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Page A-4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 1, 2018
TllESE TIMES
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The last time I drank enough but he's an interesting, talented
liquor to hit a 0.08 blood-M- and thoughtful man with an en-
cohol level, which is, in that gaging manner and an easy smile.
odd phrase, "legally drunk," was But he's still a guy you'd definitely
more than two years ago on our want on your side if things got too
oldest son's 21st birthday. Itwas a weird.
joyous, festive late summer night CoffinBirth is filled with ele-
with family and friends, ments of the macabre that
and I took it upon myself are worth seeing even if
to show Alexander, just so you're not shopping for a
he'd know, what irrespon- tattoo. In addition to his
sible drinking looked like. art that's displayed on
Before my son's 21st the walls - he's a comic
birthday, my prior time at book artist and has drawn
0.08 was in 2004, again at album covers - the shop
a birthday party, which includes a display of
this time included a beach mounted butterflies that
on Henderson Inlet, a By KIRK look oddly malevolent, ani-
bonfire and a bottle of ERICSON mal skulls, a letter written
Jameson Irish Whiskey. by serial killer John Wayne
The beach, bonfire and bottle all Gacy and a mannequin with ex-
contributed to an injury that in- posed innards, which reminded me
troduced me to my supraspinatus of the album cover of"In Utero"
muscles, which I had been wonder- by Nirvana. In fact, the music of
fully unaware of before that night. Nirvana was playing the entire 45
The point is, I rarely drink to minutes I was there. His drawings
excess, I don't have a tattoo and show a similar fascination with
I've never been inside a tattoo the anatomical grotesqueries that
parlor, which made a dream I characterized Kurt Cobain's art.
had last week especially pecu- Wizard's just a quirky, accom-
liar, even by dream standards. I plished, competent and hard-work-
was staggering drunk on a city ing family guy - my kind of Ameri-
street at night. I saw a tattoo can. He's focused on developing his
shop and went in. The next scene crafL, and he's fascinated by the
was on the sidewalk, where I was history of his artistic pursuit, how
swaying, bathed in the light of it started and how it grew in popu-
a streetlamp and staring at the larity in the United States.
palm side of my wrists. "My personal aesthetic is I like
I had a Hello Kitty tattoo on my knowing where things start," he
lefL wrist and a Hello Kitty tattoo said.
on my right wrist, which was extra But, back to where why I was
bizarre because I wasn't aware there. How much would a Hello
that I knew who or what Hello Kitty tattoo cost on both wrists
Kitty was. But there they were. and how much would it hurt?
Inked on my wrists. My immediate "$60 for one Hello Kitty, but if
thought was: "Good God! How do I you get it on both wrists you'd get
explain this?" a break on the second," he said.
It was disturbing enough to "It's going to burn and it will be a
wake me up, and I thought about hard heal because of the constant
tattoos and why people get them stretching of your wrists."
and what tattoo parlors are like He said he just did a Hello Kitty
and how much it would cost - and for one female customer - it was
how much would it hurt - to get a combo with a My Little Pony.
two Hello Kitty tattoos on the in- How's that for edgy?
side of both wrists. I told Wizard I'm not interested
I went to CoffinBirth Tattoo & in getting a tattoo, mostly because
Curiosities on Second Street in I can't think of a single image that
Shelton on Monday and talked means so much to me that I would
with the owner, Wizard Garrett, want to make it a permanent at-
37. Wizard has tattoos on his traction.
neck, his bare skull, arms, hands, But if I ever do, I know where
fingers and other places I couldn't to go.
see, but I suspect are there. He's
brawny and has a goatee, too, so Contact Kirk Ericson at kirk@
some people might be wary of him, masoncounty.com.
Tour state legislators
just voted to make
.L their work much
more secretive.
Last week, the state's
House and Senate rushed
through SB 6617, which
exempts lawmakers from
the Public Records Act
and does so retroactively.
The emergency measure
provides elected officials an
end-around to a January
court ruling that found the
state Legislature is subject
to public disclosure laws.
Instead of falling in line
with the judge's ruling, the
Legislature approved SB
6617 in only three days,
approving the bill by a
wide margin on Friday
afternoon with minimal
input from the public.
Your three 35th Dis-
trict legislators voted in
favor of the bill, which
gives state senators and
representatives the option
to not disclose documents
or communication with
people they consider to be
constituents.
Last year, the Associ-
ated Press, the Washing-
ton Newspaper Publish-
ers' Association (WNPA)
and other media agencies
sued the Legislature af-
ter it would not release
documentation of sexual
harassment and assault
complaints against all
state lawmakers. The
Journal is a member of
the WNPA.
With Friday's action,
well never know what ac-
tually happened in those
cases unless those elected
officials decide to release
that information.
We agree with the
WNPA that sponsors of the
bill are being disingenuous
when they say the law is a
move toward transparency
-- the move is absolutely
the opposite. It effectively
shields communication
between anyone who is not
an official, registered lob-
byist in Washington and
legislators.
We're also discouraged
that our three local legis-
lators -- state Reps. Drew
MacEwen, Dan Griffey,
and state Sen. Tim Shel-
don -- voted in favor of
the bill.
But it wasn't just them.
The bill passed the Senate
41-7 and the House 83-14.
Because of those large
margins, a Gov. Jay Inslee
veto would simply turn
the measure back to legis-
lators to approve again.
So now opponents of
the bill are scrambling,
but it begs the question:
What are our legislators
trying to hide?
THEY'RE NOT
TAXES,
THEY ARE
FEEs.
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