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Full Coverage: Links From All Over (Oct. 24, 2008)


[BMEzine.com] Oh hey look! It’s one of those newfangled editions of BME’s Big Question that all the movie stars are talking about! Let’s go read it immediately! Yeah, good idea! No, me first!

[io9.com] The ever-wonderful io9 has just posted a pretty comprehensive list of notable tattoos that have popped up in various science-fiction films and series over the years. To the right is a picture of Angelina Jolie from Wanted from their gallery, which I have included here because why the hell not.

[KTVO.com] Are you an adult of voting age in or around Kirksville, MO, who is planning on braving the booths on November 4? Well slap your mammy, because Dyed Hyde Tattoo and Body Piercing is offering “free” (plus $5 for equipment, allegedly) piercings to customers all day, provided they bring their identification, their voter registration card and an “I Voted” sticker!

“This is the most important election in history, as far as I’m concerned, and my idea to give free body piercings on election day is just to get voters out there, give them some incentive to get out there and vote,” said “Flash” [a shop staff member].

[…] He says Democrats and Republicans are welcome to take advantage of his offer.

So after you have navigated the mazes of imaginary 11-foot-tall black gangbangers from the planet Africa who want nothing more than to beat the piss out of you and carve you to pieces, reward yourself for having done your civic duty! Meghan McCain will be on hand, trying in vain to convince the shop owner to give her a free mustache tattoo on her finger.

Comments

17 responses to “Full Coverage: Links From All Over (Oct. 24, 2008)”

  1. Coil.Slade Avatar
    Coil.Slade

    Oh man, that makes me wish I was in Missouri and not Chicago. I wish places around here would do something like that. I’d be all over free piercings.

  2. bob Avatar
    bob

    i second that free is good as long as its still done in a sterile environment.

  3. severed Avatar

    i don’t like the idea of a reward for voting, it encourages people to vote for whatever just so they can get their reward without putting thought into it

  4. luckie_dragon Avatar
    luckie_dragon

    I’m curious to what piercing it is? Since when does any good piercing cost $20, unless it’s earlobe

  5. Ava Avatar
    Ava

    that picture of Angelina Jolie = <3

  6. Sculla Avatar
    Sculla

    i want jolie’s tat’s on paper, like, to chose from! her wrist one (for those that’ve seen the movie)…*drools*

  7. dean Avatar
    dean

    tbh its a fukin mess

    its just random tattoos all over the place she could of had summet gd but it just looks like an unplaned mess

  8. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    I have a feeling that Truman State University (which is in Kirksville) will have a few more pierced students come Election Day.

  9. nickles Avatar
    nickles

    i agree with dean…
    it wasn’t really well planned out… but she’s still beautiful, and i do love the tattoos she has, just as seperates

  10. Paige Avatar
    Paige

    Could be temporary for the movie.

  11. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I always thought the Wanted tattoos (some of them at least), were temporary for the film. I dunno, read it in an article awhile ago. Some of them are actually real, though. I think it’s the tiger.

    Aha, found it: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wanted/news/1707227/angelina_shows_off_her_new_temporary_tattoos_for_wanted

  12. Aiglos Avatar
    Aiglos

    She looked like shit one rye in Wanted. I still wind could of snapped her in half. I like CURVY Angelina. Stick figure Jolie is NOT sexy.

  13. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    9 and 7 r dumb u propablie look as stupid as u sound ….lookin at that picture makes me want tolick her back and bite her real hard #_#

  14. Jayse Avatar

    her arms kinda freak me out in this shot. way skinny.

  15. Dean Farrar Avatar
    Dean Farrar

    13 ur an idoit

    yes shes hot shed be hot with or without tattoos

    that still doesent kill the fact that her whole back is unplaned

  16. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    15 when u type u show tyhe world ur lack of imagination and ur louisy eyes for seeing things so shut up andf l;e ve her no one like u or ur opionion

  17. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    It was really weird reading this and seeing a thing about Kirksville. I’m excited… $5 piercings!

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