Shannon Shirley

i have to say with great humility, their are so many great artists in the biz nowdays, but i can not lay down. i want only to observe and learn . beautiful shit.

in the words of Robert Williams, " Everybody's Ass is up for Grabs". you just need to pay attention and you'll always see it comin. I will once again quote GTC, " someday every family will have there own tattoo artist" like little tribes, good or bad. when this happens ,once again ,it wont mean shit to be a damn tattooer.

do you know her? Im not just an asshole, Im an asshole with history.hehe. 6 degrees of separation right ?

Serrano peppers are pretty mild, thought id mention a book from the 80's called "strawberries in november" its about gardening in the east bay and the issues of subclimates in nor cal. timing is everything , this country is so damn large ,that everywhere is different. I could never grow okra in norcal, in alabama it grows like weeds. hope all is well with Scott and his, it looks like it.

Ive tried these machines ,its a bitch.

excellent subject. to be influenced,to be affected, to be inspired, to learn from others is beautiful,intelligent, open minded. but to imitate, without shame is wrong. we sometimes see people rip off others without any discretion. this is either totally ignorant or a completely uninspired practitioner. in the tattoo biz we are asked to imitate or replicate because of the popular badge. this is called makin a living. in my personal art i try to be myself. But we can not, not be affected by everything we see . lets face it ,postmodern times. I repeat the crap i hear on TV. culture is moving at an exponential rate. if youre honest we can all spot a phony.

thank you very much jay hadent seen it in almost 20yrs, again thank you.

I used to own a lot of this stuff. i got most of it from Chuck Eldrich when he was in Berkeley. late eighties. dont know if my 1st wife still has it all she might, Margo Demello ,shes on Facebook , wrote some books on our subject.

would love to see "Stoney knows" again. havent seen it in years. Ed interviewed Stoney St.clair I believe his name was. I think cinncinati.

pleaSe do not turn this biz, into the rest of the corporate fucked up world, filled with,judgmental bs, you can do this, you can do that. the best part, and the last that i could see, part of this biz, is that it has been filled with anarchy. not a joke. serious.Ive never been envolved in too many other ventors that envoloved so much freedom.dont fuck it.

when i was a kid only a dirt bag or maybe one of my daddies friends rode a chopper. Now its cool. sorry kids. i do hate to be so rude.now all yall want to be dirt bags.lets slow down. im thinkin about goin to work fer a prominent MC club after many yrs of corporate slave labor.and damnit if it dont look good.please respond.tell me is this a good idea? scott?watcha thinck?

without the profane there is no sacred,..................do not run them together

yall need to quit, yall draw lines . so what. judgemental bullshit. I ve been in the biz fer a long time. wake up. yall er in a fuked up biz,filled with the bottom. if yer gonna make a livin, do it.do it.do it. this whole were a bunch of artists shit is distgusting. wake up, you mark people.you put images on them.yes we should do it with the greatest amount of professionallism is true. but , your still a nasty tattooer.

think, whats ok, whats profane? we can not be the judge of what our customers are going thru. this biz is fishy. and rough.lets not sterilize the content. we are human, sacred and profane. I once put a cock and balls , with profanity on a regulars head knowing damn well iff i did not do it he would go down the street, he had a great head of hair unlike myself. but nunless. we are servants to the masses. does anyone disagree? partly i feel , and im sure that many of the old cats would agree,yall need to realize, youre makin a livin.we are all hookin", hustlin, its a shame. ask Ed. you think he wanted to tattoo cause, it was safe.thats not why you want to do it , be honest.please stop this judgemental bullshit.

please, if you are tattooed people. how could you be judgmental

y que?

tattoo related please, as much as i love the kitties.

not much of a blogger, still dig it

NEUTER,SPAY,NEUTER,SPAY........ love cats espessially.

you ladies,women, gals, ok ,you get it .,are truly funny . Im from the Sf bay ,born n raised, I now live in the deep south. I want them to make Bipolar split persona Barbie. I love these women. hehe, I played with GI Joe as a kid . I didnt join the military, I was a vegetarian for 10 yrs, I love to cook, I like romance films. the Pop guns you play with as a kid dont make you a killer. Im sure some of the greatest designers of fashion , military personel, scientists, you get it, played with barbie. I never had children , but i know. crushing children , by restricting what toys they " can " play with is narrowminded. I bet Helen Gurley Brown had a barbie. Gloria Steinham?

where in N FL? i currently reside in R'dale AL but keep considering Jax bch, when things get better or explode.

they sell these little motorized kitty waterfalls that a lot of cats dig, thought you might like to know. ive always had cats, Im 46.

damn I love who you are.this is why we got along.very self concious .

HeHe, everythings tough.we are all complicated, if this person cares to call ok. hope it all turns out ok. It didnt used to work this way, emails ,phone calls , shit, you couldnt call GTCs shop ,no public phone.

ah,Ms Fauser, still wearin em. the coolest story Ive got about charlie has nuthin to do with tattoos. So, we close the shop one night, smoke a couple n go to the damn grocery store. some cat is moochin in the parkin lot, damned if the ol man didnt buy the urchin a whole buggy full of groceries. a very giving man. didnt even really talk to the fcker. thats his idea of christian. grant me this , Im an atheist still, following ,what I think are buddhist philosophies. that ,GTC, is a sweet ol fcker.