A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

L’Chaim


So help me God, if anybody starts a political flame war, you are all grounded.

(Tattoo by Joey Foote.)

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474 responses to “L’Chaim”

  1. Peter Avatar

    So, uhhh, who likes Latkes? I sure do.

  2. Peter Avatar

    So, uhhh, who likes Latkes? I sure do.

  3. Peter Avatar

    So, uhhh, who likes Latkes? I sure do.

  4. Peter Avatar

    So, uhhh, who likes Latkes? I sure do.

  5. Jon P Avatar
    Jon P

    I definitely think we should hand everything over to the athiests. At least their decisions aren’t based on illogical, irrational fantasies.

  6. Jon P Avatar
    Jon P

    I definitely think we should hand everything over to the athiests. At least their decisions aren’t based on illogical, irrational fantasies.

  7. Jon P Avatar
    Jon P

    I definitely think we should hand everything over to the athiests. At least their decisions aren’t based on illogical, irrational fantasies.

  8. Jon P Avatar
    Jon P

    I definitely think we should hand everything over to the athiests. At least their decisions aren’t based on illogical, irrational fantasies.

  9. Jon P Avatar
    Jon P

    I definitely think we should hand everything over to the athiests. At least their decisions aren’t based on illogical, irrational fantasies.

  10. Jon P Avatar
    Jon P

    I definitely think we should hand everything over to the athiests. At least their decisions aren’t based on illogical, irrational fantasies.

  11. Adwoa Avatar

    Jon P

    According to some accounts, It’s the Israeli secularists/Zionists that are continuing this war… for the better part, religious Jews, who have been living there for years alongside their Muslim neighors, do not support bombing the fuck out of dirt poor people. The illogical and irrational fantasy, in this case, is that Western countries have the right to bequeath a country to a group of people regardless of the fact that there are other people living there and expect things to run smoothly.

    And I will say again for the sake of Dean… I’ll shut up about what happens re: Israel and Gaza when the US stops sending Billions of dollars there.

  12. Adwoa Avatar

    Jon P

    According to some accounts, It’s the Israeli secularists/Zionists that are continuing this war… for the better part, religious Jews, who have been living there for years alongside their Muslim neighors, do not support bombing the fuck out of dirt poor people. The illogical and irrational fantasy, in this case, is that Western countries have the right to bequeath a country to a group of people regardless of the fact that there are other people living there and expect things to run smoothly.

    And I will say again for the sake of Dean… I’ll shut up about what happens re: Israel and Gaza when the US stops sending Billions of dollars there.

  13. Adwoa Avatar

    Jon P

    According to some accounts, It’s the Israeli secularists/Zionists that are continuing this war… for the better part, religious Jews, who have been living there for years alongside their Muslim neighors, do not support bombing the fuck out of dirt poor people. The illogical and irrational fantasy, in this case, is that Western countries have the right to bequeath a country to a group of people regardless of the fact that there are other people living there and expect things to run smoothly.

    And I will say again for the sake of Dean… I’ll shut up about what happens re: Israel and Gaza when the US stops sending Billions of dollars there.

  14. Adwoa Avatar

    Jon P

    According to some accounts, It’s the Israeli secularists/Zionists that are continuing this war… for the better part, religious Jews, who have been living there for years alongside their Muslim neighors, do not support bombing the fuck out of dirt poor people. The illogical and irrational fantasy, in this case, is that Western countries have the right to bequeath a country to a group of people regardless of the fact that there are other people living there and expect things to run smoothly.

    And I will say again for the sake of Dean… I’ll shut up about what happens re: Israel and Gaza when the US stops sending Billions of dollars there.

  15. Adwoa Avatar

    Jon P

    According to some accounts, It’s the Israeli secularists/Zionists that are continuing this war… for the better part, religious Jews, who have been living there for years alongside their Muslim neighors, do not support bombing the fuck out of dirt poor people. The illogical and irrational fantasy, in this case, is that Western countries have the right to bequeath a country to a group of people regardless of the fact that there are other people living there and expect things to run smoothly.

    And I will say again for the sake of Dean… I’ll shut up about what happens re: Israel and Gaza when the US stops sending Billions of dollars there.

  16. Adwoa Avatar

    Jon P

    According to some accounts, It’s the Israeli secularists/Zionists that are continuing this war… for the better part, religious Jews, who have been living there for years alongside their Muslim neighors, do not support bombing the fuck out of dirt poor people. The illogical and irrational fantasy, in this case, is that Western countries have the right to bequeath a country to a group of people regardless of the fact that there are other people living there and expect things to run smoothly.

    And I will say again for the sake of Dean… I’ll shut up about what happens re: Israel and Gaza when the US stops sending Billions of dollars there.

