Thoughts & Ideas

I love studying human behavior, especially the neurobiology of why we work the way we do. Graydancer posted a link to this page and at the bottom was this video. It does have some insight on dopamine, prolactin and oxytocin. For those of us who are natural novelty seekers and probably predisposed with the...
Read more »

One of my first clients at the new studio was a friend who has gotten quite a few genital piercings from me. She initially came in asking for a nipple piercing and I didn’t think they would likely heal. She asked if I had any suggestions. Knowing her relatively well, (I’m good at getting...
Read more »

Jonboy, Houstin and I just opened a new shop, Tailor Made Tattoo and Body Modification!!! As you can imagine, I’m very, very excited to say the least! It wasn’t easy to leave my old studio. I love everyone at Blue Lotus Tattoo and The Piercing Lounge. I appreciate all they’ve done for me and...
Read more »

Okay, I’m sorry for being a dick. But, yesterday Johnkid told me about recaptcha and that it was being used to digitize books. My roommate told me about this earlier and I said, wow. No, that doesn’t make sense.  I watched a lot of Penn & Teller Bullshit right before Johnkid told me, so...
Read more »

I haven’t posted in quite some time. Sorry to those that follow the blog. My roommate and good friend kept telling me I needed to post or update the site, but I didn’t have the emotional energy to come up with any topics. He suggested writing about what I was going through, but I...
Read more »

Summer seems to be when we’re the busiest in the piercing industry. Unfortunately, this is also peak swimming season. Young females flock to get their navels pierced to decorate their hot little tummies when they walk around in hot bikinis. Thank You for that!!! It’s also the end of the school year and I’m...
Read more »

Today I got to sit and watch Wayde Dunn do another amazing scarification. This one was a filagry piece on a girls side with peeling. He explained his peeling technique and gave me some pointers on starting scarification. As we were talking, he said something very interesting. Someone came up to him at a...
Read more »

Yesterday was the start of Syttende Mai, Norweigan independence day, in Stoughton. They have a three day festival in the city and everyone goes out to it, roaming the streets. The fun part of yesterday was the canoe race down the river behind our shop, MOD. One team tipped the canoe, others were dressed...
Read more »

Finally, I have a purpose for my domain karcus.com! About 3 years ago I tried to get the domain karcus.com. It wasn’t available so I settled for karcuskatharsis.com. I tried several formats for using this domain to help promote my piercing career, fetish events, and suspension crew.
Read more »