Some Updates

This past week, I have posted a lot of short blog entries and they were starting to look strange and/or lazy, so I put them together into this one post. Enjoy and feel free to leave your comments.

• Torchwood in America: Torchwood is coming to America according to this article. Does this mean a certain person will come back to life?
• Shirtless Magazine Covers: In case you wanted to take a look... Johnny Depp appears shirtless on the cover of the latest issue of GQ. And (for some reason) John Mayer is shirtless on the cover of Rolling Stone. They both have tattoos on their left arms.
• Villain News: Peter Saarsagard might play the villain in the new Green Lantern movie.
• More Good News: Soon, you will be able to stream Netflix movies from your Wii!
• Traffic: I read this article today about the areas in the U.S. with the worst traffic. I can't believe only two of these are near me (in the L.A. area). It's nice to know that other Americans share the grief of the Angelinos.
• Grammy's 2010 (Um, 2009?): Here is an article from the L.A. Times about how Phoenix is up against Depeche Mode at the Grammy's.
• Death Metal Rooster: If you haven't seen this YouTube clip of the Death Metal Rooster, you should watch it. Turn down your speakers a little bit, first.

I warned you.

By the way, you wouldn't want to eat anything this cute, would you? Check out Meat Free Monday!

Tattoo

For my previous post on this topic, see here.

So, here is my idea. I was thinking of putting it on the back of my shoulder.

The trouble is now that I keep thinking of things like what about when I'm wearing a wedding dress? I mean, at weddings people stare at your back during the ceremony. How many wedding dresses cover the back of your shoulder?

Yes, I just made that.

I'm still undecided.

Update: Today is my birthday. I was talking to a friend of mine about my tattoo idea. She has a couple of tattoos, including one on the upper center of her back. It's a tattoo of her dogs. I asked her what she would do about her wedding dress if she gets married - I mean, to cover up the tattoo. She said, quite rightly, that she wouldn't want to cover it up because it is beautiful and it is a part of her. I realized that I wanted to hide my tattoo because I think tattoos are ugly. If that's how I feel, then I shouldn't be getting one at all.

So, I won't be getting a tattoo for my birthday. I might get a small one someday, but not today.

Literary Tattoo

So, my birthday is in two weeks and I was trying to decide between going skydiving and getting a tattoo - two things I've never done before. I think I'm going to go with the tattoo.

A cool site is Literary Tattoos. I am thinking of getting something from John Keats. I haven't found the perfect line yet. If I don't, I may need to go skydiving.

Probably my favorite poem is "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", but most of the lines from that poem are from a guy talking about a lady, which would be kind of weird to have tatooed on me. The last line is "And no birds sing" which is OK, but it sounds a bit depressing. I don't want people to think I'm emo or something.

As for font, a lot of literary tattoos are done in that typewriter font - it looks cool, like your body is a piece of typing paper. I included a picture of one such tat at the top of this post. Also, there are some well-known examples of Keats' handwriting - I could get a line in his own hand. That would be cool. Here is an example.

When I decide what to do I'll let you know!