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They all seem pretty enthused about the whole thing.

Damn, I wish that Iowahawk still had a blog. I refuse to do Twitter or Facebook.

I glanced at the picture and immediately noted that cats must have been shoving their butts into the faces of humans for millennia.

Can’t say I’ve ever considered that before.

I wonder how much of this is documented in ancient paintings, scriptures, hieroglyphics, etc?

Is there is a bestselling book here? “An Historical Perspective (snicker) Of Cats Shoving Their Butts Into Peoples’ Faces”.

Well, Ed does have a habit of kneeling down with his butt in the air, but that generally means he’d appreciate a good scratching, not to have me lick it.

Jackass: The satanic verses

The creepy face on that cat(?) reminded me of an Ace Of Spades link I followed earlier today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTYLPm-auj4

As you’ve noted before, Swease, the uncanny valley is a deep and scary place.

I can die now. My life is complete.

Oh, wait. I still have a little list…

Neon: I found out by accident that you can view twitterstuff without signing up. Just go to the page. In Iowahawk’s case, https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog

Hey, OldFert, many thanks! Iowahawk is a treasure.

@ Mike W, the video showing human faces on animal bodies is interesting, but not as startling as it might have seemed pre-CGI. New opportunities will probably open up one day for animal fanatics and identity reassignment surgeons.

Without sound, that was creepy as shit, MikeW. Good morning!

Ah catnip, you need to remove yourself from the virtual world… no hi-res screens or glossy printouts…

Picture yourself, instead, walking through the Museum of Natural History. You’re touring alone when the gaggle of tourists near you wander away as you turn a corner and are confronted with a room of this taxidermy ‘art’ as a special exhibition.

The creatures are close enough to touch, but of course you don’t. That’s because the artist got some help from the Disney Animatronics folks to enable the their eyes to track you as you walk past.
[Cue music of The Twilight Zone]

This is not in an effort to create a creature from fantasy or nightmares, but rather to confront the viewer with mankind’s innate connection with the animal kingdom by evoking empathy, curiosity, and, sometimes, discomfort

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/24/a-twist-on-taxidermy-blurs-the-boundaries-of-humanity/

This writer is so full of shit I could fertilize my lawn with the HTML code. Oh, and this is exceptionally rich as well:

“In the Western World, humans are so separated that we have no reason to connect with [wild] animals anymore,” Kate says. “We have become so other.”

Because Eastern society is so in touch with animals that: dogs, whales, and dolphins are on the menu, animal rights organizations regularly decry the inhumane treatment of animals, and Africa had to encourage hunting tourism to prevent its own population from killing off endangered species. Damn us all for being Homo Sapiens instead evolving into furry-kin. I need to go find a gazelle-burger.

This writer is so full of shit I could fertilize my lawn with the HTML code.

@Feynmangroupie: This is one of the finest sentences I ever read.