Surface Anchor

New Scar

Thanks Dan @ The Shaman's Den

Monroe

I did it. I've wanted it for a while and I think its cute. I think I can still get away with it for at least a few years.

Also, see all the peeps reflected in my sunglasses? They're all the other drinking fools at the Finger Lakes Wine Festival, where we spent the day with our friends, Philip and Emily. Its summer time and the livin's easy especially when it involves lots of wine.

One-Eyed Man Removes, Consumes Remaining Eye

One eye minus one eye equals no eyes. Its simple math, really.

MSNBC:

HOUSTON - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.

Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death.

While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.

On Dec. 9, a death-row officer at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and took him to the infirmary.

""Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it," agency spokesman Jason Clark said Friday.....

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in October upheld his conviction and death sentence for the death of 13-month-old Leyha Marie Hughes. Also killed March 27, 2004, were his wife, Laura Christine Boren, 20, and their son, 4-year-old Andre Lee.

Thomas, from Texoma, walked into the Sherman Police Department and told a dispatcher he had just murdered the three and had stabbed himself in the chest.

Thomas told police how he put his victims' hearts in his pocket and left their apartment, took them home, put them in a plastic bag and threw them in the trash.

Court documents described the three victims as having "large, gaping wounds to their chests."

Overheard in the J and L House....

Again.

Lisa: My ear hurts.

Jesse: That's what happens when you put a giant hole in your ear.

Re: I Had My First (5 mm) Dermal Punch Today

During the piercing, literally, as soon as my ear crunched, I thought, "I am never getting another dermal punch again." It has been a mere 10 days and already I'm considering having the other ear done. It will be several months before the left ear is healed and thus at least a few months before I can do the right ear but I really love how it looks.

I'm really excited to have the option to pierce at whim again. During my years in mort. school and the subsequent years at the funeral home, I was required to be professional, conservative, appropriate for public consumption. I hated it. Now, I can have my druthers and my dermal punch, too.

Overheard in the J and L House

Lisa: My ear hurts.

Jesse: That's what happens when you put a giant hole in your ear.

I Had My First (5 mm) Dermal Punch Today

I had my first dermal punch today; its a 5mm conch. It was incredibly painful and bloody. Afterwards, the piercer asked if I would like to keep the flesh. I declined.

Pictures will follow after a few days of initial healing.

Contrariwise

I am a real word nerd and grammar geek and I really appreciate profound literary quotes so I was really excited when I found Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos. Here are some of my favorites:

Catcher in the Rye

"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."
-Holden Caufield in Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Falling Up

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' 'bout the things
They coulda shoulda done....
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little Did.
-"Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda" from Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

Henry Rollins

To Kill a Mockingbird

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
-To Kil a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

via Omnivoracious