SNAKES ARE AWESOME and the Vancouver Canucks

"Snakes Are Awesome" is this silly inside joke at Tattoo Zoo. 

I can't remember the reason the news crew was at the tattoo shop earlier this year, but my boss Gerry was talking about flash and said "oh yeah, snakes are awesome" in kind of a funny squeaky voice in the middle of his interview. And a TZ meme was born. Seriously, that shit never got old. So yesterday, when the guys finished painting this flash...

you know, to get into the spirit of city pride...

A-Channel came by again. And we were all like...is he gonna say it again? I said "I DARE YOU" and he said "Okay." And the funniest thing was, at the end of the interview the camera guy asked Cody and Gerry to pretend they were talking about the flash so he could have a visual while there was a voice-over or whatever but they used Cody saying "Snakes are awesome!" too, even though they said they wouldn't. I love it. So it's there twice!

Also? If you watch this video you can see Colin (who's doing my chestpiece) hard at work. I don't think he really wanted to be on TV. I didn't either. I hid on the customer side of the counter until it was over.

I'm not sure who all worked on the flash, definitely Kyle and Gerry and Bryan.

for _CoreyGirll_

So yesterday I tweeted something to the effect of "I'm not sure if my cat t-shirt is awesome or stupid" and got quite the response from all those people up in the Twitter zone. Apparently cats and t-shirts are popular on the internet, who knew? Anyway, CoreyGirl was all like "Pics or it didn't happen." and I was like:

 (There was supposed to be a "Challenge Accepted" comic guy here but Blogger is really being a douche* lately with pictures and will not let me insert it into this post, so just pretend you see him here.)

But I don't have an iPhone and instagram and all that jazz, and only got the tweet the next day, so I picked the wrinkly shirt out of the laundry, took some photos with my Canon G-11, put them on the computer, and uploaded them here. You know, the old fashioned way.

Notice how it's actually a tourist shirt from Reno for some reason? WHYYYY?

So there, _CoreyGirl_, it DID happen.

*I am THIIIIS CLOSE to moving to Wordpress or TypePad. For serious. Enough is enough Blogger you dickface. I'm afraid of change and am really comfortable with this platform so we'll see if I ever put my money where my mouth is.

Things I Love Thursday

I love that I have no idea what some of these beautiful plants are that I walk by every day. What the heck are these pink hangy things all about? I'm pretty sure I've never seen anything like them before.

This week I love...

This article on "Caring For Your Introvert". I hope everybody who knows me in real life reads this because it is totally the way I feel a lot of the time. Although I think the guy who wrote the article is way out there...it's pretty ballsy to say that every introvert is "more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts".And obviously not every extrovert is like a puppydog and without secrets and nuanced behavior. 

This picture of Tank. He spent like ten minutes getting his bed ready, and propped that pillow up like that on purpose, I swear. D'awww.

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock. See an example of it being played here.  :)

This article on Smaggle: "Want to Know the Secret to Male and Female Cohabitation?" Very interesting!

Einstein, the world's smallest mini-horse. He's SO LITTLE! And he dressed up for Halloween, hahaha.

Oh Noa's ... curriculum? for "Getting Your Degree in Not-A-Terrible-Person".

The Gathering of the Juggalos infomercial 2011 featuring Vanilla Ice. As...a crackhead alien? Every time they said "earf" I laughed out loud. It's so stupid. Guess who's playing this year. George Clinton. No joke. Also? Busta Rhymes and Ice Cube and Xzibit. And Vanilla Ice. And MC Hammer. And Brian Posehn is doing some stand up. Not bad, juggalos. Not bad. If it weren't for the 100% probability of getting raped and shot and beaten up and drugged and losing 40 IQ points I'd think about going. I mean, imagine the photo opportunities. Endless.

This voicemail that Steve Rold saved and made into a Vimeo video. Found via Redditor Evan. 

Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It was my favorite movie for some time as a child. 

Six intimate details you can tell just by looking at someone. 

This little article on how one girl realized she could get by on much less $ than she thought. And so can you!

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"POUR" by Holton Rower.  

(I found this via Poppytalk.)

Watch this video to see how it's done. I want to try it! It looks so fun. I don't know why everybody's wearing mom jeans though.

See much more on his website. 

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I also love...

Jillian Tamaki's hand-stitched book covers. Wow!

These antiquated sexual terms...although I don't really think there's a need to bring them back.

This idea of "Reverse Graffiti" is pretty cute.

These retro Lego commercials on Public School.

This is super old but I had it bookmarked and thought I'd share anyway in case you missed it. Best breakup ever? NSFW. It's pretty mean and silly but it sounds like he deserved it. And apparently she'll break up with your boyfriend too if you want.

These tips for House Guests and Hosts by Lonely Planet. 

Morrisey with a cat on his head. 'Nuff said.

Kaylah's post on her cat "The Professor". My favorite two links she posted are "Kitten Yawn in Progress" and "The Evil Professor". I am such a sucker for kitties!  

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Speaking of kitties, Zoe, of A Giraffe in a Scarf, needs help. You can read what happened here to her poor kitty. Zoe has a special place in my heart, as she spent so much time working on a brooch I won in a giveaway a couple months ago. We've emailed back and forth a few times since then, and it kills me that she's going through this right now! 

Zoe has put everything on sale in her shop to raise money for her astronomical vet bills, you can get thirty percent off if you use the coupon code "DAISY". Click the picture below to see her etsy shop, trust me, it's real quality work.

If you don't feel like shopping but really want to help, please go here and donate some money. She is holding a raffle; each five dollars that is donated will automatically enter you in it. You can also help by donating items to give away in the raffle. Email Zoe at agiraffeinascarf@gmail.com.

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Getting tattooed by Colin Wiley. It's like magic happening before your eyes. Or something less cheesy. 

Worthsy. What a great idea. Because handmade is (usually) better. 

Shrek the sheep, mostly because I am wondering if the movie character was named after him. 

Getting all your Facebook friends' faces tattooed on you...oh wait, no. That's stupid. Although right now it does look like she's covered with little cool stamps! For y'all who don't know, that's most likely going to be a big mess in like ten years. Update: it's a fake! Whew!

The nine most mind-blowing disguises in the animal kingdom. The video of the octopus is so cool! And I love the way Cracked writers write; they're hilarious. Also insane? Seven mind-blowing vehicles built and driven by animals. Um...pretty disturbing actually. Especially number four. But it does explain what the hell a "Mexican Jumping Bean" is.

The video of Elsie and Jeremy's wedding. Cuties! I love the blue-haired bridesmaid! And the bee-hives. AND THE FLOWER GIRLS AWW. Not that I'm surprised, but this is one of the best looking weddings I've ever seen. Elsie is always fabulous. And how cool that Leigh-Ann was in the wedding party!

Via Gala Darling: these to-do lists!! I just may copy this system. Now I just need some rubber stamps and index cards. And stuff to do. She also posted "The Bird as Symbol in Current Culture", which is an interesting and unconventional take on the popularity of birds today. (Although I don't approve of them using the word "tats". *PET PEEVE*) (And they spell "moleskine" wrong.)

Speaking of birds..."Put a bird on it!" (LOL Portlandia!)

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Cheeseburger shoes! I've also seen bacon and egg converse before...there's something about hilarious food-related shoes...I think I could rock them.

These ten disturbing photos of masked monkeys. Seriously um, if you look at these, nightmares await you. Caution: mild to medium animal cruelty...chains and such. 

All this good blogging advice over on My Girl Thursday: Blog What You Love, Being Afraid of Yourself and Why That's Probably Not a Good Idea and Video Blogging Tips. 

