My girl Des hipped me to this last night. Evidently the latest trend in body art is Blacklight Tattoos. Tats are barely visible in ordinary light, but hit the club and bam! Under UV blacklight the tats glow in the dark. That's so effing cool!  LATEST BODY ART TREND: 'INVISIBLE' TATTOOS Labels: Tattoos
Saw this and thought it was awesome
 To all my tech geek friends, you should find this hilarious. I was surfing the web and stubled across this image of a dude who has HTML markup tatooed on the back of his neck. More specifically, a closing </head> tag, followed by an opening <body> tag. To quote Desirea, awesome. :) Labels: Comedy, Geekdom, Tattoos, Technology, Web Development
Johnny Knoxville has a Wawa tattoo
 That's so awesome. I was watching Jackass: Number Two and I saw that Johnny Knoxville has a Wawa logo tattooed on his upper left arm. Truly a testament to how awesome Wawas are. My guess would be that Bam Margera and his crew had some influence over that, since we know that Knoxville's not exactly from 'round here. I think it's especially awesome because I worked for Wawa for two years. It just makes me happy that I've touched him in an indirect way. :) Labels: Comedy, Movies, Pop Culture, Tattoos
My dissertation on tattoos
This is my barely coherent, rant on tattoos and piercings in popular culture today. Feel free to sound off on this. This is just my opinion. You know, I remember exactly when it was that tattoos became a fashion statement. It was around 1997. I remember I was a junior in high school. I was sitting in Chemistry class and Dave Lacey, a 16-year old sophomore football player came into class with a blue & gold tattoo around his bicep. This was it. Tattoos had officially become part of popular culture. When a 16-year old's parents authorize him to get a tattoo, it's no longer tabooo. Right around then, the popularity of body art had really exploded. Camryn Manheim (The Practice) had eighty-nine earrings in her ear, Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction) had 16 various piercings. Kids wanted to follow along. Tribal tattoos, barbed wire tattoos, and nipple, eyebrow, nose, belly button, clitoral piercings and tongue studs were the latest trends in the mid-to-late nineties. I remember there was this wannabe rebel freshman girl who was in the choir. She was a really excellent soprano. She had every chance to excel, but somehow had that mental wiring that made her sabotage everything good. She started hinting to the choir director that she wanted to get a piercing. She would drop questions like, "If I get a tongue stud, how will that affect my voice?" The response was, "If you get a tongue stud, you're out of my choir." So of course she got the stud. Anyway, back to the point. It used to be that a tattoo was a badge of rebellion. If you were a dude and you got a tat, you were a bad ass, hands down. Before then, you only got a tattoo if you were in prison or in the Navy. If you were a chick and you had a tattoo (which was almost unheard of), you were a total slut. Usually in the good way. If it was on your ass, you could be that librarian/secretary in public, but a wildcat behind closed doors. You know what I mean? That's how it used to be, anyway. In the nineties, every drunken fratboy had a barbed wire tattoo or tribal patterns. Every chick had a flower or a dolphin in the small of her back or her ankle. Nowadays, it's out of control. Tattoos used to mean something. Whether it was a badge of honor, or a display of passion or self expression. It was something. Today everyone and their momma has a tattoo. Kids have nothing better to do. Tattoos are nothing more than an accessory. Something to go with their Prada handbag. 10 years ago the concept of having a cuff or a sleeve was reserved for those who were truly hardcore. Today, everyone is covered in tats. It's not uncommon to see people with more ink than skin. It's just that tats and piercings are so commonplace in the new millennium, that they've lost all value. If someone says, "I have a tattoo" Yeah, well so does everybody. There's no shock value in anything anymore. Tats would have gotten you disowned from your family ten years ago. Today, you could sit down at the family dinner table and discuss your fresh ink. It's so commercial that there are multiple television shows around tattoos artists. PLEASE don't get me wrong. I'm not against tattoos or piercings. I even have a few, myself. I have a treble clef on my left bicep, which means a great deal to me. It wasn't just a whim like people get. I had been planning on getting this symbol of my passion since I was a teenager. I have three piercings in my left ear, one in my right, and I've had my right eyebrow pierced more times than I can remember. Anyone has the right to do whatever they want with their body. It's not my place to say what anyone else should do. It's just that people are getting more and tats which mean nothing to them. just because they saw something on TV. People get Chinese writing on their necks because it's trendy. Ordinarily, I think tattoos on a woman can be ultra sexy if done tastefully and discreetly. One or two only. Small and somewhere like an ankle or the small of the back, or even on a hip. It's kind of like a little treasure. Not a friggin' billboard across your stomach. I was at orientation for YellowBook and there was this girl with at least four tattoos below the sleeve line and two more on her neck. No one batted an eye. I just wonder where we'll be in another ten years. Less and less shocks us. What is left? I've gone to strip clubs and seen strippers that were literally covered in tats. I wasn't even shocked. It's not so much about the tats themselves, but about how easily people will get them and the fact that it's of little or no consequence. I don't know. That's just my opinion. I could be wrong. Labels: Hot Bitches, Life, Philosophizing, Pop Culture, Rants, Society, Tattoos
