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From: dauber@sgi.com (Jeff Dauber)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
Subject: Re: Japanese tatt designs
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:39:12 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Sep3.232435.28655@samba.oit.unc.edu> Matt.Balara@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Matt Balara) writes:

>	* Can anyone recommend a good source of inspirational material, be it
>Japanese art book, tattoo mag that features Jap based work often, etc.?

Do you want the tattoo japanese style, or japanese content.  Any respectable
artist can do good japanese style.  Content is more difficult, I will look
in my collection and see what I have book-wise.

>	* I live just south of Washington D.C. (wrong coast for most Jap
>work I realise) but can anyone recommend an east coast artist known for
>Japanese work?  I'm willing to travel a bit...

There are not a lot of east coasters known for their japanese work...


Jeff
-FWA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
From: osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X)
Subject: Re: Fred and Wilma!
Organization: Twilight Zone
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:11:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.194239.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>I recently had a friend of mine take me to a tattoo shop near the "seedy" area
>of town where I met a man named Greg that gave me the coolest 'too I've ever
>seen.
>
>It's a skull and crossbones, except the skull looks a lot like Fred Flintstone
>and below it, it says "Wilma".  I was quite inebriated when all of this went
>on and I let my friend tell him what to put on.  Now, isn't this kind of a 
>bad idea?  Shouldn't a person be able to make his own decisions as to what 
>goes onto his or her body?  Sure, I like my 'too, but I don't think that the
>guy should have gone ahead with the procedure unless I had of been
>semi-conscious.  
>
>Any thoughts?

	Well, a coupe of things.  First, you like the tat, so you got off
	lucky.  I would not sweat what has been, since what is now is
	apparently acceptable.  Second, I would learn something from this
	since you obviously have realized the disaster that *could* have
	been.  Third, I think anyone the tat's a person who is overtly
	high should get a foot up their ass (assuming they will not enjoy
	such a thing).  This kind of thing sorta has the feel of a guy that
	fucks someone who has passed out drunk on the bed.  Way uncool.  And
	fourth, you are, in the final analysis, responsible for what you do,
	where you go and how you behave, drunk, sober or otherwise and while
	there is some measure of responsibility per item 3 above, the ultimate
	responsibility lies with you.

	-Andy V.

Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
From: hannibal@iastate.edu (Morgan Toal)
Subject: New piercings...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:53:20 GMT

Hello, all. Well, my girlfriend and I went shopping this evening, and I
finally broke down and got my ear pierced. I had wanted to, but had put it off
till I got to school.

Anyhow, I got my ear pierced, and my girlfriend got her nose pierced. It was
kind of fun, no big deal I suppose, except for the fact that the girl who did
it at the jewelry shop wasn't supposed to do noses. But since she was quitting
soon anyway, she said "what the hell."

So there was my experience with piercing, now we need to start thinking about
tats. What do you all people think about those temporary tats you can buy
at convenience stores, sort of as a way to get used to the idea of being
tattooed?

So, since I haven't seen it for a while, would someone be kind enough to send
the FAQ on care for piercings (or an FTP site)? Please send it to my address,
not the net. Thanks.

:::: M. "Hannibal" Toal :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::     hannibal@iastate.edu --- toal@ac.grin.edu --- mtoal@nyx.cs.du.edu     ::
::       2712 Buchanan Hall, ISU --- Ames, IA 50011 --- (515)294-5694        ::
:: "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." --- Andy Warhol  ::
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From: dauber@sgi.com (Jeff Dauber)
Subject: Filip Leu
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:23:26 GMT

In article <17j8jjINNnr@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> batman@batcave.EBay.Sun.COM (Karl Elvis MacRae - Ministry of Silly Walks) writes:

>In article <p13jq3g@fido.asd.sgi.com> dauber@sgi.com (Jeff Dauber) writes:
>>I just had a black (and shading thereof) phrenology head tattooed on my
>>leg (by Filip Leu... I recommend him)
>
>
>	Yeah, I just saw that tattoo. It's fucking awesome. I'm 
>	totally impressed.
>
>	Jeff, how long is he gonna be here? Is he gone already?

He is still here, and I believe he is not scheduled to leave for
a couple of weeks....  Call Diamond Club (415-776-0539... Call in the
evening, no one is there during the day, usually) and ask.


>	Do you have any info on how to contact him in Switzerland
>	(Or whereeverthefuck he's from)?

Though he is from switzerland, He claims he has been on the road for
two years now.  His last stay was at Fun City Tattoo... I don't know
where he is going from here.


FWA
From: zyzzy@milton.u.washington.edu (Zyzzy Galore)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
Subject: Re: Going to the dentist
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:56:01 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


Glad you mentioned your dentist experience; I haven't been for a while
and I've been wondering how it might go...

