Tattoo Highway
A&E NETWORK PRESENTS THE NEW UNSCRIPTED SERIES
“TATTOO HIGHWAY”
FOLLOWING RENOWNED ARTIST
THOMAS PENDELTON AS HE TAKES HIS TATTOO PARLOR ON THE ROAD
PREMIERING WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 AT 10PM ET/PT
A&E Network takes tattoo television on a road trip through the cross-country travels of master tattoo artist Thomas Pendelton on “Tattoo Highway.” The 13-episode, half-hour series will premieres Wednesday, May 27 at 10PM ET/PT on A&E.
Pendelton and his business partner and wife Monica have transformed a 1970s tour bus into a tattoo parlor on wheels, featuring a swanky interior and top-of-the-line tattooing equipment. It’s a tattoo shop that can tattoo anyone, anywhere.
“From the creation of the art, to the environment that I tattooed in, it has always been about my customers’ experience,” says Pendelton. “In a street shop it was easy to forget just how personal that experience should be. Rolling up and parking the shop right in the middle of someone’s life, well, there is nothing more personal than that.”
15-year tattoo veteran and star of former A&E hit “Inked,” Pendelton and his new business “Ministry of Ink” hit the road in this new series to transform personal stories into living art. To create a touching memorial tattoo that brings him to tears, Pendelton mixes the cremated ashes of a deceased wife into the ink for a portrait on her husband’s chest. For another job, he uses UV ink for a tattoo only visible with a black light, for one man’s constant reminder of his mother. From a pair of matching eggplants, to a giant gorilla riding a scooter and an emblem of Apache stars on the forehead of an elderly woman, Pendelton and his team encounter unusual and inspiring stories from Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and beyond.
Ride along as emotional limits and friendships are challenged and the persistent mechanical problems of a vintage bus are tested on the road, as “Tattoo Highway” proves to be one bumpy ride.
“Tattoo Highway” is produced for A&E Networks by Juma Entertainment, LLC. Bob Horowitz and Lewis Fenton are executive producers for Juma Entertainment, LLC. A&E executive producers are Robert Sharenow and Neil A. Cohen.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 pm
This shows looks great…..come to Lawton, Oklahoma I am in need of a good tattoo artist…
April 24th, 2009 at 2:11 am
I watched you when you were at Hart &Huntington. But am glad to see you on your own. It is good to see such a gifted tattoo artist out there.
Best of Luck
Mary Sanchez
PS how are the twins doing????
April 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Hey this sounds like a great show. Are you guys going to e in Southern California? I just had to put my beloved dachshund down and would love to get a memorial tat of her.
Thanks
Brian
April 24th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Just wondering if you might be coming North West as far as Fairbanks, Ak?
April 25th, 2009 at 12:49 am
I love watching this guy work. Not only is he a master of his craft, but he connects with his clients on a different level. I only wish that I had the opportunity to meet him and get inked by him. Unfortunately, he is staying on the west coast.
April 25th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I was just wondering when you will be in Salt Lake City because my husband has an interesting story. He has been trying to get his tattoo finished for the past 9 years.
We have got it reoutlined from the original and a little bit of shading but I would like him to share his story.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
please come to Chicago
April 26th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Just saw add for new show. We are located in a campground in eastern Pennsylvania. There are about 10 of us who have been wanted to get a tattoo. Why not do an episode with all of us. We would prove very interesting and you would be camping also.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Are you guys going to be coming to the Seattle, WA area? I would love to get another one, especially from Thomas. You are such an amazing artist!
April 26th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I have a piece on my chest with meaning behind it that needs to be finished; I was in a coma for 40 days, hooked up to a breathing machine. So, I had the idea for the tattoo of a dove with the Tracheotomy scar, on my neck, between its wings.
Currently, I have the outline of a dove holding a skull in its talons but would like to expand the tattoo.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I would like to get a memorial of my sister she was a diabetic and she had a stomach dis order that doctors couldn’t figure out anyway to help her out so she went to a hotel room and over dosed with insulin.please and thank you!
April 27th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I would love for thomas to do a tattoo for me,its been 12 years since my father passed away,I think about
him every day,I would love a tattoo on my back of him,so he could be with me every day,if thomas is
ever in oklahoma let me know. thanks stacia
April 27th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I would love to get a tattoo done by them. I have had many loved ones pass away in my life and I was planning on get a tattoo in Memory of all whom I have loved that has passed, I have had over 10-15 loved ones that are no longer with me and I wanted to get a tattoo tin memory of all of them.
April 27th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I’m a single mother living in the city of Cambridge ON, I recently got my stomache and back tatooed after five years of creating the idea of what was significant to me and wouldn’t change. The first part was great, I am content with the front, but when it came to the back as discussed, he changed my design last minuet and did nothing I had asked for.
I would like to know if this could be ‘covered’ or recontructed into a masterpeice of your art?
April 27th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Dear Thomas hope to see you in my hich town of Roseburg Oregon… Needing a few new GOOD tatto’s. One is a portriat so come see us soon!!!!!!
April 27th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Go Pat Von D
April 28th, 2009 at 8:43 am
hey this looks like a great show!!! u should come to waldorf md, u’ll more clients then u’ll no what to do with lol!!!
April 28th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Hey,,, u should tottaly come to kansas yeah it sux but that would be so cool…… I was in las Vegas and i was going to get a tat By tohmas and was sooo stoked but…… i was with my grandparents cuz they lived out there and it didnt work out like planned
April 29th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Come to Palmetto Florida!!!!!
I would love to get my first tatto on your show!
I have been wanting to get a tatoo for a couple of years now !!!… I cant wait to see this show it is going to be great!! So excited!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Thomas you are an awesome tattoo artist, if you ever make it to Fort Worth, Texas i would love you to do a portrait of my mother email me i will come to you, my girl wants a tat also, I knew Monica was a keeper hope to see you in Texas,
April 30th, 2009 at 11:08 am
I’m writing in regards for my boyfriend Pete, he believes the continuation of a family , thrives on the passing down of generations. Yet for My Love that has been an obstacle w/the loss of his Father, then Brother and Lastly his Nephew. Leaving him and his son. Although he may be a quiet man he expresses his pain, and joys thru tattoos for this reason, I am calling out to you for help on allowing him to express the overwhelming pain of loss & the ever growing strengh he carries for men before him…..
Thank You,
Jennifer Y.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Wait until you see these guys Inflicting Ink has been doing this for years. Good luck to Tattoo Highway but theres someone banging on the back door that were truely first in line.
April 30th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
My 2 sisters and I have an amazing tattoo story. My older sister was in a serious car accident in February, she was ressuciatated 3 times, she broke every limb in her body and they amputated her left leg at the knee. The rescue heros that cut her out of her car said they have never seen anyone that badly injured and live. My other sister and parents and I managed to get from 4 different states to Montana within 24 -48 hrs of her accident, the day after the Doctor said the only good new is she’s alive. After much prayer and the Grace of God, my sister is now on her way to great rehab, they thought she would still be in ICU at this point. There is another level to this story that only she can tell. My younger sister and I decided while our other sister was in a coma we were all 3 going to get a matching tattoo on our foot to celebrate the re-birth of our sister. The design of the tattoo is the part of the story that only our older sister can tell. If you are anywhere near Kansas or Texas I think we would be an amazing story for your show.
Thank you,
Terry, Penny and Nae
May 1st, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hi, Guys. I am in Topeka, Ks. and writing with a very special request. I don’t have any tatoos at this time. Having said that, my story is not really mine at all, but it is my best friends. Her name is Lesli and she is dying of Stomach Cancer. Lesli has been more family than friend for 22 years. Lesli traveled a few years ago with my brother and daughter to Jacskson Hole, Wy to visit my sister Dee Dee and my mom, who lived in a nursing home. While there Lesli got a beautiful tatoo of a hummingbird on her right ankle. My sister and I were discussing Lesli’s condition recently and decided we would like to have Lesli’s tatoo duplicated on our ankles, only adding the Pink Ribbon, to signify her battle with the dreadful disease. The artist that did the original tatoo for Lesli has siince moved on and can’t be found. When I saw your show, I thought if I am going to get a tatto, I’m 57yr and had said I would “never” get a tat, then I would be honored to have someone of your caliber and character help me in my and my sister’s quest to memorialize Lesli. I wish you safety, health and peace in your journey. God bless you all. Thank you for hearing my request. Deb Fowle
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I will like to get a one with the fallen names of soldiers from Irak with the helmrt and m16 on the ground
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:28 pm
I just found out about you on the road, this is great. Will you be coming to Chicago? I have a tattoo that was not totally finished because the artist ( my friend) passed away. I could really use a good artist to finish what was started. Have fun on the road
Thanks
Donna
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Hello,
This looks like it will be an amazing and inspiring program I can’t wait until it comes to out. If you are thinking of traveling to the Illinois area I think you will find that my daughter has an amazing story to tell. She is 21, but at 12 she was diagnosed with an incurable genetic lung disease called cystic fibrosis (deemed as “sixty five roses”) . This disease has a life expectancy of 37 years of age and when she got alittle older she had gotten a couple of tattoo’s to help tell about her life blooming and beating this disease and the disease dying off. A year later she got another one again reflecting her positive attitude on how she deals daily with Cystic Fibrosis. I think you will find her to be an amazingly upbeat young woman who is now looking for yet another tatoo showing her fight in this disease.
Thanks,
Deb Pence
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I saw the commercial spot about your show. My husband who is a twin and is one of five brothers and also has a younger set of twin brothers of which one tragically passed away recently of leukemia. The four brothers of the family would like to get a tattoo in his honor. They have a strong Irish heritage and wanted to incorporate a claddagh, cross and clover as part of the tattoo. I thought what a great tribute it would be to do it on your show. I know this is something they want to do soon, please reply if this is possible for your show.
Thank you, Sandy
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Well I hope you drive thru east la down whittier blvd to city of whittier and I will make you a mean carne asada stop by and kick it with me and woody we would love to give you a good ol mexican fiesta…
hope to hear from you….later….suzette
May 4th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Catawissa Mo. theres a quiet house wife there who would love to have a tattoo of a peacock. that would shock the heck out of her family and irk a few others . lol.
May 4th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Hi just wondering if your comming to N.C my friendsdaughter drowned 6 years ago this month and she would really like a portrait tatoo of her daughter.thanks
May 4th, 2009 at 7:31 am
you should really come to ohio i am recovering from a brain tumor and have wanted to get another tat to remember my dad who passed in 2004
Thanks
Aaron
May 5th, 2009 at 11:02 am
hi i’m Courtney and i know that you would get some interesting stories here in Reno NV, the people here are strange and genuine (most of the time). me personally would love to tell you my story, but also to have a chance to see you in person would be a pleasure as well, write back if you can hope to see you come to town soon.
Your Friend,
Courtney
May 5th, 2009 at 11:09 am
You have many extraordinary, candid and sincere requests already posted, but if your travels bring you to the Southeast, please, consider coming to Green Cove Springs, Fl. I have tattoos that need to have cover-up work and repair, but I worry that if I try to get them fixed, they’ll end up horrible with no hope of recovery. I already dress to conceal them no matter how high the temperature climbs. (When I wanted the artwork done, I had never planned on hiding them like I do now.)
Like others posting requests and invitations here, I am divorced raising my four sons on my own (honorably discharged from Marine Corps to be a better parent), I work in the medical field (nothing will teach you more about Life and what is truly important than witnessing the strength of those facing death), my parents have passed away but they’ve left with me some inspiring memories and an appreciation that all of the good and bad in in my life needed to happen to make me a stronger person and better example for my boys.
In your plans, please consider heading South and congratulations on your new series with A&E!
May 5th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Stop in Connecticut.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Thomas & Monica,
Amazing idea!! Glad to see that you have your own creation..the show truly looks unreal!! Too bad we never get anything close to this here in Canada.. We have many amazing artists here but no producers to put on shows like this …. I can say i have many tattoo’s all with deep meaning and many hours spent in the shop! Oneday i hope Canada catches on and produces something like this (or you can bring you bus out this way..we dont bite seriously ha ha )…
Congrats on the new show and the new venture! Im sure you will succeed in many different ways!
I look forward to watching it! I can say this is one of the best reality shows that i truly look forward to watching. Its not like the others..it stands alone which makes it so amazing! ( i dont care to much for reality shows..lol )
Good luck with your new venture!!
Ciao..T.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I wish he were coming east I’m in PA and my tatoo artist MOVED and I cant locate him, and have been unable to let any one else tatoo me since, I would love to let him tatoo me.
May 6th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Wish you the best of luck. Out of all the tattoo artist out there, you are the one who is down to earth and one to one with everyone. Not stuck up like Kat and some of the others who you have to buy of to even get them to answer the phone. My husband and I breed, raise, and rescue hhybrid wolves as they are an endangered species and one that people simple don’t understand. I would give anything for you to do a portrait of my one little miracle baby who we have saved from a pup so that he can be with me all my life. God Bless keep doing good work.
