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About Me

Tattooist, anarchocapitalist, enjoyer of life. Taking things seriously isn't something I do too often, unless it involves people that matter to me. See me in Osaka and Hiroshima every so often when I'm not here at home.
NEW FLASH SET AVAILABLE! 6 SHEETS WITH LINES $100 SHIPPED!It's here! The new Aloha Monkey flash set is NOW HERE! Josh Arment and I have painted 6 sheets of 11"x14" flash WITH LINES for $100 shipped! Check it out and contact me here to order it!

My Interests

Tattoos, Horimono, Irezumi, Art, Freedom, alohamonkeytattoo.com, Benher.org, TattooCitySF.com, DonEdHardy.com, Music, Debauchery, Cute women with smarts, senses of humor and great asses, Supercult.com, Doughardy.com, great food, art, people and things that make me go laffo Click this pic!

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Metal, Emo, Country, Punk, Disco, and Fuck You.

Movies:

Hori Smoku: Sailor Jerry, The Man Who Would Be King, Goodfellas, Godfather Trilogy, Star Wars Trillogy, Boondock Saints, The Wild Bunch, Kill Bill 1&2, Zatoichi films, The Royal Tanenbaums, Old school Yakuza flicks, New school Yakuza flicks, My Sassy Girl, Lost In Translation, Natural City, Fudoh, Audition, Spirited Away, Supercult: The Young Idea, Rushmore, Unbreakable, Full Metal Jacket, The Ring, The Apostle, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Jackie Brown, Day of the Dead, Time Bandits, Hellraiser, Please Teach Me English, Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi, Okie Noodling, Bounce Kogals, Azumi, Musa, 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Lady Snowblood, Vanilla Sky, Old Boy (Best...film...ever)

Television:

Iron Chef, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, and Deadwood, you cocksuckers.

Books:

Kitchen Confidential, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Hope, Memoires of a Tattooist, The Wild Party, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Gone Bamboo, Bettie Page The Life of a Pin-Up Legend, The Ballad of Carl Drega, Ender's Game, Women, The Boardinghouse Madrigills

Heroes:

Kyosai, Lysander Spooner, Ed Hardy, Mike Malone, Bob Roberts, Sailor Jerry, John Moses Browning, Torihada Minoru, Chase Lisbon

My Blog

Goodbye, HELL TRUCK!

Well, after 8 years and 10 months, I have finally put the Hell Truck to rest. Yes, that Yellow Bastard 1979 GMC Jimmy High Sierra with the 400 Small Block V8 that sucked gas down with a fervor of a ca...
Posted by Doug Hardy on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:11:00 PST

NEW ALOHA MONKEY FLASH SET AVAILABLE!

It's here! The new Aloha Monkey flash set is NOW HERE! Josh Arment and I have painted 6 sheets of 11"x14" flash WITH LINES for $100 shipped! Check it out and contact me here to order it! ...
Posted by Doug Hardy on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:43:00 PST

Next Week: a move to a ’new’ shop

Aloha all... I've used this greeting for years. It began back when I moved to Honolulu to take my apprenticeship with Mike Malone at China Sea Tattoo. I thought that it was kind of corny, a throwback ...
Posted by Doug Hardy on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:59:00 PST

I’m a fucking sad sack

Well, earlier this year, I got popped for having expired tags on the old piece of crap truck. What had happened: when I got my new tags last year, I found out that the state of Minnesota requires you ...
Posted by Doug Hardy on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:06:00 PST

FUCK MY SERVER

Doughardy.com is down for a while. The place I was getting serverspace from borked again and I got the hell out of dodge. My email was down for about a week and is now back, but no website for now.
Posted by Doug Hardy on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:42:00 PST

Why I'm not putting your comments up sometimes.

Every so often, I get a comment that looks like this: "......"I don't know if it's bad HTML parsing, your account being hacked, or what, but that's the reason I don't approve it. No offense meant....
Posted by Doug Hardy on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:00:00 PST

Mike "Rollo Banks" Malone

I got the news from Keith earlier today that my 2nd father, Mike Malone, passed away this weekend. I've known Mike pretty much all my life. He was always the big uncle who would listen to all my goofy...
Posted by Doug Hardy on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:33:00 PST

DougHardyDotCom is up!

Finally! I've put together my website! Go check it out at http://www.doughardy.comIt's not complete or final, but it's good to go for now!
Posted by Doug Hardy on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:36:00 PST

Daaaaamn I'se be old and stuff

Man, so last night the gal went and threw me a surprise party for my old ass self. And yes, for the record, I was surprised as hell. Lots of the crew came, and I was glad to see everyone, except I kep...
Posted by Doug Hardy on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:26:00 PST

Moving to Uptown Tattoo

Well, Just so everyone knows, I've been offered a position at Uptown Tattoo here in Minneapolis, and after a lot of soul-searching, I have decided that it is the right move for me. This is not a move ...
Posted by Doug Hardy on Tue, 09 May 2006 12:31:00 PST