Tattoos, love and XKCD - A [buzzed] rant.

My friend says that the way I date women is like I’m standing on the edge of a cliff, overlooking a sea of women, and I see the first one making eye contact with me…

I throw myself off the cliff.

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Not exactly the best indictment of my judgement, but hilariously accurate in it’s description of me.

I’ve always fallen hard and fast, and am extremely loyal. Regularly putting my own needs in second place behind the women that I love.

I also, usually tend to ignore the major red flags and faults I might have seen on the walk down the canyon trail, had I not taken the shortcut over the edge of the cliff.

To continue the metaphor one last length, the climb back up the cliff face is usually excruciating, painful, and full of compromisingly bad lays.

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One of my favorite online comics is XKCD. The author, Russel Monroe, is a killer humorist, blindingly smart coder, and lover of all things math and science. His distinct stick figure style is witty, sarcastic, and full of the same hopeless romantic spirit I embody.

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I’ve got quite a few tattoos and almost all of them are related in some way to literature or the arts. Some of them are reminders to myself to make me a better person. Some of them are warnings. Some of them are to inspire.

While thinking about my next one, I couldn’t help think about the most recent relationship of mine that was ending. She wants kids. I don’t. And while I’d love to tell myself that she changed her mind over time, I think it might have been obvious from the beginning if I hadn’t just run at her sexy ass with all terminal velocity speed I’m known for.

Anyway.

I was reading XKCD and thinking about things, and it occurred to me that it would be awesome to combine the joke my friend made about me, and this awesome style of comic.

So, I emailed the dude.

Nothing.

And then I hit him up on Facebook.

A few times.

And not surprisingly, nothing.

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Then by complete coincidence I was having drinks with some friends, and a girl I barely know starts telling me that one of her skills is mimicking artists, or recreating styles. She showed me a couple different things, and she was awesome. So I told her my idea, and asked her what she thought.

And then she gave me this!!!!!

Pretty killer right?

So now I have my next tattoo, and hopefully a warning for the next time.

I did think about how I’m going to explain it to my next girl, but then I thought about how it applies to literally everything else I do.

If you’ve read my previous posts, you know that I’ve gotten myself into some pretty ridiculous situations producing low budget movies. I get asked to do projects, I throw myself at them, and I usually have to climb out of a fucking canyon to get them done.

This is the director (left) and producing partner (right) of the movie I’m on right now for example.

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Probably a good lesson for the rest of my life as well.

Now the only thing left to do is nail the caption, and figure out where to put it. Any ideas?