Debbie
May 6th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
HELL~O~ I LOVE THIS SHOW AND HAVE YET TO SEE IT~THE FACT OF THE MEANING BEHIND THE FINE WORK YOU DO!! I AM ANOTHER OF YOUR CHARITY CASES~ I HAVE HAD ONE BAD YEAR~MY MOTHER HAD PASSED 1 WEEK SHORT OF 1 YEAR TO THE DAY MY HOUSE AND MY DOZER (ENGLISH BULL DOG) AND EVERY THING WE OWNED HAD BURNT TO THE GROUND DURING A 4:00 AM FIRE THAT ALMOST TOOK OUR LIVES~MY DOZER HAD WOKE ME PULLING MY HAIR AND WAS IN A FOG OF SMOKE DUE TO THE SMOKE ALREADY INHALLED I WAS GOING BACK TO SLEEP BUT DOVER WOULD NOT LET ME~MY HERO!!~ SO SO SAD TO SAY HE DID NOT MAKE IT OUT~I WOULD LOVE FOR MYSELF,HUSBAND AND 21 YEAR OLD SON TO HAVE THE PRIVLAGE OF THIS ARTIST TO DO THE WORK HE DOES FOR US ~A LOVE LIFE EVERY DAY ~TYPE THING~YOU JUST NEVER KNOW!! PLEASE CHECK YOUR FIRE ALARMS!!!!!!!!!!!! THX XO JAX
May 6th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
What’s up cool to see a show like this coming to tv hope you all have a safe trip as you tat it up. I live in Woodstock AL not a large part of Alabama but a great place I have tat’s all over but would love to be on your show once again be safe out there and God Bless
May 6th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I live in Reading, Pa and have 7 tats. I’m planning for an 8th, but don’t know what I want!! I know tons of people that would love to be on a tat show!! COME TO READING!!
May 6th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Just wanted to wish you the best of luck on this new adventure. I lost my husband at the age of 29 due to complications with cancer. So in memory of him I got my very first tattoo. Now I’m wanting to put another tattoo on my lower leg for my son. So if you head to Terre Haute, IN I would so enjoy meeting you and your crew.
GOD BLESS
Dawn
May 6th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I have seen the previews of your new show. Im excited to see your art form come to life and tell their own stories for those who have been lucky enough to have been chosen to be a part of this great cross country adventure for you. I only regret not knowing that you were making a stop in Salt Lake City, my home town.I had a hero ,a teacher , a best friend and one of the most wonderful men in my life pass away 8 years ago, he was my father. He told me hummingbirds were his angels on earth, he had three that came back to his home year after year , we hung the feeder by the window where he watched his angels everyday til his passing, and since that morning we have never seen them again. I believe my father madeit to his final destination safely on the wings of his angels, and now for the past eight years I have searched for the perfect hummingbird tattoo to honor my father. I will be turning 50 in a few days and like he said you dont need a tattoo til your all growed up, well daddy I think I m pretty well there..lol. Wish you the very best with your new show, and I know I will be wattching soon, good luck.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I love the idea of a reality tattoo show that is going over the road. If you come to Dallas/ Ft Worth, Texas area I would love to recieve a tat by you. I have several that I want to get done. Each of my tats have a special story and reasoning behind them.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Just wanted to say that I am a Master Tattooist; I have been professionally tattooing since 1987 (Fineline Tattooing), and in 1996, we added a professional mobile tattoo studio (Tattoo Tours of Colorado).
Mobile tattoo studios weren’t heard of at the time, so we were pioneering new ground back then and we were very successful, and only now mobile tattoo studios started to surface.
I’d like to share a little of our story if I may….
After taking in and helping 64 children through out my husband and my life together, our last two children left home, as well as the last child we took in; thinking we could now concentrate on our life, being a Mom and Pop studio, (incase you are wondering, I am 47 and my husband is 65, although he looks to be in his late forties early fifties) we had made plans to take in other artist to care for our clients at our home base studio, and we were going to take the mobile tattoo studio to new heights, and travel the United State, recording our journey.
When we met our newest member of our family, Angel. She was 18 days old and in the NICU when our granddaughter introduced us to her; we found out later, that the same day we met her, was the day she was abandoned; her biological mother and unknown father gone.
You’d never know it to see her today, but they told us she’d never make it to her first birthday, that she would never walk, talk, sit, crawl, walk; her eyes wouldn’t track right and not be able to ever really live a normal life, all this due to drugs, as well as alcohol and pot in her system. At birth she lost all but 3” of her small intestines, the small intestines allows you to grow, gain weight and fight infection, without them, her food, formula, goes from point A to point B.
So after discussing Angel with our children, we decided to close our tattoo studio down; that was 3 years ago, so we could concentrate on Angel.
We had to under go several medical classes to learn how to mix all her meds, take care of her broviac line and G-Tube, learn CPR, First Aide, take Blood Bourne, as well as Ken Foster care classes and I had to go to school to be a CNA just to adopt and care for her. It was a long road, but our adoption of our baby girl went through 1 year last Christmas Eve. She is now 3 years old, and she has undergone 24 operational procedures and spent 29 months in the hospital. Angel according to her team of doctors is a medical miracle, any one who meets her today can’t believe what she has under gone and how beautiful and smart she is.
After the doctors and us diligently worked with her, she is stabilizing. The doctors now feel a majority of safety with her condition, so with their blessings, we decided we needed to get back to do what we love doing; art, tattooing and meeting new members of our family, our cliental. Being a Custom Artist, allows for a unique experience with each of our clients; 98% of the time, the art portrays a story, a time frame in their mind and heart.
With the economy as it is, we decided to go mobile once again. We always loved meeting our clients on one to one bases, not to mention it was less stress on our clients meeting them where they are most comfortable. We have traveled most of the western states, and the furthest east was Wisconsin, and we are always looking for new areas to travel.
We are in the middle of customizing another mobile studio, I am the only artist and my husband is my manager and he’s a storyteller, which the clients love listening too (his life is one a movie could be based on, but that’s another story in it self); we should be ready to go on the road by mid June ’09.
If this reality show shows half of the beauty in human nature as we encounter in our travels, it should be a good show to watch. It will be very interesting to see how this show prevails, I know in our own experience, we have met allot of interesting, beautiful people and heart wrenching stories.
I look forward to our travels again, my husband was born a 100 years to late, and has decided to name our mobile tattoo studio this time around “The Tattoo Express” with a stage coach, horses and all.
Maybe our paths will cross on the open road, happy trails to you and good luck in your show….
the Sandman
sandydowd@hotmail.com
May 7th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Hey I am a tattoo finatic!!! I would if you would come to Independence, KY and let me get tattooed by you. I havent seen the show but I have done some research and I think you are amazing and the fact that you are traveling to see everyones story. Most tattoo artist just want the money and you seem like you actually care. If you hit up the greater Cincinnati or Northern, KY area let me know. Ill be on the highway!!! courtney.mergard@yahoo.com
May 7th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I need him to come to Alabama
Cant wait to see the show.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
GREAT IDEA!!! I am looking forward to waching the show. I currentrly have two tattoos and would love to get my third by Thomas. He is an amazing artist!! Please let me know when you will be in Los Angeles.
May 9th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Look like you need to come south.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
This sounds like a cool idea. Are you coming to Saint Louis?
Im originally from England and started to get tattooed a few years ago before i came to the US. To be honest, I have heard so many bad stories concerning tattooes and a family member has been on the receiving end of a bad tattoo, so i am yet to find one I trust. I have some ideas and mainly i would like to have my sons name done who I havent seen since I have been in the US for the past 4 years.
Hope to see you in Saint Louis, The Gateway to the West.
May 10th, 2009 at 5:03 am
this sounds like a great show..how can you get on? I’ve been trying to get a tatto for my mom who we lost to cancer..she was my best friend and I went something really special!
May 10th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I just lost my best friend and loving Wife of 22 years, i have ink of this and that But this has to be the only one that will ever count. We meet in recovery in 1986 beat the odds, my life will never be the same ever.
” In Loving Memory to Dori ” 1964-2009
May 11th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
i am on the road–travellin on a harley roadking since june 2, 08—55000 miles and 3 countries–i would like to hook up with this artist and celebrate my first year on the road with some ink–how can i find this travelling i artist to hook up—tomm678@aol.com
May 11th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Would love for you to come to PA….I would love to get a
tattoo of my grandson and grandaughter, as well as
an Autism tattoo.
My granson was diagnosed w Autism, as well as Muscular Dystrophy, and hearing impaired.
My daughter and I would love for you to come and
create art on us.
Michele
May 11th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Dude, come to Ft Hood Texas. Soldiers in need of tattoos.
May 12th, 2009 at 7:52 am
i know its a REAL long shot but desperately need you to come to massachusetts my husband and i need new ink done …pleeeeeeeeaaaaaassssssssseeee….
May 12th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
LOL…look like ya have ya clients in line for the show…goodluck with it and remember to pack alot of supplies. Uh yea whats the symbol on ya neck dude?cant really tell.
May 12th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
should come to canada eh!!! canadian artists and collectors need something like this!!
May 13th, 2009 at 12:37 am
I saw the preview for your show tonight and I think it is an awesome idea. Your safety and success will be in my prayers. If you happen to be driving through Pueblo, Colorado please stop by. It has been a year since my perfectly healthy 29 year old husband nearly lost his life suffering a stroke before having brain surgery then open heart surgery. By the Grace of God, he is in great health now, not to mention,one smokin hot Dad. He has worked extremely hard to regain all his capabilities and physical health but is somewhat bothered by the long scar on his chest. Now that he is well, he would like an awesome tattoo to cover over the scar, to camoflage the year that he lost- our daughter was only 5 weeks old when he got sick. They dont come anymore down home, American loving family than right here. He is a safety manager for an industrial construction company and I am a heart surgery nurse. We will give you gas (for your bus) and a good time!
May 13th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
My Wonderful Fience has had multiple heart attacks, a quad bypass, stnets, and angeoplasties, He got his first tattoo 2 years ago and he wants another so bad, finding someone that can do a great job is the problem in our little town in the panhandle of Texas. If you are coming to Amarillo, or a close surrounding area, I would love to suprise him ( and maybe another one for me while we are at it lol ) with this wonderful expierience. He is a great man and only deserves the best in life, he needs something good to happen to him for once, besides me lol Thank You, Tonya
May 13th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Hi I have been trying to find someone to do a picture of my son . He was seventeen and killed with his best friend in a car wreck in 2005. I am blessed because the last words we ever spoke to one anouther was I love you I was on the phone with him when they had their wreck. I said I love you he said I love you to then I heard him scream and he was gone. Me and my son were as close as a mom and son could be. Please say your coming to Texas im in Palestine Texas just a small town but it would really be a blessing to me to have you do this tattoo for me.
Thanks and God Bless
Trish Holt
May 13th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I have a good story.I just had surgrey for the second time for this mess. I have endometrious and it had my bowl stuck to my fallopian tube and overy not once but twice,the first time they messed me up.I cant have kids am diabled, and sued and lost. then had to have surgrey again.Anyway i have a big tat on my back that could use some help.thats my story .my husband and i like your bus ,we think its cool. so if your around wingdale,ny 12594 Stop in and see us . My husband is a caretaker at a camp and thats were we live. thanks for listing .Look forward to seeing the show. ROCK ON DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 14th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Cann’t wait to see your show. It’s about time someone does a show that is some kind of a competion. I’m 55 years old and my biggest dream is to have my parent picture on my shoulder. They would do without to give to us kids. My Dad was and still is my best friend. My Mom had a tough life and did not know how to show love like our father. So if you ever come east to po-dunk Springfield,Ohio. Would like to meet you all.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Would love to see you in Bryan/College Station, TX. Home of the Texas A & M Aggies. Not only myself but a few co-workers of mine would love to have you TATTOO US!!!! One co-worker inpaticular has been holding off getting a tattoo until he could find the right person to have do it. I was telling him about your upcoming show and he said he had seen the previews. He’s been looking to get a portrait of his mother on his shoulder blade. She passed away a few years back and he’s never had a tattoo and that’s the only one he wants. I think it would be special to have someone with your reputation and talent do the portrait. I know you will succeed in all your endeveaurs. Congratulations on your show, Luck with you, your wife, and crew!!!
May 14th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I’ve Seen the show! Please come to Columbus, Ohio! I need a tattoo covered, You are awesome, the best artist I’ve seen in a long time!
May 15th, 2009 at 1:03 am
I love the idea you have to taking it on the road. Myself and my fiancee are both medics. We work in the Fort Worth area in Texas. I myself am also a Volunteer Fire Fighter. I have a Maltese Cross on my lower back that I had donw that REALLY needs some work and a little cover up done. This was supposed to be one of my favorite pieces that has turned out not to be. Please help me with this. It needs to be finished. More to the story but just ask I will tell you more.
Good Luck on your tour and I hope you get the fullfilment you were looking for in doing this.
May 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I kept lookiing @ you and saying that’s Thomas from Inked……. I was right. I watched you every week on TV. . You’re an outstanding artist. Come To Tampa, Florida please…… It would be a dream come true to have a tattoo done by you!!!!! Let me know when your Tampa, FL bound…….
May 17th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Saw the ad and looks like it will be an awsome show. Definately will not miss it! I am a bat biologist and have been wanting a bat in flight put on my upper back. Please let me know if you are going to be in Ontario Canada.
