Its a shitty statement to even utter, but it’s the truth. Sometimes bad people never get what we think they deserve. It’s tough to process, especially if your personal feelings are involved. Watching someone who you know has trash character be successful is painful. We love a hero story. Literature and film have been telling…
Author: timpangburn
The Tattoo Industry is a Circus
The tattoo industry is a circus. I don’t mean that as a compliment, I mean it as an insult. The circus was cool when I was a kid, with all of the elephants, a life on the road, and clowns. Now it’s just disappointing, with all of the animal abuse, cramped living quarters, and, well,…
You can’t stop bad things from happening
When I was in my early 30’s, I asked my dad when I would get a break. There had been so much difficulty and so many challenges, that I thought I deserved a break. I wanted a run of good things to happen. Hardship was beating me down. He told me there is no break….
Battling Artist’s Block
My brain is a scrapyard. Most of the stuff laying around in there is just waiting for the landfill or furnace. Instead of crushed cars stacked five stories, it’s jettisoned art projects, blurry nights from my 20’s, and all the forgotten cheat codes from GTA3. You don’t always find a lot of useful things in…
It’s never too late to make a change
I used to think I was a man set in his ways. Hell, I still try to pitch that idea when I’m being stubborn about something. The truth is, I’ve made multiple drastic changes in my life. My father showed me that change can happen at any time, and when I was in my early…