I went to the doctor to have my throat looked at a bit ago--
she says "Open your mouth and say ahh," so I do and she says "AAAhh!,"
while jumping back, "God I keep forgetting you've got that thing
in there!"   This has happened with other doctors...they always seem
to take a couple of steps back, like it's gonna jump out and git 'em!



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From: alewis@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Drew Lewis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
Subject: Gauntlet NYC
Keywords: attitude, ga size
Date: 24 Aug 92 02:10:34 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston MA. USA 02115


I was in NYC yesterday, and stopped in at Gauntlet to get a smaller (7/16)
barbell for my tongue.  The people working their are incredibly egotistical
and elitist, have a major attitude of if you didnt get pierced by gauntlet
then their is no way you could have been pierced correctly.  Really pissed 
me off, especially as an apprentice piercer in Boston.

Also, their gauge sizes are different than Silver Anchor Enterprises gauges...
at least i think so.
The 12 gauge Silver Anchor barbell i had in my tongue
measured between a ten and 11 on their gauge meter, while the 12 ga i bought
from them looks (i didn't measure it) about the same size as the Silver Anchor
14 ga ring in my nipple.

Anyone else noticed this?

Drew Lewis  alewis@ds5000.dac.northeastern.edu / as149@cleveland.freenet.edu
           Censorship is UnAmerican  -- Rock the Vote
"The right to take drugs, the right to an abortion, the right to suicide, the 
right for people to engage in private, consensual sexual activity, be it
commercial or not, these are all interconnected.  The loss of any one of
these rights diminishes the strength of the others, giving the govenment more
control over the bodies of those it governs -- control it should never have."
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
Subject: Re: Trendy s__t...argh.
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:16:36 GMT
Distribution: rec.arts.bodyart
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

[stuff about piercing, etc. as fashion statements]

Ah yes, life among those who let others think for them.  When
I was discussing Celtic style tats, someone remarked that
those were getting to be so trendy, and they didn't see me as
a "trendy" type.  To which I remarked "I'm not going to let a
bunch of idiots stop be from experiencing things I like, just
because they're into it."  Because I've been a fiend for
Celtic design since I was about nine years old and found a
picture of the Tara brooch and the Book of Kells in a book of
my father's.  I came close to stopping wearing my Navajo
bracelet that has been part of me for years, back when the New
Age Indians decided Navajo jewelery was "in", but then I
realized I was letting the mob influence me, thusly---just as
much as if I was going along with them.

After all, why do I have tattoos if they're hidden under my
clothes, most of the time?  (It couldn't be that I *like*
them, gods forbid?!)  Why do I wear earcuffs when those aren't
part of the mob scene?  Why don't I wear makeup...  One might
go on and on.  Let it suffice that the externally-driven will
never understand people who do things because they *want* to.
--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

I've worn high-heeled pointed-toed fashionable shoes for the past 
twenty years, and you ask me about if *getting tattooed* hurt?!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
From: bednarek@picard.med.ge.com (Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971)
Subject: Re: piercings
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 05:47:04 GMT

Dave O'Shea (dos@major.panix.com) wrote:
: ph9jba@nestor.uucp (82222-anglum) writes:
: 
: > Is there some way of obtaining labial piercings in Northern New Jersey
: > without treking down to the Gauntlet in NYC?  Can it be done by an accupunctu
: > 
: > J.
: 
: Well, anybody with a sharp object can do piercings.. But considering that 
: you're looking for something that you can wear for a long time, and in a 
: rather sensitive area of the body... consider taking a drive to find 
: someone who's had some experience.

Did anyone think about having a doctor do the piercing.  In many states
any deliberate breakage of the skin is considered surgery, and only M.D.s
can perform surgery.  I had a doctor do my peircing only costed $35.00
that the insurance company refused to pay, but they covered the follow up
visits.  Oh I also paid $15.00 for each of the 4 16 guage rings.							
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From: speights@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Arlen Speights)
Subject: Re: Gauntlet NYC
Keywords: attitude, ga size
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:38:23 GMT

osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X) writes:

>>I was in NYC yesterday, and stopped in at Gauntlet to get a smaller (7/16)
>>barbell for my tongue.  The people working their are incredibly egotistical
>>and elitist, have a major attitude of if you didnt get pierced by gauntlet
>>then their is no way you could have been pierced correctly.  Really pissed 
>>me off, especially as an apprentice piercer in Boston.

>	I did not get this when I went there for my navel piercing, two weeks
>	ago, but I agree that it would have been pretty annoying.

