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Let’s Boogie on down to the Boogie Café

Posted in Americana, Culture, Japan, Music, Tattoos, Travel, tagged , , , on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It was a cold, rainy November Friday evening when my Japanese friend, rock and roll and tattoo brother Kenny Shangrila took me to the Boogie Café in Yokohama. On my way from Bangkok to Chicago via Japan, I had a three-day layover in Japan where I would be hanging out with Kenny. After he had [...]

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Getting inked for the first time

Posted in Tattoos, Waxing Nostalgic, tagged , , , , on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I hadn’t given much thought to getting a tattoo when I joined the Air Force but when I got to Howard Air Force Base in the Panama Canal Zone in September 1976, my first duty station, I had a change of heart: three months later I was ready to be inked.
What brought about this heart [...]

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Tattoo Styling with Jimmy Wong

Posted in Culture, Tattoos, Thailand on August 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I got my first tattoo in December 1976 when I was serving in the U.S. Air Force in Panama, but it would be over 20 years later before I would get some more ink done and another eight years before I would meet the Thailand’s legendary tattoo artist, Jimmy Wong.
I wrote this a few years [...]

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Tattoos by Jimmy Wong — A work of art in progress

Posted in Tattoos, Thailand, tagged on July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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Jimmy Wong at work

Posted in Tattoos, Thailand, tagged on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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Think before you ink in Korea?

Posted in Tattoos, Weird & Absurd on June 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »

If you are thinking about getting inked in Korea, you might want to think twice unless you want to land your tattoo artist in jail. I have often heard that tattooing is illegal in Korea, but I didn’t know that if a tattoo artist was caught they could face life imprisonment.
“At 1 p.m. on June [...]

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Some more ink from Thailand’s tattoo guru Jimmy Wong

Posted in Tattoos, Thailand, tagged on May 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »

It’s a quiet May Friday night in Bangkok (the first time I have ever been in Thailand during the month of May) and I am back sitting in my favorite chair at Jimmy Wong’s tattoo studio.I say my favorite chair because I have spent many nights in this chair getting inked by Jimmy. Three years [...]

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Jimmy Wong — Thailand’s Tattoo Legend

Posted in Tattoos, Thailand, tagged , on May 18, 2007 | 9 Comments »

In less than week I will be getting on a plane and flying to Thailand for a few days to meet up with some friends, have a cool and rockin’ birthday celebration (a few days early) and hang out with Thailand’s legendary tattoo artist Jimmy Wong.Yes, the one and only Jimmy Wong.
Without question, Southeast Asia’s [...]

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Kenny’s new tattoo studio — Kofu City, Japan

Posted in Japan, Tattoos on May 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »

After a cool, wild, rockin’ night at Club Doctor, a two-and-half-hour drive to Minami Alps, and a few hours of sleep Kenny and I were back on the road to Yokohama for me to get inked by Betty.Before we hit the road though, we made a brief stop in Kofu so Kenny could show me [...]

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“Uchide-no-Kozuchi” by Yuuki (a.k.a. Betty from Yokohama)

Posted in Japan, Tattoos, Traditional Japanese-style Tattoos on April 21, 2007 | 7 Comments »

As soon as I knew that I was going to be in Japan for this weekend, one of the things that I hoped to do while I was here was to get some more ink done by Yuuki at Irezumi Hozonkai in Yokohama.I was really impressed with the traditional Japanese-style tattoo she had done for [...]

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