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Note: I forgot to mention it, but this is now the FOURTH year of Dang Dude, What the Heck?! That’s pretty wild. It’s the longest continuing project I’ve ever worked on. I just want to thank everyone for coming along for the ride, and a special shout out to those who financially support(ed) this little newsletter. Here’s to a bunch more years. Maybe one of these days I’ll go viral.

Hi everybody! Today I’m launching 40 Ingredients Forever: Every Thursday, you’ll get a weeknight recipe that’s abundant in flavor and joy but streamlined in process and shopping. How? Because all the recipes will be made only using my 40 go-to ingredients. 40 Ingredients Forever is a celebration of one womp womp reality about cooking: that we buy the same ingredients every week hoping we’ll make something different from last week. Sometimes it just takes some help from a friend (me!

The U.S. and its military allies are planning more than 110 major war games in this coming year, from naval exercises involving over 60 nations to small clandestine special operations events that take place in the shadows. As 2023 opens and the war in Ukraine drags on, a good amount of the activity is planned for Europe, mostly NATO getting its shit together, perfecting future war against Russia (a country that will be all out of war by the time the Ukraine war is over, no matter what the outcome.

Everyone has this experience: you work with someone who drives you completely crazy. Their actions appear erratic, self-serving, and frustrating. Their questions are not inquisitive, but rather aggressive. Their input is critical rather than helpful. Their invasive style seems undermining and provocative, rather than partnering and supportive. They see the world completely differently than you, and you ascribe negative motives to their actions. Share This has happened to me multiple times in my career.

NEWSLETTER BACK! I know you have been missing these extremely long and tedious Husker posts hitting your inbox since the season ended. I always like to do a little football detox for a few months, but now that some of the details under the new coaching staff are solidified, it’s possible to start looking ahead to what Nebraska’s future may look like under Matt Rhule. If you checked out of Husker football this winter, here are the big brushstrokes: Rhule hired longtime Temple and Baylor collaborator Marcus Satterfield from South Carolina to run his offense, poached hot-name defensive coordinator Tony White away from Syracuse, scored several major recruiting wins — including keeping the best in-state prospect in years from committing to Coach Prime, took all the players Georgia didn’t want from the transfer portal, and got NU back in the race for the top recruit in the 2024 class, who also happens to be a Husker legacy.

Welcome to Gibson Johns’ pop culture newsletter — subscribe to get recommendations of what to watch, read and listen to in your inbox every week!Subscribe to my new weekly podcast “Gabbing with Gib”: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTubeBack with another monthly watch list recap! Once a month I send out a list of everything I watched the previous month to give you some ideas of things to add to your own watch lists, so I’m here to share the rundown of all of the stuff I watched in December.

Welcome to Gibson Johns’ pop culture newsletter — subscribe to get recommendations of what to watch, read and listen to in your inbox every week!Subscribe to my new weekly podcast “Gabbing with Gib”: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTubeBack with another monthly watch list recap! Once a month I send out a list of everything I watched the previous month to give you some ideas of things to add to your own watch lists, so I’m here to share the rundown of all of the stuff I watched in November.

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When I first read R.S. Benedict’s Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny, I felt like something that had been gnawing at me finally bit hard enough for me to be incensed. The essay is about the correlation of unheard-of physical perfection in movie actors with their growing sexlessness, and how we’re so so lonely in our sculpted, puritanical ideal. When I look at a bookstore table of popular romance novels (often spouting #BookTok, my second home) or best-selling trade paperbacks I recognize that same sexless homogeny that the essay mentions.