Edward Gorey's Insect God Graces Katie's Arm

So yesterday I met someone with two lovely tattoos based on the art of <a href="http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/">Edward Gorey</a>, but you're going to have to wait to see them.<br /><br />Rather, meeting those tattoos reminded me I had another Gorey tattoo to share, one that I met a month ago today in Penn Station.<br /><br />Katie has seven tattoos and is a fan of Mr. Gorey. It was this piece on her right bicep that caught my attention:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiU8XEfcHgyCFEMXbQQixp3_lHdbujnkfOCYEC7oUb3zxQT6GMCCXQynvK2zmwKphQYtDPe25bkTa-Fc6lv0pbRSyJ4S1DGMkTclkVLFxJVmmkvO3RCNGp5zy0RlsbrlM7mZIYXdiB/s1600/Gorey+Insect+God+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiU8XEfcHgyCFEMXbQQixp3_lHdbujnkfOCYEC7oUb3zxQT6GMCCXQynvK2zmwKphQYtDPe25bkTa-Fc6lv0pbRSyJ4S1DGMkTclkVLFxJVmmkvO3RCNGp5zy0RlsbrlM7mZIYXdiB/s400/Gorey+Insect+God+wm.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><br /><br />From the Gorey book of the same name, this is the "<a href="http://www.europa.com/%7Ebugranch/goreypgs.html">Insect God</a>". This cool tattoo was inked by <a href="http://www.bushidotattoo.com/chrys.html">Chrys Goldberg</a> at <a href="http://www.bushidotattoo.com/">Bushido Tattoo Studio</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary">Calgary</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta">Alberta</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canada</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPiBWQQUIY8-FjpMe-NtBMKsaEu7_L5rxH2fpgSpxdlnkzTch6PBT2yDRvPwjISA0tJIUd9Pv0VkZIKOIkSpzU-PEvZ6dT9NqFnsXZtVNTiF92uQHqxWosNpAjRU0-iLv14r9nc_s/s1600/gorey+insect+god.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPiBWQQUIY8-FjpMe-NtBMKsaEu7_L5rxH2fpgSpxdlnkzTch6PBT2yDRvPwjISA0tJIUd9Pv0VkZIKOIkSpzU-PEvZ6dT9NqFnsXZtVNTiF92uQHqxWosNpAjRU0-iLv14r9nc_s/s320/gorey+insect+god.jpg" /></a></div><br />Thanks again to Katie for sharing her insect deity with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0151003084&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=0926637096" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>

Edward Gorey's Insect God Graces Katie's Arm

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