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    Brock Varty

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    [MENTION=969]ShawnPorter[/MENTION] we have child actors' date=' maybe you were a child blogger?...

    I could do with another youthful nemesis to add to the list of "people who's day I ruined" a palm tat surely does that. Glad I could help :)

    I always wanted to feel like Ming the Merciless.[/quote']

    Minge the Merciless? :)

    Brock Varty

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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.

    Brock Varty

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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.

    mario desa

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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

    MsRad

    Posted

    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.

    MsRad

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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.

    AlannaCA

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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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