Saturday, October 15, 2005

A Long Way to Go For a Halloween Scare


Company impends, so harried cleaning and showering are due, but here's a speed blurb if you haven't seen it about a man who died of a freak accident while getting a "Last Rites" devil's head tattoo. I'm guessing the picture is of the actual stencil that would have been applied to his arm to transfer the image for inking.

I don't mind the artwork actually, but the Halloween-spooky tie-in is too great to ignore. I'ts a shame that a young guy's early death is turning into a joke, but weird things like this beg the amused detachment of the ghoulish spectator.

It's worth registering if you can't see the whole NY Post story.

Later, ya'll

2 comments:

April said...

Henway,

The stencil looks kind of like a 'green man', and not a devil, to me. I have a rather large green man tattooed on my left calf, thanks to my sister.

Rusty Hinge said...

I agree that he exhibits a leafy quality I like, but the deceased certainly thought of him as a devil's head in the popular last rites style.