Some of you already know about this blog, but I wanted to mention a fun new tattoo blog, Knuckle Tattoos. Here’s GEISHA‘s TINY CORE knuckle tattoo by Randy in Chicago (she really is tiny core). Anyway, click through to check out Nathan’s project:

NOTE TO SELF: DON’T CHANGE FOR ANYONE

Done at King of Fools in Toronto (which incidentally is also the shop that I’ve been tattooed at more than anywhere else).

I know I said I wasn’t posting today, but…

Thanks to Rich (who I hope will pop in later with his studio details) for sending me this Ouiji board tattoo that he did. I suppose if you want to communicate with the dead, you need to take a handjob to its logical conclusion, and see where fate lands, ha… Well, it can’t hurt to try anyway.

Tattoo on gossipisgospel by Tony at Elm St. in Dallas, Texas.

I like Strawberry‘s big bold star tattoos (by Marco Senesi at Alterego Tattoo in Siena, Italy), because I’m a fan of big and bold, but I’m also posting it because I really love the unintended message. Sometimes when you get a cover-up tattoo, the scar tissue from the old tattoo temporarily swells up — and even in the darkness, hope shines through here.

You know, I wasn’t going to post today, but I figure I can add a few quickies. Check out vociferation‘s new John Donne tattoo — oh, and it’s a matching tattoo; check her gallery for those pictures…

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end, where I begun.