When I had my nipple done there, they weren't necessarily
egotistical, but extremely cold and "professional."  This
was somewhat impressive in light of my expectations for
the place, but the experience would probably mean more if
Dan, the piercer, had been more personal and friendly.  It
was hardly different from getting a driver's license or a
new set of tires.

My big complaint with Gauntlet NYC is their prices:  My
nipple piercing cost $15 more than a friend of mine paid
at Gauntlet in San Francisco.  Their location is bound to
mean high overhead costs, and they've spent quite a bit
to create that professional look, but nearly Twice the
charge for a piercing?  Next time, I'll wait for Raelynn
or sacrifice the accuracy for the more personal experience
of being pierced by someone who's more interested in my
situation.

Arlen
-- 
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"all our dreams come true, baby, up ahead; it's out where your memories lie"
                                 -tom waits

Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: sakata@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Henry Sakata)
Subject: Act of Love
Keywords: poem, love, romance
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 04:58:52 GMT


Act of Love
===========

Gentle night approaches to veil the weary day
And announces the beginning of a new romantic play

The encroaching evening seduces us to act the parts
And extemporize the action with our passionate hearts

Commence with the unveiling of our modest attire
Exposing the objects of our flaming desire

Explore the contours with a gentle caress
And taste fruit nectar with our lips' press

The night engulfs the stage of our love
Cueing the act to the scene in heaven above

Our play shifts upstairs to the amorous chamber
Without skipping a beat of a frail heart's danger

The heat of lust lifts us to a frenzied motion
And bathes our soft skin with perspiration

Take now this pen, write every word without lax
And every stroke shall lead to a blazing climax

At the height of drama our voices cry in unison
Singing out loud like a chorus of virgins

The fluids we lost while we loved like crazy
Are replaced with unknown, unmeasured ecstasy


hns
august 29, 1992
(c) 1992
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:31:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Journey
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems

In rec.arts.poems, guay@fraser.sfu.ca (Tim Guay) writes:

> 
> 
>                    JOURNEY OF MORTAL DUST
>                               
>                           by Tim Guay
> 
>                          Copyright 1992
> 

[stuff deleted]

> Mortal dust surrounds the essence of the spirit.
> Blown by the winds of change.
> The breath of supreme good.
> Yet buffeted by the contrary winds of wordliness and fear.
> The things of this word are but tinsel's worth.
> Yet a shiny lure for mortal fish to bite.
> Dark envy, ravenous greed, shallow materialism.
> Danced through the turbulent seas of my mind.
> 
> From within and without, avarice's folly is seen.
> Is happiness in material gain.
> No, in the love of God and good friends is happiness.
> They that pursue material gain chase empty air.
> Away from the heavenly fountain of happiness.
> Does wealth add a day to life.
> No, but its pursuit will cost a few.
> God's hammer falls, a link is broken, a chain is shed.
> 
> Vanity, vanity, insecure vanity.
> Toil endlessly to buy the latest.
> Toil endlessly to be the latest.
> Toil for power and prestege.
> We race to build the biggest pile of moth-eaten rust.
> Toiling to forge the shackles that bind us.
> To this worthless world.
> Distaining the Divine treasury eternal.
> 

[more stuff deleted]

> 
> =========================================================
> 
>                         A NOTE FROM YOUR POET
> 
> Please feel free to pass this poem along. If you like it,
> and if you want to support a Christian poet, please feel
> free to send a couple of dollars to me. Your donation will
> greatly be appreciated. My address is:
>           
>           Tim Guay
>           Dept. of Communication
>           Simon Fraser University
>           Burnaby, B.C.  V5A 1S6
>           Canada
> 


This is quite the most amusing post I have seen in r.a.p. for
quite some time.  A copyright and some railings against the
futility of vanity and worldly gain followed by the only
request for money that I have ever seen in r.a.p.

Ok, he might be hungry, so send him a couple of buck if you
can and are inclined to do so, but I must say I am highly
amused at the mixed message.

doug
From: donz@ui.org (Posthumous O'Toole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: Misc.
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:35:42 GMT
Organization: UNIX International, Parsippany, NJ


First of all, wonderful poem and notes!

In article <7710552@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> you write:
>3.  Wally was coopted because of his essays about the
>    ability of poets to create society by imagining it.
>    Wally was a self-important fool.  He was the
>    margin exhibiting typical cetripetal lust for the center.
>

Yes, Wallace was a self-important fool with just the sort of lust you
accuse him of.  This is what made him just about the best poet of the
Twentieth Century (I can only speak for English).  Actually, I am being
somewhat dramatic.  This is only part of what made him the best.  He also
had something of a way with words.


