Word: potting
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...Elisas and Jorges and Angelicas of this era are fated to go the way of the Moeshes and Mitzis of an earlier one, the consolation is that with such nominative extinction comes melting-pot belonging. That's always been at the heart of the American experiment - and it likely always will...
...also bought a cup of the daily dark roast, Sumatra, black, for comparison, as well as a couple of croissants and some vanilla-bean scones, as accompaniments and because TIME was paying. I also picked up a jar of Folgers crystals from the corner deli, whipped up a pot of homemade coffee (Guatemala, from Costco) and put on a pot of filtered NYC tap water...
When they spring their adopted baby on the family and the whole messy brood welcomes her--"She's one of us now! Lemme see the little pot sticker!" Jay declares--it's a perfect ending for a promising pilot. That's what family means: the second you join, it's as if they've known you forever. Then you spend the rest of your lives surprising one another...
Cobwebs of conspiracy, visible only by glimpses of light filtered through the haze of pot smoke, bind fast the decadent and insular isle of Manhattan in Jonathan Lethem’s newest novel, “Chronic City.” The protagonist, Chase Insteadman—a former child star living off re-run residuals—serves as both one of a cohort of sleuths trying to untangle these webs and a vessel for the reader’s own desire to do the same. His seemingly infinite naïveté parallels our own; his paranoia...
...role in this is rank speculation and completely unwarranted at this juncture." Explains Cross: "Resistance to federal authority in the area dates back more than a century, to the era of major moonshine stills." And for nearly the past three decades, he says, "federal and state authorities have targeted pot growers in Clay and adjoining counties." It is currently marijuana-harvesting season, probably a particularly bad time to randomly knock on doors in Clay County...