Thanks and best of luck
May 18th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I have 6 mo’s or less to live ! I have cancer in my pancres n I would luv to have a tatoo by the tatoohiway !! I live in Spokane ,Wa area plz e-mail me n let me know if u can do this for me plz ty
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Hello,
I need help! The last 2 yrs has been real hard for me. I spent 18 months in Iraq and so when I kept coming home for R&R I would start a full sleeve. Well, when I got back the place went under AFTER I paid in full. So, I have a half sleeve uncolor and looks like crap. BUT that is not all. With in the last year I lost my MOM, Step dad (20 days after mom) Step Mother of 16 yrs. and MY Brother. I have dont have the money to fix my art because I paid for the funerals. Plus I can not sue the tattoo shop because they do not have anything to give. Every place either does not want to touch it or charge me 200.00 per hour. I just want to finsh it. IT is half done and I will let you or anyone complete it the way they want to complete it. I live in Baltimore MD. I just need HELP…. I will go anywhere or pay for it somehow. I just want to complete it. I really need this…..This is all true and I can back it up and prove it. feel free to contact me at 410 963 4122 or fear_fighter28@yahoo.com I will send pictures if needed. Please there has to be someone with a kind heart and that can help……I am looking forward to this.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I just need a new begging, a new chance to live again!!!! I just need help and there is no people that are willing to help from the kindness of their heart, the realness of the story unless it makes their wallets fat. I am just asking for some color and to finish it. I really dont have a lot of money cause in the last year i spent all on funerals. I never ask for help but I am now swallowing my pride. Plus, I sit and often think I dont have any luck unless it’s bad. You always here the the “other guy” wins and I pray and pray that just once I can be that “other guy” and have a fresh start and new begging. feel free to contact me.
fear_fighter28@yahoo.com I live in Baltimore, MD and I am willing to traavel and let who ever possibly does it can design it the way they want…….I just need a chance.
thanks,
Mike
May 24th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Hello to all,
I had the opportunity to see the Koi fish you put on the young ladies back. It was absolutely gorgeous. My daughter got a tatoo on her breast , a name she now wants it covered. I was wondering if you are going to be in Long Beach. I told her I would assist her with the cost to have it covered. The name is three letters she was thinking about a flower or a butterfly to cover it. if possible please let me know if it is possible for us to have the priviledge of of having your expertise in this matter.
Thanks,
Bridgiite
P.S. best of luck with your show!
May 24th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
How do you get nominated for the show?
I would love to get a tat of my youngest son that passed of a brain tumor . Jake was 9. I want a tat of jake standing with wings. I have the picture of Jake. We took it weeks before he passed.
Jake’s Story
PCH Kids Stories
You couldn’t blame Jake Martinez for feeling robbed.
He’s 9 years old, chock-full of life, dreams, and mischief … and everywhere he looks is the cold reminder that cancer is closing in.
But Jake is too light on his fate to sit around, counting his losses.
He’s decided to “rob” others, instead.
For the last two years, Jake has been the champion Change Bandit for the KMLE Children’s Radiothon, hitting up friends, classmates, and neighbors for support for the hospital. He’s raised nearly $5,000, by bringing to his hold-ups a no-holds-barred style all his own.
“He tells them: ‘Hi, my name is Jake, and I’m raising money for Phoenix Children’s, my home away from home,’” his mother, Deanna, says. “One time, he said to the person, ‘Aw, heck, I’m not gonna kid you. I’m making my own room.’”
That kind of honesty brings in the bucks, but Jake isn’t just a stick-up guy. He’s a stand-up guy, too. One day, waiting for an injection, he watched a younger boy screaming at the prospect of the needle. Jake told him there was nothing to be afraid of. “Here,” he said. “Let me show you.”
Up went the sleeve, in went the needle, “and you could see in his face that it hurt,” Deanna remembers. “But he just smiled at the boy and said, ‘Wow! See? It doesn’t hurt.’ And the other little boy just stepped right up.”
“It hurts when kids feel bad,” Jake says with a shrug, “and I want to help them.”
“He’s a very upbeat kid, who understands things a lot better than most kids his age,” says Dr. David Moss, Director of Neurosurgery at Phoenix Children’s. “He’s thought this through.”
Always the Jokester
“They say God chooses certain children to go through this kind of thing,” Deanna says. “He’s just a kid who makes something good out of even the worst times. No matter how he feels, he’s always the jokester.”
At school, kids often ask Jake about his bald head and slowing movements.
“I just tell them that I’m dying of a brain tumor, so I might act weird,” he says.
“He’s handled this better than I think any kid I’ve ever seen in this situation,” says Moss.
The tumor was first diagnosed two-and-a-half years ago, after one of Jake’s teachers mentioned to Deanna that the boy wasn’t using one of his hands. An MRI showed a spider-like tumor on Jake’s brain stem, entwining itself in the spinal cord. Surgeons would have to remove at least 85 percent of the tumor, if Jake were to survive. They could only get 35.
“It’s like a plate of ‘red’ spaghetti and ‘white’ spaghetti,” Deanna says, “and you have to try to get the white out without getting any tomato sauce on it.”
“There are lots of nerves and blood vessels in that area that just preclude your being able to take it out,” says Dr. Michael Etzl, Jr., a Phoenix Children’s oncologist who’s treated Jake.
Neither radiation treatments nor chemotherapy have helped, either.
“This is a difficult type of tumor that is not particularly sensitive to chemotherapy,” Dr. Etzl says. Worse, “there’s a limit to the radiation – a lifetime limit to how much the body can absorb – and he’s had about all he can.”
“Jake understands that he’s terminal,” his mother says, “even though there are days when he says stuff like, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna get married when I get older.’”
He can’t ride a bike or a skateboard any more. He doesn’t have the strength for slides or swings or monkey bars. But he has energy enough to keep an eye on the people around him.
Last year, he struck up a friendship with a young leukemia patient. He knew the girl’s family was having a hard time, financially. As the holidays approached, Jake took his mother aside. “I don’t want anything for Christmas,” he told her. Instead, he asked if all the money for his presents could go toward the little girl and her family. “That,” he said, “will be my Christmas.”
‘Everybody Needs a Friend’
Another Christmastime, Jake was riding in the hospital elevator with his favorite stuffed animal, Cody. An elderly lady looked over and asked about Cody, then told Jake, “Everybody needs a friend.” Later in the week, Phoenix Children’s staff gave Jake a little stuffed mouse. He had it with him, in the cafeteria, when he looked over and saw the elderly woman, sitting alone.
“Everybody needs a friend,” he told her, handing her the mouse.
“The people you meet, the compassion that you see, and the strength of these children is amazing,” Deanna says. “It’s something I’d rather not have gone through, but it’s been a learning experience.”
And still is, for Jake, bandit extraordinaire, who’s determined not to let a tumor rob him of the joy of life now, or later.
“Aren’t you scared?” his older sister asked him one day.
“Naw,” he said. “When I’m gone, and the wind blows … and the leaves fall … that’ll be me.”
Jake passed away March 20, 2003
Jake always wanted to help everyone he was around.
Jake saved his sisters life in 2005 when she was in a near fatal crash.
He came to her and told her that he could not keep her from getting hurt but he would keep her from dying . Danielle broke her back and neck ripped part of her face She was pregnant had Hailey 2 month early. Jake as our Angel saved them both. Than his your brother went down on his bike Jake once again saved him . Please let me know Deanna Jakes mom
May 24th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I just happened to change the channel to A&E to watch CSI and the comercial was on with an episode clip of a girl getting a cover up … THAT TATTOO WAS SICK !!!! I have been wanthing to get my zodiac tatted and everything i have seen everywhere i went i didn’t like … If you guys are ever in Reading Pennsylvania let me know i need a sick tattoo artist and a sick tattoo i can say i had done by the best….
May 25th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Plz come to St. Louis! Lots of fans here…REALLY!
May 25th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I want to do a memorial tattoo to honor my BIG BROTHER who recently passed. We both served in the Marine Corps and he was so proud of his Bulldog wearing a D.I. Smokey with the letters USMC underneath. I took many a jabs about not being brave enough to get one. My reply was “Hell in 30 years it will look like a chihuahua wearing a tobogan and what looks like muzimilic underneath it”!!!!! May 12th, 2009 I said goodbye to my fallen hero. MY BIG BROTHER. It’s time to honor his memory. I need the best!!
May 25th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
my daughter is 16 years old and i know she would love to have you guys do it. she is a good student and a an all around good kid . i just want to see her get the tattoo that will be greattttt. since that will be with her for the rest of her life. i know this will be asking alot but if you could steer your way to our place i would love it and she would too.
May 25th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
in lincoln nebraska thank you
May 26th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
i cant wait to see the show i myself have a couple tattoos but years ago i had a tattoo started at a local shop near me as i got to know the owner of the shop i did some work for him to help pay for more ink my tattoo is of an iguanna my nickname is lizard the tattoo is ruffly 3 feet long across my back and down my left arm, after i finished the body work and painted the truck for the owner of the shop he said he loved what i did as i tried to schedule time for more ink he went off on me and told me to never come back to his shop i ask about the money he then owed for the repairs i did to his truck he told to me @#@# off and told to leave his shop i live in a small town in north east ohio and since then ive been laid off id love it if i might be considerd for an episode on the show,, i want the lizard to look alive on me i had an iggy she was ruffly 3 feet long and i want to remeber her thats why i started the tattoo
thank you aka Lizard
May 27th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I am really excited about the new show. Hope you all can make it to Florida eventually and show us some work here. I have 7 tatts now and i’m a strong believer in only getting a tattoo that has a meaning/story behind it. I admire the work you do and the happiness you bring to so many people by making their life stories a visual story as well…
thanks again and hope to see you soon…
May 27th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I hope your coming to centrel california do not care if I would be on the show This tattoo has alot of meaning to me Its my first tattoo and I am 54 yrs old cannot find anyone I trust. I saw your work I would love to have you guys do it for me. Thanks, hope the road trip was good
May 27th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I would love to get inked on your show…is it possible?
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55106-2607
May 27th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
would like you to do my tat, for my kids, If you get to macon, missouri. I like some of the stuff you have done in the past.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Is there a schedule of towns you’ll be in, where and when?
May 27th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I have about 45 hours of ink on my body and I would love to display some of Thomas’ art on my canvas!
Id be honored..
May 27th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Hey Tom if ya ever come to indiana hook me up. I got a few tatts already but i think that it would be cool that next time when someone ask me man where did u get that tatt work done i can say from Thomas off of Tattoo Highway
Thanks
May 27th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
will u ever come to houston texas im watching ur show right now i love it
May 27th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Hey Tom if you ever come to the East Coast VA Beach Va i would love to meet you… Currently all my close friends have full back pieces and sleeves and all that but I have the worst luck ever… Nobody understands the real effect I want but I do have a few tats… Seeing your work and how awesome you are I would love to have your work to show the world… I finally got my roommate to get his 1st and he is now addicted also.. So if you do come thru I would atleast love to meet you… And your show ROCKS!!!!!! THANKS…. GMAN
May 27th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Hi guys, I just finished waching your show and I must say it really made me think alot. I have been wanting to get a tatoo on my back for a very long time and have been struggling with who or where to go. The tatoo I would like to get is one to remember my Grandmother and my Aunt. A week before Christmas, my Grandmother and Aunt were both murdered in their home. They were 82 and 84 years of age. Four men broke into their home and beat them to death, for only 400 dollars. I have never gotten over this and can not think of anyother way to remember them more than with a tatoo. I would love some help with tihs special tatoo. I am currenlty a resident in NJ and would love to have a special artist remember these extremely special women. Thank you again for everything.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Hi,
I have a tattoo that represents two of my children but now have been blessed with a third and would like to incorporate her into the tattoo. I have not been able to figure out how but after watching your show just once I know that you would be able to come up with something perfect, her name is Rayne. So if you should come to the chicago land area I would love to have this done.
Thanks
May 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
One of my wishes in life is to have a tat. Three years ago I was diagnosed with hep.-C, witch lead to serosis(sp?) of the liver. For one & a half yrs. I was deathly ill until they sent me home with hospice. The very next day the hospital called & wanted to know if I still wanted a liver; I was in Chicago with in two hrs. After a 14 hr. surgery & three months of rehab, a year of re-training,I’m still here. They gave me 5 more yrs. to live, one year has passed. Please E-Mail me. Thanks, no really Thanks.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
watching your show right now and was wondering if you would ever come to southern illinois. i have a tattoo idea that sounds a bit out there and is looked down on in the community and my family. reply if you are interested.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I just finished watching the show and one of the stops on it was a man, who lost his wife and the remains of her ashes were mixed into the ink, this hit me hard in the heart as I just recently lost my mom on Mother’s
Day, she was only 48, as a 29 yr old I never expected that she would not be here with me and my sisters as we reached our golden years. I’m now trying to be strong for my younger sisters, but really inside i’m hurting. As a tribute to her memory we decide to get a yellow rose with her name. Because she loved yellow roses, so if you are down the way of Austin look me up.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Hey Thomas, just watch your new show,think it’s great.
This is very hard for me to write about, as I’m still dealing with it, on the day before Thanksgiving 04 I lost my mother to cancer, In may of 07 I lost my sister to suicide because of drugs, I know you will likely never get to my neck of the world,but I like your work especilly
with the gentalmen in nevada who lost his wife.
If you could find the time I would like you to draw me a tattoo to represent my sister and mother that I can get on my shoulder to keep them with me always.
I not even sure if you will even read this, but its worth the try, because I know that I will have to add to tat soon as my father has cancer as well and not sure how long he’s got, his been on borrowed time for three
years now.
If you do read this thanks for your time.
robert t
May 27th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
i would like you to come to the dayton ohio area i would love it if you can do a tattoo for me. i want one of my grandmother we were so close and 5 days after i got married she died. i was on my honeymoon and when i came back i found out she was gone. please let me know if you are going to be in the area.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I love the show! I’ve always wanted a tattoo and would be honored if you did my first. Come on over to corn and cow country here in the heart of the midwest NEBRASKA. Keep living the dream.
Your newest fan,
Michelle Welch
May 27th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I’m about to turn 18 I hve a tattoo of a clover on my left hip, but would lk it fixed. It would be great if I could see some kind of schedule
Thnx,
Kay
May 27th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I would like to have a tattoo of my grandpa who passed away years ago, he raised me and my brother and helped my mother with us. I do not remember ever being without him in my life,when he died i fell apart, not only was he my Grandpa but he was the only father figure i ever had, i would like for you to make a special tattoo as a tribute to my grandpa, and when he went away i felt like i lost part of myself, he was a wonderful caring, giving man who never judged anyone no matter what or who they were. he loved everyone and i feel so lost with out him in my life. a tattoo would be with me for life as is his spirit. I would hope you would make it here to Bloomington Illinois.There is more to this story but i do not want to take up the whole space.Thanks Thomas from the Tattoo Highway.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:37 am
HI my name is chadd mace. i live here in Hermiston, oregon. Im only 24yrs old and i lost my mom in 2003 and every year her birthday comes up i just think how proud she would be of me. I just had a my first son born 7months ago and love him dearly i would like a picture of my son or mom picture done. So if u are heading up this way i would like to see u because i heard lots about u how good u are,
May 28th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Hey Tom well i am very excitied to see you’r show.I have been waiting to see it from the first time i seen it.I got 6 tats and would like to get two of my heros.My father and step father was my heros.My father past away with stomach cancer and step father past away with born cancer.My step father past away in 2000 and my father past away in 2001.I lost the two man in my life that meant the world to me..I would love to get a tat to remember them bye.But I understand you are only on the coast.Well i am from a small town in gerogia.I don’t think you would travel threw here,but it is worth a chance.so good luck and God Bless you and you’r family.
YOU’RS TRUELY,
MARIAN
May 28th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Thomas,
My name is Jen and my husband and I live in a town outside of Phoenix, AZ. I’ve seen a lot of people’s stories and I wanted to add my husband’s and mine. I am a mother of 3 boys who are very close to my heart, but I had lost custody of them due to a VERY abusive ex-husband. I was abused in every sense of the word everything from verbal, emotional, and I was raped at least every other day. I had thought that if I was getting hit and abused that my ex wasn’t abusing my boys too. Well, I was wrong. My oldest son suffers not only from ADHD, but anxiety, and has some tendencies of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) as well as he possibly could be Schitsophrenic all due to the abuse of my ex husband. My middle son, which was also abused (my ex left a full handprint bruise on his face for crying in time-out). I was too scared and didn’t know what to do, so I couldn’t leave until my ex was sentenced to over a year in prison for hitting my son.
I was diagnosed with “Battered Wife’s Syndrome”, and I was extremely self conscious as well as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Anything could set me off and I would just go into almost a comatose fear induced space. That was the only thing that I could do when I was with my ex . I would have constant flashbacks… It was horrible. Now, after over 3 years of at least 2 counseling visits a week and my wonderful new husband, I can talk about it freely without getting anymore flashbacks.
On a more positive note, with my new marriage, i inherited a stepson, and my husband and I were blessed with a beautiful little girl. So, now I’m a mom of 4 boys and a little girl.
I want to get my FIRST tattoo and I want to incorporate a heart with a red rose maybe behind it with it’s stem going around the heart, signifying that my 3 boys (who are staying with my parents in another state) may be far from me, but always close to my heart, I also want to incorporate my new daughter and my stepson.
My husband is a military cop with the US Air Force, he was in Kuwait shortly after he graduated high school but now works for the local base. My husband would like to get 2 tattoos, one of his family crest, the other would be a portrait tattoo of his son & our daughter.
Good luck on all of your travels Thomas, and may God Bless you and your wife with health & safety as you travel.
Please email me when and/or if you do come back to the Phoenix, AZ area.
Thank you, and god speed =)
May 28th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Too bad u won’t hit small towns all over America…My husband was a fireman and so was his father. They were fighting a fire together and his father died…anywho he has been talking forever about doing a memorial for his dad….he has never fought another fire since, his dad was a Vietnam Vet , from a bad life and raised his son with love and strength and respect for the life he has….
May 28th, 2009 at 4:54 am
i have to give thomas and his beautiful wife the most ut most respect for starting a tattoo parlor on the road and having 3 little kids how they do it but keep strong and keep going if ur ever this way im in gridley ca i would love for u to finish a tattoo for my i have to say x husband but long story there we r working thigs out after 15yrs i am 32 yrs old i have put him thru some bad stuff as well as he but we are adults and have 2great kids together so it’s worth fighting for any how he got this tat on his arm and the guy jacked it up. the guy i picked i guess he was pretty shaddy so i would love to have u fix the tattoo for him moneys not a problem just want some one with the creativity and ability to fix it it has some scare tissue i think but like i said i would be so honored if u did come this way we r located by yuba city california thanks for letting us voice what we think i think u 2 & ur crew r doing a great job and keep on go all the way live ur dreams to the fullest thanx amy miller gridley ca
May 28th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Yesterday i sent A&E an E-mail but i forgot to leave my business name it is ANYWHERE TRUCK REPAIR if you need to contact me by phone the no. is (918)- 641-5555 based in Tulsa Ok. Will work for ink LOL, or cash. I think you have a cool thing going and i wish you well. Reality shows are taking off big these days you will do Great.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:35 am
So glad to see you back Thomas! I use to watch you when you were on Inked! Love the show! GBY Suzanne
May 28th, 2009 at 10:43 am
hello my name is D.W. and i got ripped off i a great doodler i have some of my own work so i know the tattoo i have is a easy pic to draw on paper i know skin is different any way i have flame gauntlet on each arm when i got it not to many people had them now every one does i had to artist try to take back at it and each one has done no better i love tattoos my dream is to become a tattoo artist I’ve been drawing my whole life wright know I’m unemployed I’ve had a rough drug filled past but know I’m clean healthy and all i want is a job and if you think its hard getting a job with a tattoo try getting one with a ugly looks like it was done in the link with a sharpend ink pen Ive already have put out 800 hundred on this i got it wright after Katrina when we evacuated to tennessee after Katrina and then again out here please help me feel the passion about my tattoos like i feel about almost every one else’s and I’m sure it would be a challenge to make flames like no one else
May 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
please come to sacramento!!!!!!♥
mit would be awesome if you could….
i love your show and hopefully when im 18 ill get a tattoo done by you thomas… so wait for me lol…
rock on much luv too you and your tattoing crew….!!!
May 28th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
i love your show you gotta come to northern nevada!
May 28th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
hey luv ur show would luv 4 u 2 come 2 il would luv u 2 give me a tat in memory of my best friend she died last year when i was having a pacemaker put in iam 35 she died in jamica day b4 her wedding
May 29th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Hi, my name is Stacey Lynn Blake. I have to use my middle name cause my husbands name is Stacey too!! I have seen the first episodes of your show and already love it! I loved watching Inked! If yall are gonna be in Texas near Austin let me know. I have two tattoos I have been wanting to get but all the tattoo artists I go to want me to bring a picture in and I can’t do that! I have seen you create them just by being with and talking to your clients, that’s what I need! I want one to remember my Grandfather who past away this past year (he’s a story in him self!! Lol) and I am wanting one for me, my husband and our six kiddos! I have some ideas for the last one but still not sure! My husband is wanting a couple of different ones too! He almost died several years ago from a brain tumor then after they did surgery and removed that a week later he almost died from a blood clot. Who knows, maybe we will get to meet and hang out! Bring Monica and the kids! Lord knows we have enough of our own kids for them to play with! Hope to hear from yall! Be safe on the road!!
May 29th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I really enjoyed your show. I was wondering if you might be traveling anywhere towards Tennessee.. I saw the tattoo you did for the man who lost his wife and you put some of her ashes in the ink. Well my husband lost his sister last year (she was only 28), and it would mean alot to the both of us if you would be able to come here and give him a tattoo with his little sisters ashes in the ink. Thanks and Good luck with the show.
Delia
May 30th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
HEY MY BOYFRIEND AND I JUST WATCHED THE EPISODE W THE YOUNG LADY THAT HAD PUT HER SON UP FOR ADOPTION (10YRS) AGO, U DID A PHOENIX TAT ON HER. AWESOME BY THE WAY! LOVE THE DETAIL.. SHE SAID THE PHOENIX REPRESENTED HER RISING UP FROM HER PAST. I TOO HAVE HAD MY TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, HIT SEVERAL BUMPS ON THE ROAD BUT I AM A WORK IN PROGRESS. I THINK YOU SHOULD VISIT US IN EL PASO, TX.
CONGRATS ON THE SHOW… I ADMIRE YOUR TALENT. GOOD LUCK W EVERYTHING.
May 30th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Aloha,
I would love to have a cover up of a tatoo on my back that I got together when my ex-husband and I were together. We both got lizards with the kids names down the back of the lizards and each others name in the middle of the lizards. I want the kids name to be incorporated in the cover up and I am from Hawaii and would want something bright, maybe floral, tribal?? I have been searching for my birth mother since I can remember and since I am from the 60′s my adoption record is sealed. I want something to symbolize my hidden/missing birth mom into the Hawaii theme. Look forward to hearing from you all. Love the show it is so unique and I watch it all the time:) Mahalo nui loa!!
May 30th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
please come to rome ny i have a whole family thats wants you guys to tattoo us please rome ny
May 30th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
This is such a great idea that was wasted on Thomas. He’s still the same loser he always has been. Monica is way too good for him. Not sure why she’s even on the show/road trip??? Is she trying to keep him from doing something really stupid to leave their family homeless?
Thomas…PLEASE put us out of our misery!!!!
May 31st, 2009 at 5:45 am
Tom i love your true feelings on the ashes in ink program. I felt the compasion you had for him and wanted say what great of a person you are. P.S. the best things in life is love and you definitely have that. Be true to yourself and others will follow.
May 31st, 2009 at 6:10 pm
I was a fan of his from “inked’. I was so bummed when he left, I thought that HE was the show. I was jealous of Monica and thought she was one lucky bitch to have such a hot tempered, passionate, artistic man so in love with her.
I was surprised to see it was THAT Thomas starring in “Tatoo Highway”. I had been looking forward to this new show, but had no idea it was MY Thomas who would be the dude driving the bus.
I love his heart. I Love his passion. When he was putting that ink into that man’s chest with his wives ashes in it…man, I was all choked up and so was he. My husband was killed riding his Harley (with me on the back of course). i have his ashes and would LOVE to have a tatoo done with ink that had Arizona Jim mixed in with it.
Hey Thomas, if you are ever up north, in the Seattle/SNohomish County area, please come to Everett and look me up. You have my email address, get in touch. I know SO all the righteously great scooter trash up here and could get you a week’s worth of business no problem.
Gorgeous the Life
Sploozy aka Harleygal
May 31st, 2009 at 6:21 pm
p.s. Monica..PLease know i meant absolutely NO disrespect calling you one “lucky bitch”. i call all my girls that…I really think you are beautiful and you have what it takes to keep this man inspired. I just didn’t want you to think I was being mean when I read what i had just written.
I love your hair, mine is purple and pink. OK, just didnt want to leave a bad taste in your mouth making lustful comments about yoru ol man..hell girl, you have GOT to be used to it by now. You are the one who holds the key to his heart and soul, he showed the world that on “Inked”…I stil say you are one lucky bitch,.
come up to God’s country and we will show yall a great time. My late husband Arizona Jim would have loved to get some ink from Thomas….so would I!
Susan Martin
Everett, Washington
May 31st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
I enjoyed your 1st show and enjoyed you on that other show you were on. Hope you come to Sierra Vista, AZ
I wish you a long run on A&E tv.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
i have a tattoo that i hate on my arm can i remove this tattoo with putting neutral colors i am lite skin ,i dont have the money to laser the tattoo
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 am
I work at a VFW Post in Appleton Minnesota That does a Memorial Motorcycle Ride for The friends and Families and fellow Soldiers to reflect on these 3 Fallen Soldiers who lost their lives in Bagdad, Iraq
onon the 21st of February 2005. I feel this would be an awesome opportunity To maybe help in the healing . We recently just sent more of the Soldiers from this same unit back again to serve . This event is held on May 27th 2009. Thank you I love the show and was very touched by it . Donna
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 am
so sorry wrong date given it is June 27th 2009.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
My husband is a wonderful man with several tattoos. Since the birth of his son, he has wanted to get inked with our son’s name. And now that we have a daughter he really wants new ink to memorialize them forever. I really want a tattoo myself and have always promised my husband we would get inked together. (I have zero tattoos but always wanted one.) My husband works his butt off to provide for us and there is nothing I would like more than to show him how much I appreciate his hard work. He works at jobs he hates so I can stay home for the kids. Noone could love their kids more and having them a permanent part of him would be the best pepresent I could give him. So please let me know if you will be in TN because he deserves the best
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Hi my name is Tammy and I am dating a wonderful guy by the name of Ronnie. You see in the past 14 years you would not belive what him and his family have been thru. It all started 14 years ago, You see it was first Ronnie’s uncle that pasted away, then 6 weeks later his other uncle passed away, 2 weeks later his baby brother , Tink who was 22 at the time was in an accient and was killed. Two years later Ronnie’s grandfather who he was very close to passed away suddenly, then 12 years passed by and his other younger brother, Joey was killed in a car wreck. This has got to be the strongest family I know . I know Ronnie wants a memorial tattoo in honor of his brothers. I think it would just be wonderfuli if you were the guy to give it to him. I watch your show and it really touched me when you gave the gentleman the tatto of his wife and used her ashes. I sat and cried right along with you. Any way if you pass by Henryetta, Ok let us know. Rock on
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I think you should travel to Maine! No one ever comes here but it is fantastic! I hate the commercials for Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig…”I lost 40 lbs” it should continue with and it only cost me a few hundred dollars. I did it on my own….and it cost me nothing. When I started I had a goal of 40 lbs. with the reward being a tatoo. I have maintained for 6 mos. and am ready! Come to Maine…have a little seafood and ink me!
