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Morning Cup of Links: Ancient Air Conditioning
by Miss Cellania - December 4, 2008 - 3:44 AM
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The Stories Behind Hollywood Studio Logos. Meet the woman who carried a torch for Columbia and the Dreamworks boy who fished from the moon.
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Inside the curious world of nude modeling for artists. It’s OK, Mom, it’s ART!
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The environmental benefits of a cut Christmas tree, compared to an artificial tree. For one thing, they smell good, which improves the environment of your home.
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The World’s Most Bizarre and Intriguing Water Fountains. My favorites are the kind you can walk through.
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The 3 Coolest Ancient Air-Conditioning Devices. Environmentally friendly even when they didn’t have to be!
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Prop 8: The Musical. Hey, if they can make a musical out of Little Shop of Horrors, they can add music to anything.
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Four Pieces of Land Not Worth Fighting Over (But That Never Stopped Anyone). You have to dig deeper to find the real motivations for these wars.

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Comments (6)

  1. Prop 8: The Musical just made my day : )

    posted by Meghan on 12-4-2008 at 11:19 am

  2. I just watched Prop 8: The Musical on another site and am amazingly pleased to see it here too!!!

    posted by Megan on 12-4-2008 at 11:36 am

  3. I so wish they would come to Sacramento and perform “Prop 8″ here.

    posted by Leah on 12-4-2008 at 1:06 pm

  4. I have nothing to say but one of the recaptcha word was lovemaking and I could not resist. Yes, I am a 4th grade boy trapped in a 44 year old woman’s body.

    posted by Cynthia on 12-4-2008 at 2:41 pm

  5. I went to art school, and I have to say, I have had some seriously bizarre encounters with nude models. Most were just fairly normal people, but there were a couple of real weirdos.

    A friend went to her first life drawing session, and she was a little uncomfortable drawing the nude male model, so she thought that talking to him during the break (while he was clothed) might put her at ease. She asked him if he was a student, and he informed her that he was a student, but at a different local school because our school had a policy of not hiring it’s own students for nude modeling. Then she said “Wow, it must pay really well for you to get up in front of everybody and take your clothes off.” He replied “I’m an exhibitionist. I’d do it for free.”

    Yeah, that didn’t do anything to make her more comfortable.

    The second was a serious freak. He was a guy who came in for an open model session. We used them if we needed more practice or if we had missed a class. So this guy comes in to be the model. He’s in his late 40’s and a bit overweight. Not a big deal, but when he got up on the platform and whipped off (yes, dramatically) his robe (orange silk) he revealed that the only hair on his body was on his head. He immediately assumed a dramatic pose, emitting a “SCHWAAA” sound as he did so. Every time he would change poses, he would rapidly move and make that sound. It was not unlike the sound that the doors on Star Trek made. Also, his penis was pierced. And dripping. And lets just say that area didn’t stay motionless while he was in position.

    Hoo-boy, that was an, um, interesting session.

    posted by Anthony on 12-4-2008 at 11:07 pm

  6. Nude models can be a strange breed. When I was in college, we had one particular lady in various life drawing classes who thought of herself not only as a model, but a would-be drawing professor and art critic. She was a decent model but her attitude was so weird that they finally quit calling her and just got one of us (fully clothed) art students to jump up on the model stand…

    posted by Aaron on 12-5-2008 at 8:22 am

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