Claudia Vaz, Dragão Ocidental, 197

"Venho mais uma vez participar dessa coluna com uma de minhas tattoos,essa não tem uma história especial, sempre quiz tatuar um dragão, mas sempre que procurava um em minhas pesquisas só achava os orientais, finalmente encontrei esse e me apaixonei, pela imagem e por seu significado que busquei em seu site, que sempre serve como base para minhas pesquisas. Aí está mais uma de meus xódos e foi minha primeira tattoo com o Nill da Nilltattoo.

Definição: Um dragão ocidental. Caracterizado pela capacidade de cuspir fogo e a sua paixão por tesouros, o Dragão Europeu habita áreas remotas. Capazes de utilizar a linguagem dos humanos, os Dragões Europeus mudam de pele a cada trinta anos. O covil ou ninho geralmente é estabelecido em alguma caverna montanhosa ou próxima do mar em uma zona remota. Um adulto chega a medir 15 metros de comprimento. Sua coloração pode variar entre preto, verde, vezes dourado. Atacam ovelhas, gado e por vezes humanos. Outras características importantes são: cauda em forma de seta, espinhas dorsais duras, grandes asas semelhantes às de um morcego, garras afiadas, escamas, cornos, presas aguçadas e visão apurada."

Claudia Vaz

Leaving for Las Vegas

I will be off in a few hours for Las Vegas. Interesting to return to a place where I lived for three years but really had no significant connection other than work. While Las Vegas is not my kind of town, I don't have the aversion that many of my friends have to Glitter Gulch, Lost Wages, Sin City or whatever not quite appropriate labels non-residents have for Vegas. 

The trip is part-business/part-pleasure. Amy will be there for a financial conference and we have a couple of pending projects to discuss.  Several other poker buddies are in town already or will be passing through. In addition there is some writin' business to be attended to. Another book deal to mull over and some other potential assignments to be pondered and perhaps negotiated. 

Poker will also be on the agenda. I will hit the Venetian for some Omaha 8 and I imagine a tournament or two downtown at Binion's. Also, now that Debonair has moved his play to the MGM, I foresee several sessions near the lion habitat.

I am staying at the Monte Carlo for most of the trip, rates on the strip are definitely down and the latest really good deal was at Monte Carlo. Besides that puts me right next to the new City Center project. 

Somewhat pokerish updates to follow.

I have a question for you . . .

Today I am asking for some audience participation from my esteemed, eclectic and elegant readership. Please consider my request and take twelve seconds or twelve months to respond. For the bashful lurkers, instructions on how to publicly or privately offer your thoughts are given below.

In some recent readings, I came across a provocative question, which I have modified slightly for my purpose. Here it is:

"Indicate some of the fundamental beliefs, concepts, philosophy of life or articles of faith which help carry you along, tide you over rough spots or guide you in the every day conduct of your life."


I should like to pose that considerable inquiry to our little corner of the blogosphere. I certainly will respond, perhaps several times to the parameters of that question. I would ask that you do also. You are welcome to take the words and meaning of those italicized phrases in any manner you like. Send a snippet, offer a thesis, expound or quip. Just please don't be silent.

For the rather sizable number of my readers who would rather remain anonymous, there are several ways to respond without public linkage to your reality. First and the easiest, just click the word "comments" below the last line of this post and open your thoughts with "do not ID me." I moderate all comments to this blog before they are posted and I will detach your name from your comment on request. I may use your thoughts but I will shield your identity.

You can also choose the "anonymous" signature on a comment, that works as well, but in those cases even I will not know who sent the comment. Your choice: protected identity or true anonymity. I may save some of the comments for later posts, so if yours doesn't show up immediately, it will be because I am pondering your submission and will seek to respond or spin off some thoughts you have sparked.

Thank you in advance and may I ask again:

"Indicate some of the fundamental beliefs, concepts, philosophy of life or articles of faith which help carry you along, tide you over rough spots or guide you in the every day conduct of your life."
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art credit: Chow Martin

Novo recorde com tatuagens do Vasco da Gama

Foram precisas 802 Cruzes Templárias tatuadas em 22 horas, para que fosse quebrado o recorde mundial. 806 torcedores do Vasco da Gama, confiaram suas peles ao tatuador Eric Codo, para a maratona que levaria o Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama ao Guinness Book. Nem o presidente Roberto Dinamite ficou de fora e tatuou pela primeira vez a cruz na panturilha direita.

O tatuador americano Hollis Cantrell era o atual detentor do recorde quebrado pele brasileiro.

Além da tatuagem, quem reforçou o time dos torcedores tatuados do Vasco da Gama ao participar da campanha Vasco na Pele, também ganhou uma camisa 3 oficial do clube.

Veja abaixo o vídeo da campanha e o vídeo oficial do recorde.

Tattoos em Mariah Carey, Clinton, Bush, Saddam e outros famosos

Um toque criatividade e pronto, alguns celebridades mundialmente conhecidas em versões mais coloridas. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Mariah Carey e Saddam Hussein, são algumas celebridades "tatuadas" pelo photoshop.

May Day: Berkeley

May Day in Berkeley 2010 was a disappointment. Yes, there was the requisite amount of Arizona immigration bashing and leaflet handing out and random activist literature tables but this is the Worker's Day. Where were the socialists? Where were the downtrodden? The unions? The huddled masses were drinking mocha lattes.

The most prominent early morning promotion was for the "family friendly" May Day picnic and that was over in Dolores Park in San Francisco. This is not your parent's Berkeley. There is more concern these days about reversing the decades of traffic calming measures (that's blocked off neighborhood streets for those who have not experienced the radical traffic patterns of Berkeley). And lest we forget, we need to be ever watchful of asbestos ceilings and old lead paint.

Perhaps I was just having an olde leftie day and expected more from the former nexus of all things radical. Or maybe I was looking for the other meaning of May Day.

Cissa Pavloski, Caveira Tibetana, 196

"Olá,

meu nome é Cissa, minha caveira ainda não está pronta, resolvi fazê-la, após ler o significado.

Muitas pessoas acham que "Caveiras", são símbolo de morte, ou algum tipo de culto macabro, pois bem... para o povo mexicano: é a vida.

E como, eu adoro a minha vida, minha liberdade, e até mesmo as dificuldades, esta Tattoo combina comigo.

Abraços à todos."

Cissa Pavloski