I was walking around Alphabet City today, listening to the Buzzcocks, passing the punks and the crackheads and the yuppies and trying to imagine the neighborhood as it was at its height in the 1970s and 80s, when I passed a tattoo parlor. It just felt so right:
I've never gotten a tattoo on a whim before, but this has always been a favorite quote from a favorite person. I think the artist did a great job, too; my arm is tiny, and it was really hard to get the text at a big enough size to prevent ink bleeding and promote legibility but small enough not to take up my whole forearm!

I've never gotten a tattoo on a whim before, but this has always been a favorite quote from a favorite person. I think the artist did a great job, too; my arm is tiny, and it was really hard to get the text at a big enough size to prevent ink bleeding and promote legibility but small enough not to take up my whole forearm!