I’ve been thinking about adding some new artwork for several months now, especially as this is such a Big Deal year.  I thought that I would problably never get another after I had my first, and currently only tattoo done in January of ‘99 to celebrate the University of Tennessee’s winning the 1998 National Championship after a season where for once, the cards fell in our favor in a good, but strange way like bluffing with a Hickok and beating a flush to keep you in the game, instead of the way that they usually do, which is more like having a straight flush queen high, and getting beat by a straight flush king high, knocking you out of the game because you went all in on what had to be a sure thing, and it turned out to be the only sure thing was that your luck left on the last plane to Vegas.  But that one’s held up pretty well, so I’ve been thinking about what else I would like to have done.  I thought that I should definately get another one this year if I was ever going to hop up in the chair again and get some permanent ink.  So I’ve been thinking of what I would want….

I suggested to Bessie that she and I get matching tats–hers reading Tallulah, and mine inscribed Bessie.  But she said she has enought tattoos.  I should have proposed this a few years ago, she would have thought it a fine idea.  And enough bourbon, and she might just see the merits of it now.  But, be that as it may, it’s still off the table for now.

I thought of getting something done incorporating the Crowes, since I do dig them so.  Which I am still pondering on.

I’ve had every intention of getting the kanji for Fire Horse done for years, well since before it became so popular for every ethnic group to have kanji inked on all parts of their body, and not always with any really good underlying significance other than it looks cool.

And so as I was discussing with Scootch the possibility of getting a new tat this past Sunday, he raised a wicked good idea.  He asked what I wanted, I mentioned some of my thoughts, but the concern that although there were several things that were significant to me, I didn’t want to have a lot of different tat all over.  So he suggested getting a charm bracelet tattooed around my ankle, and I could add these various individual “charms” as I saw fit, and to celebrate special people, occasions, parts of myself, and so on.  I think this is a stroke of genius.

So, what do YOU think?  And what are some suggestions for charms to be inked?