Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Tangled Webs...and, Tattoos


Dealings with exes over money and children is never easy. But, throwing in the porn star card takes it to another level: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/sandra-bullock-battles-porn-star-child-custody/Story?id=8921358&page=1. Sandra Bullock and Jesse James are probably going to discover just how much they really love each other after this deal gets sorted out. The ex, Janine Lindemulder, is really pretty but why all the tattoos, Janine? What is with that--I don't get the sleeve thing or really much of the other stuff, either. Maybe a small one on an ankle or somewhere, but let it go after that. The tattoo thing wasn't big during my college years and after, so I mostly missed it. I'm fully on board with guys getting tattoos who are in the military or want to do it as a bonding thing with their fellow offensive linemen on football or other sports teams but to get Tweetie Bird on your shoulder doesn't really say much to me and that's no disprespect to Tweetie Bird. Different strokes. My old man had a tattoo from when he was in the Marines during the Big War and I clearly recall him telling me never to get one when I asked him about it as a kid. Lots of the old Navy and Marine guys had tattoos from their stops in San Diego or Pearl Harbor and I would see them a lot when I was growing up. They would take their shirts off while working outside, so us kids got to make mental notes about each. The most remarkable was a guy down the street who had "Beer" over one nipple and "Whiskey" over the other. Always a big hit with us. Anyway, what permanently sort of cured me from the tattoo thing was watching the first episode of the HBO series, "Oz" once when I was sick and seeing some hapless guy get a swastika tattooed on his ass, indicating that he was the property of some skinhead sharing his prison cell. That was the end of Oz for me, and any thoughts of misbehaving and getting thrown into jail. Or, getting a tattoo.

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