Bullnut Pink

Reflections, happenings, thoughts, and the likes

Reflections

Some of you may be wondering where the title to this installment of the newsletter comes from. There’s an apartment complex near my house that has these two ridiculous anatomically correct steer statues out front of it. They look like real cows outside of the apartment, and fooled me the first time I drove by them.

Well, one day we drove in that direction, and parked near said steer statues. My partner was commenting on the large testicles of the statues and their unique coloration…and said “they’re bullnut pink! :O”.

Hope that story took you outside of reality for a moment because holy shit ya’ll, when will the mind lambs stop screaming?? It’s SO fucking hard looking through any social media right now. The misery and anger is in the air like a fog. Truly hellish. It feels like things just can’t keep getting worse, but when they do, something new gives me a new psychosomatic jumpscare! YIKES!

Anyway, not to be all doom and gloom, but I hope everyone’s been finding a reason to find a shred of joy. Hope you enjoyed a tasty meal or something else wonderful happened. We gotta keep our chins up and try our best to persist, comrades.

It’s been very hard to care about maintaining a social media presence with everything going on. Like, it all just feels so empty. I’ve deliberated much about leaving the ‘gram, but for the time being will be leaving my account as is. Some of you may notice already that I don’t post too terribly often, so there won't be many changes there.

Like many others, I’m going to try to shift regular posting to Bluesky. Before I became a tattoo artist, I would post a lot of my art on twitter or Tumblr. So this feels pretty natural. Anything to further limit interactions with cuckerberg’s mind prison.

Happenings

Those of you who have gotten tattooed by me over the past few weeks may have noticed there’s a new face in my workspace! I’m happy to announce that I have an apprentice. His name is Damen and he’s been such a treat to have around! Thanks again to those who have been kind enough to let him peek over my shoulder to observe my work!

I wanted to apologize again for not having new flash up yet, in spite of promising it a few times lately. The release date is postponed indefinitely for the time being, but I’m thinking sometime in February to have some new tattoos for the booking! Having my recent round of custom requests to work on has been wonderful to get my creativity stimulated again, but hasn’t left me as much time to focus on flash. Grateful to have space for all my artwork. Here’s a few in progress projects to feast thine eyes upon!

Thoughts

Head empty, as the kids say. It’s been hard to focus on a lot other than my custom drawings and getting back into a regular habit of going to the gym again. Working out is super crucial to my mental health, I’m realizing. I feel a lot more confident in getting things done after I’ve moved a bit! Plus, my back thanks me. I ain’t getting any younger and my bones need to move, even if it’s going for a quick walk or doing some yoga.

I’ve been listening to a lot of my ‘sad guy’ music this winter. Stuff like Deserta, Radiohead, Diiv, Trentmoller and the likes. Finally gotten around to watching a few movies that people have been telling me to watch for years, like Interstellar. Honestly, ‘twas a bit mid, but a fun watch. It was a little predictable for my tastes (wow, how edgy Cas) but still was a nice “distraction” from reality. Like, what if there WERE another planet in another galaxy where we could just start fresh, all be chill, and get along. :) Wish it was this planet. I HAVE to have hope, still, that it CAN be this planet.

Aside from that, I will be fully real with the chat that I have been a bit of a Balatro addict. Consider me Jonkler pilled. It’s been such a nice and quick game to pick up and play a round of or 2 (or 5. oops.) I’ve also started replaying Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, it’s been such a great comfort game to play. Might fuck around and do my 5th Stardew play through after that. WHO KNOWS. Oh, also been loving the Pokemon TCG Pocket game. That’s been such a light and silly bit of fun. #justgamerthings

Anyway, that’s the haps. That’s what’s going on in my life. I worked a pretty long day today and for some reason felt like capping it off with a nice helping of word vomit. :,) Thanks again to everyone who’s gotten tattooed lately! Really appreciate your kindness, your company and your trust. Here’s a few I’ve done lately that I haven’t shared on the gram.