Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket

Hey, if Klingons can have redundant hearts, I don’t see why humans shouldn’t have redundant nuts. You know, I’d go so far as to say that it’s a message from God that it’s OK if you want to mess with them and, hey, if you lose one, have fun doing it because you have a backup.

(This photo is from the El Horizonte bonus gallery in BME/HARD.)

Fame and Fortune

I got a message today about a movie that’s doing the film festivals now, about Steve Haworth‘s work. Steve makes the point in this trailer that he’s Constitutionally protected from prosecution (which may be the case, especially in Arizona, but that still has to be tested in court before it’s a definitive statement), but I wanted to remind practitioners that I strongly urge the oldschool “word of mouth referral only” method of promotion.

It should be a fascinating movie and I’m looking forward to seeing it, but every time a media product comes out into the mainstream world, I worry about what type of attention it’s going to bring, especially when it’s tightly focussed on one person’s activities. That said, at some point I guess a line is crossed where you should be able to make the case that it’s been publicly done for long enough that it’s all de facto legal until specific laws are written codifying what’s what… (BMEshop see also: MODIFY, Like a Butterfly, Dances Sacred and Profane, and the Nomad Piercing DVD; BMEnews see also: a recent extreme body modification prosecution).

Get you love drunk off my hump.

I find this photo humorous for many reasons but thanks to Will Ferrell, all I can think of is that song…

I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps

They say I’m really sexy,
The boys they wanna sex me.
They always standing next to me,
Always dancing next to me,
Tryin’ a feel my hump, hump.
Lookin’ at my lump, lump.

My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My lovely lady lumps (lumps)

(See also the Shadark Bonus Gallery in BME/HARD for more!)

More than one way to skin a cat!

So you may remember that a few days ago I posted a very radical transdermal strip removal that involved a very large amount of tissue being removed, with the motivating factor being dealing with large bald spots that had formed around the transdermals. Anyway, it created quite the furor in the entry, with many people feeling that too much tissue had been removed. Now, personally, I actually didn’t think it was all that bad a method, but in fairness I think it’s also important to post what more conservative practitioners felt a safer removal would be.

Steve Truitt just took out J5th‘s top transdermal (five years old) and he wanted me to show that the removals can be done far less invasively… What’s funny is when he took it out, it was all bent! I guess he took a blow to the head some time ago and didn’t even know it had damaged the transdermal! Apparently he has a hard head.

In terms of relating this to the larger removal posted earlier, this method would not address the baldspots of course and I believe has slightly more potential for scarring (assuming good healing in both cases), but it does involve hugely less risk to the client and practitioner and there’s a lot to be said for not risking seriously injuring your friends. The one above is fresh, and a smaller transdermal design, so let me also share the removal that Steve did on _Stigmata_, since I have a healed shot of that:

Anyway, bring on the yelling about it all. 🙂

Deep down and skewery

As a quick follow-up to Shannon’s interview with “The Indestructible Man“, here’s a video cocktail of Dan skewering the entire length of his forearm and Captain Howdy (minus his flying circus this time) undergoing some acupuncture treatment for a dodgy tummy.

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