Tag Archives: phallic things

“It would be like the nuclear arms race, but with cock-like structures.”

By Mark | January 25, 2015

I uttered this sentence last night, and I thought that it should be recorded for posterity… Every year or two since 2003, when Cabinet magazine named Ypsilanti’s historic water tower the winner of it’s World’s Most Phallic Building contest, a website somewhere decides to post a story about the our beloved “brick dick.” Most recently, […]

Posted in History, Ideas, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1889, 1890, Appeal to Reason, bad ideas, brick dick, Cabinet, cocks, Kansas, limestone, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Matt Siegfried, Most Phallic Building contest, phallic structures, privatization, public utilities, Roadtrippers, water, water towers, William R. Coats, Ypsilanti water tower | 5 Comments

Millions in Asia experience the cultural odyssey that is Ypsilanti

By Mark | March 20, 2011

Do you remember hearing earlier this winter that a representative of the Voice of America’s China branch was going to be visiting Ypsi? Well, it apparently happened. A Chinese correspondent by the name of Sean E Liu not only visited Ypsi after covering the 2011 North American Auto Show in Detroit, but he interviewed a […]

Posted in Media, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bill Nickles, China, Chinese television, Cultural Odyssey, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Firehouse Museum, Five Cent Willy, Larry Thomas, Matt Lee, phallic structures, Sean E Liu, Sidetrack, Voice of America, Woody Allen, Ypsilanti water tower | 10 Comments

Ypsi landmark figures prominently in Conan O’Brien gay joke

By Mark | January 13, 2011

Posted in Media, Other, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bill Nickles, Conan O'Brien, corporate money, Five Cent Willy, gay history museum, get the money out of Washington, Jimmy Fallon, John Boehner, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, monologues, Most Phallic Building contest, oral history, phallic structures, the gay, water towers, Ypsilanti water tower | 9 Comments

What exactly is organic propellant?

By Mark | October 19, 2009

My friend Leighton recently brought the existence of the Organic Batter Blaster to my attention. Leaving aside for the moment the “ejaculative” nature of the name, to use Leighton’s terminology, I’m left wondering what organic propellant it is that they use to compel the Batter Blaster plaster from it’s phallic tube. I ran the idea […]