11.18.2009

Never fall asleep in a tattoo parlor

How else do you explain Kenyon Martin's lips? Not the lips on his face -- the lips on his neck. They're fire-hydrant-red women's lips, smooching there for all time, a permahickey.

link: The Life of Reilly -- Rick Reilly -- The odd, often-confusing culture of the athlete tattoo - ESPN

And then, notes Cub Reporter Paul Knue, there's a fighter named Melvin Costa.

Written in elaborate scroll underneath his belly button, it says -- and may God take my eyesight if I'm lying -- "I Have A Small Penis."

"I really don't get this whole tattoo thing," Knue adds.


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