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Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*

You are not crazy, my friends. — *Gaslighting, if you don’t know the word, is defined as manipulation into doubting your own sanity; as in, Carl made Mary think she was crazy, even though she clearly caught him cheating. He gaslit her. Pretty soon, as the country begins to figure out how we “open back up” and…

Crisis

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Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
Crisis

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1 day ago

25 Questions to Ask (and Answer) about Your Story’s Hero

I haven’t done many screenwriting posts lately, but I am working on a project that has me wrestling with very fine details about my hero, so I’m sharing wide. The hero of your story — be it a screenplay, a book, even an essay — is, of course, our main…

Screenwriting

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25 Questions to Ask (and Answer) about Your Story’s Hero
25 Questions to Ask (and Answer) about Your Story’s Hero
Screenwriting

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1 day ago

Report from a Relationship

All it takes is one person being hot and one being cold. At any and every living moment of the day and night, one needs a blanket and the other needs the window open. I’ve learned that and more since November 2020, when I met my boyfriend. It was —…

Love

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Report from a Relationship
Report from a Relationship
Love

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1 day ago

Breaking News: What Shooting?

Sorry, Nashville, please step aside. We know six people died while in school just days ago, including three children, but the big kahuna is back to pull the focus of every camera in the nation. And to continue to suck the life out of it. After all, it’s breaking news…

Gun Violence

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Breaking News: What Shooting?
Breaking News: What Shooting?
Gun Violence

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Mar 1

These Three Simple Words Can Calm Your Racing Mind

Life Tips from a Movie Set — I just wrapped a short film for The New Yorker, and I am thrilled to be sharing it with you and with the world in a few months. Last week found me on set back to work directing after a painful three-year hiatus, which started out as “The Great Pause”…

Society

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These Three Simple Words Can Calm Your Racing Mind
These Three Simple Words Can Calm Your Racing Mind
Society

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Feb 28

The $47 (!) Manhattan Pizza — And Why We Refused to Eat It

I will never pay $47 for a pizza. You have to be out of your mind to pay $47 for a pizza. You have to be not only utterly starving but utterly stupid. You have to be either dying from hunger or desperate to prove a point on a first…

Economy

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The $47 (!) Manhattan Pizza — And Why We Refused to Eat It
The $47 (!) Manhattan Pizza — And Why We Refused to Eat It
Economy

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Feb 28

The Pure Insanity of Banning Drag

Drag is art. A beautiful art. I learned this at 42 when Covid rendered me immovable in bed for six weeks. In January 2021, I wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, so I had a lot of time on my hands. So I started watching RuPaul’s Drag Race from the beginning…

Society

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The Pure Insanity of Banning Drag
The Pure Insanity of Banning Drag
Society

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Feb 8

Ten Things We Learned at the State of the Union Address

In no particular order, here are ten takeaways from tonight’s SOTU. Joe Biden is having none of your bullshit, Big Pharma and Big Tech — though he did limit his attack to specific examples and policies like insulin prices and social-media exploitation of children, which are pretty low-hanging fruit. He…

Politics

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Ten Things We Learned at the State of the Union Address
Ten Things We Learned at the State of the Union Address
Politics

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Jan 31

A Human Wrote This, not ChatGPT

That’s me. Not the best picture. But that’s the thing about humans: we are imperfect. This post will be equally imperfect. Because a human wrote it. As the world meets its AI future with the public introduction of ChatGPT, we are seeing the frightening power of robots and algorithms, which…

AI

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A Human Wrote This, not ChatGPT
A Human Wrote This, not ChatGPT
AI

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Jan 31

We Think Prices are High in the US? Reporting from Southern Europe…

Hello, friends and readers. Thanks to the internet, I am working from six hours in the future this week, celebrating a very belated Christmas here in Montenegro with our European family. If you follow my work at all, you know I enjoy writing whenever we are here. It’s such a…

Travel

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We Think Prices are High in the US? Reporting from Southern Europe…
We Think Prices are High in the US? Reporting from Southern Europe…
Travel

5 min read

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Julio Vincent Gambuto

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Author of “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting” // Book debut from Avid Reader Press • Summer 2023 // www.juliovincent.com

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