<![CDATA[Gawker: Balls]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Balls]]> http://gawker.com/tag/balls http://gawker.com/tag/balls <![CDATA[ Investigative Stories ]]> A new interview's out with P. Diddy, in which he discusses how he gets ready for an evening: a nice ball-waxing followed by heaps of cologne on his privates. Now it's time for everybody to go home. [Crazy Days and Nights]

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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:25:40 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017353&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Ball-Powdering Sensation Sweeping The Nation ]]> Gold Bond is more than just a powder that old, decrepit men put on their feet; it's a powder that young, virile men can put on their balls, for fun. The medicated powder, and its cream brethren, produces a pleasing sensation in the male nether regions, according to Gawker videographer and ball-experimenter Richard Blakeley. But this off-brand use isn't just some underground deviant fantasy; Gold Bond has now picked up on it for its own advertising. The company has a site called PowderMyEquipment.com with several videos of guys powdering their... EQUIPMENT ("air quotes"). We would take this as winking corporate encouragement of self-pleasure, if we didn't know better. Click to watch an ad from the site, with a guy taking care of his EQUIPMENT, if you know what we mean.

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Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:35 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390467&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Your Balls, in Five Bullet Points ]]> balls2.jpgCBS News has been running a lot unappetizing stories about sex lately. First it was "Things You Didn't Know About Your Penis" (or "Four Things I Already Knew About Your Penis And One That Grossed Me Out"). Then there was "Top 10 Reasons To Have Sex Tonight" (or "10 Terrible Reasons to Have Sex Tonight.") Instead of waiting for CBS to produce their inevitable list of factoids about testicles, we made our own. After the jump, five terribly important facts about balls.

  • Erections Can Hurt Balls Prolonged sexual arousal can cause a temporary fluid congestion in the testicles. Known as "blue balls," this is unpleasant.
  • Erections Make Balls Harder When blood is flowing to that region, testicles become firmer.
  • Balls Emit A Slight Odor To prevent this, shower regularly.
  • There Should Be Two Something is wrong if there is only one.
  • Hair Grows There Don't feel bad if your balls are hairy. They're supposed to be! Unless of course you're encouraging a specific activity.

[image via Queerty's Morning Goods]

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Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:55:35 EDT rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=371961&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Everyone Was Groping Christopher Hitchens' "Smooth" Nutsack At The National Book Awards ]]> hitch.jpgKirkus editors Chuck Shelton and Elaine Szewczyk (who apparently decided she didn't want her name used in this context after the Daily Intel item went up) both copped a feel of the National Book Award Loser for Nonfiction's junk last night. Chris was showing off the results a his recent Vanity Fair article, for which he'd waxed his "back, sack, and crack." The verdicts? "You cannot believe how smooth it is" and "As smooth as summer cherries."

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Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:30:40 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=323210&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ When we were discussing what celebrities ... ]]> When we were discussing what celebrities blog about, we somehow neglected Martha Stewart, and this is why we shouldn't have: "This most unusual perennial, Gomphocarpus physocarpus, is called the balloon plant. I like to call it hairy balls. A species of milkweed, it is often used as an ornamental plant and is striking in cut arrangements." [The Martha Blog]

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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:40:54 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=315182&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Fameball! ]]> "I believe I am an early-stage Fameball, and nothing I do or say will change my trajectory. I will attempt to use this to my advantage," Vimeo founder and Star Editor At Large Julia Allison doinker Jakob Lodwick has been quoted as saying. Upon hearing Jakob's self-analysis, our first response was: "we want to quit our jobs." After all, writing about how obnoxious it is that Jakob has declared the process of his fame-accumulation unavoidable is, inescapably, part of the problem. After all, Jakob defines the fameball phenomenon as "individuals whose fame snowballs because journalists cover what they think other people want them to cover." But all that doesn't necessarily mean that Jakob is right.

After all, there are plenty of things he could to that would change his trajectory! For example, he could quit blogging. He could quit dating Julia Allison. He could quit blogging about dating Julia Allison. Those are three things!

But doing all those things is just part and parcel of Jakob continuing to be his terrible self. So he probably will continue snowballing! Or maybe not. We talked about this a lot over here. One of us thought this: "Jakob has *NO IDEA* what he's talking about. Once he hits 30, he'll notice all the missing seats in the front row of fame, conspicuously not occupied by all his fameball cohorts."

Jakob's having a moment, a moment he'll be unable to sustain for much longer unless he takes things to the next level by, say, dumping Julia for Heidi Montag and marrying her on live TV.

But whatever. He'll probably still be rich, though. And maybe he'll make yet more money off this whole "fameball" concept. It's at least as punchy as "The Long Tail" or "The Tipping Point," right?

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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:20:59 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=306617&view=rss&microfeed=true