Slog - Comments on Ernie Gosnell @ Seattle Tattoo Convention http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention I left home when I was thirteen and first started tattooing in 1963 at a place called Buddy's in Atlanta; my friend’s dad owned the joint. Around that time I learned how to paint signs and that's mainly what I did back then, painting signs and pin striping hotrods. I roadied with a lot of rock and roll bands back in that day too. Did you practice tattooing on those guys? Yeah, I tattooed some of them. It was just a wild life, I was a young kid running around and was attracted to the tattoos because back then... Copyright 2008 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:15:00 -0800 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:50:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ick I think it's going to be real interesting to see all of these people that are getting really ridiculous, ornate, in some case body-covering, tattoos wandering around the halls of their nursing homes 40, 50 years from now.

"Daddy, why do Grandpa and Grandma look like nasty-ass, wrinkly pieces of silly putty?"

]]> Ick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1097916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1097916 Character Study Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:20:47 -0800 Comment by KELLY O these photos are tops!

]]> KELLY O http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1097996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1097996 Character Study Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:35:38 -0800 Comment by it'smarkmitchell @1 Way to be a small-minded judgmental cunt. Enjoy your life of smug superiority and not knowing what the hell you're talking about.

@anyone with any sense of individuality --
Ernie is one of my favorite style icons.

]]> it'smarkmitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1098318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1098318 Character Study Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:23:14 -0800 Comment by small-minded judgmental cunt Those people always look so dirty. It's too bad they have to inflict their body image issues on the rest of us.

But I wouldn't worry about seeing them in the rest home - I doubt most of them will live that long.

]]> small-minded judgmental cunt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1098337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1098337 Character Study Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:43:39 -0800 Comment by Ick #3 - right back at you, toots. Dreading those laser removals in advance, are we?

]]> Ick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1098347 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/ernie_gosnell_seattle_tattoo_convention#c1098347 Character Study Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:50:58 -0800