  17. yeppers Avatar
    yeppers

    ah, these are exactly the kinds of opinions I would expect to encounter on a tattoo site

  18. yeppers Avatar
    yeppers

    ah, these are exactly the kinds of opinions I would expect to encounter on a tattoo site

  19. yeppers Avatar
    yeppers

    ah, these are exactly the kinds of opinions I would expect to encounter on a tattoo site

  20. yeppers Avatar
    yeppers

    ah, these are exactly the kinds of opinions I would expect to encounter on a tattoo site

  21. yeppers Avatar
    yeppers

    ah, these are exactly the kinds of opinions I would expect to encounter on a tattoo site

  22. yeppers Avatar
    yeppers

    ah, these are exactly the kinds of opinions I would expect to encounter on a tattoo site

  23. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    The edges of that star don’t look nearly razor sharp or bloody enough.

  24. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    The edges of that star don’t look nearly razor sharp or bloody enough.

  25. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    The edges of that star don’t look nearly razor sharp or bloody enough.

  26. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    The edges of that star don’t look nearly razor sharp or bloody enough.

  27. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    The edges of that star don’t look nearly razor sharp or bloody enough.

  28. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    The edges of that star don’t look nearly razor sharp or bloody enough.

  29. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Dean: I have a couple of very close friends who live inside the range of Palestinian rockets, and have all of their lives. They’re both religious Jews, quite orthodox, and they would very much like it if someone could help out Israel not so much by selling them more weapons and turning their heads when they liquify children (just like the enemy does, it’s like watching Daleks kill eachother), but instead by offering assistance, at least politically, for pushing out the psychotic motherfuckers who run Israel at the moment and putting in people who are interested in something other than ironic genocide.

    Evidently a lot of Israelis feel this way.

    It’s very easy for a lot of people to sit around in their very, very safe american houses and make judgements condemning one side and exalting the other, even with the mountain of evidence that both sides are squarely to blame, and have been since about 700 BC, when the Assyrians raised the northern kingdom to the ground.

    You don’t actually need religion to explain the ferocity and insanity of the people in that area of the world. All you need to do is understand scarcity of resource and its affect on sociology.

  30. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Dean: I have a couple of very close friends who live inside the range of Palestinian rockets, and have all of their lives. They’re both religious Jews, quite orthodox, and they would very much like it if someone could help out Israel not so much by selling them more weapons and turning their heads when they liquify children (just like the enemy does, it’s like watching Daleks kill eachother), but instead by offering assistance, at least politically, for pushing out the psychotic motherfuckers who run Israel at the moment and putting in people who are interested in something other than ironic genocide.

    Evidently a lot of Israelis feel this way.

    It’s very easy for a lot of people to sit around in their very, very safe american houses and make judgements condemning one side and exalting the other, even with the mountain of evidence that both sides are squarely to blame, and have been since about 700 BC, when the Assyrians raised the northern kingdom to the ground.

    You don’t actually need religion to explain the ferocity and insanity of the people in that area of the world. All you need to do is understand scarcity of resource and its affect on sociology.

  31. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Dean: I have a couple of very close friends who live inside the range of Palestinian rockets, and have all of their lives. They’re both religious Jews, quite orthodox, and they would very much like it if someone could help out Israel not so much by selling them more weapons and turning their heads when they liquify children (just like the enemy does, it’s like watching Daleks kill eachother), but instead by offering assistance, at least politically, for pushing out the psychotic motherfuckers who run Israel at the moment and putting in people who are interested in something other than ironic genocide.

    Evidently a lot of Israelis feel this way.

    It’s very easy for a lot of people to sit around in their very, very safe american houses and make judgements condemning one side and exalting the other, even with the mountain of evidence that both sides are squarely to blame, and have been since about 700 BC, when the Assyrians raised the northern kingdom to the ground.

    You don’t actually need religion to explain the ferocity and insanity of the people in that area of the world. All you need to do is understand scarcity of resource and its affect on sociology.

  32. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Dean: I have a couple of very close friends who live inside the range of Palestinian rockets, and have all of their lives. They’re both religious Jews, quite orthodox, and they would very much like it if someone could help out Israel not so much by selling them more weapons and turning their heads when they liquify children (just like the enemy does, it’s like watching Daleks kill eachother), but instead by offering assistance, at least politically, for pushing out the psychotic motherfuckers who run Israel at the moment and putting in people who are interested in something other than ironic genocide.

    Evidently a lot of Israelis feel this way.

    It’s very easy for a lot of people to sit around in their very, very safe american houses and make judgements condemning one side and exalting the other, even with the mountain of evidence that both sides are squarely to blame, and have been since about 700 BC, when the Assyrians raised the northern kingdom to the ground.

    You don’t actually need religion to explain the ferocity and insanity of the people in that area of the world. All you need to do is understand scarcity of resource and its affect on sociology.

  33. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Dean: I have a couple of very close friends who live inside the range of Palestinian rockets, and have all of their lives. They’re both religious Jews, quite orthodox, and they would very much like it if someone could help out Israel not so much by selling them more weapons and turning their heads when they liquify children (just like the enemy does, it’s like watching Daleks kill eachother), but instead by offering assistance, at least politically, for pushing out the psychotic motherfuckers who run Israel at the moment and putting in people who are interested in something other than ironic genocide.

