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05/08/2008
No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever

Needled tries to present the very best of tattooing without mocking the bad. That is, unless you're a celeb who has the resources to find the best and pay for it. Then it's open season. But there are moments when I yearn to do the blog version of shaking someone silly and screaming What were you thinking?!

For example, I love BMEzine's Modblog, but when I see something like the Twinkies chestpiece tattoo and the comments saying how awesome it is, I just wanna vomit cream filling. Sometimes acceptance of all things in tattoos isn't a good thing. Sometimes you just have to call someone a dumbass.

Thankfully Vice mag's Aviva Yael and P.M. Chen have done this for me in their new book, No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever. [In fact, I was surprised BMEzine didn't get any props in the book as the tattoos featured are often straight from BME's most popular posts.]

You know the ones I'm talking about: the I'm Gonna Kill You Ray Romano tattoo, the Hitler portrait, and the