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Blog Comments posted by ShawnPorter
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My advice?
There are a lot of tattoo blogs out there; before starting your own... submit.
Contact Marissa over at Needles and Sinns. Talk to that handsome (AND YOUNG) blogger what runs Occult Vibrations about an article you have in mind. Our Endless Days (I suck at tagging) has original content up on his blog, see if he'd like to publish an article. Get into the habit of writing and having it out there for people to read; new blogs don't get a lot of traffic. The first few months of OV, I got less traffic than I get per day now. It's discouraging to take the time to write stuff if no one is reading it.
So submit. Get your stuff out there, get people reading it (while also uploading it on your own site, for consistency) and eventually, when you've found your stride and your voice, start working exclusively on your own project.
You never know... some day someone might dig your site so much that they ask you if you'd publish one of their pieces.
Oh. And Robson is still my new nemesis.
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Oh. And also... @Stewart Robson is responsible for the recommendation to have Hooper do my palms- my most painful tattoo to date. So he's indirectly injured me AND is trying to cockblock me by pointing out that I'm old.
Happy Valentines day, nemesis! :o
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my 2cents:
Shit' date=' almost forgot [MENTION=969']ShawnPorter[/MENTION] 's excellent Occult Vibrations - a perfect example of personal focussed, well-researched, intelligent blog writing. Shawn really brings something new to the table here. Remember he's been blogging for decades, yes, decades - that's not an exaggeration. So he knows how to write, link and geek-out about things in an interesting way that leaves you wanting more. He also adds new information or opinion, not just copy-and-paste from other sources. This blog would be good without the VHS rips but they take it to a whole new level of awesome.[/indent]
SHUSH, Robson.... if you mention that I've been doing this for decades, then everyone will know that I'm OLD.
Now we've got a blood feud going, fella! I'm going to come to England and shoot a video of you telling every single woman that I'm flirting with online that I'm only 25. Seriously. :)
Thanks for the kind words otherwise.
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If TAM doesn't want it, I'd be glad to put it on occultvibrations.com. He sounds like a character!
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I contacted Citibank, and they told me it's not their concern what their merchants sell. Wow.
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bonus points for the Pushead shirt!
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Guy Aitchison
K.C. Angel
David Bruehl
Chad Chesko
Kim Durham
Bill Hannong
John Himmelstein
Josh Hoffman
Thomas Hooper
Bill Liberty
Rick Lohm
Jason Minauro
Bud Pierson
Skip Sampson
Chris Trevino
Deborah Valentine
Dave Waugh
Mike Wilson
I know I'm forgetting people.
Added in 2011:
Chad Koeplinger
Deno
Robert Ryan
Scott Harrison
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Very cool man. I put a redirect up on Occult Vibrations, hope you don't mind!
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Changed: my girlfriend is now my fiancé.
The plans to purchase another human being is still on hold.
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Text me when you're in Philly. It'll be nice to hear from you when it's not a butt dial! :D
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There's always someone tattooing shirtless in your videos. Cliff Raven style.
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Haha. I make sausage with 40% fat content, eat foie gras as a snack and have a girlfriend who is an amazing baker but doesnt eat her cupcakes/brownies/etc- I've lost weight cause I bike to work, walk up/down four flights of stairs dozens of times a day, etc. Plus not hating myself helps.
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I worked at Amazon.com for 9 years. I was paid handsomely, but I HATED myself. I woke up every morning literally dreading the day. I had an ulcer. I'd throw my resume out there and get bites, then I'd realize I was three months away from another round of stocks vesting, so I'd hold off. Time would pass and I'd throw my resume out there, get a few bites, and realize I had Saturday Sunday and Monday off and the potential jobs had me working all weekend.
In short, I was a professional at making excuses on why I shouldn't move on. I allowed Amazon (which I need to say for the record is truly an evil company to work for) to bash my self-esteem. I allowed it to creep in to my personal life, dragging that misery around like an albatross.
I would still be there if things hadn't happened suddenly on another front, allowing me to move on. I've lost 20lbs since I moved on. My ulcer is gone. I work weekends, and I work for less money. But I'm THRILLED with life these days.
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This aggression will not stand.. man.
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Guy Aitchison
K.C. Angel
David Bruehl
Chad Chesko
Kim Durham
Bill Hannong
John Himmelstein
Josh Hoffman
Thomas Hooper
Bill Liberty
Rick Lohm
Jason Minauro
Bud Pierson
Skip Sampson
Chris Trevino
Deborah Valentine
Dave Waugh
Mike Wilson
I know I'm forgetting people.
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-Go to Japan. I was all set to do it in 2007 but I bought a house instead.
-Purchase Pushead. Not art BY Pushead. But Brian Shroeder himself. I have a guest room he could live in. Go, wake him up and say "hey Pushead, draw me a skull, sport". And he'd have to. Because I purchased him fair and square.
-Follow Anthony Bourdain AND Dcostello for at least a year. We'd be like Deadheads, but we'd be eating amazing food all over the world and we wouldn't smell like patchouli and joblessness.
-Marry my girlfriend. She's sweet and good to me. But more than that, she's good FOR me. Which is something I can't say that the women in my life have traditionally been. She's 14 years younger than me, but she's the adult in our relationship. Sadly, she's against the whole "Purchasing Pushead" plan, saying something about slavery and free will. But she's getting her Masters in Social Work, so she's trained to care about people. (I've promised to feed and walk him, but she doesn't listen)
-Move back to the boonies. I grew up on an 80acre working cattle farm/orange grove, but I ran from it to the big city. Now I fetishize slower living. My pop moved to New Jersey to be closer to us, and he has two acres with no neighbors. I go out there, sit on the porch sipping chai tea and goofing around on the internet and it feels like I've found something I thought I had lost.
-Hunt more. I know it's not PC, but I grew up deer hunting and I miss it. I want to try bear hunting. Then again, boar hunting almost made me mess my pants when one charged me. So maybe I'll just play big buck hunter at the bar.
-Be happy.
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Higgs. We all know it's not going to happen, but... Higgs.
Freddie Corbin.
More from David Bruehl.
Scott Harrison.
Adam Shrewsbury.
Erik Bartholomaus.
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