And THE GIVEAWAYS! Blowfish shoes (this one closes today! HURRY!), Crafty-Baker-Blogger giveaway, Fancy Face giveaway and The Best of The Rest giveaway. They are all amazing!

TAKING A KITTY ON A PICNIC. I wish so much that I could take Yeti somewhere other than to her food bowl, the bed, or where the treats are. She almost killed me last time I tried to force her to leave the bedroom. 

I thought this quote from a "pretty girl" was really interesting. Here's a bit from "What's the Point of Pretty?" by Sarah Von:

I have one such friend who probably ranks somewhere in the range of 11 on the 1 - 10 attractiveness scale.  She models, men fall at her feet, birds and mice sing while sewing her dresses. Despite this, girlfriend is frequently convinced that people don't like her, that her poreless skin is sagging, that she's somehow not good enough.  If I looked like her, I'd spend my days naked and accepting marriage proposals. How could she ever doubt herself?  Everywhere she goes, people praise her.  Everywhere she looks, the media tells her that she looks the 'right way.'  I wanted to know, so I asked.

Her response?  "How would you feel if the only thing people ever praised you for was something you had no control over?  And how would you feel if every day, you were slowly loosing [sic] the one thing people complimented you on?"
 

Ouch, hey? That's a good reminder to us all, to maybe compliment something other than someone's looks every once in a while. 

And last but not least, I love...

Toy Stories by fatheed

Aren't these the best? See more on flickr and buy the prints here. 

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What do you love this week? Leave me a link to your TILT, much love, link love or whatever ... I promise I'll stop by and leave a comment, and maybe check out your blog if I'm not busy playing "get the ball" with Tank or playing Tetris or whatever. 

P.S. I know that I'm re-using some of your links, it's not on purpose, I only just figured out that I need to generate a new code for each separate blog post, woopsie! I'll try to fix it for next week. But for now, just go with it! :)

diptych from tonight

GPOY : me and my chest tattoo!

First, a joke: Two guys walk into a bar. The first guy says "I'll have some H2O." and the second guy thinks for a sec, and then says "I'll have H2O too." When they finished their drinks, he died. 

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I decided there aren't enough pictures of me floating around the internet...so here's one. Ryan snapped this one from our bedroom door yesterday...he caught me in my natural habitat;  listening to random TED talks and drawing a portrait from a picture on my computer. What a nerd he's stuck with, hey? And look at that blank pegboard beside me. 

I should really use it for something.

And here's my half-colored-in chest! Note: it's still quite scabby on the flower and the bee's whole body, so that's why it looks weird and gross. Again, sorry about the watermark, but I just know the internet too well.

Yes!

Today I am...

• Sick of cleaning the litter box. I mean seriously, how often can a cat poop?
• Opposite of bored. I'm having way too much fun on the internet. I mean...hello pizza infographic!
• Excited for dinner tonight. We're having some kind of delicious thing that involves Tofurky franks. Yum.
• Procrastinating on writing this guest post, and drawing some crappy portraits as a "guest artist" LOL.
• Wishing I hadn't left my grandma's camera at work. I wanted to play with it today at the thrift store.
• Loving writing TILT posts. It's so fun to find cool stuff and share it with everybody.
• Thankful that I have a nice little family and a nice little house and everything I need. 
• Thinking about writing, you know, that novel I'm working on.
• Needing to think more positively about myself. I've been giving myself a rough time lately.
• Hoping I have enough money to buy myself a little treat. *cough* threadless.com *cough*
• Super happy I have an office all to myself. Even if it is a bit Peggy Hill. (i.e. In a closet.)

("Today I Am" template "borrowed" from After Nine To Five)

Fisheye, downtown Victoria. And chest tattoo, round three!

1. The "whale wall", a giant mural of orcas. 2. "The Blue Bridge" It's one of those bridges that lifts up when boats need to go underneath. 3. An abandoned coffee in Chinatown.  4. A cool tree in Chinatown. 5. Some lame graffiti on Wharf Street. 6. A Volvo Dealership, natch.

