Hobbies On Bodies

   My most frequently asked question- besides "did you just eat all that cereal?" and "what the fuck are you doing?"- is usually, whats up with your tattoo?
   The tattoo they are asking about it usually the triangle on the back of my arm, above my elbow. Since becoming a badass bitch, with a lot of tattoos, I have realized that the worst part about having tattoos is having to explain what they mean, because my explanations never really live up to what they mean in my head. It's a failing of language, and I don't want to get into structuralist theories here, so usually when people ask about my tattoo I just tell them I really like geometry. Then they laugh and I laugh and sneak away, leaving them with an inquisitive look on their face.
   I was working with this guy over the weekend and we started talking about how certain hobbies are more socially acceptable to ink onto your body for the rest of eternity. Not that you should be caring about social acceptability too much with your tattoos- unless your a closet Nazi, then you should totally care about what is socially acceptable. But I think it's really funny to think about what hobbies passions lend themselves to body art. Like, tattoo artists probably get way more requests for motorcycles than tractors. Here are some more hobbies that do not quite make that leap from life passion to body art, or at the very least, will not help you get laid:
- speed-walking.
- sleep-walking.
- listening to the radio.
- 3-D jigsaw puzzles of American landmarks. There's a lot of tragic irony in that the tattoo would be two dimensional.
- anything that appears on the final page of the comics section in the newspaper- so that includes the jumble, sudoku, crossword and that weird one that looks like the crossword but is not the crossword. And the one with the circles that I'm pretty sure is spy propaganda, not a game that people actually play.
- wallowing in one's own misery.
- lurking in the shadows.
- listening to Massari.

*** I'm a progressive lady who likes to throw shade at the man- only when he's not looking though, because I don't want to burn any bridges. This post has really made me realize how almost anything can be cool if you're creative and give enough shits. So... yeah. Enjoy your weekend. Seacrest, out.***