Our latest entrepreneurial entr\u00e9e into the fragile economic market of the South End is Tatoo U.\u00a0 Armed with dye injecting needles and a menacing array of bicep tats, \u2018Biker Bob\u2019 Kowalski opened up his \u2018body art emporium\u2019 in the cleaning supply room of Hair Today \u2013 Gone Tomorrow\u2019s Rogaine Outlet beneath Windy Rear Realty.<\/p>\n
The opening week alone Biker Bob adorned 30 arms, torsos and lower calves with artworks ranging from colorful butterflies and cute unicorns to snarling hounds of hell and a blood dripping dagger with the always popular logo: NO LOSERS!\u00a0 Bob acknowledges that he\u2019s fighting a long held stereotype of body art that\u2019s a bit negative.\u00a0 \u201cMostly it\u2019s the old farts,\u201d he said in an exclusive interview for the Crab Cracker.\u00a0 \u201cThey equate it with a sailor\u2019s drunk in some port town.\u00a0 Next morning he wakes up with the worst hangover of his life and the wrong girlfriend\u2019s name on his chest.\u201d\u00a0 Bob tells us he doesn\u2019t get many sailors and he\u2019s reluctant to inscribe current girlfriend\u2019s names.<\/p>\n
Scrutinizing the hundreds of graphic images posted on the salon walls, I ask what are some of the favorites of us South Enders.\u00a0 He admits it\u2019s a bit early to say, but he\u2019d done a couple of dragons for the guys and the little butterfly is popular among the ladies. \u201cThey like it right about bikini-line or just visible below the top of the bra line,\u201d he says, then laughs and admits, \u201cme too.\u201d\u00a0 Not bad work, if you can get it.\u201d<\/p>\n
With all the artists down here, I make the mistake of asking if he plans to use any of them to create one-of-a-kind tattoos.\u00a0 This rankles him.\u00a0 \u201cWhy don\u2019t you go ask THEM if they\u2019re going to use any of the other artists\u2019 art to make theirs, ya jerk!\u201d<\/p>\n
I took his point, without the dye, apologized and took a hasty departure.<\/p>\n
Artists are hyper-sensitive people, in case you\u2019ve somehow never stumbled down to Colony Central here at the nettlesome South End.\u00a0 Biker Bob will make a fine addition.<\/p>\n
On my way past a stack of detergent and window cleaning supplies I passed a client coming in:\u00a0 about 18, pierced nose, tongue stud, 3 tiny diamonds glittering in a clean row on her earlobe.\u00a0 \u201cGo for the butterfly,\u201d I meekly suggest.\u00a0 Her accompanying boyfriend glared ominously at me and advised I mind my own business.<\/p>\n
You know, if I had one\u2026.\u00a0 Biker Bob apparently does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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