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I too watched you with Hart & Huntington and thought you were great on that show. I would love to see you come to Seattle. I lost my mother to cancer when I was 15 and it has pretty much been a downward spiral since. I have pretty much raised myself since she passed. I at 32 have changed colostamy bags, I held a job at 14 to help cover expenses, taught myself to cook and clean, etc. I even quit high school because the thought of her being gone was just too much. People always ask where was my father. He wasn’t around much I grew up in East Texas and my dad lived in Seattle. Well being a minor at the time I was shipped to live with him. I have now managed to get my GED and go to college. I work in a very successful telecommunications company and have managed to find some way to support myself along the way. I would love to have something memorable placed on my body to represent both the passing of my mother plus the challenges that I myself have overcome.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
You Guys Are a bunch of fucking cry babies. My girl loves your show, I cant fucking stand how you complain about everything and how fucking Negative you are. Everybody has there own problems no need to listen to you cry.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 pm
hello, I live in Philadelphia Pa , i have one tattoo of my son that was done in 1995 since then i have a set of twins b/g that will be 10 yrs old this October 2009 and i would like for u to do my tattoo of my twins for me .
Thank you
Bonnie
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
ok so i almost fell over when y ou were interviewing assistants on the bus, im an ink nut near syracuse ny, you ever make this way i would love for you to visit our small town and design a piece for myself and my two sons. im disabled after multiple back surgeries, and my boys have taken care of me for the last 3 years, now that i can get around a bit more i want to do something special for them. i am a very lucky man, i have two great kids, not bad for a single dad, one pre-med the other computer engineering., our story is a long one, stop by and ill share the whole story and get some ink!
best of luck, be safe,
tiger bill
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 pm
WOW, A&E has done it again, first of all Brilliant . Now to Thomas, welcome back dude, yahoo, so glad to see you back. I saw your show tonight & of course your in California. I’ll ask please try to come to Lynn, Massachusetts.
I ask, for a few reasons, 1) I have a few bad tats that need a REAL ARTIST not a MULYSA MAYHEM. ( I’m usually a person to through a name but when I asked her to fix what she did to me, she responded very unprofessionally. )
2) Your work speaks for itself & you also speak for your work, I feel if I were to bring something I wanted to you, that you would also add your Artistic Eye to it and that is what I’ve been waiting for. I love large beautiful, colorful, symbols, pictures, something I find that is ME and I would like to express my eyes beauty through the ART of Tattooing.
Ok, alittle about myself, I’m 30+ (hehe), I have 9 tats spread around but would like a Beautiful Story on myself about myself and the things I love.
I sure hope this reaches you & your crew, well done.
God Bless & God Speed To You ALL
I’ll pray you come cross coutry to the Atlantic Ocean & right now the weather is georgous. Hope to see you soon.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I LOVE your show! I just got done watching it and wanted to say that I’m a blonde soccer mom with no tattoos, however, I think I would make a great assistant–just like your artist that didn’t agree with legalized prostitution but did the prostitute’s tattoo anyway! I’ve always wanted to get a tattoo, but am afraid of what it will look like when I’m 65 (or where it will end up) so I chickened out! Come to Fort Worth, Texas and maybe I’ll “un-chicken” out! lol
June 4th, 2009 at 2:04 am
I THINK IT’S REALLY COOL YOU CAN DO MARRIAGES IN CALIFORNIA AND TATTOOS THATS A SYMBOL OF LOVE 4 SURE SO AFTER I HAVE MY BABY ME AND MY BOYFRIEND ARE GETTING A HOLD OF YOU GUYS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.,,,,, LOVE YOUR SHOW LOVE TATTOOS LOVE MY FAMILY TO BE
June 4th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Hey my names David iv’e been a Professional Tattoo Artist going on 4 yrs, Im 21 and I just wanted to write you and tell you that You are by far the best tattoo crew iv’e seen, I would do anything to further better my tattooing ability under the instruction of Thomas Pendleton Im completely alone, I have 75 tattoos and currently am without employment, my mom is deathly ill, and has abandoned me to be with the family in new york, I have few friends I can trust and well I have nothing going for me, but im hard core dedicated to the love of the art im strong hearted and greatly encouraging, Im a good person just need a push in the right direction basically im asking if you ever have the time, Id do absolutely anything in this entire world to learn more from thomas about the art im so passionate about!!!! please if you ever need help or just wanna make my dreams come true get in touch!!! shockingink20@yahoo.com thats my email!!! Please consider me one day
Sincerely David Bogue
June 4th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Hey gang,
Boy, my husband and I could sure use your help. My husband had a poorly done tattoo that was then covered with a “tribal” style disaster. It would be difficult to repair, except by the best of the best. If, and when, it’s corrected, I would like a smaller, duplicate copy on the back of my neck. I love the tribal style, somehow it moves me deeply inside, and I would love to have that connection with my husband (of 21 years).
I also have chosen a tribal style piece for my face, would like your opinion on that. Apparently, from what I’ve been hearing, not many women get tattoos on their face. What do you think?
Thanks, Heidi Jacobson
June 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
hey just wondering if you guys are going to make a trip to bellingham washington and when. I have started a tatt you guys might be interested in.
thank you
Andy
June 4th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Hey guys and girls. Love your show. Love your cute red head friend with a bad attidude.
i would love to have the honor to have my first tat from your guys (and meet cutie hot head)
I am a single mom. my girl is wonderful and my son was a blessing. 12 years apart, they are my heart. I have a great tat in mind. 25 years with my ex gives you time to think about who you are. REAL
June 4th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I love the show and all the story of peoples lives that it tells. I have a tat that no one can seem to get right. I show them what i want and still it doesn’t pertray what I need it to. Im doing a tribute to my cousin and two friends who have passed away way to young and they ment the world to me . But I also want it to repersent me. I have seen you take someone’s ideal of what they want and change it to what it really needs to be. I would love to finally have a piece of great art to repersent my friends and my self . Please if you come to Cincinnti Ohio contact me . My myspace is Kittyniddy or my email is Kitty_Duncan420@hotmail.com I will even get up a whole bunch of people to get tats if you need the money. Please help
June 4th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Hey Thomas love the show man, I had a some bad art work done on my arm and would love to get it fixed, Are you guys coming to Modesto Ca ? I love the work you do and we have no good art places here. Please let me know if you are going to be near us. I hate having art work that I have to keep covered up, I hate it. THOMAS PLEASE HELP ME! I want to be proud of my art.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Hey y’all!
I noticed a bunch of people asking for you to make a tour up to the Pacific NorthWest. I can’t even tell you how much I second (or third) the notion. We get so little this far north (Anchorage, AK) that it would mean to world to people to have something as wonderfully unique as a shop on wheels roll into town. I know of several people who are wandering around, trying to find artists for pieces they’ve been sitting on for years, myself, my room-mate and my boyfriend included. There are a few wonderful artists here in town, but thanks to their low numbers and the local population, you usually end up on one heck of a waiting list for someone worth their salt. Not to mention the awesome factor of having a tattoo done by one of the traveling legends that you’ve established as your crew. Mainly I guess I’m just asking that if you plan on going for another season, don’t forget the lonely, ice bound Americans so far to the north. You’d find one hell of a welcoming party if you head this way. Cheers!!
June 4th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
What a great show and an awesome group of HUMANS! The work is wonderful but the crew is what makes the show. We watch your show and appreciate your quest for the human stories.
You all are doing great things by giving closure to some and hope to others not to mention banking some funds.
You also serve as folks with passion for your craft. Not to mention the heart felt parenting we saw in an episode. You have not sold yourselves for the almighty dollar and have chosen to keep your children out of the spot light. Good for you.
Thanks for taking the time to read this as there are people that appreciate your journey.
csp of Wisconsin
June 5th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Hello Thomas and Monica
My name is Monica Dunigan, From Barstow Ca I have already sent a letter under the tattoo inquiry but thought I should go this route to so I will be heard, Hopefully! My cousin and best friend Darcy Diwa lost her baby girl to Trunkis Artereosis in June 2005 , she was only 26 days old…Jessica Destiny Gordon! I held her first and I dressed her little body and swaddled her when she passed…It has been extremely hard, we have long since wanted to honor her with a tattoo on the inside of our arm between the inside elbow and wrist right in the crook so its like we are cradling her…A portrait of her , a special butterfly , both of which that are on her headstone and her dates . We want to be able to hold her in our arms whenever we see her sweet face!!! PLease please!! The first time I seen your your show I knew you had to be the one to do it!!! It has to be you!!! PLease Please Please
Thankyou
Monica Dunigan
June 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am
LOVE the show would like to see you near PCB Florida need some good new work done!!!!
June 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Hey tattoo highway is coming to Kings Island on June 27th , tell your friends
June 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
if they come to Ohio I would love to get a tattoo by any of them they do one heck of a good job they need to come to Bowling Green Ohio
June 9th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I am 43, a mom of three, with no tattoos- I have been battling cancer for 3.5 years and my dream trip is to Italy…my husband and I want to get matching tattoos of a beautiful Italain phrase that symbolizes our love to each other and will solidify my Italian heritage…if you come to Grand Forks North Dakota (way out in the boonies…) please give a call – i would cherish the expertise of such a great tattoo artist…
Blessings and safe journey to you and yours…
Tammy
June 10th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
hi my name is Deann my 18 year old son was killed by a drunk driver on April 7 2008 miss him everyday been watching since you aired want to get a photo of him tat on me and yunz do great work love it all i all ready have three want more but tryin to save up for the one of son hope to see you come to irwin pa thanks to you all drive safe
June 10th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I am just wondering if you are going to be anywhere near tulsa oklahoma in the future. My sister in law loves tattoos and she loves watching tattoo highway. My family and I are going through a tough time, and especially her. She is 23 years old, and on June 1st, 2009 she lost her 3 1/2 month old baby. They laid their precious healthy baby down to sleep and found her dead a little while later. She passed away of sids. It was absolutley horrible. She and I would both love to get a tattoo in honor of Mariyah Lerae.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Okay, i have a mom thats pertey much crazy. She decides the most randomest days to get a new tattoo.
Now, Shes married to a Nerdd, Who Dosen’t even have one tattoo. Thats kinda jackked upp. Hes Kinda afraidd, Haha. He needs to get one and stop being a panzeee. Could yew please be the one to do it?
It wudd be pertey Mucch amazzzin(:
June 11th, 2009 at 12:35 am
i have a coverup i would love for you to freestyle that is on my back i can send photos if needed i would love it i love the show watch it all the time !!
June 11th, 2009 at 1:18 am
are you coming to las vegas would love to get my 2 sons name and bdate on shoulders, love your work…denise
June 11th, 2009 at 1:42 am
To make a long story short.
Love you guys hope you are traveling safe. If you ever come back to Sacramento, Ca. Please let me know. My wife’s father died a tragic death and she has a small rat on her lower calf that needs to be covered up. This particular tat has some negotive thoughts about her dad. Please let us know your future travel plans and we would be honored to be tattooed by you or one of your team.
Savage
June 11th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Hey there Thomas, I’m not gonna drag out some long sympathy line of why I want you to stain me. Yeah I have story’s to tell and a lot of unstained skin to put it on. Hit me up Roundtown, Ohio.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:44 am
DALTON 15 SUICID GUN !!!
BETH 12 STROKE BROCA’S APHASIA !!!
WILTON CA
TATTOO
June 11th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Hey guys great show i love it man you guys do some great work i am a amateur tattooist in georgia i do not have anyone to do a understudy or apprentice under so i am taken my some what hidden skills on my on ,if there is any way you can hook me up with a dvd set that would be great just any thing to learn more about the art of tattooing ,i would love it … you guy be safe on the road and God bless.. DINGO
June 11th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
What is your Myspace page listed as, thanks.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:38 am
I love to watch yalls shows and really like getting tattoos I have a piece that i would really like to get on my back. I am a single mom working 2nd shift right now and record the show so I can watch it.I wish we had more then one tattoo shop were I live makes it hard to get work done.