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At the moment I'm healing up round three of the chest tattoo extravaganza. There's nothing quite like walking into work and being asked "Hey do you want to work on your tattoo right now?". I had like twenty minutes to get myself ready while he set up. (i.e. Find as many pain-killers as possible.) Luckily I have the most laid-back boss on earth who didn't mind that I took a three hour break! 

Colin tattooed me until around two and then got back to work. And for the rest of the day I felt SO disgusting. I had a big bandage on my chest, and it was pretty darn hot in the shop. By the time I got home at 7:30 at night, after taking the bus and walking home in the hot sun, I would have killed someone if they got between me and the shower. 

Now, a few days later, now that it's not sticking to my t-shirts anymore, it's looking cool as hell. One more session to go, maybe two hours-ish! I can do that! No pictures for you guys yet though, it's in the ugliest phase of healing at the moment. But trust me, it's killer! 

Lyndon's Sunday Photo Corner 5

Part five: floods can be beautiful!

As always, if you want to use any of the photos taken by my fabulous sister,

please email her at lyndonisawesome@gmail.com for permission!
You can also find her on twitter here. 

Two Banana Peels in a Church Parking Lot

Les mots Français que bloggers are using wrong and it's driving me folle!

 image via bart's blackboard

Look, I don't know if this is an American thing, or an ignorance thing or a lazy thing or what, but for the love of Dieu, stop using French words if you don't even know they're French. I go fricking bananas when I see the following:

1. "or derve"
2. "fo pa"
3. "rendevu"
4. "swarey"
5. "walla" I see this one a lot. Are you kidding me?

*for the correct spelling, see the end of this post

I have literally seen all of these written in people's blogs. If you don't see what is wrong with that list, you are an offender. Please, just stop it. I'm not mad at you, I'm just disappointed.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be a meanie, and I'm also not a French expert. (frexpert?) In fact, I can barely speak the language at all. I understand that not everybody had the benefit of being forced to take French classes from grade eight to ten like everyone from my school was. But guess what...I don't use...oh, I don't know...random Swahili words that I don't know how to spell when I blog.

Just...stop it. Especially "walla". I hate "walla".

For the record, it's:

1. hors d'œuvre

2. faux pas

3. rendez-vous

4. soirée

5. voilà

Things I Love Thursday

 I definitely loved the hell out of this granola until I ate it all. 

It was made by vegan queen-bee, Sarah Kramer (govegan.net) and given to me because...hmm, I don't know why! It was kind of random. Anyway, who cares? It was SO GOOD.

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This week I'm also loving...

This vulture! Look at that neck! And that face! Why's he so mad?

This article about Why Creative People Need to be Eccentric, which I found via Nubby Twiglet's link love.

These photos of abandoned WWII bunkers by Jonathan Andrew.

The "Art Is Hard" t-shirt. :)

The internet-wide TILT-ubiquitous Courney Love interview.

Suzy's thoughts on her first realization the world doesn't revolve around her.

Misnopaelsart's photostream on flickr. Uhhhhh I must have these prints. All of them.

Yann Gross' photography. 

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Vintage Japanese Monster Anatomy from Pink Tentacle, that I found on Public School. 

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This owl backpack. I wish I could get away with carrying something like this. Or that I had a daughter/niece to give it to. 

Lauren's recipe for RAW walnut tacos. Yes, seriously. It looks so good! 

This very important thing to remember this summer if you're going to be near swimming pools, lakes or oceans. Drowning doesn't look like drowning.

This questionaire for ladies in the seventies to determine whether or not they are ready for marriage. Oh. My.

Sponsoring these amazing blogs this month: My Girl Thursday, Windshield Diaries and Desirous of Everything.

Talking about all the dead bodies that are abandoned on Everest. It's unbelievable! (Caution: Not for the very sensitive! Pictures of dead bodies and frostbite!) 

