Sizzle

I got a call from Ms Dee of Uber last night, asking if I'd be willing to be the demo bottom for Lukas Zpira's Scarifiction Workshop again... almost exactly a year ago he branded me in the same workshop, and they were in need of a branding demo bottom again. Of course, I said yes.

So after work this evening I toddled off to Uber, and in front of 20 or so perverts Lukas added to my branding from last year... I'd post pics but it's really impossible to get a photo of one's own upper arm and shoulder. I'll make one of the less squeamish folk at work take a pic for me :) It was good for demonstrating purposes, as folk were able to see how the brand looks when it's healed, as well as the way the scar will spread from the initial strike - the difference between the fresh strikes, and the scars from last year is very noticeable.

Being branded is such a strange experience... even knowing what was coming, I was still surprised at that brief flaring intensity of pain, and how quickly it fades... the sound of flesh crackle-sizzling... and the smoke from my own charred flesh wafting past my face. It's really quite insane... I found myself thinking that about halfway through, the sheer insanity of willingly and happily offering my skin up to be burned, BURNED... sizzle, the same sound a piece of steak makes in that initial moment when you drop it on a hot BBQ.. INSANE.

Very very cool though, and when Dee joked about making me the Uber Artwork in Progress, gradually adding to my brand over the years, I grinned and said I'd be delighted :)

And I still think Lukas is very hot. He's on the "exception" list. Definitely.

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1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bettie Page, a 1950s pinup model who helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, has died. She was 85.

Her agent Mark Roesler says Page died Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack nine days ago. He says she never regained consciousness.

Page attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls across the country. Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.

Roesler says Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia and was about to be released when she suffered the heart attack Dec. 2.