Marine-Turned-Underwear Heartthrob Propositioned on The Tonight Show
Alex Minsky — the Marine-turned-underwear model we sorta have a crush on — was pretty charming on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, though clearly very nervous and fidgety (his mom was in the audience and he kept looking to her!). Leno asked him how he got sober and Minksy said, "I don't know. It wasn't my…
Maybe Temporarily Tattooing Your Attention-Starved Dog Isn’t the Worst Idea
How often do you play with your dog? Be honest, now — in our modern age of gadgets and gizmos aplenty, whosits and whatsits galore, who really has the time or patience to teach a dog the finer points of fetch, or even drag it unwillingly around a noisy city block as if it was a debtor being taken to Jabba the Hutt to…
Ryan Cabrera Got a Very Normal Tattoo of Ryan Gosling's Face on His Leg
People take tattoos seriously to varying degrees. Some think that anything you commit to your skin forever should have a significance, others think that it should just be visually appealing and then — way out there on the fringe — there's sort of-celebrity Ryan Cabrera who got Ryan Gosling's face tattooed on his calf…
In a Room Full of Naked Koreans, Margaret Cho's Body Is an Unwelcome Sight
This is a really beautiful Korean spa in Los Angeles called Aroma Spa & Sports. Korean spas are wonderful, and they hold a special place in my heart. I have been going to the jimjilbang since I was a little girl in Korea. You can have a bath and a scrub and a sauna and usually a meal and other spa treatments if you…
The Ugliest Tattoos of One Direction
For the most part we are all grown women with grown women skills and grown women tastes in a whole variety of grown women things. We all probably drink wine, talk about books and have maybe even gone to see a Wilco concert or two, so, with that preamble out of the way, let me ask you — have you paid much attention to…
Lady Gaga Partied So Hard in Rio That She Got a Tattoo, Burned the City Down
Lady Gaga apparently had so much fun in Rio that she got a tattoo to commemorate her good times. Then, according to her Twitter account, she and her friends inexplicably burned the entire city to the ground. "Tonight, the love we made set Rio in Flames," tweet taunted Gaga. "I'll never forget that show Brazil. You Are…
This Children's Librarian's Tattoo Sleeve is Whimsical as Fuck
Right? That is the arm I want to read me Matilda as I fall asleep cuddled in it. This magical appendage belongs to Heather Warren, a kids' librarian at the Philadelphia Free Library.
North Carolina Mom Arrested for Tattooing a Tacky Heart-Shape on Her 11-Year-Old Daughter
South Carolina may have had its summer fling with questionable-parenting news stories, but it's fall now, everyone's been home from vacation for a good long time, and it's high time we got back to recognizing North Carolina as the slightly colder, more sober questionable-parenting Carolina. According to police in…
Gender, Power, and Chris Brown’s Battered Woman Tattoo
In 2009 R&B singer Chris Brown pled guilty to assaulting singer Rihanna. At the time of the incident, photographs of her bruised and swollen face were passed all over the internet. This week we learned that Brown has tattooed the face of a battered woman on a very public part of his body, his neck.
Government Workers in Osaka Forced to Admit If They Have Tattoos
You probably don't have a problem with visible tattoos on people working — whether it be a dolphin on the ankle of the check-out lady at the grocery store or some retro-sailor ink on a cute bartender. But in Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, tattoos are not welcome in the workplace… especially if you're a city…
Unemployed People Rushing to Get Shitty Tattoos Removed
It may be a slow job market, but there's one sector that's booming: Tattoo removal. ABC News reports:
Awesome Tattoo Artist Draws 3D Nipples on Breast Cancer Survivors [NSFW]
Superstar tattoo artist Vincent "Vinnie" Myers has created three dimensional nipples and areolas for around 3000 breast cancer survivors over the past decade. He uses "precisely mixed pigments" to create his lifelike masterpieces, which he says are "far more rewarding than anything else I have ever done." He told the…

