Yesterday, City Lights Editor Mike Riggs revealed that he dressed as “Trailer Trash Zombie” for Halloween this year, a costume he claimed was “not even a little bit” sexy—“unless short denim shorts, suspenders, a camo ball cap, a black sabbath tee with no sleeves, and really upsetting face paint is your idea of sexy.” Now, we have the photo evidence to judge for ourselves. Is Trailer Park Zombie sexy? Is it just offensive? Or is it one of the rare offensively sexy costumes?

Keep this tidbit in mind, courtesy of Riggs: “also, the shorts progressively shortened through the night as I (a) ripped pieces of them off and (b) pulled them up over my gut.”

Cataloguing the sexual euphemisms of rap music is one of my favorite pastimes. So when a commenter requested that I parse Gucci Mane’s lyrics for hidden sexual undertones, I was happy to attempt to smoke out some hidden naughty bits in the rapper’s contribution to Young Problemz‘ “Boi” (Mane weighs in at the 2:55 mark).

Perhaps I am off my game. Because  for the life of me, I can’t make out any clear sexual imagery in Mane’s lyrical feast of gyros, egg rolls, tacos, and sting rays:

Extra lamb like a gyro / Wrap ‘em like a egg roll
Beat up out the taco / Feed ‘em to the octos
Fully fully auto / Shawty bout that good plate
Fuck around next they be sleepin with a sting ray

While the taco reference inspires an obvious anatomical comparison, that octopus shit is beyond me. So I turned to CP‘’s resident art staff for help:

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Also: These women are considered “fat”? I give up.

Last week, while I was busy exploring the rich Northern Idaho social scene (so much homophobia, you guys—more on that later), Mike Riggs offered to man The Sexist in my stead. And man he did. But it’s over now! And thankfully, some brave commenters waded into the fray to say what I was probably thinking. Let’s hear it:

On More to Love: Sending the Wrong Message, in which Riggsy helpfully refers to fat women as “addicts” who are victims of “rationalized over-eating and sedentary lifestyles”:

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Next week, I take my annual exotic vacation from a life of bloggin’ about drag queens and pulling out (okay: I’m going to Idaho). While I’m off the sex and gender beat, resident City Paper bike porn chronicler Mike Riggs will be posting here on the Sexist to pick up my dildo slack. He promises to write about dude stuff!

But before I go—oh, the memories! Let’s relive last week’s most popular blog posts:

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Last week, sex columnist extraordinaire Dan Savage gave Rick Warren the Rick Santorum treatment by turning his life into a code-word for a sex act. “Saddlebacking,” named after Warren’s California Saddleback Church, will henceforth signify “the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities.” (Santorum, incidentally, means “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.”)

City Lights Editor Mike Riggs, a born, bred, and lapsed Florida Christian, explains whether the definition rings true for evangelicals and fundies “looking to skirt rules about sex.” [Hint: they're more into oral].

Welcome back to another edition of Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back, the occasional podcast wherein City Lights editor Mike Riggs and I probe the other’s psyche in an attempt to understand why the other person is the way that they are. I’m up first. Riggs goes next.

Topics discussed: Mike Riggs, Amanda Hess, narcissism, co-workers, Ernest, crippling embarrassment, horrific facial expressions, never smiling, worst part of Mike Riggs’ day, horrible screamo Soulja Boy musical outro that Mike Riggs chose and I had no involvement in.

* pretty close this time!

Welcome back to another edition of Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back, City Paper’s sex and politics podcast. This week, City Lights Editor Mike Riggs and I discuss the pros and cons of cinema’s most recent abstinence-only vegetarian tween vampire phenomenon, Twilight. (Our usual cohort, Intern Bobby, gets a pass this week).

Topics discussed: Jane Austen, morality, ballet studio, Pootie Tang, Edward Cullen, Zac Ephron unlike Edward Cullen, Mike Riggs unlike Edward Cullen, feasts of flesh

* okay, ten minutes.

* Admittedly: Even I am unsure how long the podcast is this time. You know, when City Paper’s resident libertarian and I get to talkin’, it’s anyone’s guess how long it will take us both to tire of speaking directly to the other. And yet, Mike Riggs and I brave the conversational waters again today in this, our post-election podcast! With us, as always, is intrepid City Paper intern and off-the-cuff interviewer extraordinaire, Bobby Allyn.

Topics discussed: Post-election sex, Prop 8, making nice, hugging it out, Larry Summers, innate mathematical ability, Democrats vs. Republicans, girls vs. boys.

Download the podcast here.

Welcome to another edition of “Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back,” wherein Mike Riggs and I delve ever deeper into the darkest corners of the other’s soul as we review the week in sex, media, and politics (but mostly sex). Today, five minutes* gets spooky as Riggs and I hash out our deeply seated views on the chilling phenomenon of sexy Halloween costumes. With us, as always, is intrepid City Paper intern Bobby Allyn.

Topics discussed: The Sarah Palin porn film, lost dinosaur outfits, sad children, presidential costumes, a nurse with a box and she takes the box of and…, latent homoeroticism, and Mike Riggs‘ tortured psyche.

* pretty close this time!

Welcome to the new City Paper podcast, “Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back.” Each Tuesday, City Lights Editor Mike Riggs and I will go head to head on current issues of sex, media, and politics (but mostly sex). What will you get for your five minutes?

- Sexy/Unsexy, in which we praise, shame last week’s talking points.

- Intern Bobby, in which intrepid City Paper intern Bobby Allyn asks the questions.

- Hess v. Riggs, in which we disagree.

All in a handy downloadable widget! In this, our inaugural episode, spend five minutes with us on modern voyeurism. Topics discussed: Sarah Palin, hair, overseas wiretapping, pillow talk, amateur porn, and Ron Jeremy.

Or, download the podcast here.

* we round down.