I’m old. I know. Old, old, old. And gay, gay, gay.
Having been around a while—getting older and gayer with each passing year—I’ve watched a lot of cute boys from rural Washington/Idaho/Wyoming/Montana wash up on Capitol Hill, leverage their good looks to get jobs making coffee/burritos/drinks/whatever, and then over the course of a year or two throw those good looks away with the assistance of cigarettes, drugs, tattoo artists and professional piercers. I get it: nothing stays the same, all things die, it’s the circle jerk of life, man.
But there’s this one waiter/barista/bartender/whatever—I’m not going to say exactly what he does—who, having already gone in for full tattoo sleeves on both arms, now has those plugs-that-look-like-tire-rims in both his earlobes. His plugs are still moderately sized but I worry that they’re going to get bigger and bigger until this boy—who’s just lovely (even the sleeves look good on him)—winds up with long and dangly earlabia where his earlobes used to be.
They’re his ears, I realize, and he can do what he likes with ’em. And he didn’t put those rims in ’em to earn social currency/credibility with me or to attract my attention. (Hell, he may have put ’em in expressly to repel the attentions of dudes like me.) But I’m hoping this particular boy doesn’t go in for bigger plugs. Those moderately-sized ear plugs, like those sleeve tattoos, look good on him. But earlabia don’t look good on anybody.
@102 the same should apply to hairstyles (specifically some “black” hair styles that get the most crap). I understand the need to wear a certain type of clothes to work, but changing my haircut is a bit much.
@92: Okay, not a hole. An opening. That okay? Can I call it an opening? Or is that pussyphobic too? I can’t call it a canal, cuz there’s nothing there. But… an opening?
And, excuse me, but your holephobia offends me. Is there something wrong with holes? I’m fond of holes. And holes are necessarily smelly, you hole-ist bigot.
Hey, this batshit offense-taking stuff is fun!
“hole are NOT necessarily smelly.”
See how much you offended me, Pussymonster? I’m so angry I can’t type straight. Soon I’ll typing in fingers.
Dan, what do you have against smelly holes? Now you hate smelly holes? Jeez, you’re really on the hate train today aren’t you 😛
I am so pleased to see you express an opinion on this and enjoyed seeing comments form other readers. I recently posting my thoughts about excessive tattoos and piercings on my blg (frombothsidesnow1.blogspot.com/) and expressed dismay not at the body art itself, but at feeling like an old foggy for the way these displays make me feel.
when i was 18 i got my nose pierced by this wizard-looking longhair/bearded man with checkerboard sleeves who had long stretched-out lobes.. maybe i am just horny as fuck or have an ear fetish or the pain was turning me on but the whole time i just wanted to tongue those lobes