Depending on what browser you're using (I'm on Firefox to describe this), go to Tools, then Clear Private Data. It will give you many checked boxes. Choose "Browsing History", "Cache", "Cookies" and maybe "Saved Passwords" unless you wanna keep those. Tell it to clear that data and you ought to be home free.

In every state I've researched you have to be 18 before they'll touch you with a needle, and must have parental consent. If you're 21 you can get one on your own. I also strongly recommend you NOT pick a tattoo off the wall, because they are ugly, mass-produced and who wants to have the same tattoo as everyone else?
It is also a good idea to do a lot of research before you get this done.

Anime is a really difficult thing, despite its simple appearance, because it is using extremely well-taught artists' talent and simplifying it with style. I'm talking about excellent artists such as Hayao Miyazaki and the artists of CLAMP.

The books that "teach" how to draw anime are a load of worthless crap. They show you how to draw circles and ovals, and then how to add big armor and long hair and all the useless surface designs that look like anime. However, the talent of drawing is a very deep-running river and is the basis of all good anime.

The way I started (I am a senior Illustration major, about to get my degree in May) was by watching anime--simple childrens' anime such as Miyazaki films (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro) and Pokemon. Most people just copy drawings over and over. I admit I did this too. Almost everyone does. XD But you'll be doing this for a few years, usually three or four.

At this point you have a choice. You can learn to copy drawings, maybe even learn to copy someone else's style pretty convincingly by practicing the way someone draws hair, eyes, breasts, dragons, etc. You will get a lot of compliments and have lots of stuff to hang on your walls. But at some point you will find yourself at a crossroads and wonder "Am I happy here, or do I want to make something more? Do I want to make my own designs, use what I've learned, do something else?"

Many people are happy just ripping off other artists (look at http://www.deviantart.com sometime), and you can stay there forever. But if you decide you want to branch out and really create something that looks different, cool, and proper, you'll have to break into actual art. Anime is a surface thing, I can't stress this enough. it looks flashy and cool and because of that, the very solid visual arts background is often overlooked. I love anime. I watch it all the time, my background is there. But I also have four years of an art degree that has taught me figure drawing, composing a space, painting, graphic design, and all sorts of other intense things that have made my illustration my own.

If you've made it this far through my long answer, then that's great. XD I don't want to intimidate you--art can be a good hobby, but for some people (like me) I wanted something more. However, picking up anime idly as a hobby is like saying 'cars' is a hobby. There's a whole extreme, obsessed world for it and you can be as deep or shallow as you want.

If you find you want to be more artistic than just surface design, the one and only best piece of advice I can give you (I wish they had told me) is to pick up a Figure Drawing book and sketchbook ASAP. Do it today, do it now. Start drawing exactly as it tells you, from the skeleton, and the blocks. Nothing else will give you the knowledge and training to draw really beautiful, in-depth human figures. You have to know the bones & muscles to make it look alive, and nobody wants to do that (I watched people drop out of my figure drawing class left and right). But that's my best piece of advice if you're going the artistic track. It's very rewarding! Just enjoy yourself and draw every day, and you'll start making breakthroughs.

You count the weeks, not the date on the calendar.

Yes, K', I'm back, I'm well, I'm tearing my shelves apart looking for my coffee filters, and all is back to a semblance of normality.
Be not faint of heart, for, behold, our love DID stand the strain!

say loudly, "I cnat type!"

omg thx for rating mee for this answur!!!!11one

I think he made it up on the spot--he's really creatively chaotic that way, and the tour has been around for a few years, so that's enough time for the phrase to get around. I'm almost sure it's meaningless.

On Adult Swim on cartoon network one night they had Haiku night, and someone wrote a haiku about poking a badger with a spoon.

Adult Swim wrote back,

"We dare you to find

A transvestite funnier

Than Eddie Izzard."

Which I found just as hilarious as Eddie himself. But if it had a deeper meaning, they would have said something about it. Eddie's a pretty weird bloke.

HAHA! Incredible, it's great I'm seeing this move around.
I don't know how accurate what's-his-face's answer is down there, but it comes from standup comedian Eddie Izzard's "Dress To Kill" tour.

