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06 July 2009
"Hey, can you ink me up a dolphin that has tribal arm band tattoo, sitting in a ripped up recliner, that's smoking a bong and eating a burrito, staring at an owl?"
Oh, thank you. I was asked this weekend what I would pick for a tattoo if I ever got one - I kept coming up blank, but now I have my answer! She'll be thrilled. (I think that's the right word. I'm sure it is.)
You know that X-Files episode where the guy gets a tattoo of a woman that starts talking to him (and, of course, telling him to kill people and put them in an incinerator)? Think how much less stressful if it'd been a tattoo of a dolphin in a recliner telling him to go buy more burritos and weed.
That's pretty great. I have a friend who was a touring musician for a couple years in his youth, and in his circle, there was lots of ink. So...he got lots. And, at this point, he's pretty much only interested in dumb tattoos. There is something a tiny bit charming about dumb, relatively meaningless, tattoos. Not for me, mind you, but I can appreciate it in others!
I think the burrito might actually be a lighter (in twenty years it won't matter no-how), but that tattoo there is a fantasy of mine brought to life in ink on skin. Always wished I was born a dolphin.
You know that X-Files episode where the guy gets a tattoo of a woman that starts talking to him (and, of course, telling him to kill people and put them in an incinerator)? Think how much less stressful if it'd been a tattoo of a dolphin in a recliner telling him to go buy more burritos and weed.
Him and Scully all sitting around on a couch watching cable and getting high
Them all looking up dolphin facts on Wikipedia together
Mulder all sitting at home getting high and looking up dolphin fact on Wikipedia by himself and wondering why Scully doesn't understand him
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
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