"An area along the northeast route to the summit has earned the unassuming nickname of "Rainbow Valley", simply because of the multicolored down jackets of the numerous corpses littering the hillside."

Wow.

This montage of all the "dramatic" memes. 

All these cool things I found via The Art of Staying Up All Night:  photos of london smog in the '50s, FREE MOVIES ON YOUTUBE!, Hipstercrite's tips on boosting blog traffic (without getting naked), and pugly pixel's letter to a new blogger. Sweet!

The Great Gatsby...video game? 

These infrared photos of Paris on Code For Something. 

This (kind of older) post on Online Etiquette on Design Sponge. 

"Getting a J-O-B Without a B.A." by Darcie Dafoe on Yes and Yes. 

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These custom robot-esque sculptures by Heavy Metal Milkman made from found objects...

Here's the etsy page if you want to see the full pictures of these wonderful creations!

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This paper, written by The Alt Librarian on 'Gender and Its Implications Within Modern American Tattoo Culture'. Mainly because the week I found it (via Kyla Roma) I had been harassed in the streets no less than four times. 

I love Lucky Lucille's feature "Science Is Awesome". This week she wrote about bioluminescence. Rad. 

Superbarbs photography challenge. I love these kind of things. In fact, I tried to set one up via facebook once where I had a list in the album description and then all the photos in the album, but only one of my friends even tried to do it with me, and then neither of us even finished the challenge. Whatever.

This wedding at the Natural History Museum that Zoe found. COOOOOL. 

Supposedly, some guy made his  81 year old dad a Twitter account and told him it's the Google search thingy. So the tweets are supposed to be what an 81 year old man is searching. Click here, and pretend with all your might it's real, and don't ask yourself why he'd continue using it if no search results ever came up. Pretty funny.

Mother Effin' GUN CAMERA on photojojo...gives the word "photoshoot" a whole new feel.

The Burning House website, where they post people's photographs of what they'd try to rescue if their house was on fire. Although I think most of it is complete bullshit and hipster crap. Honestly I'd grab boyfriend, kids, dog, cat and maybe my passport, purse, grandma's camera and laptop if I had time. Not my pretty trenchcoat and a jar full of plastic mice. I'm not that sentimental I guess.

SNL's character "Stefon". 

This helpful list, "The Secret Language of Flowers". 

Laughing at Juggalos. And The Gathering of the Juggalos website. There's also an infomercial.  It's like watching a worse version of Jersey Shore. Have you seen the episode of Workaholics where they become Juggalos? Have you seen the show Workaholics at all? It's hi-frickin'larious. DARK CARNIVAL, haha.

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This 'Silly Symphony' cartoon from 1929: Skeleton Dance.

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And last but not least...

sandwiches.

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What are you loving this week?

Please add a link to your link love posts here. (i.e. TILTs, much love Mondays, link love, whatever.) 
I promise I'll personally stop by and leave you a super fancy comment.

work shenanigans

Bryan, Cody and Kyle got the "shop tattoo" the other day. It's just a little Sailor Jerry flash piece, a dollar bill with wings (Flying toward the shop, right Gerry? haha), but we all have it now. Matchy matchy. Aren't we cute? Here's Cody doing Bryan's.

 Mine is in my armpit...when I got it, a few years ago, I didn't want to potentially mess up any spots that I could use for large tattoos later on. It was my first "spur of the moment" tattoo. Now I don't really give a shit, haha, I'll get a tattoo at the drop of a hat. Here's a very awkward picture of it that I just ran into the bathroom (for the pretty background color) and took for this post. How on earth can a person take a good picture of their own armpit? I'll never know.

LOL about the stubble. Hey, you know what? Everybody has pit hair. Get over it.

