Month: April 2008

Tattoos Four & Seven: Lightning Bolts

This story of Yo-Nenny’s fourth tattoo is one (in her own words) of pain and vanity. We don’t get to see it since she’s since covered it up with another tattoo. Like tattoo number three, it was hand-done by a friend. “Does it hurt more to get a hand-done tattoo than a machine-done one? Every jab must hurt.” Uh huh. Somebody who’s not skilled possibly has a heavy hand. There’s a way the tattoo gun, […]

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My Second Spanish Letter

I signed up for a Spanish class! It’s offered through my local adult education program and though I didn’t have high hopes for it, the first two classes have turned out to be fun. The only problem is that it’s geared for people who know the reason for and conjugation of all the verb tenses, plus a shiteload of words. I’m not among those people, so half the time I have no idea what’s going […]

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Tattoo Three: The Star

Yo-Nenny got her third tattoo a month after her second, when she was sixteen. It was one of those things … I was hanging out with a friend — I wasn’t close to her — and it just came out of boredom. She gave me the tattoo. I gave her one, too. There was no reason for me to choose a star except it was kind of innocuous. It was the beginning of my having […]

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Greystone Cartel

Lulu was home for a few hours on Sunday but she didn’t have much time to hang out because of an obligation at 5:30 sharp. She had an instance. What’s an “instance”? you might ask. I have no idea, but it has something to do with killing monsters. For an hour she hammered frantically at the computer keyboard while strange sounds emanated from the speakers. I ignored World of Warcrafts’s electronic growls and zaps, but […]

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