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Are you cray? He is totally that weird brown wizard with the animal poop in his hair. Let's be real.

I mean, who wouldn't want to be a hobbit?

@silentspring - wishing you a speedy recovery. Your tattoo does indeed look pretty impressive given the circumstances! I doubt any of us can advise what to do about it, but I will say that there is a local old timer who has a faded old chest eagle that has a huge scar from his pacemaker right in the middle of it. It looks tough as shit. So see how it all heals and then decide if you want to rework it or not! And crossing my fingers for a clean report from pathology.

Thanks guys! The race is so tight (and ends at 6pm EST tonight!!!) that every vote seriously counts!

Reposting my honey's post because this contest ends at 6pm EST tomorrow (Sunday)!! Please, please, please think about giving him one last vote at the link above. He is a talented brewer, made an excellent beer (I am totally unbiased!) and deserves the opportunity to go compete in France against his peers! The race is super close and so every vote counts!

Dude, we already joked at your last session about your romantic V-Day plans with Dave. Your pants are coming off. I'll try not to be jealous.

Are you sure it was a dream?

You should know that I got a text from @Graeme in the middle of teaching the other day, and I looked down at my phone to see a photo of your butt. (PS holy hell that is a great start!)

I know! Plus I just google mapped it and apparently Richmond is only a 10.5 hour drive away? AND we have friends there AND good eatin'. I am seriously so into this idea.

@Graeme - road trip???

OMG @sophistre !!! You arm is blowing my mind!

Ask and ye shall receive.

I can vouch for how delicious the beer is!!

I stumbled across this article this morning, about a photojournalist documenting a dying tattoo tradition in Syria. The photos are beautiful and I love learning about traditional tattoo practices in different cultures (I had no idea that there was a Kurdish tattoo culture!). I thought some of you nerds might find it interesting too! The Last Tattooed Women of Kobane | PROOF

@Mark Bee - this is a real niche market suggestion, but I will point out that this is happening right before Congress, so if either of you are planning on going to that, you could combine a QC/Ottawa road trip and live the dream, so to speak. :)

Oh man I actually really need some new drawers - mine are falling apart! Thanks for these suggestions. :)

Me too!

Also your wife is awesome!

@graybones - AMAZING!!!

So stoked for you @BrianH !

@SeeSea Holy hell lady! I can't believe it's done!!! So beautiful!

@Shaun1105 that rules!!!

I find it so weird that this is "news". Like people know he's not really Santa, right? Oy.

That means only two more months until we see your butt, right? :)

I have gotten tattooed by some fucking awesome female tattooers: Stephanie Tamez, Marie Sena, Maud Dardeau, Cat Bijou, Rebecca Guinard, Eilo Martin. While I do not specifically seek out female tattooers, I do think that as a women who cares about women a lot, I notice the work of female tattooers more than folks with less gender consciousness might. Does that make sense? There are so many women doing great work that deserve more attention than they get. I'd love to get work from: Virginia Elwood, Wendy Pham, Juni, Jill Bonny, Sheila Marcello, Claudia de Sabe, India Amara and LST's own amazing @cltattooing .