BME Day at Venus by Maria Tash!


We are very happy to present BME day at Venus by Maria Tash on Wednesday, February 11 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.! (We’ll stay open later if there is enough interest.) To make an appointment, please contact Venus by Maria Tash.

In order to help start creating videos for the new video section of BME, we’ll be spending the day at Venus by Maria Tash, documenting procedures done the right way and giving away BME swag with every piercing! (Don’t worry if you’re camera-shy, though: We don’t need to show your face.)

Piercing by Meg (IAM: MissMeg)

Venus by Maria Tash
653 Broadway, New York NY 10012
Phone 212 253 0921

Piercing prices (plus the cost of jewelry starting at $10!)
$10 piercings
$35 basic genital
$65 advanced genital

You must mention this post or print out the form above. (Click through for a larger version.) We hope to see you there!

It’s Instilled to Wanna Live


Marissa sends in this tattoo, based on a drawing that describes how cats land on their feet. Look, I don’t need some fancy illustration to tell me how cats land on their feet — it’s witchcraft, plain and simple. When I throw my dogs around, they land on their asses, the way nature intended, and then they get a treat. Cats? Cats are acting in direct defiance of God’s will. Not surprising. Not surprising at all.

(Tattoo by Brian Garber at Wizards One in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.)

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New Article Posted! (Lizardman Interview)


Good morning, ModBlog! What better way to start off your week than by drinking a tall glass of the nectar that comes freshly squeezed from The Lizardman‘s mind-grapes?

It’s been a few years since we’ve heard from him here on BME, and really, it’s been too long. The world is a much different place now (well, marginally different, at least), and it’s always reassuring to have him around as a bright green guide through the chaos that surrounds us. He and I recently exchanged e-mails over a couple of days, talking about the new American president, the rigors of life on the road and the difficulties of making the transition from sideshow to stand-up.

To read The State of The Lizardman Address, click here.

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Venus by Maria Tash is Hiring!


From their lips fingers to your ears eyes:

Venus by Maria Tash is hiring!

We are looking for experienced professional piercers to work in our busy, upscale Manhattan studio. You must have a portfolio, resume and references. We ask that you be clean, neat, drug free, and have the ability to handle our high profile clientele professionally and efficiently.

If you are interested, please email your resume and references to Meg at [email protected] for consideration. Please include a headshot and short bio as well.

(Microdermals on laowai4life by Meg.)

Night of a Few Dozen Scars


Hey, look, it’s an article that combines some of my favorite things: Booze, random sex and scarification. But not in a good way! All Wayne Robinson, 24, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, wanted was a late-night drunken summer hook-up, like so many other 20-somethings. Unfortunately, he called up local idiot Dominique Fisher, who decided that once her suitor had nodded off for the night (with some help from noted sleeping aids vodka and Valium), she, uh, sliced him up for some reason? Seriously?

Mr Robinson woke to find his body decorated with a star on his back, ‘Dominique’ written on his upper right arm, and numerous slash marks on his left arm and shoulder.

[…] he was not awake during the incident on the night of June 14 last year.

Mr Robinson said he panicked when he woke up and took a taxi back to his home in Fleetwood, Lancashire.

He said: ‘I went to her place for sex, not to be tattooed. I can’t believe she did this to me and I hate her.

‘When I woke I was covered in blood. Dominique was snoring. I just had to get out of there. I didn’t even wake her to ask what she’d done.’

‘I’m scarred for life,’ he told The Sun. ‘I wish I’d never met her.’

Good grief. Look, everyone knows that it’s perfectly acceptable to tattoo people when they’re asleep — hilarious! — but this is really crossing a line. It’s a dangerous world out there, and really, if we can’t get shitfaced and pass out at the homes of strange ass, well, where can we take refuge?

Fisher was convicted of unlawful wounding, which sounds slightly worse than a traffic violation, and will be sentenced at the end of February. The article did mention, however, that she perpetrated the attack with a Stanley knife, a.k.a a box-cutter, therefore, she is a terrorist, throw her in a secret C.I.A. prison, the end.

One-night stand man wakes to find lover has carved her name into his arm [Daily Mail — more pictures here, too]