Writers Also Get B.O!

I am not sure why an article on authors with tattoos annoys me.

Is it because I don't have tattoos or because I don't have a sweet ass book deal?

Maybe it's because the underlying assumption that writers having tattoos is novel (hehe) just continues to perpetuate this wholly outdated mythology of writers being this breed separate and beyond the barely literate masses.

Or perhaps it makes me sad because it is such an innocent and tentative nudging at the mind/body disconnect inherent in written and visual arts. The work, removed from the self, reduced to type on the page, circulates independently from one imagination to the next, with little regard for the flesh from which it came.

Oh god, am I equating books to orphans?! This is seriously the worst period I've had in years.