Comments on: In Kansas City With My Favourite Tattoo

By: Siena

Siena — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:02:44 +0000

About designing fjords in Hitchhiker`s guide:
Slartibartfast is a Magrathean, and a designer of planets. His favourite part of the job was creating coastlines, the most notable of which were the fjords found on the coast of Norway on planet Earth, for which he won an award. While Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect were on ancient Earth, they saw Slartibartfast’s signature deep inside a glacier in ancient Norway.
(From Wikipedia)

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:22:47 +0000

Karie, hee! I know! It’s slightly disconcerting when it turns up on Neil’s twitter etc. My arm is famous on the internets! aaah! My other tattoo is sort of literary as well – it’s part of a panel from bird and moon (birdandmoon.com) and I want to get a matching Sandman quote on the other arm, once i work out how to arrange it so it fits.

I’ve been very glad that I’ve got it done, tbh. I thought about a lot of tattos for a long while and I don’t have them but that one was a quick decision and I’ve never regretted it. Even if people do keep asking if it washes off. (“Yeah! I write it on again every day!”)

By: Kirsten Marie

Kirsten Marie — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:36:13 +0000

On geekiness, tattoo art and knitting: Have you seen the Ravelry group with knitting tattoos?

By: Karie

Karie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:15:32 +0000

Meg, you’re an internet celeb! More seriously, I really do like your tattoo. As you may know, I’m not a big Gaiman fan, but i can definitely appreciate people connecting with words and sentences gaining personal significance.

I sometimes wish I weren’t so afraid of needles and that I were more of a tattoo-kind of person because I certainly have words and sentences that I would want to carry with me at all times.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:11:50 +0000

Oh, Contrariwise is one of my favourite photologs. I found it when they linked my literary tattoo and immediately added it to my feed reader! And that light show is wow!

By: Karie

Karie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:05:50 +0000

I haven’t read Hitchhiker’s Guide in *years* – and I can’t remember the fjord comment. what was it?

By: Siena

Siena — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:48:33 +0000

Funny, this was taken close to my hometown. If I still lived there I would have seen this live – it must have been quite spectacular. I haven`t read Philip Pullman unfortunately (but laughed a lot when I read in Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy about the designing of norwegian fjords).