Well since the website Fuck Yeah Owl Tattoos is no longer taking new submissions, this will have to be the place to showcase my owl tattoo. I had hoped to get it six months ago and had it not been for the generous pre-50th-birthday present my lovely wife gave me, it probably would have been another six months.

Here is it, my awesome new owl ink. Thank you Spike of Spike-O-Matic, you are a fucking genius!

First Post on my First Blog

I suppose I should justify my existence on the blogosphere and say why I think I need to publicize myself but on the other hand this is my blog and I call the shots and I am not going to go there.

What I hope to do is be thought provoking, occasionally share my art (photography) and ideas and observations and links to others who do similar things in a way that I think is awesome.

My main areas of interest  include, in no planned order:
- art (all kinds and yes photography is art, literature is art, many things are art but not all art is good art: we'll talk)
- biking (I ride my bike to work year-round and have been doing it since 1995 -- try it you fucker in the SUV who honks at me cuz you think I'm slowing your narcisistic ass down and keeping you from some job you hate -- more on that later)
- kids (I have 2 half time -- which bring up the topic of divorce and all its discontents),
- tattoos (I'm getting a new one tomorrow! more later)
- welding (I want to learn how to do this -- it's something I should have learned decades ago and something I want to start doing before I turn 50 next year)
- politics : Scott Walker can suck it
- sex
- zombies
- grammar
- music
- philosophy (Ayn Rand was not a philosopher, or if she was, she was a shitty philosopher)
- movies (yes, that's art too)
- creativity in all aspects of life

That's it. Stay tuned and don't be affraid to comment

Willy Joe