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I will never, ever, ever <\/em> again make fun of people who go in for cosmetic surgery just to “look good.” Not in comparison to this fellow<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Dennis Avner, who goes by his American Indian name, Stalking Cat, is known around the world as the Catman. Over the past 25 years, Stalking Cat, 47, has received so many surgical and cosmetic procedures he?s lost count. And he says all of them – from full-face tattoos to fanged dentures to steel implants for detachable “whiskers” – have been done to achieve oneness with what he calls his totem, the tiger.<\/p>\n

[…] He has had all his teeth removed and replaced with tigerlike dentures and fangs. He has had his lip split to resemble the mouth of a cat. He has six stainless-steel mounts implanted on his forehead and 18 piercings above his lip to which he can attach whiskers. He has had nose and brow implants, and silicone cheek, chin and lip injections. The tips of his ears are pointed. And he has so many tattoos they almost cover his body.<\/p>\n

Stalking Cat said he has lost track of how much his transformation has cost, though one figure quoted on a Web site estimates it would cost more than $200,000 – a figure Stalking Cat would neither confirm nor deny. He would only say, “It’s a lot.”<\/p>\n

You can see more at his website<\/a> and that of his “body-modification artist<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I’m not going to say that it’s wrong, from any sort of moral sense, and while I have doubts about the healthiness of it all I’m not going to second-guess (unlike the doctors in the article) what sort of “syndrome” the gent suffers from. But … well … it’s just damned creepy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Makes me rethink my whole catgirl thing<\/a> — it looks a lot cuter in anime … <\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Basically still my current design, just with cosmetic changes....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137655,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/12\/birthday-games.html","url_meta":{"origin":7741,"position":4},"title":"Birthday Games","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-Jan-19 11:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So three games I recently received as birthday gifts that I'm looking forward to playing at upcoming Game Days.Santorini - This one was from +James Hill, and I had it in time for our Thirteenth Day game day last weekend. 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