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[wickedflea]

I think I'm gonna get a tattoo! I wanna get a band around my arm, but instead of one of those played-out tribal bands, it's gonna be a zigzag like the one on Charlie Brown's shirt. I just can't decide if I want to get it on my upper arm or near my wrist. I'm kinda thinking wrist.

If anyone knows any reason why I should NOT do this, speak now or forever hold your peace.

No, I swear to you, I have not been drinking, despite the hour of this post.

Comments

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Read my entry, dude. My friend badgerbear is in CT, and she's a tat artist that was just profiled on MTV for her "Tattoo the Vote" promotion.

It sounds like a great personal mark for you.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

WHOA! It is meant to be.

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Sounds pretty prescient to me. Cool.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

not a note of discourgement, necessarily, just a stray thought -- you may or may not want to be sure it's high enough on your wrist/arm to be covered by a shirt if you end up working a straight-laced office again.

(pls note: I've been drawing swallows (badly) on my wrists for the last two weeks, and rolling the dice in my head.)

actually, though, that's maybe what I meant to say -- draw it on yourself first with pen or sharpie and see how much you like it before you make it permanent.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Good thoughts. I'm naive enough to think that perhaps people have loosened up enough so that such things wouldn't be an issue anymore, but judging from some of these responses, it seems that might not be the case.

go

[sukieseven.livejournal.com]

fer it. it sounds like you. i have 4 and i'm not sorry that i got any of them.

Re: go

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Awwwwyeah!

i'm

[sukieseven.livejournal.com]

just shicked ooops shocked that you don't have even one already! seriously, you only live once. if you want a tattoo or 10 then you should have them.

[ozmaofoz.livejournal.com]

Upper arm. No visible tattoos. That's the rule. And near the wrist is too visible.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Have you been talking to my mom?

[ozmaofoz.livejournal.com]

No, I just have a tattoo on my calf (a small reproduction of Matisse's Icarus) and while I love the tattoo, I do wish I could hide it more easily than having to wear long pants.

Basically, you will have stupid people asking you stupid questions about your tattoo from now until you die if you get it in too visible a place. It gets annoying. I promise.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, food for thought.

[m-fallenangel.livejournal.com]

This.

I"ve got nothing against tats, but they do cut the living shit out of your employability if they're too prominent. I'm pretty laid back, but even I won't hire someone with a forearm or neck tattoo.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Wow! Good to know, and thanks for the input.

[jetjet.livejournal.com]

I agree, nothing that you can't hide with a shirt. Too many employers out there with rules.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Damn the man!

[dorkontheloose.livejournal.com]

go hardcore dude....get it tattooed around your chest......like you're always wearing the shirt!


/jk

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I thought about it! But then I'd have to go around showing the whole world my bare torso all the time.

[ozmaofoz.livejournal.com]

I think you should go all GoldenPalace.com on us and get it on your forehead.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Sounds cool to me. I would say upper arm. Btw, The Simpsons Halloween special is going to be a parody of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. There's one scene with the "wah wah wah" sound you hear when the adults are talking. Then they show Marge playing a trombone with a plunger for a mute! Hee.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice! I gotta be sure not to miss that.

[miladyelizabeth.livejournal.com]

Upper arm. Otherwise, wearing long sleeves at work in summer = suck.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Ugh, you're right. We seem to have a consensus.

[hah-sone.livejournal.com]

Reason not to get a tattoo: No physical proof that you are a slave to trends that were never really cool in the first place. Nobody will explain to me how or when tattoos when from being white-trash, low-class loserish markers of scumbag status to some sort of bull-chic method of self-expression. Kiss my ass, tattoos.

But, if you DO go for the Charlie Brown tatt, you should be hardcore and get the zig-zag on your chest as though you were wearing the shirt.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

[in a Michael Henderson voice]: SLAVE?!?

;)