Because the ass antlers became so popular in the wake of the "fashion" trend of wearing a high-rise thong undies showing out from under one's low-rise jeans and short t-shirt, in many instances I saw the tat and thought it was more or less advertising the fact that the female person in question chose not to wear even thong undies. To be honest, I don't want to see anyone's underwear. And even more importantly I do not want to know whether or not someone has chosen not to go commando.

A local competetive girls' diving and swim team all had matching tats, an intricate compass sunface, mid-back. Their uniform suits were all the same cut, in different colors and prints, but each had a circular cutout to show off the tat. I often wondered which came first, the suit or the tat design and placement. I also wondered how some of the 15-16 year olds managed permission, but I never had the opportunity to ask.

And I *keep* forgetting to wish Nora happy on her birthday. I hope there's cake, Nora, something that goes well with delicious beer!

THey were probably designed temp tats, the kind that only come of with rubbing alcohol. Or maybe henna?

I have three tats, and my least favorite (although I still like it) is a tribal butterfly on the lower back. I love the placement, as I think the lower back is one of the sexiest places on a woman's body, with the waist curving in, and the hips and buttocks flaring outwards. All my girlfriends went and got tats when the stripper show we were going to for a bacherlorette party sold out. I selected the butterfly because it symbolized potential for metamorphosis.

All of my tats are blackwork, tho; I love colors on other people, but I think I prefer blackwork on myself. They are also all on my back, although when I was teaching I had a couple of shirts with a modest back V and you could see a sliver of two tats. All of the students bugged me, and I showed them my shoulder blade tats...NOT the lower back one, but a few times I bent down and you could see a bit of it.

I want another tat, on the inside of my right wrist, very small, where a bracelet or watch could cover it if need be.

And I would love, love, love to get a full back tat that connected my three existing tats with a design, but I have no idea what the design would be, and it would take a while and be expensive.

A friend of mine who had a Mohawk got a cool dragon tattoo on her skull. She said if she wanted a conservative job all she had to do was grow her hair.

I was talking on the phone in the kitchen. Mr. Peabody took a toy from his basket in another room, dropped it at my feet, then went back to the bedroom. Was this a message of some kind?

I've had cats drop toys at my feet because they wanted to play, but I don't know wtf Mr. Peabody wants. He wants you to go to the bedroom and play? He wants that toy exchanged at the store for something different?

Dragon tattoo, skull.

That is seriously one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. I saw her in person once, and she was just that gorgeous, strolling down the street dressed in jeans. To die for.

Damn. She's beautiful.

Moses the camel rises from an Oregon City sinkhole

This has a happy ending:

Moses, a 1,200- to 1,500-pound Bactrian camel (that's the two-hump kind) got himself stuck in a sinkhole on his owners' rural Oregon City property late Tuesday. Mike and Kim Dilworth, who've owned Moses since he was just weeks old, could see only the animal's head sticking out of the mud.

A friend of mine who had a Mohawk got a cool dragon tattoo on her skull. She said if she wanted a conservative job all she had to do was grow her hair.

There was a dude in the Freak-Ass Church who was heavily tattooed and was a cranky, surly, ex-junkie, musician, chef who smoked like a house on fire. One of his many tattoos -- on the back of his head -- said FUCK DISCO.

Sitting behind someone with FUCK DISCO tattooed on the back of his head makes church a whole lot more interesting, I tell you what.