By Alison
It's July 7, FOFOs, and you know what that means??? Yep. It's Ringo Starr's birthday AND, perhaps even MORE relevant than that... It's the official day (according to amazon) that Karen E. Olson's terrific new page-turner, THE MISSING INK comes out. So order it NOW! (If you haven't already). I've read it, LOVED it and wholeheartedly recommend it -- it is the perfect summer read, whether or not you have tattoos or even like them.
Which leads me to today's topic. In honor of Karen and her book which you need to buy, it's gonna be all about tattoos today. And since I've actually already blogged about tattoos, I'm gonna try something different, and offer up a series of ink-related questions for you all.
1. Do you have any tattoos? If so... what? Where? Why?
2. If you don't have any tattoos, under what circumstances would you ever get one?
3. For the guys: Tramp stamps: Turn on -- or power failure?
4. For the gals: Would you be more or less attracted to Tommy Lee if he didn't have all those tattoos?
5. My friend Paul got a Christmas wreath tattooed on a part of his body only exposed during the summer months. Do you see any logic in this? (PS He wasn't born on Christmas.)
So there you have it. I was going to close with the video for that Jordin Sparks Tattoo song, but YouTube won't let you embed that one and besides... I'm not Jeff.
BUY THE MISSING INK!
I will never willingly let a needle enter my body. And I don't find it attractive-though it's probably an age thing. I am fascinated with it as a phenomenon though.
Posted by: Patti Abbott | July 07, 2009 at 11:59 AM
I have one tattoo of a celtic shield knot on my arm. Apparently getting tattooed is not as addictive as people say, I got mine in 1994 and no more since then.
I do like tattoos but find that once you have a sleeve or lots of ink it just all blurs together and becomes unattractive.
And I have to wait to get the Missing Ink, new releases are slower to happen in Canada . . .
Posted by: gaylin in vancouver | July 07, 2009 at 12:05 PM
No tats. No ink on me. No piercings. Not interested.
Tramp stamps: depends on the tramp.
Good luck to Karen with this series!
Posted by: N | July 07, 2009 at 12:42 PM
1) No tats
2) I'm thinking about getting one at some point in my life -- ooh, a tramp stamp!
4)Less attracted. His tats are hot, making him hot.
5)I won't go into tons of details, but I was talking to a guy who had his entire dick tattooed. After I found out, Mr. LGA would not allow me to chase the guy down and ask him to show it to me. Sad, huh?
It was for RESEARCH PEOPLE!!!
Congrats Karen on your new series and sell some books!!
Posted by: Lori Armstrong | July 07, 2009 at 01:30 PM
1. No, I'd look ridiculous. Was at the beach recently and saw a lot 95% of the population can not pull it off. And old tats? Moldy bread.
2. Gunpoint. Maybe. Or if I won the lottery.
3. Powerful failure mostly.
5. Hope he never ends up in prison.
Posted by: Kieran | July 07, 2009 at 02:03 PM
No tats for me, either, and I'm writing about them!
Nothing about Tommy Lee is a turnon for me.
Posted by: Karen Olson | July 07, 2009 at 02:29 PM
I loved The Missing Ink.
I echo Karen about Tommy Lee.
Posted by: Jen of a2eatwrite | July 07, 2009 at 02:54 PM
No tats, the wife would divorce me and she's more important than the ink. Besides, I have psoriasis, and knowing that 'irritation to the skin can cause breakout patches', I'd just wind up with a big white patch of scales in the shape of my tattoo.
As for tramp stamps, depends. Hot girl, tattoo might be nice. Nasty girl, nothing will improve it.
Posted by: Jake Nantz | July 07, 2009 at 10:19 PM
After threatening/promising to get one for many years, I finally got a tattoo last Labor Day weekend. (A starfish on the top of my right foot. Yes, it hurt.)
I love it. Going through the process was strangely empowering.
Tommy Lee will never be attractive to me, tattoed or not. He hits high on the "skeeve" scale.
Is it really a Christmas wreath or did the tattoo artist screw up and it was supposed to be something else that made sense?
Lori, there's a joke in that story somewhere or maybe I just heard a story about someone who had letters tattooed on his penis but you could only read the sentence when he was turned on.
Putting together Paul of the Christmas decoration and Lori's penis story -- somewhere there's a guy contemplating a tattoo of mistletoe on his crotch thinking it will get women to kiss his penis. Or something.
Posted by: Mary Stella | July 08, 2009 at 08:05 PM
Mary -- that's hilarious! And Paul wanted the wreath. I have no idea why. The joke goes like this: Two guys are standing next to each other at the urinal. The first guy, has the name of his girlfriend, WENDY tattooed on his dick and when he takes a sly glance at the man next to him, he notices -- lo and behold -- it says WENDY on his too! "You have a girlfriend named Wendy too?" the first guy says? The second guy laughs. "No mon," he says. "It says WELCOME TO JAMAICA, HAVE A NICE DAY."
Posted by: AlisonGaylin | July 08, 2009 at 09:35 PM
Thanks, Alison! I couldn't remember the entire joke.
Posted by: Mary Stella | July 09, 2009 at 08:39 AM