Yrs, Posthumous
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
From: jcbarnes@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Terson - Sod Lord)
Subject: Have you ever imagined being a deer?
Summary: Oh, No he's back!
Organization: FryTools International
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:30:29 GMT


Well, Hello...


               have you ever imagined being a deer
               silent, graceful, and free-spirited
               owning the woods, and
               following your heart's desire on fleet feet...

               have you ever imagined their fear
               as the leaves turn golden
               and the woods are filled with men in orange
               and guns...

               have you ever imagined war?

                          J. Fritz Barnes
                              Aug. 23rd, 1992


  Hmmm.... I've been hiding in the outback of Alaska, I wrote this
poem while I was hiding from the grizzlies, I felt like a deer being
hunted, not a very pleasurable experience!  Well, I'm glad to be back,
and I see a bunch of new faces :)  Well, see ya around.

                        Terson -- Sod Lord
From: root@bing.UUCP (Administrator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: our yard
Date: 31 Aug 92 04:46:24 GMT
Organization: Bing's Rubber Chicken Factory -- "Our clucks are boneless."

our yard

have you ever seen
a whole yard full of
wild flowers in spring?

no pouring of poisons
into the ground 
just to kill weeds.

a well manicured lawn
is the most unnatural state
for a piece of ground to be in
like a corpse that's been readied
for an open casket funeral.

every spring
the random spots of colors
testify in prismatic glory
as to the very temporary nature
of our ownership and control
of the land.

it would seem
nature hates it when her lands
look like small patches of
Astro-Turf.

August 30, 1992
Bing H. Bang
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From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Bunweasel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: test
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:35:39 GMT
Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland

In article 202634@uctvax.uct.ac.za, mrxall01@uctvax.uct.ac.za () writes:
>just testing

A row of blinded rabbits - just testing
A cure for nasty habits - just testing
Screaming from the pool - just testing
Witch on the ducking stool - just testing
A bogus electrician - just testing
A crooked politician - just testing
A toxic firing range - just testing
I didn't get my change - just testing
Do you want to go to bed? - just testing
One move and you're dead - just testing
A pistol made of soap - just testing
You wanna buy some dope? - just testing
A smear across a slide - just testing
A student suicide - just testing
Your taxes will be lower - just testing
The cracks in Muroroa - just testing
Control the weeds with spray - just testing
He must be sick - he's gay - just testing
I hope you weren't asleep - just testing
Might have to kill the sheep - just testing
Russian Roulette with a six gun - just testing
The fire drill is so much fun - just testing
Troops came back with cancer - just testing
We always have an answer - just testing

-/\/\/\/-
From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Bunweasel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: winter growth / Marie Coffin
Date: 29 Aug 92 16:16:47 GMT
Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland

In article 26377@wixer.cactus.org, ralph@wixer.cactus.org (Ralph Cherubini) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.170014@IASTATE.EDU> mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin) wr
>ites:
>>	winter growth
>> [Poem deleted to please my news reader]
>>Marie Coffin

>                                The sister of the moon
>                                (for Marie Coffin)
>She comes to me
>the sister of the moon
>otherwise my daughter
>now eleven
>she comes all sleepy
>rising with the sun
>with the barking of morning dogs
>she comes bleeding
>little spots of womanhood
>and I comfort her celestial body
>in earthbound arms.

I find myself unable to cascade.

Ralph, this is wonderful. Thank you.
And in response to an inspired piece from Marie.

Clap clap clap!

-m.








Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
From: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman)
Subject: Social pattern
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:07:38 MDT
Organization: University of Utah, CompSci Dept


A person seeks out happiness and in that quest
They establish slender strands which reach out
Across the voids to one another in a web
The web is tied strongly but the threads are weak
And break as quickly as a plane can fly away
This web here is connected to one larger
That reaches out across the world to every land
Which in turn is bonded into the cosmic growth
And now, as an individual, we have become one
With it all
From: sana@McLaren.t-sisi.tis.co.jp (Kaz "ACID" Sanada)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: I do wait for you
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:05:53 GMT
Reply-To: sana@McLaren.pontneuf.tis.co.jp
Organization: Toyo Information Systems Co.Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.

Now you're not here
Far away from this place
I feel so lonely
But I do wait for you to come back

It's the very first time
to be so mad about a woman
no other girls can make me get so serious
So I do wait for you to see me again

Everything changes
as the time goes by
except my yearning for you
Then I do wait for you to be with me

I promise you
to do everything for your need
I can do anything to make you happy
Yes I do wait for you to ring me again

# Sorry in advance I can't reply if you send me your C+C.

           Kazuhiro Sanada
Toyo Information Systems Co.Ltd., Japan (TEL:03(3271)5211)
  sana@McLaren.pontneuf.tis.co.jp --Love will overcome Time and Distance--