Pretentious housewives, blatant product placements, and seedy drama - that's the recipe for Housewives of the 405, a new comic strip ad series created by Robot House Creative, Robert Wilson IV and Jordan Boyd for BodyTrends the Electrospa.

From a creative standpoint, Hot 405 is a lot like laser hair removal - the recipient is much better-looking because of it, but there's still a genetic hairfreak lurking below the surface.

We're of course referring to BodyTrends and the softcore pornography they regularly turned out as "advertising" in the days before Robot House & Co. stepped in.

But that's not to say we agree with this concept. Sure, it's cleverly written (save for the glaring product name drops, but maybe that's part of the charm) and skillfully drawn and colored, but, coming from a legitimate business, it just seems kind of... gross.

Then again, we use the term "legitimate" rather loosely when referring to a business with a website that looks like this.

Via our Minne friends

Southwestern Publishing, the matriarch of Oklahoma City's royal family of affluent magazines, apparently went out and changed its masthead this week.

Instead of five separate community publications - Nichols Hills News, Edmond Monthly, NWStyle, Downtown Monthly and Norman Living - they are now one super-mag called Slice Magazine, available all over the metro.

For what it's worth, we think this is a smart move on their part. OKC is experiencing a growth spurt of late, in size and psyche. For the first time in recent memory, the populace isn't grumbling about how much it sucks to live in Oklahoma City. And that brings a tear of joy to our eye.

Plus, we can read the whole thing online on the Slice website. Which means we're just one step closer to never having to go out into public ever again.

As the Slice digital boards say, there really is more to love about OKC than ever before. Even if you have agoraphobia.