Jubail Celebrates the Midnight Mile

I met Jubail on the corner of 34th and 6th Avenue, and he shared this awesome tattoo:"Midnight Mile" is a song by Bouncing Souls, and it reminds him of coming home to New York City.Jubail, who has "nine or ten" tattoos, was a student at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.He was about to earn his commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army when I spoke with him, and he knows he can

Grover's Tattoos Recollect the Past, But Focus on the Future

I ran into Grover a month or two ago where he worked in Penn Station and admired the work on his sleeve. As I try my best to not disrupt folks on the job, I passed him a Tattoosday card and was happy to see when he e-mailed me a few days later.Our schedules are different, and we tabled any definitive date to meet and discuss his ink. But one day, by chance, I passed the business where he worked