February 02, 2005

My Tattoo Means "I Drink Elephant Pee"

This story had me cracking up.

Sakai, an award-winning tattoo artist, was tired of seeing sacred Japanese words, symbols of his heritage, inked on random white people. So he used their blissful ignorance to make an everlasting statement. Any time a customer came to Sakai’s home studio wanting Japanese tattooed on them, he modified it into a profane word or phrase.

I doubt the truth of this actual article but I know this stuff does happen.
I entertained the thought of a similar tattoo for about 2 seconds. I think the Japanese characters are beautiful but I didn't want to be one of those people who thought their tattoo meant "beauty" when it meant "strung out road whore".

I can't look at my tattoos and know exactly what each one means but when I think back to my life at the time I got the tattoo done, I realize what the tattoo represents and that's just as important in my book.

Posted by De at February 2, 2005 02:00 PM
Comments

lol - - wouldn't that be awful to be one of those people walking around with something horrible tattooed on their bodies - - I'm glad I never got any of that writing done.

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