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Lisa Abend does not mention the weak management of the recession by a government that stubbornly sticks to blaming past times and does not really try to introduce the economic reforms that may ease the problems of unemployment and the lack of affordable property. Spain had bad unemployment in the 1970s but right now it looks even worse after the bursting of the construction bubble - and there is no turnaround in sight. Mariano Ferrando, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN...
...book's introduction, you mention how nobody speaks for the tattoo industry, and that most artists like it that way. Were you worried about a backlash? I was a little bit worried. In tattooing there's always been a great deal of secrecy: "Don't talk about this kind of stuff to outsiders." A friend of mine, Mary Jane, a tattoo artist, had a newsletter at one point, and people started threatening to kill her. There's a lot of weird stuff like that. But the reaction so far has been really positive. No death threats yet. (See pictures...
...included a glossary of slang terms in your book; would words like chud and night hog be recognized in tattoo shops throughout the country? Every shop has their own slang. A lot of the slang I mention in Tattoo Machine would be recognized by anybody that works in Portland, probably a lot of people in Seattle as well, and California. But a friend of mine was just out working on the East Coast and he called and told me about all the colorful slang that they had, and it was all really different - some of it was really rude...
...surprised that you did not mention the obvious cause of the problem for marriage today: gay marriage. The far right has long insisted that allowing gay marriage would ruin the institution of marriage. Now that several states have made gay marriage legal, I guess we can all see the terrible chaos (forgive the sarcasm) it has caused. Karen Baker, COTTAGE GROVE...
...Starting this [weekend] we're going to be running ads across all of our core brands that specifically mention cash for clunkers," said GM spokeswoman Susan Garontakos. GM is also mounting a direct-mail campaign designed to explain the program. Garontakos adds that these programs are in addition to specific financial incentives ranging up to $4,000 that GM offers on slow-selling models. "Our dealers are looking for an uptick in sales," she says...