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Bennie "BigTig" Tiger
@bigtig.bsky.social
Biggus Tiggus.

Plays music. Helped found Anthrocon. Started eff-net #furry IRC.
Runs macrophile.com. Past editor of Megamorphics. First full-time giant tiger on Furry Muck.

Grow!
Grrroßartig
House tiger for SueDeer
He/Him
Mastodon: @bennie@tiggi.es
A full hour before the Elvis/Christmas set we already had audience members seated. Wow.

I think we’ve tapped a demographic that is not the usual orchestra crowd.

Also, there’s a cute kid in full Elvis outfit in the front row.
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Oh hey. Speaking of music stuff, how many of you have had a chance to play an Elvis-Christmas orchestra concert?

I've played two. Which isn't a lot. But I am surprised I've played two of them.
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So. at the tail end of 3 weeks of 12 rehearsals and 4 concerts... the final item is Alumni Band. Apparently the college social media team is having fun using pictures of some of us old-farts to stir up interest.

29 years later. Still have proper horn angles without thinking about it.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Missed this earlier ... let's do an #OldArtMonday

"Hey! Can I get a copy of that?"

Scanners were rare/expensive in the early days. It was more common to have access to a photocopier.

These @kencougr.bsky.social pencils from a 1993 blackbook-entry arrive here via a photocopy. Burn-line and all.
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I almost feel bad for the music accounts that just auto-followed me for using words like "audiophile" and "genre-bending."
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hey @firr.bsky.social ...

Do you happen to own this genre-bending finger-licking-good audiophile suppository?

Asking for a friend...
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
We've been renovating the kitchen. After half-a-year of using only a toaster oven, we have a full-sized oven again

Did some test baking tonight: Banana breb and coconut pie.
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
3rd concert. Final one for Candide.

Only 4 rehearsals and 1 concert left out of this “surge” over 3 weeks.
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Let's cross #OldArtMonday and #WerewolfWednesday ...

It may seem splitting hairs now, but in the early days there was more than a little discourse from werewolf fans on what made a lycanthrope vs a furry.
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Millie likes this box...

Can you guess which box has to go back to IKEA?

It's gonna make Millie sad...
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
That last line? Musical TF into a donkey. Literally the “hee-haw” interval 6 times in a row.

No one tell @firr.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Intermission. Good crowd for a bad-weather day.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Concert time. Free Veterans Day concert with the union band and orchestra chorus. 20 tunes. Beautiful old hall.
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
And this fellow … his name is Deadward.

Again, you can blame @suedeer.bsky.social for that name.

He’s wearing the kilt/tartan that matches the local college. (It was founded by Scottish presbyters and has a pipe band. )
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just a heads up, everyone... @suedeer.bsky.social came up with the name for our werewolf.

Meet our Halloween friend: Lawn Cheney Jr.
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
4 concerts and 13 rehearsals across 3 ensembles in 3 weeks.

Also, full time work.

This is fine.
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ran across this pic of when we installed a corporate firewall but forgot to block the upper ports...
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So now... for #OldArtMonday we have a mystery! It was filed in a Ken Cougr collection of art, but Ken has said this is not his doodle.

Now I went to Macro dinners starting at about 2000 Anthrocon. We never went to a "Charley's"

Anyone got the story on this? Anyone know who drew it? Which con?
October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The last couple of #OldArtMonday featured works by @kencougr.bsky.social - that's him below.

He's still active in the fandom. Streams over on Picarto & has a Patreon.

www.picarto.tv/kencougr
www.patreon.com/c/KenCougr

Patreon is an income for him. So if you can send him a buck or two, please do.
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Breakfast time…
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Oh ... bear with me now...

What if bigger?
October 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Since I missed a week for family stuff... lets do another #OldArtMonday

A large, weighty paw from 1989 by @kencougr.bsky.social

Hands and feet are hard to draw. It's not an understatement to say that Ken's work helped set a standard for peets.

Scanned photocopy of (likely) india ink on bristol.
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We're getting into spooky season! So for #OldArtMonday have a all-digital (!!) Halloween comic from 1995 by Al Mackey.

(Some of you might know Al as the skunk who created Xenia the Linux fox.)
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ok... so let's all try "bigger"
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM