Since I'm recovering from a bad@ss party the night before, I'll leave this little oodle of revenge for y'all.

Cheers
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Disgruntled Asian [American] Tattoo Artist Inks His Revenge

Symbols on the back of a Pitt Student inked by Sakai (inset) were originally meant to say, "princess." They really say, "prostitute."

Reprinted from Sept. 2002 -- Pitt junior Brandon Smith wanted a tattoo that proclaimed his manliness, so he decided to get the Chinese characters for “strength” and “honor” on his chest. After 20 minutes under the needle of local tattoo artist Andy Sakai, he emerged with the symbol for “small penis” embedded in his flesh. “I had it for months before I knew what it really meant,” Smith said. “Then I went jogging through the Carnegie Mellon campus and a group of Asian kids started laughing and calling me ‘Shorty.’ That’s when I knew something was up.”

Sakai, an award-winning tattoo artist, was tired of seeing sacred Japanese words, symbols of his heritage, inked on random white people. So he used their blissful ignorance to make an everlasting statement. Any time acustomer came to Sakai’s home studio wanting Japanese tattooed on them, he modified it into a profane word or phrase.

“All these preppy sorority girls and suburban rich boys think they’re so cool ‘cause they have a tattoo with Japanese characters. But it doesn’t mean shit to them!” Sakai said. “The dumbasses don’t even realize that I’ve written ‘slut’ or ‘pervert’ on their skin!”

In the last month, seven people unknowingly received explicit tattoos from the disgruntled artist. Kerri Baker, a Carlow College freshman, paid $50 to have the symbols for “beautiful goddess” etched above her belly button, but when she went into Szechuan Express Asian Noodle Shop sporting a bare midriff, the giggling employees explained to her that the tattoo really said, “Insert General Tso’s Chicken Here!” “I don’t even like General Tso’s!” Baker sobbed. “I’m a vegetarian!”

Sakai doesn’t feel guilty about using hapless college students as canvases for his graffiti. “I think I’m helping my fellow man by labeling all the stupid people in the world,” he explained. “It’s not a crime, it’s a public service.

Makin' Mine Music

~ No Tations ~

Actually, to expand on the previous posting...

The past three weeks have been mighty busy. First my schedule...

School: 8am-6pm Mon, Wed, Thurs
8am-9pm Tuesdays (ouch)

Work: Fri, Sat, Sun

So as you can see I basically have no days off to myself. I'm either at school or work, which probably isn't so bad. But also consider I'm singing in 4 ensembles, plus my annual Oakland/Alameda Community Chorus gig, which is on Saturday mornings.
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I would have loved to talk about the German folks who came from Bochum, Germany to sing and stay in San Francisco, but basically they left last week and I'm too tired to talk about it. Let's just say that I have mucho places to stay when I'm in Germany for the 2006 World Cup! Aw yeah!
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Just got back from a party for a fellow member of our Chamber Singers. He'll be in England for a year studying film. So we got together [in our state of inebriation or 'higher consciousness'] to sing one last time. We sucked but it was still fun.

I should actually be sleeping but there's a girl on my mind, and plus I can now surf the web at 200x the speed of 56K dialup!

Makin' Mine Music

~ No Tations ~

Fact: School is kicking my @ss.

I finally got high speed internet REhooked up here so I can blog.

But because of [Fact] I'm too tired.

Therefore I shall write something worthwhile at a future date.