Just when you thought Alicia Keys couldn't get any sexier
I was downloading some music the other day And if any of you know me, I MUST have my album artwork for every track. So I got some Alicia Keys remixes. To be more specific, Dance Vault Remixes - Diary. That's when I saw it. Oooooh.  The cover to this album has Alicia Keys topless (with her back to the camera). In the small of her back, which incidentally is THE sexiest part of a woman, next to the nape of her neck, she has a tattoo of two bass clefs opposing each other to form the shape of a heart. Oh. My. God. Damn, that's sexy. By now you should know my personal policy on female tattoos: in moderation. That's perfect. Already I'm in love with Alicia Keys, because Lawd Jeezus she's beautiful, and she's an amazing musician with a beautiful soul. The tattoo was merely the culmination. It matches perfectly with my treble clef on my own arm. Doesn't that sound like a match made in heaven? Alicia just made the top of the wifey list.  Now it would seem that the tattoo isn't real. Still. Just the thought of it is damn sexy. Here's another example of a temporary tattoo she was sporting in the small of her back that reads THINK 4 URSELF. God Damn she is sexy. Think of the kind of person that would get a tattoo (permanent, magic marker, or otherwise) that would make a bold intellectual statement, not just a fashion statement. Labels: Hot Bitches, Music, Tattoos
There's just something about British Black Chicks
Man, I love British black chicks. There's just something about them that's just so damn sexy. Most of the hottest ones are half Nigerian. Don't know what I'm talking about? Check out these hotties: Carmen Ejogo I first saw Carmen in Metro alongside Eddie Murphy. God she was beautiful. So sweet and charming. Maybe it was the accent, but I could see how anyone could fall in love with her. Carmen later appears in the series Kidnapped. I haven't seen that series yet, only because I didn't know she was in it. I may have to start watching it now. Pics of Carmen EjogoMarsha Thomason Man, I saw this hottie first in Black Knight alongside Martin Lawrence. There was this scene where he and Marsha were both faking intercourse for the benefit of two guards posted outside Lawrence's chamber. She let out this moan that made me shiver. Even Martin had to pause and go, "Damn." Further hotness includes being a regular cast member on the NBC series, Las Vegas, now in syndication on TNT. She played a croupier, which all that was required of her was to deal cards and look sexy. The culmination of the hotness though, was her feature in the N.E.R.D. video She Wants to Move. Dammit, I say let her! She just tore that shit up! The only complaint I have about her is that a few years ago, she got one or two tattoos. Ordinarily, I think tattoos on a woman can be ultra sexy if done tastefully and discreetly. One or two only. Small and somewhere like an ankle or the small of the back, or even on a hip. It's kind of like a little treasure. Not a friggin' billboard across the stomach. No question that her tats are demure, I just think it's a shame to decorate that flawless body. You know come to think of it, I recall seeing her name credited alongside Eddie Murphy's for The Haunted Mansion, but I've never seen it. Kids movie. Pics of Marsha ThomasonScary Spice And speaking of Eddie Murphy...how about his new baby momma, Scary Spice. You know, that guy must have the same affinity for British black chicks that I do. I remember back to like '95 when the Spice Girls came out. Everything about them sickened me. Their only redeeming quality in my eyes was merely the membership of Scary Spice. I didn't give a damn about any of the others; not Slut Spice, Stupid Spice, Dyke Spice, or Golddigger Spice-Beckham. I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want... If I wanna be your lover, and i gotta get with your friends, I just may take the bullet for the team. Man, I remember she had great tits. no bra and a great ass. And the best part of all was a tongue stud, which in '95, may have been the reason for the moniker Scary Spice. Tongue studs were new and either you were with them or you were afraid of them. She also had this kind of sweet charm when she wore her glasses. Kind of the school-teacher bookworm timid charm. But when the glasses came off, I bet she was a beast in the sack! Pics of Scary SpiceFreema Agyeman Playing Dr. Who's current companion Martha Jones, Freema Agyeman is just a gorgeous girl next door. She is the only thing that makes me watch Dr. Who. (Don't tell my dad) I've never been a Dr. Who fan, but my dad has been a fan since stone knives. Pics of Freema AgyemanEbony Thomas Ebony Thomas is a hot ass British Maxim model. She is known for her work on the soap, Family Affairs. I don't know her from that, or even what the hell that is, but just...look at her! Pics of Ebony ThomasLabels: Hot Bitches, Movies, Tattoos, TV
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