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Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson is the author of Tattoo Machine, Tall Tales, Trues Stories And My Life In Ink, as well as several novels. Visit Jeff's website at greatpinkskeleton.com for news on the upcoming noir Dirty Flamingo and the new novella I Shop At Laney's, out now.


“Some flavor of all of this would have remained undiscovered to me. If you try to observe the world for long enough through the perfect lens, then one day it will surely settle permanently into place, and then every object is a still life. You live in the moments between blinks.”
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“Tramp stamp. A tattoo in the center of a woman's lower back. Also referred to as a "California bumper sticker." The germans refer to this as "arschgeweih," which translates as "ass antler." Bravo!”
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“Crazy people can add character to a place. If the ambience in your bar is off, or your lobby has gone inexplicably stale, consider picking up a lunatic. They're not hard to come by, and the often work for free. A lot of tattoo shops have one. Larger places might find it handy to keep two or three around.”
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