Literature, Women, and Tattoos

My favorite magazine is The Believer, a quirky and smart grab-bag publication that I finally just subscribed to. I had been buying each issue at the newsstand for a while, which is fine, but I love the excitement of getting something in the mail, so I upped my chances by buying something that will show up each month! Ha ha.

Perusing the excellent Believer website (you can read it online too, if you are into that sort of thing) I found an excellent and interesting article and would like to recommend it:

A BLANK HUMAN CANVAS
THE LITERARY TATTOO LEAPS FROM THE PAGE TO LIVING PARCHMENT

It's exactly the kind of thing that I enjoy reading: tattoos and book reviews. I marked a couple titles mentioned for my reading list, and even skipped a couple paragraphs of the article to preserve plot twists and secrets!It talks a lot about text tattoos, and if you like that sort of thing (I got one this week! It says "Art." Sort of.) you will like this flickr group:

Body Type (a Flickr pool)

This evening Mykle and I had a conversation about which san-serif fonts we like, since we are both serif people (I like Impact, he likes Ariel Black). I'm sure there could be psychological profiles made comparing these two very different groups of people; the serifs and sans-serifs. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Flowers in December

Do you like Dracula?
Mist?
1970's witchcraft?
hotels with Lynchian red corridors?
carriage rides at night?
the amazing beauty of Hope Sandoval?
The music of Mazzy Star?


if so, this video is for you: