Prospecting

For one week, my partner and I have worked the bar scene in East Lansing, trying to find tattoo work, and paying our way with Tarot. Each place we've gone has a different flavor. The purpose of this blog will be to help explain what it is like to work like this, for the benefit of anyone who may be thinking of following a similar pathway. Tonight my dear rogue and I are, for the second time, in a bar called Crunchy's. It's a medium-sized bar on the edge of MSU campus, next door to a Biggby's coffee shop, the original one in fact. It's sort of dark, not very open, and has large booths tending towards privacy. We're here mostly to hear a band we heard and liked last week, Cloud Magic. They're a local group, VERY talented musically, but their lyrics could use some work. They don't start playing for a few hours, so we're having some food and drinks (non-alcoholic). Prospecting is never good at this hour anyhow; not really worth taking out my deck. Only about ten other people here total, counting the waitstaff. That will change later, of course. Crunchy's isn't the most happening of bars, but Wednesday is slow everywhere. Thursday-Sunday are the good days. I'll sign off for now; enjoy yourselves.