I see my stalker, the Porta-Potty Guy, is saying Yoo Hoo via an alert. I think everyone must realize by now that this mentally ill guy is very, very lonely and wants some attention. Let's chip in and get him a tattoo on his fat rear end. Perhaps the one of Mohammed and the bomb. Meanwhile, since tattoos are very popular nowadays, here is a human interest story about a guy who does tattoos in Iraq now.
IRAQ, EX-INTERPRETER MAKES HIS MARK AS TATTOO ARTIST
By MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKEcontact the reporter
It was 2006, and although Mohammed Akram Taher, 17, shared the troops' love of motorcycles and Metallica, he couldn't compete with them on the basketball court. So he sat on the sidelines, sketching.
One day, an Army sergeant from Los Angeles glimpsed the Baghdad native's artwork: macabre drawings of grinning skulls and demons. The sergeant was intrigued. He happened to be a tattoo artist with a sleeve of tats on each arm.
"You should do tattoos," the sergeant told Taher, who, like most interpreters, went by a nickname. His was Dante, in homage to the medieval Italian poet.
Continue reading at:
http://www.latimes.com/world/great-reads/la-fg-c1-iraq-baghdad-tattoo-20150108-s
IRAQ, EX-INTERPRETER MAKES HIS MARK AS TATTOO ARTIST
By MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKEcontact the reporter
It was 2006, and although Mohammed Akram Taher, 17, shared the troops' love of motorcycles and Metallica, he couldn't compete with them on the basketball court. So he sat on the sidelines, sketching.
One day, an Army sergeant from Los Angeles glimpsed the Baghdad native's artwork: macabre drawings of grinning skulls and demons. The sergeant was intrigued. He happened to be a tattoo artist with a sleeve of tats on each arm.
"You should do tattoos," the sergeant told Taher, who, like most interpreters, went by a nickname. His was Dante, in homage to the medieval Italian poet.
Continue reading at:
http://www.latimes.com/world/great-reads/la-fg-c1-iraq-baghdad-tattoo-20150108-s
