When I was growing up, certain people had tattoos and dogs. You always found that punk-rock guy with arm-sleeve tattoos. And you said to yourself: 'I'm never going to do that'.
Nowadays, you see every single guy and kid -- and girl, by the way -- ruin their whole body with tattoos. It's become very usual now to see someone with -- not only sleeve tattoos -- tattoos all over their body. You're not seeing one or two tattoos on a arm or leg, you're seeing tattoos done on necks. People are getting them done in types of areas that should be heavily second thought of, before doing it.
And these are young kids inking their bodies up to an extreme levels, so they can look like Lil'Wayne or Wiz Khalifa. They're in their 15-year old faze now, and don't realize by 25 their persona can change. When you got a tattoo on your neck - back then, you were consider to be either crazy, or a person whose been in jail for 40-years. Now, just simple kids are getting them.
If you want to be different, getting tattoos all over your body is not a unique thing anymore. And I'm not telling you how to live your life, I'm just saying it's not unique anymore...because it's not. It's not original anymore; nor it's art, anymore. It's being overly abused.
I want to get a Yankee tattoo. But sometimes I don't, because I see so many damn people with tattoos. It's getting overblown and useless. Like Air Jordans.
Women, now have tattoos all over their bodies. Remember when we use to stop and stare at a girl who had sleeve tattoos ... That originality is gone. There use to be one in a million Kat Von Ds. Not anymore. Now they're five million Kat Von Ds
Dogs: I like dogs ... I do. I don't hate them, but, the people who own them nowadays - makes me hate them.
Like tattoos, back then certain people had dogs. You always saw that one neighbor in your building who owned a dog and you said: 'I'm never going to that person's house with that dog; how does that person pick up dog shit ?' Now you're picking up four yodel-looking dog shits, because you own -- not one -- but three dogs !
Have you notice how people react when they see someone walking a dog, now ? They stop and stare at it like it's an alien from out of space. You should see how people circle around a dog that someone is walking, and stop and stare as if they were Steve Irwin and they're watching a rhino in Africa. Give me a break, will ya ...
Because of those who want to stop and stare at a owner's dog, now if you see someone walking a dog on front of you, they take so long to get the hell out of your way because they think you're gonna stop and pet it. It's almost like they want to trip you with the dog.
And the reason why I think it's pathetic because half of those people never liked dogs, before. But now, since it's another trend that's gone to insane measures, people see others doing it and now they're 'dog lovers' ! :D
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It's going to far with these dogs. People communicate with their dogs as if it's going to college, one day. Like if it's going to move out of the owner's apartment and live on it's own with a house and a job. It's not a human being ... It's a dog ! It's a fucking animal !
There's too many dogs in New York City, too. I live in a area where there's pee in every corner, from a dog.
This column about dogs and tattoos is not to bash people's identity crisis, or their desperate ways to fit in -- it's also fascinating to me how the world moves. How something so nutty 15-years ago can be, can now be an okay thing. Although, some people need to be more of a leader than a follower.
Be yourself. Stop taking the easy way out by looking and thinking like every damn person you know and see. Because we need more new people who think for themselves in this world. If we get the same person with the same ideas, we're not going anymore.
