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Friday  Apr 07, 2006

Every BODY Has a Story: Shadow Dragon

"The dragon on my arm is done in a kind of tribal style by this tat artist named Jesse, at Captain Jack’s. It’s kind of a funny story though, the reason I got it.

Me and my old lady were gonna go camping at Madras and it was a long trip. We packed everything into the car and took off. As we were driving down the highway, I was in the passenger seat, watching the clouds go by.

They were all normal clouds, just clouds, you know? Until this weird one. The cloud was shaped just like a dragon. Not the whole body, but the head was exactly like a dragon, with a hole for the eye and everything.

The cloud was moving along in the same direction as the car, and as I watched it disappear, I knew I wanted a dragon tattoo.

There was something about that dragon in the sky- it was like a guardian dragon, protecting me, looking over my shoulder.

When I got back into town, I went to get the tat the very next day. I let Jesse figure out the design for the most part, but I told him that I didn’t want a classical dragon, or a Chinese dragon. I wanted a shadow dragon watching over me.

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