In article <54095931.3314427625@news-beta.easynews.com>, Grouse
<grouse1@gDONTSPAMITmail.com> wrote:
> Next, Soho and Tribeca "Ink In" events, where the marginally
> famous but utterly untalented apply tattoos to each other, again
> hailed by critics as "expressive of an underlying social pain
> which traditional art has never expressed so expressively."
Ha, good one. It sounds likely, unfortunately.
> I find it best to nod and smile.
Oh, I do that too, most of the time, but occasionally I get a little
bugged by this stuff, partly because of the "sin in haste, repent at
leiure" nature of it, ink (including ugly ink) being slightly more
long-lasting than some of the victims had bothered to consider ahead of
time.
There are, it's true, a lot of tattoos that are amusing in various
ways, whether intentionally or not.
There are also the ones that might make me nod and smile or might
equally well make me scratch my head and say "WTF?" Like ATK's
Destina, with "Forever Young" (a nice bit of wishful thinking there,
although yeah it does have that Dylan/Baez sentimental connection all
those ages ago for whatever that may or may not be worth). And Twyla,
one of my faves for other reasons, has "Death is not the end", which
is worth a variety of reactions but I guess I just shrug and think
"Um, OK, if you say so."
Aside from all that, with name tattoos there's also the other obvious
problem caused by ink being long-lived. In the case of Charalie and
her Anderew, what happens when she switches her affections to, let's
say, Gorouse? Does she have the "Anderew" tattoo obliterated so
Gorouse won't get too jealous? Or does she just add "Gorouse" to
"Anderew" and build up a collection? Something to show off to the
grandkids.
IRL rather than photos, I noticed an interesting one on a crowded
commuter train the other day: a woman with a bracelet made of crude
lettering (almost prison-style but leaning a bit more toward punk,
deliberately sloppy) with a variant of an old Chinese saying that I had
to web-search for when I got home: "My barn has burned to the ground.
Now I can see the moon." Obviously a souvenir of an especially bad
heartbreak, so one has to sympathize.
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