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  1. Dan S
    Y'know, it's not like the kneecaps really hurt...hard to describe-it was like there was a direct line from my knees to my brain. By the time Nick was done with both of them, I felt like I was drunk-totally wiped out. Actual pain, yeah, I guess the ribs have it!
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    Well, what the hell...this month is in the bag already, but might as well toss one in just to keep in practice. Tattooed by Nick Colella @ CTC this past summer, a little family action.
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    Hello Everybody!

    Dan S replied to 7dan's topic in Initiation

    Welcome to LST, Dan. Hey-good name...what's the "7" mean???
  4. Dan S
    "...and will leave as a member shortly. thanks, SailorClaire." Adios. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
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    If it stinks and you're worried, carry your ass in to the sawbones! Even a free clinic will give you some antibiotics in pill or salve form to clear it up.
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    Taylor Ham is big all 'round the East Coast, at least it seems so to a semi-regular visitor. I was in Philly, shit was jumping out at me from every fry-pan!
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    Underarm, tricep, barely felt 'em. I've got work from my shoulders down to just shy of my wrist on both arms, and I never felt anything but a little sting from them. This is on a whole different leverl. Not as bad as kneecaps, but a helluva lot more of it!
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    Ah, another budding "ink piggy"...watch out, Bunny Switchblade!
  9. Dan S
    Who cares about tacos? Just make for damn sure you never come to the Chi and ax for a hotdog with catsup! Welcome to the boards, Wayne.
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    APC's
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    Thanks man! Yeah, it was just under 3.5 hours-my boy can put down some ink! I am seriously in awe whenever I get work from him...never feels hurried, never hustles, just lays it in straight and steady. Broke once for about 10 betwixt lining and shading, and once for 5 at the very tail end when I was getting a bit raggedy, he laid some lidocaine on it to finish the last ten minutes or so. I'll post it, but y'know, fucking January is a write off! So damn many seriously kool tattoos this month I just gotta wiat till February!!!
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    That would be me. Was gonna go for something completely different, but got to looking at la Senorita y el Tigre, and decided it had to match...kinda. Found the skeleton, sans clothes, on the net, and Nick sized the cat from the tiger to the panther. Pretty much hit what I wanted on the head.
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    Back to the subject of ribcage tattooing... I've got probably 70+ hours of work on me, so I'm no cherry. That said, I laid-down for just under three and a half hours with Nick Colella yesterday, and I tell you what, it did not feel nice. It was tolerable...but you'd best to have a high pain threshhold!
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    Just about all of the work that I got back in the 70's and 80's is coverup. There are a few places where you can still-if you know what you're looking for-see parts of the original work, but unless I went with a solid black sleeve, that's unavoidable. Black will match, most often, once it's healed.
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    Ya kno, tipping just wasn't on the table when I first started getting tattooed. Prices were marked on all the flash, and that was that. When I went back, many years later, to start getting new work, there were signs about tipping, and I'm like, hmm. Well, it makes sense. You are quoted a price, but if the tattooer goes above and beyond to make things good for you, shit, like anyone else, a little extra never hurt.
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    I ALWAYS try to kick down a decent chunk to my tattooer. He deals with my special requests, does killer work, and I rarely have to wait to get it done. I'm afraid I usually end-up more in the "flat-rate" tip zone, but it's enough to make everyone happy. I don't look so much at the price of the work, rather, on the quality and the experience of it.
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    Good to "see" you back on the boards, Bunny!
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    To sum it up. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
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    Hard to tell, but too much juice on it for sure. Try letting it dry out completely, see how it looks in a day or so. One thing, some of my work didn't like Bacitracyn AT ALL. Looked a lot like that..I think maybe sometimes Baci treats ink like an infection and tries to get rid of it. If you do use something on it, I'd stick to Aquaphor or something like that as opposed to an anti-bacterial.
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    Vodun... If you want to walk on gilded splinters, stick with chicken/cat bones and roots. The "High John the Conquerer" water is an island thang. In the Easy, ya wanna get "Black John the Conquerer Root" to float yer boat.
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    I don't wanna show my age either. Hey, I'm a native-Chicagoan, that means I'm musically conflicted. Right now, the last year or so, I've been mostly listening to blues, with a good slice of 50's/60's hillbilly thrown in. Sumpin about following up a Bobby Bland cut with a Ferlin Husky cut.. And that age thang? First actual concert I went to see was Danny and the Juniors and the Monotones. Saw Mitch Ryder and MC5 at a street-dance in the mid-sixties, after that it was on. Saw pretty much every rock act that was about anything, and a lot that weren't. Hung-out at Theresa's and a bunch of other blues clubs in the 70's, saw pretty much every name (and no-name) bluesman and woman on the scene. Only regret I have is giving away two tickets to a Hendrix gig in el-Lay...told myself I could always hear him around town. Ooops.
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    SOA licks sack, I'd say go with the walk-in.
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    Hip-Hop...isn't that what Hendrix did onstage when he was high enuf?!?!?!?! I'm sorry, can't do that in any way, shape or flavor.
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    Man..just scoped that user name..1973???? I was sposed to graduate high school in '73.
  25. Dan S
    Downtown Detroit is beautiful. Or is that ghetto-fabulous?! Either way, nothing wrong with it. I'd sooner walk Grand River to Telegraph from Washington Boul to Farmington Hills than walk up Halsted from 79th to 47th in the Chi, and I grew-up on 31st St.! People have heard so many urban legends about Detroit that they allow them to color their thinking. Do it have ghetto? Oh yeah. Is it one huge urban wasteland populated by flesh-eating crack-zombies? No. At least, not most of it. Same with Scary Gary. Everyone thinks of it way up ojn the list of dysfunctional cities, and it is, really, much worse than Detroit, but there's still a lot of kool things going on there, and good places to be. If you know how. I highly recommend Mr. Kenny's Chicken on Broadway, down around 62nd St., on the edge of Merrilville.
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