June 12th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Hi the other night the episode of you guys doing a cover up of some thai writing you did a coy over it.
my wife and i were watching and saying how awesome your talents are she looked at me and said i wish they could make it to the eastcoast. i know they would be able to draw my tattoo the way i want it.
the reason she said that is we have been to about 5 palors around where we live and all the drawings they make are not what she really wants or they just aren’t a nice enough job. she is loking to have our daughters name written on her neck with a lily flower coming out of the letters . and just so you know we are not dying or totally destitute. i don’t think we would even qualify for you to come to pennsylvania to do her tattoo but i thought i would write in because i feel she deserves the effort of me trying she is a stay at home mom and tries to raise our little girl with manners and respect and does a great job at it. also our little one loves tattoo’s we used them for potty training and as rewards for being good she even went to watch when i had my wedding ring done and she is only 4.
well thanks for your time i hope that you guys read these comments and would at least think about coming east
alburtis , pa
June 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Talk about the Pacific Northwest…Tommy Morgan, tattoo artist and cast member has his own shop in downtown portland .. Electric Cobra Tattoo Club check it out. Amazing artist with an even more amazing shop!! P.S. The show is very cool…
June 14th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Thomas, I believe that I am meant to have a tattoo, and seeing the magic that you do and the sensitivity that you take to every situation, is inspirational. If your bus ever foound its way through or near Buffalo I would be honored to have your ink to be my first.
A little about my self and what the tattoo would be, until I met my wife I had no real need to make family number one…mainly because I was adopted and I kind of have a difficult relationship with my adopted mother. But since my wife and I have been together we have been building a life and a family of our own also I am becoming interested in my herritage and the ethnicity that my wife and I share, according to court documents.
Im not exactly sure what the tattoo would look like but family has to be at its core. Keep up the good work. And God bless.
June 15th, 2009 at 6:55 am
i love your work… i have a memorial tattoo of my best friend,,, my dad… it needs touching up and wanted some of the best to do it… if you are ever in GA i would be greatful for you to do it
June 17th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
hey guys,
I was just watching your show ( new boobies) And I was wondering if you will being taking a tour through Canada at all? If so please let me know if you are going to be coming through alberta as I would love a tattoo done in memory of my grandma, and I would like it to be a portrait of her but done as a pin up. Hope to hear from you soon,
Candice
June 17th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Hi everyone;
Mr. Thomas my name is Mike Good a father of two and a loving husband to my wife Michelle. We have watched you when you were with Cary Hart in vegas. My favorite episode was when you bet the intern that he couldn”t drink a gallon of milk and hold it without throwing up for an hour. It was a great episode. Why didn’t he drink skim Milk? Any way I would like to ask if you guys are coming to the east coast. My wife and oldest son each got a tatoo but I do not have any. I would like to get my first one from you if possible. We live very close to Gettysburg. We as a family are Civil War reenactors. If you are into history and are interested my oldest son is a history major and wants to be a teacher. He is also a Ghost tour guide for Ghosts of Gettysburg. We would love for you to consider this and we will give you a guided tour and history on the battle of Gettysburg. To top it all off then we would give you a ghost tour of gettysburg. Please consider. I know you getb these all of the time but please consider. Thank You for your time in advance.
Sincerely,
Mike Good
June 18th, 2009 at 12:54 am
hy guys i’m truning 16 at june 26 and my mom saied she wuold get me my frst tattoo and i wuold luve to get it by u guys becuse u all rack and i luve ur tv showe bigset fan kyle brooks
chino valley az
June 18th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
THOMAS AND MONICA THE LAST SHOW ON WEDNESDAY WAS AWESOME, MONICA HAD SOME SURGERY, I HOPE THAT SHE IS DOING OK. AND NOT TO SORE,IT WAS A GOOD IDEA MONICA TO FINALLY DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF. DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY TATTOOS AT ALL? WELL I GUESS THOMAS MUST HAVE ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF YOU. HA HA BUT AS YOU KNOW HAVING CHILDREN CAN SURE MAKE YOUR BODY SAG IN SOME PLACES YOU DONT WANT IT TOO. AND GRAVETY SETTLES IN .BUT GOOD LUCK TO YOU BOTH I HOPE YOU COME DOWN OUR WAY, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AND MEET YOUR WHOLE CREW. AND GET A TATTOO AS A TRIBUTE TO MY GRANDPA A THOMAS ORIGINAL ONE OF A KIND, BUT I HAVE HEARD U ALL WILL NOT BE COMMING THIS WAY. I HOPE THAT ITS NOT TRUE AND WITH THAT BIG BUS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TRAVEL ANY WHERE. BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS
June 21st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Deanna Woods Says:
May 24th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
How do you get nominated for the show?
I would love to get a tat of my youngest son that passed of a brain tumor . Jake was 9. I want a tat of jake standing with wings. I have the picture of Jake. We took it weeks before he passed.
Jake’s Story
PCH Kids Stories
You couldn’t blame Jake Martinez for feeling robbed.
He’s 9 years old, chock-full of life, dreams, and mischief … and everywhere he looks is the cold reminder that cancer is closing in.
But Jake is too light on his fate to sit around, counting his losses.
He’s decided to “rob” others, instead.
For the last two years, Jake has been the champion Change Bandit for the KMLE Children’s Radiothon, hitting up friends, classmates, and neighbors for support for the hospital. He’s raised nearly $5,000, by bringing to his hold-ups a no-holds-barred style all his own.
“He tells them: ‘Hi, my name is Jake, and I’m raising money for Phoenix Children’s, my home away from home,’” his mother, Deanna, says. “One time, he said to the person, ‘Aw, heck, I’m not gonna kid you. I’m making my own room.’”
That kind of honesty brings in the bucks, but Jake isn’t just a stick-up guy. He’s a stand-up guy, too. One day, waiting for an injection, he watched a younger boy screaming at the prospect of the needle. Jake told him there was nothing to be afraid of. “Here,” he said. “Let me show you.”
Up went the sleeve, in went the needle, “and you could see in his face that it hurt,” Deanna remembers. “But he just smiled at the boy and said, ‘Wow! See? It doesn’t hurt.’ And the other little boy just stepped right up.”
“It hurts when kids feel bad,” Jake says with a shrug, “and I want to help them.”
“He’s a very upbeat kid, who understands things a lot better than most kids his age,” says Dr. David Moss, Director of Neurosurgery at Phoenix Children’s. “He’s thought this through.”
Always the Jokester
“They say God chooses certain children to go through this kind of thing,” Deanna says. “He’s just a kid who makes something good out of even the worst times. No matter how he feels, he’s always the jokester.”
At school, kids often ask Jake about his bald head and slowing movements.
“I just tell them that I’m dying of a brain tumor, so I might act weird,” he says.
“He’s handled this better than I think any kid I’ve ever seen in this situation,” says Moss.
The tumor was first diagnosed two-and-a-half years ago, after one of Jake’s teachers mentioned to Deanna that the boy wasn’t using one of his hands. An MRI showed a spider-like tumor on Jake’s brain stem, entwining itself in the spinal cord. Surgeons would have to remove at least 85 percent of the tumor, if Jake were to survive. They could only get 35.
“It’s like a plate of ‘red’ spaghetti and ‘white’ spaghetti,” Deanna says, “and you have to try to get the white out without getting any tomato sauce on it.”
“There are lots of nerves and blood vessels in that area that just preclude your being able to take it out,” says Dr. Michael Etzl, Jr., a Phoenix Children’s oncologist who’s treated Jake.
Neither radiation treatments nor chemotherapy have helped, either.
“This is a difficult type of tumor that is not particularly sensitive to chemotherapy,” Dr. Etzl says. Worse, “there’s a limit to the radiation – a lifetime limit to how much the body can absorb – and he’s had about all he can.”
“Jake understands that he’s terminal,” his mother says, “even though there are days when he says stuff like, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna get married when I get older.’”
He can’t ride a bike or a skateboard any more. He doesn’t have the strength for slides or swings or monkey bars. But he has energy enough to keep an eye on the people around him.
Last year, he struck up a friendship with a young leukemia patient. He knew the girl’s family was having a hard time, financially. As the holidays approached, Jake took his mother aside. “I don’t want anything for Christmas,” he told her. Instead, he asked if all the money for his presents could go toward the little girl and her family. “That,” he said, “will be my Christmas.”
‘Everybody Needs a Friend’
Another Christmastime, Jake was riding in the hospital elevator with his favorite stuffed animal, Cody. An elderly lady looked over and asked about Cody, then told Jake, “Everybody needs a friend.” Later in the week, Phoenix Children’s staff gave Jake a little stuffed mouse. He had it with him, in the cafeteria, when he looked over and saw the elderly woman, sitting alone.
“Everybody needs a friend,” he told her, handing her the mouse.
“The people you meet, the compassion that you see, and the strength of these children is amazing,” Deanna says. “It’s something I’d rather not have gone through, but it’s been a learning experience.”
And still is, for Jake, bandit extraordinaire, who’s determined not to let a tumor rob him of the joy of life now, or later.
“Aren’t you scared?” his older sister asked him one day.
“Naw,” he said. “When I’m gone, and the wind blows … and the leaves fall … that’ll be me.”
Jake passed away March 20, 2003
Jake always wanted to help everyone he was around.
Jake saved his sisters life in 2005 when she was in a near fatal crash.
He came to her and told her that he could not keep her from getting hurt but he would keep her from dying . Danielle broke her back and neck ripped part of her face She was pregnant had Hailey 2 month early. Jake as our Angel saved them both. Than his your brother went down on his bike Jake once again saved him . Please let me know Deanna Jakes mom
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Hey Thomas, Monica, Tommy, Chilly And the rest of the gang… Jus wanted u all to know that what u are doing is so real,! U are nailing it on the head… Please keep up the AWESOME work… and keep on truckin… You all need to come thru the heartland…. Joplin Missouri!!!! One love!!!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I was looking forward to this show but it sucks. Manly the brother on the show. I talks shit about all the people they do tattoos for. Well the all do but hes the main guy. Okay i under stand given people shit but come on. They make people look stupid for the choice of tattoos they want. Fuck that Shit. Go Back Home.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:22 am
I love your talent, I have about 10 pieces of art by only 2 artist, Thay all have meanings.If you guys ever come to cincinnati, ohio please contact me. I would love to have 3 portraits on my back.All of you seem to have your sh-t together.I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THOMAS WORK ON ME. Thanks BE SAFE OUT THERE,
MIKE
June 25th, 2009 at 1:39 am
Just saw tonight’s episode with the hunky firemen. Tell us about the puppy! What a cute dog – French Bulldog? Was he a gift after Monica’s surgery? His ears are awesome!
Great show you guys – Thomas you’re doing a great job! Keep it up!
June 25th, 2009 at 2:01 am
I have beed taking care of my mom for over thirty years.I should say she has been living with me..she will be 85 on august 1.Two months ago she got her first tattoo. Its a heart surrounded with flowers with my name inside. iTs on her wrist because she wanted to see it every day..It represents the fact that i have saved her from death at least 4 times now, with the last heart incident really being a close call/ she decided that after that ,she would would fulfill a lifelong dream of getting a tattoo/ she wanted to put my name inside the heart , so the nextime if anything happened she would have me with her. . Now the really funny part is my mom is a really sufficated lady, the last thing you would expect to see on her wrist is a tattoo. Now where ever we go, all kinds of people from all walks of life approach her to ask her about her tattoo. And , she will go up to the biggest baddest looking dude around and ask them about their tattoo .they will always appreciate her honesty ,interest and sence of humor. Besides for 85 she is a beautiful looking woman..she loves the show, turned myself, and my husband on to it. My harlequin greatdane mcguire loves your frenchie ! if you are ever in phoenix arizona again, it would be an honor for us to have you at our home and have you tattoo my mom..thanks jan
June 25th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
say i live in ar is there anyway you will be coming this way or anywhere close to arkansas ? ur show is the shit. your work is temendous .. i just hope 1 day ill b as good as you.and would like to get a tatt by you while i still have room.if you got time to hit up this hillbilly from ar whould app it..thank you ..jason miller ..
June 28th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
6/16/9
Dear Thomas,
First let me just say how wonderful it is how the Lord has blessed you and your family so tremendously. You are truly blessed to be making a difference in peoples’ lives by tattooing such wonderful meaningful art. The most memorable show that I have seen so far is the one where you added the ashes of the man’s wife into his tattoo. I never would have thought of that and find it so cool that you did. I cried as much as you did…ok maybe not as much. : ) It was so touching and was really cool of you to give him the bottle of ink so that if anyone else in his family wanted to get a tattoo with the ashes they could.
I am writing you today to ask you to finish my husband Joe’s tattoo. I figured I wouldn’t sugar coat it I would just come out and ask you. He started a sleeve about a year ago and it is a tribute to his little brother Cherokee. He passed away from a heroin overdose 8 years ago this month. It was probably the hardest thing that either one of us has ever gone through.