    Evidently a lot of Israelis feel this way.

    It’s very easy for a lot of people to sit around in their very, very safe american houses and make judgements condemning one side and exalting the other, even with the mountain of evidence that both sides are squarely to blame, and have been since about 700 BC, when the Assyrians raised the northern kingdom to the ground.

    You don’t actually need religion to explain the ferocity and insanity of the people in that area of the world. All you need to do is understand scarcity of resource and its affect on sociology.

  34. yttrx Avatar
    yttrx

    Dean: I have a couple of very close friends who live inside the range of Palestinian rockets, and have all of their lives. They’re both religious Jews, quite orthodox, and they would very much like it if someone could help out Israel not so much by selling them more weapons and turning their heads when they liquify children (just like the enemy does, it’s like watching Daleks kill eachother), but instead by offering assistance, at least politically, for pushing out the psychotic motherfuckers who run Israel at the moment and putting in people who are interested in something other than ironic genocide.

    Evidently a lot of Israelis feel this way.

    It’s very easy for a lot of people to sit around in their very, very safe american houses and make judgements condemning one side and exalting the other, even with the mountain of evidence that both sides are squarely to blame, and have been since about 700 BC, when the Assyrians raised the northern kingdom to the ground.

    You don’t actually need religion to explain the ferocity and insanity of the people in that area of the world. All you need to do is understand scarcity of resource and its affect on sociology.

  35. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    I like the tattoo. I meand,that is what the post is about right, the tattoo?

  36. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    I like the tattoo. I meand,that is what the post is about right, the tattoo?

  37. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    I like the tattoo. I meand,that is what the post is about right, the tattoo?

  38. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    I like the tattoo. I meand,that is what the post is about right, the tattoo?

  39. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    I like the tattoo. I meand,that is what the post is about right, the tattoo?

  40. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    I like the tattoo. I meand,that is what the post is about right, the tattoo?

  41. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    Sooooo…. I LOVE THIS!<3

  42. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    Sooooo…. I LOVE THIS!<3

  43. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    Sooooo…. I LOVE THIS!<3

  44. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    Sooooo…. I LOVE THIS!<3

  45. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    Sooooo…. I LOVE THIS!<3

  46. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    Sooooo…. I LOVE THIS!<3

  47. dean Avatar

    yttrx: i’m a little confused… are you implying that i’m supporting one side over the other, because my view of this is that everyone’s being stupid.

    i admit i’m not super-informed about what’s going on there, but according to my intro to judaism class, most Israelis aren’t thrilled with the guys in power. it’s pretty fucked up how much support the US gives to that government.

    it’s so frustrating because what they’re arguing about is crap that happened 2000+ years ago that no one actually remembers. there has to be a solution, but fuck if i know what it is. i know the solution isn’t for people to stop talking about it and keep their mouths shut because it “doesn’t affect them” because nothing good ever comes out of silence.

  48. dean Avatar

    yttrx: i’m a little confused… are you implying that i’m supporting one side over the other, because my view of this is that everyone’s being stupid.

    i admit i’m not super-informed about what’s going on there, but according to my intro to judaism class, most Israelis aren’t thrilled with the guys in power. it’s pretty fucked up how much support the US gives to that government.

    it’s so frustrating because what they’re arguing about is crap that happened 2000+ years ago that no one actually remembers. there has to be a solution, but fuck if i know what it is. i know the solution isn’t for people to stop talking about it and keep their mouths shut because it “doesn’t affect them” because nothing good ever comes out of silence.

  49. dean Avatar

    yttrx: i’m a little confused… are you implying that i’m supporting one side over the other, because my view of this is that everyone’s being stupid.

    i admit i’m not super-informed about what’s going on there, but according to my intro to judaism class, most Israelis aren’t thrilled with the guys in power. it’s pretty fucked up how much support the US gives to that government.

    it’s so frustrating because what they’re arguing about is crap that happened 2000+ years ago that no one actually remembers. there has to be a solution, but fuck if i know what it is. i know the solution isn’t for people to stop talking about it and keep their mouths shut because it “doesn’t affect them” because nothing good ever comes out of silence.

  50. dean Avatar

    yttrx: i’m a little confused… are you implying that i’m supporting one side over the other, because my view of this is that everyone’s being stupid.

    i admit i’m not super-informed about what’s going on there, but according to my intro to judaism class, most Israelis aren’t thrilled with the guys in power. it’s pretty fucked up how much support the US gives to that government.

    it’s so frustrating because what they’re arguing about is crap that happened 2000+ years ago that no one actually remembers. there has to be a solution, but fuck if i know what it is. i know the solution isn’t for people to stop talking about it and keep their mouths shut because it “doesn’t affect them” because nothing good ever comes out of silence.

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