"celebrate the knowledge of a dangerous, crazy father"

Reader Kat has emailed me yesterday this photo of her husband's back:He got it done four years ago and the characters should be Knowledge, Loyalty, Courage, Warrior, & Father.Since Alan just got back from Japan, I forwarded this to him. Here is what Alan concludes:Besides the terrible calligraphy, the character 識 is missing a dot at the upper...

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Mirrored Death

http://www.rankmytattoos.com/tattoo-designs/chinese-symbol-tattoo-11776006292354.htmlAnother gem from Rankmytattoos.com, it is a mirrored 死 (deat...

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Terre des Monstres 2: Marque de Sang

A hasty post to share the absolutely splendid rough for the proposed cover of the French edition of what we commonly know as MBT2 Lamplighter. Mr Lacombe you have made my day!And I am liking the spontaneous character descriptions, too - will seek to do something with them in the new year I reckon...

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WBBT!

...& and here is the link to my Winter Blog Blast Tour interview at Finding Wonderland from yesterday. Thank you so much TadMack & Aquafortis for such excellent questions, they were a joy to answer.Please make sure you check out all the other interviews this week past a present - so much authorly goodness... if I was not needing to get back to writing I'd say more on it. Only a short while...

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Twilight for HP... or 75 comments! Woohoo!

My word, you folks sure got close to 80 comments. Impressive - but you are not a jedi yet... I certainly gave you enough time to have a red hot go, as "they" say. But alas, guilt has got the better of me and here I am posting after a bit too long not posting... um... I'm like, an excellent writer and stuff...On with the show!As much as the hype is off-putting, I am very glad the Twilight series has...

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"Spiritual Strength"

HS reader Anna sent this photo to our attention:http://jjb.yuku.com/topic/418982/t/New-tattoo.htmlIts owner, LuvBug, said she got this exact tattoo along with two other friends and it meant "emotional and spiritual strength. "Besides the obvious botchery of two characters, the phrase is not 100% grammatically correct.In my opinion, the proper version...

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Freecon, Sydney Saturday November 8th & Sunday November 9th

Nothing like last minute information but here goes...People living in or near Sydney will find me if they dare to look in at this year's FreeCon 2008 Science Fiction Convention, both on Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th, at the Norman Selfe Room of the Sydney Mechanics School of the Arts (SMSA) building, 280 Pitt Street, good ol' Sydenytown. No charge for entry or any part of it, which is nice.Here is...

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A word by any other word.

This week's word is:calimere.I have no idea what it means yet, just found it today as the word verification code to place my comment on the previous post. It could either have something to do with potives - maybe a piece of equipment; perhaps some type of swamp, or the name for a place... hmmm.It is always a joy to find new things that grow the Half-Continent and once I have settled on new word and...

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Bushido Virtues Lost

User "Silat1" posted this photo in tattooartists.com:http://www.tattooartists.com/images/asian%20tattoos/kanji-tattoo.jpgThe seven virtue of Bushido are so poorly done, many have left with missing strokes.Rectitude (義)Courage (勇)Benevolence (仁)Respect (礼)Honesty (誠)Honor (誉)Loyalty (忠)The character for rectitude 義 has been spited into two, 王 &...

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"Prostitute"

This photo's caption says "My girl's 'Bitch' tattoo. So fitting"http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/grampagravity/bitch-2However, 妓 means "prostitute".Why would anyone want that to be displayed on their body?Even so, she should at least tattoo a price list underneath. It is so hard (no pun intended) to haggle, when all the blood has left the brain...

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Tit for Tat

From checkoutmyink.com:http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/winkydinkink/30767Not a good looking tit or tat...

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