🐯 Welcome to the Jungle: The Official Den of Johnny (Tiger) Tai

Image:  A small art-gallery room with white walls, a light wood floor, and white track lighting on the ceiling. Framed artworks hang along the left wall in a row and also on the far wall; each frame appears to contain a brown-toned, textured image, with small white labels beside some pieces. Four adults are standing and talking. On the left, a man with light skin wearing a tan cap, glasses, a green sweater, and gray pants stands facing a woman with light skin and shoulder-length white hair wearing a light gray sweater and blue jeans; she has her arms crossed and a phone in one hand. On the right side of the room, two men are talking: one with light skin wearing a black puffy vest and dark pants stands with his back turned, facing another light-skinned man wearing a dark beanie, a light blue shirt, and dark pants. At the far right, a table covered with a black tablecloth holds a metal beverage urn and a few small items. A white door is on the far wall behind the group. [ ] There ar...

So here’s the piece: a curvy nude woman, balanced in a high kick, casually supporting a cat on her raised leg like it’s just another Tuesday. It looks intentional. It looks confident. It even looks a little… seductive. What it doesn’t look like is the truth behind it. Which is: this all started with me standing in my kitchen in my underwear… balancing my cat like an idiot. Yeah. That’s the origin story. Image:  Person kneels among stacked cardboard shipping boxes indoors. Two orange tabby cats cuddle close; one shows a white paw. Amazon logos visible. Cardboard scratcher nearby. Let’s rewind a little… A few years ago, I had dinner with one of my high school art teachers—about 10 or 15 years after I’d graduated. Halfway through the meal, she leans in and goes: “Okay, I have to ask you something. All of us teachers used to wonder this… but it never felt appropriate back then.” I already knew this was going somewhere dangerous. “How is it,” she ...