The Tattoo that Almost Was

Jul 09, 2009

Jon and I are thinking about getting a tatoo. It would be a first. Friends with tats here have someone they want to take us to, and we were set to do it, but we made the mistake of catching some of "L.A. Ink" and seeing the tats that Kat Von D and her crew are doing. I have to say that their work makes most artists’s portfolios that we’ve seen on the internet sort of suck. Tattoos are forever and we’ve waited this long, it would be a shame to be unhappy with the finished product. We actually thought about using date night, which this is, for getting a tattoo, but two things stopped us. First, our friends that we trust to make sure the process goes well are out of town. Second, we just weren’t a hundred percent certain because we hadn’t seen anyone’s work near us that really showed they could do what we wanted.


Jon turned to me and said, "We could just go to L. A."


I looked at him, and nodded. "True."


I smell a road trip.