hello

so

i told allison that i was going to tell this certain story

but i'm not sure how good it is

so i'm going to talk about that punk kid's tattoo instead

i think his name was nick, haven't thought about him in awhile

he was in a band with a friend of mine

and he had a mohawk that wasn't often spiked up, just lay flat

like smelly yarn poking out of his head

his little brother was a punker too

they were both that kind of leather studded jacket/gbh patch/automatic middle finger type of punk

i don't remember how old nick was but his little brother was REALLY young

like 14 or something

and would come to our parties and "puke'n'rally" as they say

(that means he would throw up but keep drinking)

(in case you're not hip to idiotic college boozehound lingo)

man uli has been playing some jams here at work lately

anyways, sorry

nick was a really cool guy

like most punks of that ilk, he hated you at first

but once you got past that he was rad to hang out with

and this one time i was walking with wasef somewhere i think?

and nick called him and said he was getting a tattoo somewhere close to where we were

so we went to the parlor

and the first thing i remember was him having a really pained look on his face

i mean i'd seen this guy break bottles on himself so i was like, whoa, this must be an intense tattoo

it was on his right arm i think? near the shoulder but on the outside

like where a sailor might get an anchor or a heart that says "mom"

but the tattoo itself was a really crappy drawing

of a punk kid and a nun

the nun was stabbing the punk kid through the head with a spiked cross

it was all black but there was blood splattered everywhere in the drawing

and above it

in "punk text"

you know, like x's over the eyes

looked like something carved into a desk

it said "RELIGION IS TOTAL BULLSHIT"

he said he'd gone to 3 different parlors already who'd refused to do it

but the guy tattooing him kept laughing about it

he was hispanic, kind of an ess-ay

ese?

essay?

hm

tough hombre.

but he kept saying "it's your body hombre, do what ya gotta do"

he was cool too

the finished tattoo looked so shitty

it was like, well done or whatever

but the drawing itself was SO BAD

and right now, even if nick is dead

that tattoo is still on his upper right arm

maybe he cleaned up and works at a grocery store now

and maybe when people ask him what his tattoo says

he mumbles something under his breath

and they say "what'd you say?"

and he says "RELIGION IS TOTAL BULLSHIT"

"cash or credit?"

this has been the dave update