We’re sure by now you’ve heard of the new book about the world’s most insane tattoos, No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever (Grand Central Publishing), compiled by longtime Vice pal Aviva Yael. It’s been getting so much press everywhere that we feel like a bunch of Last-Place Larries writing about it now, but anything for our Veevs. Even Howard Stern talked about it! Except he called Aviva a guy. Isn’t he all Jewish? Doesn’t he know a nice Jewish girl’s name when he hears it?
Anyway, this book is incredibly engrossing and especially fun to look at with groups of drunk people. Eyes goggling in wonderment all around. Some of the tattoos are WTF—Michael Moore’s face? Really? Some are truly horrific—we hope the guy who got Hitler tattooed on him burns in hell. And some are hilariously great. Three of our faves are a unicorn saying “Boo-yah,” a dolphin with a tribal tattoo taking bong hits while sitting in a ragged La-Z-Boy (such attention to detail!), and a broken-open fortune cookie in which the fortune reads “You’re An Asshole.” We’d like to shake the hands of these comedy stallions.
Even though the book is called No Regrets, we do actually have one regret (that line is only funny if you say it in a Ron Burgundy voice), which is that the book came out before we could submit a picture of VBS editor John McSwain’s recent tattoo of a sassy pepperoni:
We will soon be posting an interview with Aviva—the only person we know whose name is a palindrome (except for our friend Racecar)—about where the hell she found these loons and pertinent stuff like that, so check back tomorrow… if you dare! Though really, why wouldn’t you dare? It’s not especially risky.
- Amy Kellner