He's making fun of catholicism, as he makes fun of almost everything, and talks about original sin.
"Original sin. What a hellish idea that is!
Oh, bless me father, for I have sinned. I, ah... slept with my neighbor's wife.
Ah, heard it! I asked for ORIGINAL sin! Ten Our Fathers and ten Hello Dollys.
Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I poked a badger with a spoon.
Oh, now that IS an original sin! Never heard that one!
Well, what should I do?
Well, drink ten Bloody Marys... and... you won't remember."

Eddie Izzard is a fantastic comedian and I highly recommend you get ahold of a DVD of "Dress to Kill" or the "Circle" tour. It really is great.

I don't know why this is a fad, because frankly, 80% of the girls I've seen with belly piercings should never have done it. It just looks putrid if you've got fat on your stomach, and that is one of the easiest places to get fat. There's nothing like calling attention to your flab.

My friend (who has a flabby belly) just got hers done and said it feels like a pinch, no worse. My acquaintance got hers done for her 17th birthday and it got infected, very very badly, and she had to take it out and let it heal.

I have never had a fancy party, but all of mine have been very successful and fun for everyone who came. The important thing is to have a lot of friends over who enjoy your company and want to spend time with you on your birthday. Really, everything else is just stuffing.
My sixteenth birthday was a good time because I had friends bring over old tapes of really old shows we all enjoyed in childhood--Knight Rider, Jem and the Holograms, and ancient Rainbow Brite movies. Everyone's got old tapes sitting around in their house. Ask them to bring a few and then put them on as background. Keep the party unstructured. Some people watch TV, some people cut up fruits for dipping in sugar, or what have you, some people socialize on the back porch...

You don't have to spend hardly any money at all if you get everyone to bring a munchie snack and a tape, or a game for your PS2 or Nintendo64, and a 2-on-2 game of Tekken or Mortal Kombat ALWAYS livens up a party. You don't need to be fancy to have a good party.
And trust me, they're not lame little get togethers. They can be very relaxing and silly. Spaceballs and Wayne's World are two excellent party movies to get people in a good mood.

Thanks for your kind comments, actually.

Most of the things on my geocities site are pretty darn outdated--early high school, even. When I find the time and the inclination to wade through a virus-infested version of dialup AOL and upload, I put more recent things at http://koshii.deviantart.com .
I'm very pleased you like my poetry. Much of THAT, too, is pretty old... and I started getting uninspired when making that part of the site, so there's not much love going on in that corner. However, when people leave me notes like this, I get just motivated enough to go back and do something with the place... ;)

And yes, I think you have a point about my happy poetry being not very happy. Oh well... that's how it works..

Well, I hate Disney with a slow-boiling passion, but I've researched their tactics and history and it's not at all a pretty picture. Let's totally ignore their shitty art for the moment and the "colleges" they pull employees from. They're a bunch of corporate dicks.

But hey, you didn't request my rant, you asked if your ex and you are incompatible in a deep and soul-piercing way. I would answer to the affirmative. I couldn't live with a man who loves Disney. Good thing mine doesn't.

It's the action (and resulting phobia of) of more than seven advice columnists all giving the same answer.

No, I am NOT a "dukie". I am an art major. I have no affiliation, which is fine, because no sports team wants my support (as it has been for hundreds of years in the western cultures).
I hate all sports and all sports teams.
Yes, that is a generalization, but it serves my purpose this early in the morning after staying up past three a.m. working on art projects.

42.

No.

42.

Well, you could try throwing out the cup. That would get rid of it.

However, you would be back in eleven minutes complaining that the spitting has not stopped. I will save myself the carpal tunnel by assuming that you don't want to swallow it. That leaves decongestants such as suphedrine, hot green tea, steamy showers and just putting up with it. Pick your poison.

It usually hurts more the second time because you've already worn trenches in your brainflesh from the first round, and the thoughts keep rolling around through these trenches and just make it deeper. Eventually it'll scab over and you'll think very shallowly, because the deeper you think the more it hurts. That's the best part of America--everyone is encouraged to be as shallow as possible, so as not to hurt themselves. Goddess bless America!

People have been coming to me for advice so long, I might as well do this all in one spot. I watch a lot of unfathomable Japanese TV and drink a lot of coffee. I'm a freshly-hatched Illustration major, formerly trapped & dying in the American South, now busily teaching phrases to all of Nagoya Japan. I'm always on the lookout for more video games and sushi.
I have lots of interesting pets. Wanna see my beetle?

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