YuSTBGZ/
All done. :o
We stuck with flowers for fillers in the end, even though we did talk about a frog. He took some shots from other angles, but didn't put them up. Maybe he will later. I'm a little sad about it being finished, so I can't imagine how you backpiece people felt when it was over!
...but I might get to find out, because we may have chatted about it a bit today. We'll seeeeeeeeee. :cool:
I get a day to bang around Powell's Books tomorrow and cap off the night with Mad Max, and then I get to be tattooed by @cltattooing the day after that! Definitely a great mini-vacation.

By Mike Moses:

Not on me I might add; just snagged from his Instagram because I thought it was cool.

I was on my way to bed tonight and took a couple of mugs into the kitchen so I could put them in the dishwasher and I emerged with a bottle of rosé and a packet of mini-snickers and proceeded to stay up way later than I should and get shitfaced!
How awesome is that :D

This will be my view of the Monaco Grand Prix tomorrow:

This will be my view of the Monaco Grand Prix tomorrow:

This will be my view of the Monaco Grand Prix tomorrow:

My parents, within the process of moving across the country (MI to CA) stopped by on their little pre-move road trip. Had a real nice day hanging out with them and doing fun little touristy stuff around town. Been about a year since I'd seen them last so it was really good to be together and just spend some time as a family.
Also they're going to be living near San Jose so I'm selfishly getting excited about all the new tattoo opportunities I'll have available without having to worry about booking hotel rooms.

The situations when being around kids are the hardest. I was almost always shunned by other parents in every situation involving my kids and social interaction. It always took a while for other parents to get to know me before they stopped rushing in to rescue their kids from the "weird tattooed guy". Although I had tattoos for 10-12 years before my kids were born, it still took me some time to adjust to strong/negative reactions I got from other parents.
The strangest thing anyone has ever said to me regarding tattoos was "you must be so sad every day that you ruined your life with all those tattoos"....... my reply was a surly, "yes, I asked our lord and savior to forgive me everyday, please pray for my soul" as she was clearly a religious kook...
Even though I'm not from a small town, it was still rough in the late 80's, early 90's having a lot of tattoos. Rough as far as stares/comments and general disdain for "my kind".. I was a delivery driver for a beverage company for many years and my company thought it was a great idea to send the 6'3" long haired tattoo guy to all the worst, inner city stops they had. Their reasoning was "he won't upset the upscale store owners and who will mess with him in the bad areas?" It suited my personality, so it didn't take long to adapt. I think the people in the inner city areas were baffled by my tattoos but pretty quick to accept me as they knew what it was like to be outcast too...
At one point, I got so sick of answering the same 3-4 questions I got asked 1000x a day, I had business cards made to give to people instead of having the same exhausting discussion over and over. They said:
TATTOOS....YOU BET!!!
a: Yes, they're real !!!
a:Yes, they're permanent !!!
a:Yes, it hurt !!!
a: No, I don't regret a single one !!!
The back of the card had a rant about "if the card didn't answer all your questions, see a reputable tattoo shop near you" and the quote "the only difference between tattooed people and non- tattooed people is tattooed people don't care if YOU have tattoos or not"
Anyway, I don't get as much attention now-a-days now that plenty of younger people have hands/feet/necks/faces tattooed and every pop star and NBA player is fully tattooed!

after almost 7 years of getting tattooed i just finally got my FIRST eagle the other day... thanks to tony sellers while he was guest spotting @ tattoo marks for the week.