Tattooed
Posted by SpikeAug 31
So, tattoo or not to tattoo? I figured since I’ve already got two Chinese dragons (one spitting fireballs, one playing electric guitar, a Thai snake, a yin yang circle, and a couple of birds done by a Buddhist monk, I should go in a different direction. I thought about images that I have always loved. I settled on this deer skull from the painting Summer Days by Georgia O’Keefe.
I can’t say what she had in mind when she painted it. But it makes me think of the old American West, the wide open spaces, the myths and legends of that time, life and death. I have a poster of this painting in my flat and every time I look at it, it makes me dream of an era that resonates with me even though it was before my time. On my left breast. Here’s the result, I’m quite happy with it though maybe I will add the flowers at a later time:
Unfortunately Jimmy won’t have time to take me to Wat Bang Phra for another tattoo from the monk, so that will have to wait till my next visit.
Responding to a comment, the seafood market that I go to is on Sukhumvit Soi 7. It’s on the right hand side, abou 25 yards or so down the Soi, after the New Wave Bar and before the Park Hotel and across from the Biergarden. If you’re not staying in walking distance, it’s a very short stroll from the Nana BTS station.
I meant to get a picture of our dinner from last night before we dug into it, but things came out one at a time, so here it is after we had already started digging in, awkwardly cropped to omit faces. Tom yum soup, fish cakes, a prawn dish, fish with veggies, clams, some salad, fried rice and steamed rice, water – all really fresh, all delicious, dinner for four at 1,000 baht or about US$26.
There is a more famous, touristy seafood market on Soi 24. Located inside a former supermarket, it’s a single restaurant, not a collection of small stalls like the Soi 7 one. It also costs 3 or 4 times more!
A few years back, I had raw oysters at the Soi 7 market and got really violently ill, bad enough that I had to go to the emergency room at Bumrungrad. Talking to the doctor, I explained that I go to Soi 7 because it’s so much cheaper. “What about if you add in the cost of the doctor afterwards,” he asked. “Still cheaper!” Lesson learned, I don’t get any raw food there any more.
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