For those who want to be a complete douche-bag on a Saturday or any other days, perhaps a little karate, this is the shirt for you.Who cares what those characters mean or even if they are correct. When you got this shirt on, you are so badass, even Chuck Norris would cover his nuts.$21.97 at Palmer Cash by Vintage Vanta...

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www.superdry.co.ukAlan forwarded me a link to a British apparel company called Superdry.We are certainly not experts on the subject of brandnaming, but "Superdry" automatically equates to anti-perspirant or deodorant in the world of marketing (Back us up on this, Steve!).The phrase 極度乾燥(しなさい) is very strange in Japanese, especially with しなさい in parentheses.It...

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The stages of editing.

I thought it would be simplest to show you the very beginning of Lamplighter. I will make some comment on each version but will let them speak for themselves - my hope is that when you click on an image it will show it at a better, more readable size.Please, ask any questions you like.As you can see my initial beginning was markedly different from...

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A poll for you...

Just put up another poll for your pondering (just scroll down a bit)... more substantial posting coming so...

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from: Joseph B.to: tiangotlost@gmail.comdate: Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:45 PMsubject: Does this tat really mean this?Love your website and had to ask you.The owner of this tat claims it says "Only god will judge me", is this true? I have heard it means something about being a slave??Thanks for your help!!!!JBThe top character may intended to be 大 (large...

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I have received several emails from readers to inform me about one webisode from NBC's The Office.In the video, Andy Bernard made an announcement that claimed his tattoo is "nard dog".Although it is not exactly "nard dog", "n 狗" (n dog) is close enou...

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Still here! Still here!

Just in case you thought I had shuffled off somewhere, I am still about, honest, being very preoccupied about editing (actually a major rewrite - you should see all the green pen scribbled over each page, the inserted pages with even more green scribblings) and slack about blogging.I heard once that you need to post at least once a week to be considered a real blog, so I don't know where that leaves...

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Alan and I are very curious about this Madsteel woman's tattoos:We have no idea what those six characters across the top of her back mean.The same person also posted many of her photos in BMEzine.com, like this one:http://www.bmeink.com/A40403/high/iam00022266.jpgWhat does 喜 and 壽 have to do with Madsteel?The most interesting ones are on her feet:http://www.bmeink.com/A90318/high/f4dt-madsteels-footie.jpgI...

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