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Happy birthday, Brian Decker!

Written by

Sean Philips

It seems like just yesterday, Shawn was asking me if I had heard of “this Brian Decker guy in NY”. I hadn’t. Shawn told me Brian was some piercer getting into doing heavy mod work.  We both assumed that, like most all other,piercers getting into heavier mod work at the time, he had to be a hack. Needless to say he did a helluva job proving us both wrong and is now one of the biggest and most respected names in piercing/ body modification.

For his heavy mod work, his contributions to the evolution of body piercing, his work with ROP and his ability to survive off nothing more than pop tarts for extended periods of time he deserves a big fat Happy Birthday from myself, all the fine folks at BME as well as the modified community at large.

So happy freaking birthday, you delightfully bitter old fart!

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Comments

8 responses to “Happy birthday, Brian Decker!”

  1. Naz Avatar
    Naz

    Happy birthday Brian!

  2. Brian Decker Avatar
    Brian Decker

    Thanks so much, Sean, but that’s the best picture you could find of me?

  3. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    @Brian: it’s better than the one I was going to use 😉

  4. Rexxi Avatar
    Rexxi

    Happy Birthday Brian!!!

  5. Andrea Avatar
    Andrea

    happy birthday, sir!

  6. wayne Avatar
    wayne

    happy hatch day! HIP HIP…(i fully expect three separate hoorah’s people!)

  7. Meagan Avatar
    Meagan

    Happy birthday brian! haha nice pic 😉

  8. robby Avatar
    robby

    happy birthday brian!

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