The Reader’s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds.
There will be many tributes to the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, who died yesterday, including a very fine contribution by the Reader’s Peter Margasak. But there will be none more heartfelt than the one spotted more than seven years ago by the late, great Cliff Doerksen at the Berwyn YMCA on the upper left arm of a fellow gymgoer: a tattoo of Smith’s face.
“I bided my time and watched the guy for a while before I said something to him about it,” Doerksen wrote.
The tattooed man, identified as Alan H, later clarified in the comments section that the tattoo was only ten weeks old and that it was on his anterior deltoid. The artist was Patrick Cornolo of Speakeasy Custom Tattoo.
Upshot: Come on, people now, smile on your brother: Reach out to those around you with Mark E. Smith tattoos.
