​We know a deal when we see one. And tonight there is a super duper deal happening in Williamsburg! You can get a handmade tattoo for free with all the free beer you want at a bar called Lady Jay's starting at 10 p.m. (the event is sponsored by PBR, of course). The selections are "stick and poke" tattoos, which means that instead of using a machine, the people doing the tattooing will poke you repeatedly with a needle, prison tat-style; if you're looking for a guide on how to make these things yourself, Vice obviously had you covered like four years ago. All this, in an environment full of free alcohol. What could possibly go wrong?

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photo by Nate "Igor" Smith

This design probably wouldn't get you cast on the show.

SPIKE TV, purveyor of such televised testosteroney magnificence as 1000 Ways To Die and MANswers, has a new reality show in development called . . . InkMaster. Yes, the Maxim of Cable stations is looking for a few good human canvases who'd be willing to get the design of their dreams drawn on-air by "America's best tattoo artists." So if you're an old in the Tri-State area and you've ever wanted a back piece of the Braveheart battle scene re-enacted by the Muppets, now's your chance.

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via Metro UK

​Just when the dreary weather is really starting to get to you on this Thursday afternoon (chin up, it's Thursday!) there comes the news that a 56-year-old man in Mexico by the name of Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic has tattoos of Julia Roberts' face all over his body. There are a lot of Julia Roberts face possibilities! Julia from Pretty Woman; Julia from Erin Brockovich (the actual inspiration for Bukovic's Julia tattoos); Notting Hill Julia; Mystic Pizza Julia.... All this Julia has apparently cost him $100,000.

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​A well-known East Village tattoo artist, who once operated the first legal public tattoo parlor in New York, was arraigned yesterday on more than 100 counts of weapons charges, NY1 reports. 57-year-old Jonathan Shaw -- who's famously inked celebs like Johnny Depp, Marilyn Manson, Naomi Campbell, and Kate Moss -- was arrested yesterday after movers found a holy-crap sized stash of guns and weaponry he was taking westbound to L.A.

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​Every summer, thousands of kids descend on New York in pre-college summer programs, and that's besides the scores of teenagers already living here who aren't "of age." They come wanting to drink underage, smoke underage, and do other things against the law for them even though they're old enough to fight for this country! Regardless, one of those things is getting tattooed or pierced. And a "real" piece of Old New York is still very real:

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