In the bestselling tradition of Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Great Times comes a hip collection of classic and contemporary stories, essays, and poems about tattoos. Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the army, tattoos have crawled out of society’s fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. While still risque enough to raise a mother-in-law’s eyebrow, tattoos have come to be one of the most popular forms of personal expression. DOROTHY PARKER’S ELBOW brings together some of the most erotic, humorous, and vivid fiction, essays, and poetry that explore the mysterious fascination and the intensity of emotion attached to the act of being tattooed. Readers will join great writers, including Flannery O’Connor, Rick Moody, Elizabeth McCracken, Sylvia Plath, and more in celebrating the tattoo experience in all of its rebellious glory.
Lynn Gunn has a Latin tattoo on her left elbow says “EID MAR.” It is an abbreviation for “Eidibus Martiis” a Latin phrase meaning “on the Ides of March.” The Ides is the middle of each month in the ancient Roman calendar, with the Ides of March falling on March 15th. The Ides of March ...read more...
I have a good friend who is a therapeutic masseuse. We once had a conversation about a changing trend in massage therapy, a move toward deep tissue massage. Unlike Swedish massage which…
This an additional account of a person’s experience with summoning the demon Stolas. It is from the same person as the previous account here: Second Evocation of Prince Stolas: Once again I …
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It's War is the eighth chapter in Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker: Live and Reloaded, following Spooky. It's a war themed world. The SHC are at war with the Tediz army. Like Spooky, it is one of the bloodiest chapters in the game. As with Spooky, Conker has a costume change, only it resembles war camouflage attire of the army. Conker's helmet in the It's War chapter of Conker's Bad Fur Day has two chevrons on it, resembling the corporal rank in the U.S army. In Live and Reloaded, it is darker.
One of the beautiful examples of symmetry in nature is the bilateral symmetry seen in animals.