From the wrist up the tattoo starts with a snarling horse which is one of the street names for heroin. Then there is a pair of red dice which represents the rolling of the dice in his life. Around all that there are flames. When Cherokee passed away he had four, one dollar bills in his pocket. Joe got one of them and still has it to this day. He has a rip tattooed on his arm just below the elbow that has a replica of the dollar bill, serial numbers and all coming out of it. On the front of the dollar bill is says Washington DC and under Washington Cherokee wrote “Redskins”. My husband, being a Cowboys fan, found it sacrilegious tattooing the word Redskins on his body but he did it anyway. I think that is my favorite part. Then covering the elbow is a clover because they are Irish. On the inside of his bicep there are some rips that are sill empty. Joe has a picture of himself coming out of a mosh pit at Oz Fest a few years ago (which Cherokee attended too.) He is all sweaty and scary looking coming fresh from the pit. Anyway, from the picture that was taken, he wants to get his eyes inside the rips. Then on the outside of his bicep is a portrait of Cherokee. It looks so much like him it made me cry when I saw it. On the outside of his arm there is a character of a mummy that has his eyes, ears and mouth sewn shut. A hear no evil, speak no evil see no evil thing. Then at the top on his shoulder there is a portrait of Jesus because he is the overseer of it all. There is a skull just below the shoulder that is supposed to be covered up by Jesus’ hair. There is still much space that needs to be filled up. Our son drew a cross that he was talking about maybe filling up one of the spaces but I think he is still undecided for the most part.
He started the tattoo with a guy on 6th Street here in Austin, Texas. He did the outline of everything, filled in a few things and then quit tattooing. He said he had to get a “real job” because he wasn’t making any money. It would have probably helped if he would have worked. Anyway, he quit and it took a couple of months for Joe to get all his pictures and drawings back. When he did he took the pics and drawings to everyone in town and no one wanted to touch something that someone else had already started. We finally found a really cool guy named Mike who took on the portrait. After talking to Joe and hearing the story he was all for finishing it for him. Joe was all for it too until we watched your show. Joe is a God fearing man, we go to church every Sunday and he ministers to several of the men in the church. We have a very small church that needs lots of help and he helps in every way he can. He even mows the grass at the church. When he saw your show and saw what kind of heart you have and he didn’t want anyone else touching his sleeve. I even had a little money saved to get the Jesus finished for him for father’s day but he said no. He wants you to finish it. I’m not sure what other information you need but we would love the opportunity to have you to come to our small town of Elgin, Texas (just outside of Austin) and finish an amazing piece that means more to my husband than anything (other than his wife and children.)
July 1st, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Thomas, Just watched 7/1/09 when you returned to your High School and I saw the pain and anger and remembered how it was for my son after his father died when he was 14. Not a good student to begin with, was called names by teachers and hated school. After his dad died, he quit school and floundered, still angry. I am so glad you went back to your school and shared this with us. Maybe a few teachers will see how wrong the have been to taunt and hurt students. I cried when I saw your pain and further cried when you did the wonderful tat for Mr Trooper . Keep up the good work and you have a fan in Mass. Thank You! Marcia
July 1st, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I saw the memorial tattoo you did with the ashes! I have been deliberating on what kind of tattoo to do. I lost my brother 6 years ago and then 2 years later lost my identical twin sister to suicide. We were bullied and put down our whole lives. I want my first set of ink to be a reminder of thier precious lives to me and the fact that i now solely carry thier memory on. Its very personal and would be extremly therapuetic to me. Thank you for giving me a chance to speak up…
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
THOMAS PENDLETON, WELL LIKE ALL THE OTHERS I WOULD LIKE TO GET A TATTOO FROM YOU GUYS. I HAVE NO STORY TO GIVE SAD OR EXCITING TO GIVE JUST THAT I WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS TATTOO OF A SILLOUHETTE (THINK THATS HOW YOU SPELL IT) OF JESUS ON THE CROSS ON MY LEFT SHOULDER WITH HIS BLOOD DRIPPING DOWN MY ARM BURNING SATAN CHAINED UP IN HELL AT MY WRIST. POSSIBLY A PIC OF MY MOTHER ON ME DONT KNOW WHERE YET BUT FROM THE WORK ON TV THAT I SEEN THAT YOU DO I WOULD LIKE YOU TO DO IT. ANYWAY ENOUGH OF THAT KISS ASS SHIT EVEN THOUGH I DO LIKE YOUR WORK KISS ASS IS NOT MY STYLE SO JUST WANTED TO ASK IF YOU WOULD DRIVE HERE IN LAS VEGAS, NV. TO DO MY TAT, OH YA BY THE WAY WHAT DO YOU CHARGE? THANKS AND HOPE TO READ AN EMAIL FROM YOU SOON. OMJPLUMBING@YAHOO.COM
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 am
Hey Thomas and Crew,
I really love your shows. I stay up really late at night just so that i know i didnt miss an episode. I know that you guys travel around everywhere and its really hard. i have moved my whole life… packing and unpacking. meeting new people and seeing my family. all great joys. then i got pregnant. I was only 13 but i loved the guy. My daughter is my world and so is her father. they have changed me into a better person and i am thankful for that. But no one realizes that. the just look and stare and judge me before they even meet me. and i hate that.
Now i want a tatto symbolizing my new family and our joys and accomplishments that we have done. and i was wondering if you could help me out. i am in idaho right now but soon i will be in Texas. please message me back and let me know what you think about my story!!
Sincerly,
Amanda Stricklan
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:50 am
I am a 3 year breast cancer “thriver”. After bi-lateral mastectomies, I have been “reconstructed”. A lot of women try to replicate a “real” nipple and aerola. NOT my style. As it is not these to me. Immediately after the removal, I found a flower that looks , to me, as such. However, am open to any similar ideas. Near Tampa if your heading this way. Thanks & God Bless. susan
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am
HELLO, THE WHOLE TATTOO HIGHWAY
I TOTALLY LOVE YOUR SHOW AS WELL AS I LOVED WHEN YOU WERE AT H/H BUT VERY VERY HAPPY THAT YOU ARE SOLO. I WATCH EVERY TIME IT COMES ON I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT MY FAVORITE EPISODE WAS WHEN YOU WENT TO THE (INDIAN RESERVATION )AND TATTOOED THE MOM AND SON AND SHE GOT THE TAT ON HER (FOREHEAD) UNBELEVIABLE I WAS BLOWN AWAY BUT THAT TAT THAT YOU PUT ON THE SON (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK) IT LOOKED JUST LIKE A GOT DAMN POLAROID PIC …WELL LET ME GET TO THE POINT I AM FROM (N.Y.) BUT LIVE IN (GEORGIA) I WOULD LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE AS WELL AS IT WOULD BE AN HONOR IF I COULD BE GRACED WITH YOUR PRESENT TO DO ANY KIND OF OWRK ON ME I WOULDNT WANT TO MUCH BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU ARE AN EXTREMELY BUSY MAN BUT WOULD LOVE IF I COULD GET TATTOOED BY AN OFFICIAL ARTIST……..I WISH THAT I HAD AN AMAZING STORY TO SHARE BUT MINES IS PRETTY COMMON JUST A WORKING MOM TRYING TO PROVIDE FOR HER SON AND SELF BUT IAM A FAN OF YOURS AND MONICA…..AND I LOVE HOW SHE IS NOT JUST YOUR WIFE BUT YOU BUSINESS PARTNER…YALL ARE SUCH THE CUTIEST COUPLE…… SO I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THOUSANDS OF THESE TO GO THREW BUT MAYBE I WILL BE LUCKY 1 DAY HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU ANYTIME IN THE FUTURE IT DOESNT MATTER JUST WHEN EVER…WELLL THAT IS IT FOR AND FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GOD BLESS YOU …THANK YOU
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Hello To all,
I want to say that I really enjoy the hell out of your show.I have tattoos on me now,but need a new one.But being on a fixed income it has been awhile. I live in Rochester New Hampshire and would be totally honored if you were in the area and picked me to do a tat on me.My last was one done in memory of my godson who died 1/17/2007 from a rare form of childhood cancer.And it was done poorly which broke my heart. I was hoping to get another done in his memory ,and done by a team of quality artists as yourselves.He was very much into dragons and was looking for something like that.Either way i would like to hear from you.
Thank you for your show and hope to see you in the area even if I dont get picked. Respectfully yours Matt
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Hey my name is Elaina and i love your show i wood love for u to do me a tatoo u do such good work and i love it i live in atlanta georgia and it will be a hor if u do my tatoo i know that u have a lot of fan mail to read and a lot of pepol that wont tatoos from u guys.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
i love your work.And the way u talk about family.I just got out of prison and both my mom & dad died while i was locked up i would love for u 2 do a memory piece on me of anything you want 2 do.I have some space left.lol.any time your around cloumbus ohio im ready. check out my space at lololover13″BEDROOM GANGSTA”
July 5th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Dear Thomas and friends,
I know you get a lot of requests, but I really need you.
We lost our 13 month old grandson to a very rare syndrome called DiGeorge just a few months ago. His strength in his long battle in just a short life had an incredible impact on our lives. My husband and my daughter, his mom, are looking for someone to do the perfect portrait tat of him. He is our only grandchild and due to his syndrome, my daughter can’t have any more children-EVER. Please respond. We are in Columbus, MS.
We are trying to build a foundation for DiGeorge syndrome(there aren’t any).. Visit his sites at
http://www.elijahslegacy.blogspot.com/ (memeorial/info.)
and http://www.elijahslegacy.ning.com/ (info on DGS, support groups, memorials for those who’ve lost an angel)
Thank you for your time.
Elijah’s Grammie
July 5th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I’m in Stuart Florida, stop by if you can!
I have a single Kandinski (Russian Artist early 1900′s) inspired tatoo.
I’ve lived a lot of life in the 20 years since I got the tatoo and would like to add to it .
Funds are low since I adopted my daughter five years ago, she comes first.
Hope to meet you all!!
July 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
My uncle wants about 8 hours worth of work done here in Pine Valley, CA We love your work!!! : )
Tracy of Pine Valley
July 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I love your show i watch it all the time when it is on. I love you work it is amazing. I was watching one show when you did a piece on a guy of his wife it was amazing how you can take a photo and tattoo it on someone. I hav ealways loved to get a tattoo but never have i would love for you to tattoo a picture of my daughter she was babtized and i would love for that photo of her in her dress there is a saying in it that says through the eyes of a child… i would like that and her name in it her name is marleigh i love her so much
July 8th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Hey Thomas, I just started watching yoy’re show. You are an awesome artist. I live in Chicago and was wondering if you will ever be out this way. I have a dragon on my right shoulder/arm that is incomplete and I seen the dragon you did on the psichic lady. WOW! It was amazing and I would love to have you finish my tattoo!
Tony
July 8th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Love your new show. I use to watch Thomas on inked. My husband and I had a friend do us each a tattoo but they are both screwed up, come to Michigan and fix our tattoos. We would be stoked cuz the friend that done them is now dead. Please come.
July 8th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I love watching you guys. Wish you would come to Lexington, Ky. Would love to get a tattoo from you. And my fiance wants another also. He is leaving to go back over seas for the fourth time in August.
Blessings
Kim
July 8th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Hi whats up thomas my name is shannon caldwell and i would love to get a couple of tatoos from you guys im wondering id you guys are comeing to Dallas,Tx im willing to meet you anywhere just let me know!
shannon Caldwell
Dallas,Tx
July 9th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Thomas and Crew
I have never had a Tattoo before I just havent found anything that I really wanted until Now
my son Garrett Is Autistic and I would like to Have an arm band of puzzle pieces with his name under it.
It would deffanantly be a conversation piece .
Puzzle’s pieces are the symbol for Autisim
it would be really neat to have my first Tattoo with so much meaning done by you
thanks for your time Josh
July 9th, 2009 at 1:10 am
i like your show ,as a matter of fact i watching as i write this today is wed. 7- 8 -09 , when you coming to the los angles ,ca area ? i de like you to do a tatoo on me too..i have a few over the years ,but i more would be real cool from you….
July 9th, 2009 at 2:34 am
Hi my name is ken. I need a tattoo cover-up. I have made some mistakes that i need removed. Im am trying to better my life for my son. I do not have much money but i can make you the best meal of your life. Or i can make you some chainmail in exchange i am a chain mail master. I am a disabled father of one. All my money goes to take care of him. That is why i do not have much to offer. I live in Bloomington Indiana. Let me know if you are going to come my way. If you may be interested replay to fire_pixie2007@yahoo. Reply under subject TAT. Thanks!
Ken Fl.
July 9th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
The whole family watch you guy’s everytime you come on. My husband can’t wait to get home for lunch to watch you guy’s thank you for a great show and all the beautiful work we see . One day I would like to get my husband tattoo’s done the right way. My husband work nights and it’s hard for him to fine some one that’s good and can to do it. He work’s so hard to take care of us,and he never ask for nothing for his self. Be safe and keep on loving what you all do so will. God bless.We live in Naples, Fl
July 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Hey guys,
Love your show it rocks. I was wondering if you will ever come to Steuben Michigan. I own a resort here have for 18 years. Recently i went in for back surgery and the surgeon accidently broke my back during surgery. I have been pretty much bed ridden ever since march .
I have a son in the military and I been so wanting to get my first tattoo of a flag because i am proud mama.
Also i got another family I have met on the internet we are all great ppl. we all came up with idea of we want a werewolf tattoo with PMF below tattoo. It can stand for Proud Mother F…. Or Pogo Mafia Family lol just a little joke between us all a bunch of good ppl. well while i was lookin for a werewolf tattoo for us all I happened to look up and here was my sons boot camp graduation pic. and they had a wolf howling at the moon behind them.
Freakin awesome. Well the problem is i am bedridden now pretty much i dont get out much but i still want that friggin tattoo so much i can taste it. I am 49 years old and this has been a dream of mine to have a tattoo for years my daughter has a few and hubby does too .
Now though i cant get out much and our closest tattoo parlor is 70 miles away our little town here dont have one no one does tattoos such a shame.
