An open letter to Abiding Now
 

Abiding Now,

Your letter to Charnock should have been a private matter. This open letter campaign is as pathetic as the letters that were sent out in the Western District of the United Pentecostal Church just before ICHABOD was written over the door of that place.

Please repent of this error.

-houston

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You seem awful bitter. Do you see the same psychologist as Chernock?

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What is everyone drinking too much coffee around here?

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Hmmmm.

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Actually it was all that bacon. :heeheehee

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:lol

someone informed me that I'm bitter.

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Bitter coffee is awful :nod

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Bitter COLD coffee is worse. :vomit

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You could just be predestined to be bitter? :winkgrin

Hey whose the guy with the Yakuza sleeve in your avatar?

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Especially when the floating discarded cigarette but hits your lips. :vomit

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Thank God I've never had to worry about that one.

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Owning a shop and leaving your coffee on a bench, one doesn't even imagine the surprises in your cup which will float towards you.

:vomit

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Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering about you for a minute... :heeheehee

So, moral to the story... don't leave your coffee lying around without a lid! Better yet - drink it hot! LOL

that's me

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I was working on a transmission, left my mug to talk with a customer. Got caught up looking at an engine, then went back to the transmission. Picked up the mug took a gulp and something wiggled down fast. Whatever it was, to this day I have not the foggiest idea.

:vomit

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Whose the artist[s]?

How many sittings?

How much did it cost you?

local guy

Don't recall

some dope

I was visiting my friend T.J. He recommended his tattoo guy.

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You don't remember how many sittings? OK, let me rephrase that, how long did it take you to get it finished? A month, years? How long ago did you get it? BU or AU?

When you say "some" dope, how much is "some?"

aren't we pedantic on this eve. goodness...

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Just asking, if a man has a full sleeve, he must know how it got there?

Doesn't look like it was put together with a SONY Walkman, BIC pen casing, and a guitar string needle?

I guess I'm predestined not to know. :winkgrin

Lol

It's a stock photo

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You see, it's like this.

When someone sits in the chair and has an tattooist draw blood through the buzzing needle gun, as ink, grease, and blood are wiped away, he (or she) never forgets what happened, or how long it took, unless they are whacked out. Yet, I have rarely (and I do mean rarely) found anyone who gave reefer, or any other controlled substance to someone armed with a tattoo gun, who had even a decent piece of work. The full arm Yakuza style work as in your avatar doesn't look like it was produced by someone who would take "dope" for payment.

Also, someone who has experienced any kind extensive work will pick up on someone who hasn't. Hence the questions, which finally produced the confession.

:)

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I always wondered how they did prison tats and I am assuming from your post that now I know! (although I am not sure what the Sony Walkman would be used for?)

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I've seen it done by wrapping a long needle with thread, leaving about 1/16 of an inch bare and dipping in India ink. Talk about PAIN! But they last forever with little distortion.

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The SONY Walkman is the power source the BIC pen is the guide for the guitar string which has a sharpened end to become a needle. Even a tattoo gun itself uses a buzzer which was once found in ringers found in doorbells. A steel shaft which guides a long needle (there are different thicknesses, and tip ends which are soldered onto the end) which at its top a loop which holds the needle to the buzzer. The needle moves up and down in the metal guide controlled by the buzzer, which is controlled by a transformer which is the power source. The tattooist then controls tattoo gun speed usually by a foot pedal. In different Asian cultures, tattooing was done with long thin wooden, bone, or metal needles which were tapped into the skin to apply the ink.

Abiding Now explanation of tattooing with a needle, pin, or sharp wire wrapped with cotton thread and Indian ink is another form of tattooing which can be performed to apply the ink under the skin. While most of them look they were done by children, or Chimpanzees, I have seen a few which were works of art.

As far as prison is concerned the needle wrapped in thread, and especially the SONY Walkman with BIC pen tattoo gun, are considered contraband. Therefore would be seized by prison officials. Yet this never stops inmates from setting up a tattoo parlor on a tier somewhere in the prison.

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I'm not going to ask how you know the prison info...

:heeheehee

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Very interesting.

I can't afford a sleeve. I got a quote for something like $250 or maybe $300/hr with a 2 hour minimum. Maybe it was higher. I don't quite remember.

Maybe too much Postum.

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You need to put on a long sleeve, you are seducing many innocent ladies with your upper body torso. :heeheehee

I'm a 32 year old fat man.

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Yep, too much Postum. :nod

whatevah

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His Uncle Freddie told him. :D

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You look great in your avatar picture. :heeheehee