Antlers AND Crutches!

With Dustin's help, MPLS was not only victorious in the latest battle, but is now on a winning streak of two. It will be hard for OHIO to now rise from this latest defeat, boost morale and rally the troops to keep up the fight. While they are in such a weakened state, I am also barraging them with mail of all kinds, but I never post my mail art on here, so you'll have to use your imagination. Here's two hints: there's a lot of it, and it's awesome.
Anyway, a frog with antlers climbing a crutch makes me pretty happy. I hope to get a better picture of it soon, one without outside redness and bloodspots, but this will give you the idea.

In other news, yesterday was both Mother's Day and Meryl's 27th birthday. We have her sister Casey visiting, and it was a really awesome day. We did the bootlegging/mushroom caves under St Paul, Seward Cafe (where they stuck a candle in her tofu-no joke), went to an art show, and then had some banging Indian food in some far away suburb. I had fraternized with the enemy, and asked JR's wife to make Meryl this awesome purse. Her name is Mandi, and has lots of hot stuff here.

The Squid and the Elephant

A seriously long line at the Post Office cut into my outside time at lunch, which adversely affected my tattoo-spotting on Wednesday.

However, I took advantage of the long line at the Philatelic Window and introduced myself to Barrett, who offered up the tattoo above.

He has four tattoos, but this was the only one visible. It was inked about 13 years ago in his home in Colorado by a free-lance artist named Bryan Saren.

Mr. Saren is mentioned in several Durango, Colorado newspaper articles as a local artist and sculptor. I will assume its the same guy.

Barrett designed this piece himself and, although he acknowledges that it resembles the "tribal" category, he doesn't consider it a tribal tattoo.

He was just playing with the design and liked the end result, which is comprised of a melding of a squid and an elephant.

Look again:


The squid is at the tail end, or top of the piece. And the elephant is at the front. A closer look shows the center axis is comprised of the elephantine trunk, surrounded by two shorter, curving tusks.

No special significance to squid and elephant, just part of the design elements.

Thanks to Barrett for sharing his work with us here at Tattoosday!

Vintage stuff!

Mike De Vries does black and grey in this Vintage pin-up