Sooooo like all these other stories i see i was wondering if you guys will get up this way by slim chance. OMG the scenery up here is awesome lots of beautiful things for u to see while up here.
So please consider this and maybe take a road trip up here i gaurantee you will be impressed.
Just like i am impressed with your show , Hell i wished it was on more than once a week. I have not much i can do but watch t.v. and play on puter so thanks for the entertainment .
Take Care and hope to hear or see ya.
Always , PMF Di
July 9th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Hey we have met before I just opened a shop of my own in maplewood minnesota. it would be great if you would stop by check it out. I would also love it if you added to my collection of tats on my body to commerate the new venture in my life. And I would totally let you 100% pick the design and location (heck tag me with your logo). Hope to hear from you soon. Terry
July 10th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
love your show and everything about it!!! also wanted to know if you all ever came up to eaton ohio? i am a victim of domestic violence for over 7 years. recently got out of the situation with the clothes on my back and nothing else. i am 34 years old and have no tattoos. i have little money but wondered if u ever did a tattoo for free for a worthy person? they say that being tattooed heals the mind body and soul. i need all the help i can get. !! my abuser attempted to break my back along with most of the rest of my body. the tattoo i want is a phoenix armband. to me it would represent the my survival to pull myself up out of the personal hell i lived in and to break the cycle of abuse. they say that a phoenixs’ tears have the ability to heal. maybe it can heal me as well. i need a reminder of the tragedy of my life and it would remind me to never go back and always look forward .
July 11th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
hey i was wondering if you could come to Kokomo, Indiana on November 1st so my mother can get a tatoo for her birthday…..
July 11th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
we love your show and your work. we think you are a good artist. we have trusted someone to do our tats and they failed badly. we would like it if you would make your way our way, and fix our tats. we live in a little town called Macomb, Illinois. We hope to see you if you are willing to come our way. Thank You very much. hope to see you soon.
July 11th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Hello it is us again. We also wanted to let you know that this is a big collage town. Ashley is wants a coryfish done on her side. Jessi needs a cover up of a very bad tattoo work..lol The coryfish to ashley means to over come.. I have had to over come alot of things in my life and I just think this is the best tat for me. I just dont trust anyone to do it, but I would give you a chances. The Cover up is of any eye ball that someone did that didnt know what they were doin and either did I. I would like a scorpion over the eye, cause I am a scorpio. It would mean alot to us and the our fans if you really could make it to our town. (Macomb, Illinois)
we can pay or we do have housekeeping skills, because we work for a hotel. So we can clean the shyt out of your bus, plus if you want to stay at the hotel that we work at. We can also get you a discount. lol! If you want to contact us. we can be reached at Twisted_Plessure18@hotmail.com
subject-for your tats… Please and
Thank You Very Much, Ashley Alexander & Jessi Paul
p.s. Enjoy your ride around the country.. wish we were chillin with you guys…lol
July 12th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Hi there,
My story is neither sad nor happy just no explanation.
I had met my baby in Germany 20 years ago and we fell in love..Somehow and for whatever reason our lives were separated but we managed to stay in contact on and off over the years and finally found each other again, still in love only to find out that we again can not be together because he is in prison in MS for capitol murder with no parole, which is brother blamed him for and I live in New Jersey where I raised our twin boys he had never met.
We decided to not let go and put in paperwork to be married if they will approve it. All we can do right now is visit each other there for a couple of hours and that happens not too much as it is very expensive and time consuming for me to get there driving. I would like to get a tattoo that could somehow tell our story.
I hope you have the time to read my story and get back to me and hopefully you will be in New Jersey one day and I could meet with you all.
Thank you so much and I Love watching you ….
July 15th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Is anyone interested in an autographed picture of Thomas Pendleton himself? $35, let me know!
July 18th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Hey Thomas
WOW congrats on your success !!! next time you are back in HB drop by and say hi , I know you gotta be buried . I got married to a Peruvian princess and we are raising 3 talaban , again I am super happy for you.
Tu Amigo Brent
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I was wondering how I would go about talking to someone about getting a tattoo. The kind of tattoo I was looking for is in rememberence of my daughter who passed away as an infant during Christmas. Please let me know who I should speak with about this. Thank you
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Hi my name is michael whitt i live in a small town south of wheeling W.V. ok well here is my story i watch ur show all the time, and i love ur work exspecaily the tattoo u did on the old guy of his wife. well my mother passed away when i was eleven years old, fiffteen days after my birthday, she passed away from a brain enurisim in morgan town W.V. March 27th, 2002 and i was wanting to know if u vould do a portrait of her on my right sholder blade in memory of her the little time i spent with her was the best time i ever had i now am eighteen and i live with my dad and little sister i know u probably wont come here, but i wish u would but my address is 512 10th street Moundsville W.V. 26041 i iwould do anything for this tattoo and i would pay u any amount u want for it, i have always wanted this tattoo since the day i saw her in the hospital. i picked u to tell this story to because i really want this for a memory of the best and prettyest lady i know my mothers name is margaret edna whitt i was wanting a tattoo of her and under it i was wanting her name and yr she was born and year she passed away and over it i wanted I LOVE YOU MOM i dont know how much u would want for it i aint trying to be on t.v. this is not what its about its about the memory of the best women that was ever in my life. My mom was not spposed to have kids the doctor told her she could die if she did but she made it threw having two kids me and my sister maggie most people tell me there sorry and they know how i feel but they dont they cant imagin how it feels intill it happens her birthday is Aug. 6th next month. sometimes it hurts more than others and sometimes it dont i always think of her and wish that it would have happened to me instead of her i would do anything to go back in the past and change everything but i hope u see it at the bottom of ur heart to come here and do this tattoo of my mother i will try to send u a picture of what i want but i hope u do it for me…. i dont have any money but i will find some some how to get this… i will find a job or do something for u guys if u will do thid for me but thanks for reading this and hope u can do it if u ever need to get in touch with me my number is 1-304-559-7187 thank you alot
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Hey I have been watching your show and was wondering if your going to be heading to Portland, Oregon anytime. I want to get a rememberance tattoo for my father who past away when i was a freshman. Hope you head here sometime.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Hey Chris in Portland, In case you didn’t know Thomas Morgan just opened a shop in Portland, but If I were you I would go some place better. Portland has way better artists than these guys already, don’t let the bus fool you.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I LOVE this show!! When are you coming to New England??? I have tried to get 2 tattoo parlors to design my half sleeve and neither one of them has gotten back to me!! I am looking for the characters and background of Nightmare Before Christmas. I want Jack and Sally to represent my husband and I, the 3 kids, Lock, Shok and Barrel, to represent my 3 children and the santa clause dancing around them to represent my mom who passed away and loved my kids more then anything! So, if you come to RI, look me up, dshlesinger@yahoo.com!!
July 29th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
how old is tommy morgan off tat show
July 31st, 2009 at 8:11 pm
hey come down to atlanta ga.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Dear Thomas,
My family and friends enjoy watching your show Tattoo Highway. My husband and I have watched you since you were on Inked. We love that you are traveling the country and tattooing people with stories behind their tattoos. Our family and close friends have a story and would love the opportunity to meet you and have you tattoo a number of us with a very special tattoo.
About 5 years ago my husband and I bought property in a neighborhood where the neighbors seemed more like family and less like neighbors. Little did we know how much we had in common.
My son Ryan (13) was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis 1 a couple of years ago after many years of trying to determine what was causing his difficulties. It is a disease that can be hereditary but also spontaneous. In Ryan’s case it was spontaneous. Neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder of the nervous system which causes tumors to form on the nerves anywhere in the body at any time. This progressive disorder affects all races, ethnic groups and sexes equally. Yet there are no cures or many treatments. Unless a tumor is causing a patient real problems it is usually left alone. It can become disfiguring and even fatal.
Ryan has 3 neurofibromas on his spine. Ryan has an MRI yearly and sometimes twice a year. We visit a neurologist and a neurosurgeon yearly, as well as a specialist opthamologist who checks for tumors on the optic nerves. Ryan has learning disabilities that make school difficult for him yet he manages to succeed and pass every year. Ryan is such a trooper and goes to every appointment with a smile on his face.
In our neighborhood, we met a family who ironically had a granddaughter/niece, Collette (8), with Neurofibromatosis 1 as well. Collette’s case is also spontaneous. Collette’s case is much worse than Ryan’s. Collette has a tumor that takes up most of her neck and back area. Collette visits many more doctors and specialists than Ryan and has a knowledge of medicine that no child of her age should have. Collette too is a real trooper.
My daughter got a tattoo in honor of Ryan earlier this year. Since then we have had her redesign the tattoo to fit what my husband and I would do if it were our tattoo. We have since showed that tattoo idea to many of our family and friends. There is a total of at least seven maybe more of us wanting to be tattooed with this tattoo. We would love for you to come to the Charlottesville, VA area and honor us and our families and patients, Ryan and Collette, by tattooing all of us with the tattoo.
This is a very important part of our lives and of our friend’s family’s lives as well. It would mean the world to us to have you come to our town and tattoo all of us in honor of these two wonderful and brave young people who have touched our lives and shown courage beyond their years.
Thanks.
Erin Valentine
August 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I just recently suffered a brain injury and should have died, instead I’m still kickin and need a good artist to get some work done. This would be so awesome.
August 14th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
hey im 18 years old . when i was 15 my boyfriend since 7th grade mom passed away well my mom let him move in with us so that he would not have to basically be 16 on his own because his dad has been in jail most of his ife so she did the right thing and allowed him tosaty with us.. well our relationship took off from there on my 16th birtrhday we had a party then he took me out to dinner.. but that the day my whole life turned around we went to walmart to get the pregnancy test that would change our lives… because it said pregnant well we both cryed we was scared to death…. well went to my sisters house and she took us to my house were we told my mom she flipped out….we ended up getting married that august 17t h of 2007…three days later we lost the baby .. it had to be the most horrible day of my life… we all just cryed for days… then i had to have a surgery were they removed my baby from me… those days of my life was the worst.. me and my husband moved into our own house and started a new life a couple months later we just felt like something was missing in our life there was just a void after lossing our baby that we just could not seem to fill so.. we tried to have a baby a couple months later we found out we was pregnant…. the happiest day of our lives in a long time…
we told everyone we knew….and9months later on july 25 2008 we had our beautifull little princess Cadence joyce dilbeck . her fist name we picked out it was just so beautifull. her middle name is that of her grandmas that passed awayafter she was born the void in our life filled up in an instant….i would just like to have a tatoo that reminded me of our lost but never forgotten babyand alsopaid tribute to our little girl at the same time…..
so thats my story and also why i would love for the tatoo highway bus to visit me in south carolina it would mean the world to me if i got this chance to do something like this and i really just need the tatoo for sentimental values. it would most definatly change my life or atleast my outlook on how i see things that have happened to me in this lkast few years so please come tatoo me guys…..
p.s you kids are beautifull
August 20th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I love your show and how you only do tatoos with real meaning behind them. I would love to speak with you about getting you to come to nebraska. I recently lost my granddaughter and would fove to get a tattoo in memory of her. Please espond by e-mail carlsona46@yahoo.com thank you sincerely Rhonda Stanley
August 28th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
thomas, i dont have any tattoos, but i have for 7 years been planning one. i just have one problem… after seeing you at hart and huntington and now here, and seeing so much of your work, you personnally are the only person i will let engrave my skin. I live in denver. let me know if you are coming back here ever. Your work is so impressive to me that if you wont do it, i wont get it, not some weird stalker or anything, just extremely picky about what i am permanently left with,,, hit me up man, thanks -dave
September 18th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Thomas, I don’t have any really heartwarming story except there are several ladies where I work that have for sometime wanted a tattoo but we are all chicken. We agreed though if your bus pulled up to our office we would be in!! No backing down! Would love to see you in Athens, GA. Home of the Georgia Bulldogs, B-52′s, REM and Wide Spread Panic.
September 20th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I’m from Detroit Michigan and I have a Detroit piece that was messed up by an artist in Detroit…the tatoo said detorit…he tried 2 fix it an now I looks worst…I would appreciate and b grateful if the tatoo on my cheat could b prepared by you guys
September 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pm
My son will be turning 18 in November, and would love to receive a tattoo from you. He has had two heart transplants in his young life, and would like to get a tattoo to represent all that he has gone through and will ultimately have to go through in the future! We live in a suburb of Denver, CO., and I would love to surprise him with this gift!
October 8th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Hi Thomas ;
Loved your work on Inked and Love your show Better. I hope You and Monica will be back on A&E I can’t wait for your new show, I have watched all the re-run’s I can truley say I’m a fan for Life Be safe keep up the Great work .
Helen
October 10th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Hey guys,
I just want to say how much we enjoyed your show. My husband especially. He said if he could have one wish he wishes you and your bus would come to Princeton, West Virginia and get a tattoo from you. Your show was not only about tattoos to us it was about life. Hope you, your wife and the rest of the guys a safe trip where ever it leads you maybe one day you’ll head this way.
Rebecca
February 12th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Too bad this was originally the brain-child of Inflicting Ink Traveling Tattoo Truck owners, and something they’ve already been doing for years. Their specific ideology and free tattoo contest is well known, as well as highly respected for changing the way us ‘normal folk’ view the tattoo industry as a whole.
Good luck, and safe travels.