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Full Coverage: Links From All Over (April 23, 2008)

[The Celebrity Cafe] Well well well, guess who’s too good for his tattoos all of a sudden? That chump over on the right, Mister Fancy Hip Hop Producer Pharrell, who you may remember from occasionally whistling and snapping his fingers in the background of Snoop Dogg songs. (OK, he did a fine job on that last Clipse album, too.) Anyway, Johnny Jackerson there used to have all kinds of tattoos, but that era has come to an end! Because he is an adult.

Although Pharrell would not give exact numbers, he did say that regardless of the price he plans to go ahead with the surgery.

“It’s going to be pricey, but worth it,” he says. “I got fire on my arms! I’m a grown man!”

Some vicious Internet rumors, however, have suggested that he is just going to fill his arms right back up with the devil’s ink, and this was just a means to start with a blank canvas. Although this was a laser procedure, that wasn’t always the plan! At first, Pharrell was looking into some experimental grafting process in which the tattoos wouldn’t actually be removed at all, but would have instead been covered with brand new skin, grown on some horrific eugenics flesh farm.

[He] is trying a revolutionary new tattoo removal procedure, which involves applying replicated skin over old body art.

“It’s basically like getting a skin graft, but you’re not taking skin from your ass or your legs. These guys actually grow the skin for you,” he explained to Vogue. “First you have to give them a sample of your skin, which they then replicate. Once that’s been done, they sew it on – and it’s seamless.”

On his blog, however, he wrote, “Laser treatment bitches! Extra crispy. See, no skin graft here, just pure laser pain. This is our own version of Mythbusters! Laser is the new primer.” See, Rob? Some people absolutely do Twitter from the emergency room.

[KMPH] And this just isn’t funny at all. Local Fresno, California, shitbag Enrique Gonzalez, a Bulldog gang member, held down his seven-year-old son while some other fool tattooed a paw print onto the kid’s stomach.

Police discovered the tattooed child on Monday, and soon after arrested the man responsible for the tattoo; 20-year-old Travis Gorman of Fresno. Gorman, a parolee, was arrested on Tuesday, and booked into the Fresno County Jail after he was positively identified by the child as the man who tattooed him. Tattoo paraphernalia was also discovered during his arrest.

Admittedly, everything I know about California gangs I learned from watching The Shield, but that show sure made it seem like gangs down there just willy-nilly tattoo people they consider their property. Whatever happened to just wearing distinctive colors? I miss the ’90s sometimes.

[Guardian] Finally, we’ve mentioned former Palin-child-beau Levi Johnston and his ring-finger tattoo commemorating his love for the former vice-presidential candidate’s daughter, Bristol, but the happy pair of teenagers have called it quits! Now Levi is doing a press tour, showing up anywhere that will have him, trying to squeeze some money out of the situation. Well, last night, he and his clan were on CNN’s Larry King Live, finally answering the question all of America was waiting for: Why’d you get that tattoo instead of wearing a ring, fella?

During a bizarre exchange, King asked to see the “Bristol” tattoo on Johnston’s finger. King asked Johnston why he got the tattoo: “You know, I was – I was hunting again and I lost the ring that she gave me. And it was bad so I figured … this way I wouldn’t lose it and it would get me out of a bind, you know,” Johnston said.

We all know the jury is perpetually out on whether it’s a good idea to get the name of a sexytime partner tattooed on you, but there are many compelling cases to be made for doing that sort of thing. This may not be one of them.

Comments

30 responses to “Full Coverage: Links From All Over (April 23, 2008)”

  1. cuntcumber Avatar

    GROWN MEN DON’T HAVE FIRE ON THEIR ARRRRRMS!!! AHHHHHGGGGGGGAHAHAAAAAAHHHH!
    ::runs around screaming and flailing::

    Now that that’s out of my system, can someone please explain to me what, exactly, laser tattoo-removal has to do with Mythbusters?

  2. cuntcumber Avatar

    GROWN MEN DON’T HAVE FIRE ON THEIR ARRRRRMS!!! AHHHHHGGGGGGGAHAHAAAAAAHHHH!
    ::runs around screaming and flailing::

    Now that that’s out of my system, can someone please explain to me what, exactly, laser tattoo-removal has to do with Mythbusters?

  3. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    I don’t know what to make of Pharrell getting his tattoos removed.

    On one hand, I can’t really say anything against someone deciding to get rid of their tattoos as you could make the same arguments for getting tattoos removed as getting them in the first place. It’s his body and he can do what he likes.

    On the other hand, however, what a prat.

  4. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    I don’t know what to make of Pharrell getting his tattoos removed.

    On one hand, I can’t really say anything against someone deciding to get rid of their tattoos as you could make the same arguments for getting tattoos removed as getting them in the first place. It’s his body and he can do what he likes.

    On the other hand, however, what a prat.

  5. Militant Mitten Avatar

    oh boy,pharrell’s a grown man now ..|..

  6. Militant Mitten Avatar

    oh boy,pharrell’s a grown man now ..|..

