First, in spite of these being the also-rans, they’re all way better than that thrift store lady getting a murder confession. Second, the Lassen County one sounds like Walker Lake and it is indeed creepy as hell sometimes. Fond memories of driving my Subaru wagon along those dirt roads between there and Almanor. 

Oh wow, well done, Jay! Ozzie has his own guardian skateboarder angel!

I am legit misty-eyed right now. Jay, you’re the real MVP, alive or dead.

Beautiful.

Awww. Thanks, Jay. And sorry for your loss. What a beautiful story.

lol  I mean, at least he waved? Seems like while he’s a disgusting voyeur, he didn’t actually want to frighten you.

My husband and father have both passed away since this incident, and my daughter is now 40, but what happened one night at my father’s house left such an impression that now, almost 40 years on, I can still remember things like the texture of the carpet and the feeling of the bedspread fringe on my face.

Larry,

I’m not racist. I have white friends. Namaste!

I took that as a statement of agreement and support.

...alright. She’s definitely nowhere near as powerful as he is right now, and in any case people aren’t calling her brave because she’s a porn star specifically, they’re calling her brave for going public with the accusation against a powerful figure at all. Regardless of what industry they’re in, coming out with that…

HOW’S THAT COOL POPE TREATIN YA, GUYS

“Cats” and “too many” don’t belong in the same sentence. Unless it’s “There’s no such thing as too many cats”.

THAT TWEET IS GENUINELY HILARIOUS I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THEY ARE HATING ON IT LIKE HOW CAN YOU HATE ON THIS

Dude, I think Jezebel might have helped me actually start to like Trunk. I just read, for the first time, that blog post you linked to- and I thought the tone of the Jez article was awful. The very first comment by Erin was so shitty, as were so many subsequent ones. I think Penelope Trunk is a crazy person with…

1) live-tweeted a miscarriage during a board meeting

Exactly. No necks and hands is a super common rule among artists, and many of them do it for personal reasons (ie. regret, whatever) and for protecting the shop (it opens up a certain amount of liability if someone claims down the line they can’t get a job because of a tattoo you did).

I understand why this was an upsetting experience, but tattoo artists refuse jobs all the time for all sorts of reasons. Many have a no necks, no hands policy - it’s quite common. And, as you discovered, what’s off-limits to one artist is totally okay with another - you were able to get exactly what you wanted in the…