My wife has no idea how to start summer vacation, and so instead of swimming, reading, watching movies, and going out to lunch, she is painting multiple rooms in our house-- but she knows that not only am I useless at painting, but I also hate it-- and so she enlisted our friend's younger sister to help her; Rachel is a college student looking for some summer employment, and she's extremely artistic and so after the initial painting is done, she is going to paint bugs on Ian's walls (good thing he's not a regular LSD user!) and Star Wars Lego stuff on Alex's walls . . . but not only does she paint, she also does tattoos . . . and her older sister Liz, who is sort of like her agent, pointed out to me that she is a specialist in drawing the giant squid . . . which is the tattoo that I have always dreamed of, a giant squid and sperm whale locked in a great undersea battle . . . so is it fate that has brought us together-- long after my juvenile desire for this tattoo has faded-- or is it something more sinister?
Is that Rachel's drawing? Remember when I took up a student collection to pay for that tattoo?
ReplyDeleteMy friend J-P has that tattoo (or at least a nominal variation thereof). You have to go black-and-white so that it looks nautical and old-timey.
ReplyDeletethat's not rachel's drawing-- i haven't seen it yet and almost don't want to-- i fondly remember your collection for such a worthy cause. definitely needs to be black and white and there is the added problem of the rapidly growing jungle of back hair where i would get the tattoo.
ReplyDeleteso it could wind up looking like a mastodon fighting a caterpillar?
ReplyDeleteor a cave bear fighting a devout sikh.
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Isn't there a sentence of Dave in Syria where you thought the Sikh guy said he was sick and you told him you were sorry?
ReplyDeletethat was my wife. i'd never say something that silly to a sikh.
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