  7. nureintier Avatar

    Haha, now “he’s an adult.” And as we all know, adults don’t have tattoos. WTF? What happened to being responsible for your actions and the whole thing about tattoos lasting forever? I guess if you have the money, none of that matters though. Argh. Whatever.

  8. nureintier Avatar

    Haha, now “he’s an adult.” And as we all know, adults don’t have tattoos. WTF? What happened to being responsible for your actions and the whole thing about tattoos lasting forever? I guess if you have the money, none of that matters though. Argh. Whatever.

  9. vini Avatar

    stupid he had some cool tattoos and the artist put al they got in it and he desides to remove them CAUSE HE’S A GROWN MAN NOW uuuuuuhhhhhhhhh !!!!

    so if i am 70 years old and i have tattoos i’m just a teenager ??, haha

  10. vini Avatar

    stupid he had some cool tattoos and the artist put al they got in it and he desides to remove them CAUSE HE’S A GROWN MAN NOW uuuuuuhhhhhhhhh !!!!

    so if i am 70 years old and i have tattoos i’m just a teenager ??, haha

  11. hairy testicles Avatar
    hairy testicles

    im older than he is, and i want fire on my arm! i bet hes doing it out of greed..thinking he might get more work, in movies, and what not if he doesnt have the tats..i hate most of these hollywood types anyways…they are too full of themselves…they make too much money for what little they do..they complain about working 18 hour days…i say welcome to the real world, but they have cushy trailers, gourmet food, and plenty of people running around doing everything for them, during that 18 hour work day…

    so hes an adult now, but he wasnt when he got them? does that mean he was under 18 when he got them?

  12. hairy testicles Avatar
    hairy testicles

    im older than he is, and i want fire on my arm! i bet hes doing it out of greed..thinking he might get more work, in movies, and what not if he doesnt have the tats..i hate most of these hollywood types anyways…they are too full of themselves…they make too much money for what little they do..they complain about working 18 hour days…i say welcome to the real world, but they have cushy trailers, gourmet food, and plenty of people running around doing everything for them, during that 18 hour work day…

    so hes an adult now, but he wasnt when he got them? does that mean he was under 18 when he got them?

  13. La Negra Avatar

    Pharrell, suck my culo chulo!

  14. La Negra Avatar

    Pharrell, suck my culo chulo!

  15. lornen Avatar
    lornen

    Such a fucking retardicon..

  16. lornen Avatar
    lornen

    Such a fucking retardicon..

  17. Dean Farrar Avatar
    Dean Farrar

    just goes to show hes just a kid with no creativeity just doing it to be part of the whole iam so kooolll niggguuuaaaa lol what a penis i hope his arms fall off

  18. Dean Farrar Avatar
    Dean Farrar

    just goes to show hes just a kid with no creativeity just doing it to be part of the whole iam so kooolll niggguuuaaaa lol what a penis i hope his arms fall off

  19. Oliveftw Avatar
    Oliveftw

    The Shield is the best thing on television. Anything Vic Mackey says is FACT.

  20. Oliveftw Avatar
    Oliveftw

    The Shield is the best thing on television. Anything Vic Mackey says is FACT.

  21. Shaolin Fox Avatar

    He looks like a burn victim in that photo. The skin grafting sounds interesting, so why is it being wasted on some asshat who is ‘grown up’ enough to not have ink, instead of some poor kid who got burned in a house fire, or something like that? Must be nice to have money to throw around like that.

    As for the guy who tattoo’d his son…just another reason this kind of equipment should be less readily available.

  22. Shaolin Fox Avatar

    He looks like a burn victim in that photo. The skin grafting sounds interesting, so why is it being wasted on some asshat who is ‘grown up’ enough to not have ink, instead of some poor kid who got burned in a house fire, or something like that? Must be nice to have money to throw around like that.

    As for the guy who tattoo’d his son…just another reason this kind of equipment should be less readily available.

  23. lilangel311 Avatar
    lilangel311

    As the kid grows the paw print will look like a huge ass bear claw…

  24. lilangel311 Avatar
    lilangel311

    As the kid grows the paw print will look like a huge ass bear claw…

  25. tiffany Avatar
    tiffany

    I’m from the Fresno area and the boy’s dad is still on the run. Hopefully they will have them soon… what a horrible thing to do to a child.

  26. tiffany Avatar
    tiffany

    I’m from the Fresno area and the boy’s dad is still on the run. Hopefully they will have them soon… what a horrible thing to do to a child.

  27. tiffany Avatar
    tiffany

    Also… if you would like to see a picture of these winners here is a link to the fresno bee story:
    http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1350831.html

  28. tiffany Avatar
    tiffany

    Also… if you would like to see a picture of these winners here is a link to the fresno bee story:
    http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1350831.html

  29. nureintier Avatar

    >>so if i am 70 years old and i have tattoos i’m just a teenager ??, haha<<

    Yes! We have discovered the fountain of youth!

  30. nureintier Avatar

    >>so if i am 70 years old and i have tattoos i’m just a teenager ??, haha<<

    Yes! We have discovered the fountain of youth!

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