A friend of mine from England is coming to visit me first weekend of October, 2002. His name is Ben, he and I go way back - we spent the latter part of our youths setting fires and stealing things. We're grown-ups now though and life is different - he's an internationally respected podiatrist and I'm the National Youth Minister for one of America's most successful new religions. His visits are no longer the alcohol-soaked, drug-fueled orgies of destruction and mayhem they once were; now we mainly just sit and drink tea and discuss deep philosophical issues and the sad state of affairs in the Middle East.
As a pathetic and deeply wrong attempt to reclaim some of the joie de vivre and fire of our misspent adolescence we've decided to go and get tattoos while he's here. We've both already got tattoos (see my diagram below) and we were both already planning on getting more, his visit is just a happy coincidence, not that unlike stumbling across two homeless people having dirty, dirty sex in a back alley.
Here's where you come in: I've got a pathetic history of trying to open major decisions of mine up to the public sphere, get a little bit of the vox populi involved (evidence: A, B, C). I know I want the tattoo and I know exactly where I want it but I've only got a hazy idea of what it might look like. I want suggestions. Think your tattoo is cool? Seen something that you think would make a good tattoo? Send me a little picture of it (150px by 150px) and if I like it I'll put it in the little scrolly thing below. Don't have a tattoo or any original ideas? That's fine too, just send me a note and let me know which of the tattoos already on display you think I should have permanently etched onto my body.
In a way, I'm allowing you to play a small part in the mutilation of another person - only this way you don't go to jail and you don't get your favorite knife all covered in someone else's blood.
Go ahead, have a look around and send me a note.
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