Some other celebrations of all things testicle may be coming soon to a town near you. Oakdale, California, kicks off its annual Testicle Festival today, while the Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton, Montana, hosts their own Testy Festy in August. If you can’t make it to Oakdale or to the Testy Festy, you can always cook up some balls yourself with this recipe for deer testicles. And speaking of testicles, I never realized that Matthew Barney’s epic art installation/film series The Cremaster Cycle was so named after the muscle that involuntarily moves the testicles around so that they may self-adjust their temperature. This muscle is responsible for a man’s need to adjust his scrotum throughout the day — the balls quite literally have a mind — er, muscle — of their own.{image copyright Matthew Barney, all rights reserved, courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery}
