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Reuters took this pic of me at the London Tattoo Convention and it was picked up by Hong Kong and Italian press as far as I know.

I have mixed feelings about the image. I look ... old ... but my tattoos still look great.

I love my tattoos. I love my husband who did my tattoos. I love how needles inject pigment in skin...
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My interview with Tattoo Pin-Up King Joe Capobianco is now up on the SG Interview Section.

I had a great thirty minute chat with him but had to cut it down for online and now I'm thinking that I should have put more because he's truly an amazing guy and artist and I want to really get that across.

I focused on his new art...
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Tattoo artist and illustrator Joe Capobianco has unwittingly created a homage to the Suicide Girls -- an art book dedicated to America's long time obsession: cheesecake...of the pin-up variety. What's Not to Like? is a compilation of illustrations that have graced skin and canvas filled with pages of pouty lips and Double-Ds. But beyond it's obvious sex appeal, the book's artistry shows just why Joe...
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The London Tattoo Convention this past weekend was fabulous. Check out my review for Suicide Girls News.

Loved meeting many of the girls as well as old friends I see every convention.

I was actually threatened -- like really harassed -- by some artists and collectors to get back to updating Needled.com so I think I'll have to wiggle my schedule around when I...
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Erik Sprague aka The Lizardman is a freak. The 34-year-old Texas resident transformed himself from a doctoral candidate in philosophy to sideshow performer, with an estimated 650-700 hours of tattooing and other body modifications including several piercings, subdermal implants above each of his eyes, filed teeth, and a bifurcated tongue. This transformation and his performance art have earned him world-wide acclaim and landed him a...
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My ode to the tramp stamp.

If I were to tattoo a portrait on me, it wouldn't be Betty Page or Betty Boop. It would be Ann Richards. Former Texas Governor, she was a champion for women's and gay rights. She had a sharp tongue and even sharper wit. She got her motorcycle license at age 60 and even did a self-mocking Doritos commercial while running a political consultancy company. She...
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I'm in Belgium but my mind is on New York.

All my friends made it out of the towers, some of their family and friends did not. It seems that we all know of someone who died. My sister, a doctor, worked at St. Vincent's Hospital -- the primary triage center -- that day. She refuses to talk about it but only said at the...
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I was pissed off the the backdoor asshole way elected officials are trying to erode the rights of tattoo artists via zoning regulations, so I dedicated my latest Tattoo Revue to some ways people can take action against the neo-con fundies trying to legislate art via the Bible and not the Constitution.

Also, tomorrow I post my interview with the fabulous Margaret Cho where we...
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