Thursday, January 1, 2009

Tattoo follow-up re: Fla familia response


--It's an escargot

--la Scungeli!
These were comical takes from male relatives. Meanwhile, my aunts, especially Mickey, or Islee (island in Portuguese) honed in on it, "Why did you choose that place on your body?" Nodding before I could answer, stroking my humpy little wrists with red fingernails. To create an image to serve as a bridge between another image and an exterior--the question meant more to me than any affinity for the idea of tattooing itself.


on Twitter

, where this blog lives now. because it can be read and posted to through that app, one-handed, on my back, by a body of water, or in the cool olive green light above my mattress. This is articulation my spine had not dreamed of before.

My blog lived on Tumblr for a minute

because it is so much easier to access from my phone. fallinginrealtime.tumblr This is the feed. No, I don't like it. I can't add another virtual box. I'll make due with Twitter.

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