Now you've got me thinking of that porno I never got around to producing: The Phantom Man-Ass

Tossed Salad is people!

"Sometimes I create a sign-off that, once abbreviated, spells out something cute or funny or relevant. This is not one of those times: I did not come up with this letter writer's sign-off."

A lot of this made me giggle, so thank you for that!

"Eating ass is a part of 20th Century pop culture."
"Yeah…the most important part!"

When I was a kid, I think I heard the slogan as "Snap it to a Slim Jim," as if it were some kind of quirky phrase or dance move.

Snap into a Slim Jim!

Alright, I’ve been lurking long enough. It’s time for me to break my silence and introduce my new feature….SAVAGE LOS….

And now for something…well, not completely different.

I don't pop Molly, I rock BOB-Ford / Mr. International, bring back David Lynch tropes….

"They say prostitution is a victimless crime. But if that's true, then where's my wallet?"

Note: I tried to post this yesterday, and it was caught in "pending," perhaps because I used a word that has randomly been deemed "naughty." I'll try again, with the word redacted.

You think so? Ray was introduced to us as a father who bullied his own son with threats of sexual humiliation. Within the first hour of the show, he pounded the face of an innocent man using brass knuckles, forcing the man's terrified son to watch, and then drunkenly threated to kill the boy's mother and sodomize his…

how sad it is to be splitting…hairs on a beautiful sunny day
The AV Club

Let me clarify, then: none of these characters have any particular depth or interest and are written as broad stroke cliches. In the case of the female characters uniformly, that cliche is their sexuality as it relates to men is their sole defining characteristic. The same can be said to be true of the men I suppose,…

Also, remember that their secret mission is to find evidence of corruption in the Vinci PD, so she's going to this party — which is linked to at least one murder and a disappearance, and is supposedly attended by high-up and connected men — to find out if there's any such evidence.

But the point still stands that none of [the female characters] are characters of any particular depth or interest.

I don't see any evidence that this is a critique as opposed to an expression of.

I think she was there on a fact-finding mission: seeing what actually goes on at these parties, who's there, whether there are any freaky murders by a mask-wearing cult, that sort of thing.

You're shifting the goalposts.