By the way, getting tattooed in your armpit feels so disgusting. You know when someone tickles you too hard and you kind of want to throw up? Now imagine that with needles. Gerry also said it was horrible for him too. Because I was sweating, so he'd do a line, wipe, and pssshh all this sweat would come out. So. Nasty. So if you ever get a tattoo in your armpit, remember to tip very well afterward. They deserve it.

Also on my camera were these gems...

Kyle recently got a bad-ass memorial tattoo of a HAM radio for his grandfather from Chris David, who I am dying to be tattooed by, by the way. (Some day, ohhh some day.) I had to get some pictures of this, he was showing us the tattoo and Cody made himself way to comfortable to look at it. I don't know...it just looked hilarious. And for some reason Bryan is shocked?

You are not allowed to be shy when you work in a tattoo shop. Them's the rules.

And all that? Was the new counter-girl's first day. Welcome to the awesomest job ever, haha.

Cantinflas and my May monthly roundup

I thought I'd try something new and give y'all a look back at this month on Might As Rella. But first, here's a full-length hilarious movie with one of my all-time favorite Mexican actors, Cantinflas. He's hilarious.It's in Spanish and the majority of the comedy is wordplay, so feel free to skip right over this if you don't espeak espanish. But if you do, you're welcome.

So, about this "round-up", I thought I'd try it out this month and see what you guys think. Basically it's just a list of everything I wrote about in May, but all parsed up into nifty little categories: the good, the bad, the ugly, the nerdy, the pretty, the fisheyes, the awesome, the Thursdays and the rest. Welp, here we go!

Remorseful animals.

A hamburger bag made me happy.

Russel Brand is awesome.

White-girl dreadlocks one.

White-girl dreadlocks two.

The awesome clothes we wore as kids. 

Street Harassment

Advice on blog anonymity.

"Star Wars Day"

I over-contemplate pools of gas.

My Reading List.

The last part of interviews with Lyndon.

My favorite pictures my sister took.

Lyndon's Photo Corner 1.

Lyndon's Photo Corner 2.

Lyndon's Photo Corner 3. 

Lyndon's Photo Corner 4.

The Chalk Ladies of Government Street.

Fisheye old buildings edition.

Fisheye Randoms.

Fisheye Randoms 2.

Seeing the Pixies! 

An interview with Suzy from It Walked on My Pillow.

Mail from South Africa.

Crappy Portraits.

Chest tattoo, round two.

TILT 1

TILT 2

TILT 3

TILT 4

A Canadian military academy graduation.

Off the cuff.

Random sailor parade.

On hockey, as a Canadian.

Lately.

fisheye randoms

Lately...

I saw that Danielle posted a little update called "lately" on her blog. It was short and sweet and I am copying it,so yeah. There's that. Here's what I've been up to lately.


Reading: At the moment I am re-reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. This is definitely one of my top ten books on earth ever. It's so well written, and uh...it's the story of the life of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. Awesome. I can't recommend it enough.

Watching: Ryan and I went and saw The Hangover part two last night at the local ghetto theater. More shocking than any part of the movie was all the parents who brought their super young children to see it. Not really my idea of a family friendly show, maybe I'm just old fashioned?

Listening: Working in a tattoo shop kind of kills a person's love for music after a while. I actually have been secretly revisiting old high school favorites like the Nirvana Unplugged album and Soundgarden's Superunknown.

Eating: ...sandwiches.

Loving: Spending time with my man, my cat, my dog, my books, my laptop. Getting letters in the mail from old friends. Sleeping and pajamas. Cheap red wine that stains my teeth. Getting up at 6am to read blogs and sip coffee while everyone else is asleep. My Toms shoes. Knowing that the few people in my life are worth a thousand acquaintances.

Looking forward to: every new day.

Lyndon's Sunday Photo Corner 4

Round Four...Cuba edition! 

You can find Lyndon on Twitter here. As always, if you want to use any of Lyndon's photos, please email her at lyndonisawesome@gmail.com for permission. Thanks!