I’ve been inked; the tattoo is finished — for tonight, at least. Here ’tis:

We still have to do the background aura/rays/something but we’re going to wait until this heals up and we kick around some ideas for what it’ll be before we continue.

I love it, this was my best tattoo experience yet. The artist was Danno at Art to the Bone in Sherman Oaks, and he’s doing all my tattoos from now on. He seemed to love tattooing me, too, because he kept raving about how great my skin took the ink and how he only sees skin like mine is one out of fifty people. “You can get tattooed here anytime,” he told me at one point.

I think I’ll take him up on it.

Plan for this afternoon: get a tattoo. This tattoo:

I’m not sure about the blue rays coming from behind; I’ll be working that out with the artist when I get there but it’ll be something similar. It’s going on my left shoulder. I’ll post another picture of the final product tonight.