I can't understand why the neighbors complained...it's art, for goodness' sake.

Naked snow woman

Several police officers responded to a 911 report of a naked woman tied to a tree in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. Spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune officers talked with the woman and a man Tuesday in the Owen Beach area and determined it was a "consensual rendezvous."

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When the artist Marina Abramovic and her then-companion Ulay first performed the piece, called "Imponderabilia," in Bologna, Italy in 1977, the police showed up. The NYPD is unlikely to interfere with the version that opened at MoMA on Sunday, though some museum-goers may choose not to do the sideways limbo between bare bodies.

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For the NY Times background on this artist, click here.

1. There were no details in the Tacoma piece - Deceptive Advertising JB.
2. The most important detail you left out in the New York MoMA piece was this little jewel on the artist, "In front of audiences, she has taken medication that made her lose consciousness, and stabbed herself repeatedly in the left hand."
3. Which reminded me of the infamous blunt pencil stories from a couple of weeks ago.
4. Since the MoMA in New York is my wife's favorite museum pre this exhibit, I suspect she would never step foot in the place again if I could plan a quick trip to NY, NY.

A woman gardening wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has brought neighborhood complaints and new rules from a housing authority in Colorado.

Boulder Housing Partners plans to amend its rules so that tenants cover up when they're outside. Several passers-by told Boulder police earlier this week that 52-year-old Catharine Pierce was topless while tending to her yard. Last year, she was threatened with eviction for gardening wearing only pasties and a thong.

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[Did you make up your mind on whether to prosecute only after seeing the age of the gardener?]

It's March, for crying out loud, not July. Rather than prosecute, perhaps we should consider having this dedicated cultivator train our military's mountain brigades on thriving in hypothermic conditions. Some adaptations would, of course, have to be made. For instance, yellow wouldn't work until native wildflowers bloomed. Until then, strict adherence to camo thongs would appear to be the order of the day.

That mental picture, Scott, reminded me of this lady:

"Katrina Hodge has two titles. By profession, she's Lance Cpl. Hodge of the British Army. Off duty, the 22-year-old is Miss England. Her nickname: 'Combat Barbie.'" Read more, here--

http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Combat-Barbie.aspx?cp-searchtext=Combat%20Barbie

La Maison in the River Oaks area of Houston, in its online advertising Thursday, described the five-story complex as offering a "clothing optional sun deck."

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For a tour, click here.

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La Maison in the River Oaks area of Houston, in its online advertising Thursday, described the five-story complex as offering a "clothing optional sun deck."

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Don't bother to go to the tour. No nekkid pictures.

That's why this thread will always have an audience.

"Is it proper or not for the state to have the position that live nude dancing should be discouraged?" Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson asked attorneys for the strip clubs. "Is it unconstitutional for the state to target live nude dancing because it believes it's culturally unsound, immoral?"

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One of the liveliest exchanges was when one of the justices asked Craig Enoch, attorney for the Texas Entertainment Association, what exactly nude dancers express in their shows.
"Eroticism," said Enoch, who is also a former state Supreme Court justice. "It's seeking to create emotion."

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A man who has been charged with making a naked dash through a Tennessee supermarket told police he was "bored and didn't have anything else to do."

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A man who has been charged with making a naked dash through a Tennessee supermarket told police he was "bored and didn't have anything else to do."

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Did they catch by the pole beans?

About two dozen women drew a crowd of onlookers when they shed their shirts and marched downtown in Maine's largest city to promote what they call equal-opportunity public toplessness.

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A Colorado woman who likes to garden wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has won her fight with her landlords, who wanted her to cover up. Boulder Housing Partners has decided not to outlaw tenants from going topless outside. That will allow 52-year-old Catharine Pierce to keep gardening the way she likes.

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A busy Fort Worth street was closed for four hours while police tried to talk a naked man down from atop a billboard.

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Not exactly explicit use of the word "naked," but the article (from CNN) actually reads like something out of the Onion.

Anatomical ridicule raises body-scanning concerns

Full-body scanning machines may reveal a little too much, if an incident of workplace violence this week among Transportation Security Administration screeners is any indication.

A TSA worker at Miami International Airport in Florida was arrested for allegedly assaulting a co-worker who had repeatedly teased him about the size of his [you can probably guess what].

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Drunk Naked Stranger in Hot Tub (not the time machine version).

A half-naked [should we have a separate thread for just half-naked?] Australian sunbather wasted no time saving a burning apartment building, rushing for a fire hose before her bikini top.

Tash Bennett, 27, was sunbathing topless by her apartment complex pool when a nearby palm tree caught on fire.

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