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No one can accuse Steely Dan of caring too much about appearances. When Walter Becker and Donald Fagen moved to Los Angeles from New York in the early 1970s, they were made queasy by what Fagen once described as California’s “much more visual culture.” Even the most forgiving Danboy would have to concede that the band’s aesthetic choices over the years were a bit … uneven. Take the album art.

Song of the Week: Isaiah Rashad - HeadshotsIsaiah Rashad has one of the best albums I’ve heard in the past years. He’s one of my favorite artists, and if you’re not familiar with him, you are now… If you hate this song, I don’t know what to tell you except Happy Friday, I guess. Let’s get it!! It’s getting cold outside again, so you know what that means… It’s hoodie season.

I remember the internship I had at the end of my junior year in college. I was totally out of my depth working in logistics for the first time. I needed help even understanding the assignment, but I was painfully shy, and I didn't know what to do when I got my first project. My manager was very senior and extremely busy, and it seemed like she was always out of the office.

This article was originally published in Off Chance Magazine “The day you learn whether you have high or low visual weight is the day you instantly increase your pretty privilege,” @kandykapelle, TikTok creator, opens her video, with over 639.6K likes she promises that this is the key to being perceived as “10x more attractive”. High and low visual weight, the latest terminology cooked up by TikTok, is a cheat code to achieve instant prettiness, well according to the internet.

One of the most common questions I get is a variation of “How do I get into physical pentesting?” I get this question so often I decided to dedicate an entire series on this blog specifically to addressing this question. This post will focus on what skills I believe a good covert entry specialist should possess. I’ve been in the physical penetration testing world for around 15 years and have run operations all over the world, including corporate offices, government buildings, and critical infrastructure (among others).

[This newsletter will always be free to read, but it’s also how I supplement bills and such - which allows me the flexibility to bring you the best possible sex education every week. So, if you like what you read, please consider a paid subscription.]Hey babe, It’s the LAST G-Spot of 2023! So exciting. I just wanted to say a very quick thank you to all you gorgeous subscribers for being here and supporting this newsletter.

The new season of cooking classes has just begun. For the Market to Table Cooking Class we stop at the local café to fuel up with espresso and croissant before we hit the market. This is when we get to know each other and start planning our menu for the day, but also when I can introduce the first meaningful aspects of the Italian life. While we sit at a side table, a choreographed dance of customers happens in front of our eyes.

It’s a one-ingredient recipe – butter.  And one method - burn it. To make brown butter, you simply melt butter until it turns brown - a particular tawny, shetland pony sort of brown that the French call noisette, after their beloved hazelnuts (hence beurre noisette). But that doesn’t do justice to the toasty, nutty flavour you get as the water evaporates and the milk solids in the butter tan, or the almost toffee-like aroma that fills the kitchen.

Howdy. Man, was this a week. Some good. Some bad. A lot stressful. Consequently, yesterday escaped me, so we’re doing a special Saturday edition… STAR WARS: DARK DROIDS - D-SQUAD #3 On a (significantly) lighter subject, next Wednesday sees the release of the penultimate issue of D-Squad and we’ve got a preview here courtesy of AIPT: In addition, this issue includes one of my favorite joke of the series: If you’d care to order (or pre-order) it digitally, click here.