Thomas Pendelton Talks About the Direction of the Tattoo Industry
Tattoo artist Thomas Pendelton, of the current Tattoo Highway on A&E, and originally from the show Inked, has been in the business a long time, longer than many of the tattoo artists out there, and long enough to form opinions of the different tattoo genres that have come and gone in his time in the business. I was lucky enough to talk to him recently, as he has some very definite ideas about the direction of the industry.
Not that Pendelton stayed with this particular art. He came up through the ranks the old-fashioned way, cleaning toilets, sweeping up, and making coffee, then becoming an apprentice, and finally earned his own shot at it. He left it for a short time to learn a different medium of art, and did movie sets for awhile in Hollywood. It wasn’t the last time he left, and it probably won’t be the last. He does it from time to time as he feels it makes him a better all-around artist. He also admits to needing to leave tattooing occasionally for the money, as with four babies in diapers, it can be tough for him, as there are only so many tattoos he can do in a day. (more…)
Twitter Is Making a Permanent Mark!
STAR OF A&E’S “TATTOO HIGHWAY” TO INK FANS WITH TWITTER USERNAMES
June 15, 2009 – If you think Twitter is a passing fad, think again! People are so enamored with the social networking site that they are clamoring to tattoo their twitter names on their bodies.
Thomas Pendelton, a sought-after tattoo artist and the star of A&E’s “Tattoo Highway” reality TV series (A&E, Wednesdays at 10PM), recently offered to tattoo a twitter user’s handle free of charge.
After extending the proposal to his Twitter followers, he received a deluge of tweets and emails from tattoo-crazy fans wanting to permanently brand themselves with their Twitter handle. (more…)
High School Reunion Season Premiere
Didi you catch the premiere of the second season of High School Reunion last night? If not, don’t sweat it. Here’s a little recap and video.
The “Ugly Ducking” tried to bag “The Jock,” and “The Cheerleader” showed up to ruin “The Wannabe’s” life … again.
Make sure you catch it next Wednesday on TV Land.
Note to Reality Stars: You, Too, Have to Pay Taxes
I don’t know why it is that reality TV stars think they don’t have to pay taxes, but you would think Survivor Borneo’s Richard Hatch getting thrown in the slammer would have showed all of them they were just as susceptible. Yet, season three American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino fell into the same trap, as did Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Hatch was found guilty of seven bank, mail, and wire fraud charges stemming from him not paying taxes on his Survivor winnings, his income as co-host of a Boston radio show, and rent on some property he owned. Despite several appeals, and his claim that CBS had agreed to pay his taxes, he was sentenced to 51 months in prison, and is currently at the Federal Correctional Institution in Morgantown, West Virginia, and is scheduled to be released this coming October.
Fantasia owed a lot in back taxes, so borrowed money from a creditor to pay the taxes. This winter the creditor was then after her, ready to throw her 6200 square foot house house into foreclosure. Not that she would have been homeless, as she has a 4500 square foot house. She had nearly lost that one as well when she owed taxes on that. She did lose a Mercedes to that deal, and the current records show she still owes $14,678 on that house, according to Yahoo. She ended up making a repayment plan deal to keep the 6200 square foot house as well last month. Sounds like she’s in need of a good financial advisor.
Dog the Bounty Hunter didn’t learn from them, though. Duane “Dog” Chapman owes more than $2 million dollars in back taxes, owing for 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Maybe it’s small potatoes to him since he was convicted of first degree murder and was also nearly extradited to Mexico on a deprivation of liberty charge. His accountant has stated that Dog has been trying to get in touch with the IRS to clear up the matter. TMZ helped him out by publishing the phone number in their post about the charges. How long will it take untll his team comes after him in exchange for a bounty?
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TVLand.com - Meet This Season’s High School Reunion Alumni
TVLANDPRIME.COM GOES BACK TO SCHOOL FOR THE PREMIERE OF
“HIGH SCHOOL REUNION” WITH AN ALL-NEW “DIGITAL YEARBOOK,”
FULL STREAMING EPISODES AND EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
Meet This Season’s Alumni — the Class of 1988 — as They Reveal
Juicy Gossip Exclusively at TVLandPRIME.com
New York, NY – February 13, 2009 – TVLandPRIME.com kicks off the second season of TV Land’s hit reality series “High School Reunion,” from Warner Horizon Television, with exclusive and exciting content for the program, which premieres on Wednesday, February 18, 2009, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The TV Land original eight-part reality seriespremieres on TV Land PRIME, TV Land’s new primetime programming destination designed to appeal to the attitudes, life stage and interests of people in their 40s. The “High School Reunion” microsite is jam-packed with interesting features this season, such as a user-generated “Digital Yearbook,” extended and deleted scenes from the show, behind-the-scenes video taken by the cast, personal photo galleries, video cast bios and weekly blogs from cast members revealing juicy gossip from the reunion. Additionally, visitors will be able to enjoy full streaming episodes online the day after they premiere on-air, as well as streaming ’80s radio and ’80s trivia.
Calling All Foodies!
Can you just not get enough of Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Top Chef, and No Reservations? There’s more on the way!
E! is announcing that Tom Colicchio is helping Bravo with a spinoff of his current series, Top Chef. Top Chef Masters will feature a collection of world-renowned chefs competing in challenges every week, with the winner being crowned “Top Chef Master.” The prize will be a donation to the charity of his or her choice. It sounds like it will have the same format as Top Chef, with each episode including a quickfire test of skills, followed by an elimination round. Kelly Chol, Gael Green, Jay Rayner, and James Oseland will be the judges.
The Food Network is stepping out a little with Wildlife and conservation expert Jeff Corwin set to explore human culture through regional cuisine in Extreme Cuisine With Jeff Corwin. Set to premiere on February 21, Corwin will trek trhough Thailand in the first episode, tasting local goodies such as deadly wasp and bamboo larvae. He’ll then catch and cook his own catfish, and follow it up with some silk worms, grasshoppers, and live shrimp, then later help prepare roasted pig in an underground oven.
Hungry yet?
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