I recently watched a documentary about that reaffirmed many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books the last few years). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, our brains reframes every interaction. It sucks up all the […]
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CONTENT CAUTION: Contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and discusses childhood emotional and physical abuse. When I was a child, I lived with a monster. He slept in the big room at the back of my grandmother’s house during the day and only came out at night. Unless you woke him up. Unless
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Once you start reading Stranger Things as one big allegory for child abuse, the whole thing hits real different. I have my snark about the slog of the editing and endless two-up talking scenes, but as a single piece of work, looking back on the whole thing, it’s a really ambitious show. With that kind
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE THIRTY-THREE: S.B. Divya joins the podcast to talk about her new book LOKA, her writing process, dealing with long
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE TWENTY EIGHT: Tobias Buckell joins the show to talk about the long road to releasing his new book A
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE TWENTY THREE: Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfisher) joins us for questions from Twitter and a game of “Name of
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE TWENTY TWO: Gardening, recognizing and dealing with burnout as a creator, the non-stop growth mindset, books and tv shows,
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NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR JOJO RABBIT It’s a surreal time to be aware of – let alone following – the news cycle these days. Government officials proudly admit to crimes on Twitter, in press conferences, and then insist they are not crimes and why are you so triggered by a little treason, anyway? We are
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Note: Spoilers for The Last Jedi (YES ALL THE SPOILERS) I came out of watching The Last Jedi, and was like, “Well, that was good, but I’m not blown away.” It had a lot of threads; it felt like three movies in one, and cramming all that story into one movie made it feel a
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Good morning, America. Are you hungover? Honestly, I think I’ve been hungover since the 2000 election, which was a whopping 16 years ago. Two timelines diverged in a wood, and lo, we took the darker one, and here we are, America, perpetually drunk or hungover. Looking back, it’s easy to see why nobody cared to
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