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About ten years ago, a Los Angeles Times columnist, desperate to find some meat for the next day's paper, convinced a friend to get a tattoo at a cheap, back-alley parlor. Returning to his hotel, the columnist tried out his story on the bell captain. The bell captain could not conceal his horror. "You made that poor girl get tatooed?" he asked. "Just for a newspaper story...
...little over a year ago--last June--Igot my first tattoo. I went to Artistic Tattooingin Providence, on Dave's recommendation...
...told him. "You don't understand. My parents have spent the last year lecturing my eighteen-year-old brother on the dangers of tattoo parlor needles, and so if I come home for Thanksgiving with "Semper Fi" stamped...
Seth Mnookin would write a Scrutiny on tattoo parlors. For extra realism, for that elusive I-was-there touch, he would actually get a tattoo--this would be his fourth. I, in turn, would edit him. And get a tattoo, too. This would be my first...
Then, I actually started to consider getting a tattoo, kind of. I thought of all the possible places on my body where I wouldn't mind having a tattoo. I came up with one: my hip. Low enough that it really wouldn't be seen by too many people. ("What happens if you're pregnant someday? Won't it stretch out and look dumb?" one of my roommates asked. No, it would look cool, Seth told me when I repeated her question...