Even more naughty bits!
Time for more highbrow culture - this time from Australia! Howard Shapiro astounds in the Philadelphia Inquirer with Art from down under - literally:

One of the most bizarre shows popping up on main stages around the world will premiere in Philadelphia next month. Puppetry of the Penis - whose name defines the show precisely - will compete head-on for audiences with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Evita, and other vaunted cultural attractions.

Given its track record in other cities, the show will probably hold its own. Puppetry of the Penis features two men who contort their privates into different items, without strings, props or costumes, amid a flurry of comic patter. The show's handlers call the performance "the ancient Australian art of genital origami," although it is clearly more original than aboriginal.

"We're very, very excited to finally bring Puppetry of the Penis to Philadelphia," producer David Foster told a roomful of reporters and other guests yesterday at 32º, a club on Second Street where two highly flexible puppeteers held a revealing news conference to demonstrate the routine.

Uh Oh!

The origin of the show is a heartwarming family story, sort of. Morley is one of four brothers, the youngest of whom figured out, in childhood, how to make his penis and testicles look like a hamburger sandwich - one of the staples of the current show's menu.

Morley got the hang of it, and so did his other two brothers. All four boys were soon competing with one another for the best shtick. What to do with all these discoveries? Morley took matters into his own hands and put out an artsy calendar, a gesticulation for every month.

He then teamed with Friend, who, according to the show's material, "began his current career in the bath and developed his skills further when he discovered beer at university." The two opened their show in Australia in 1998, and when they took their "installations" - their term for each puppet trick - to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2000, they became huge.

Howard is extracting full value on this one. More japery by following the link, but here's the closer:

The logistics leading to yesterday's news conference were, in themselves, a drama. It had been scheduled for the Hotel Sofitel, near Rittenhouse Square, but was nixed. It could not be held at the most logical place, the Wilma, because the theater's current production, Red, was scheduled for a Wednesday matinee; those who ambled in early for a play about a Chinese American novelist and the Red Guard would not necessarily expect to see two men pulling their penises every which way to make a point.

But these guys would have fit right in at the "Take Back America" conference in the previous post.