cocks

Shep Smith Talks 'Cock' on Live TV

Hamilton Nolan · 08/15/11 05:12PM

Shep Smith on Fox News this afternoon: "Bratton reportedly says he'd want to be London's cop top. [Pause] Top cock. [Sound of something slamming on desk] Top cop." Don't sweat it, Shep. Sometimes you just get blowjobs on the brain. [YouTube]

Birthday Cock at Fox News

Hamilton Nolan · 08/17/10 01:02PM

In your cocky Tuesday media column: those Red Eye boys are just as penis-obsessed as ever, News Corp gives a million bucks to Republicans, Nielsen's big IPO, and a reporter fired for wearing a nice hat.

Cocky De Cock in Cockamamie Cock-Up

Hamilton Nolan · 07/27/10 08:27AM

Famous Belgian visual artist Jan De Cock was questioned by authorities yesterday after making a veiled threat to a flight attendant during a flight to New York. Too many cocktails? You are not the cock-of-the-walk, sir. [NYP. Pic via]

Fragrance Woos Gays With Retro Beefcake

Hamilton Nolan · 06/10/08 09:17AM

Will these waggish fragrance marketing types ever stop with their cheeky penis humor? Eleven-year-old cologne wearers sure hope not! San Francisco—a popular home to gays—is all atwitter because of a new campaign by the giant ad agency Ogilvy for Tom of Finland, a new scent inspired by the famous homoerotic artist of the same name. They took posters of Tom's drawings, see, and positioned them just so next to protruding objects—that to a dirty mind might resemble a huge, hard cock! Such sophisticated appeal to the target demographic. The gays like that stuff, right? So they'll surely open their wallets for this:

Michael Arrington calls for Palo Alto chicken eviction

Jackson West · 04/07/08 11:20AM

In a 543-word opus describing his travails finding Internet connectivity in Palo Alto after a Comcast outage, imperialist blogger Michael Arrington was distracted by a noisy rooster. "There should be no live chickens in Palo Alto," he complains. While roosters, like the one pictured, are strictly forbidden in Palo Alto outside of areas zoned for agriculture, residents are allowed to keep up to six hens with a regular permit. How to dispose of the noisy cock? The city will happily loan a humane trap for $5 a day.

abalk · 09/05/07 12:45PM

"A picture caption in some copies yesterday about residents in Canyon, Calif., who bought their own pay phone misspelled the given name and the surname of the woman shown using the telephone. She is Philippa W. Heathcock, not Philiooa W. Heartcock." [NYT]