I'm ready for my next tattoo.
There are a couple I've been deciding on, and either will reflect my inner nerd. The first is a pale blue dot on my wrist, just like how earth looks like from space as described by Carl Sagan. The second is a Pac-man tattoo that would wrap around my leg.
I'm a fan of tattoos. I have four of them myself. My plan was never really to get any, but interest and opportunity caused me to jump ahead and go for it. The first one was when I was living in BloNo, maybe around age 22 or so. I got a Nine Inch Nails logo tattooed on my back. The design was pulled from their live album that they released that I had been listening to non-stop. I went with my friend Alex and his lady at the time, Nadine. It didn't take long and I had fun doing it. It was in Champaign where they were going to college.
The second time I got two in one. It was also in Champaign but his time was with my friend Chris. He was getting work done a huge tattoo that would take up half of his back. That was something I could never do, so I opted to get one on each shoulder instead. On my right shoulder is a bio hazard symbol that was taken from the cover of a Desolation Jones comic book done by Warren Ellis. To balance it out, I got a tattoo from another comic book on my left shoulder. This one was from a Grendel comic that featured his face-mask. Both aren't that big, and set me back about $120 at the time. The first one was only $60. The second two were also done in Champaign, coincidentally right around the corner from where I got my first one. The guy who did my second one was named Lunchbox because, and get this, he collected lunch boxes and had them on display around his station.
The fourth tattoo was done on the back of my right leg. This one was done with my friend Chris, as we both decided that we were going to be nerds together and get the same tattoo from the same thing we both loved, or at least we would thematically match. That we did, as we chose an image from the comic book Watchmen. Chris got a bust of Rorschach with a quote underneath it. Meanwhile, I got one that was just his face-mask that contained a bunch of blobs. It was the one tattoo I have that others could see whenever I wore shorts, so I would get asked a lot about what it was supposed to be. Sometimes I dive in to the nerd level of it, while other times I just say it is an ink blot test. I get crazed looks with either explanation.
That was one of my things, never getting anything that would be seen by others. That would be easily covered up. I don't know why, as it seems society is now more accepting of it. Just a personal preference I guess. Unless I get the pale blue dot on my wrist, then it will be pretty out there and in the open.
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