Word: thc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tropes—a little fantasy, a little romance, some comedy, a few drops of scary—all whizzed together. A lettuce salad is boring. Better to have one with lots of different tastes and consistencies for the mouth and mind to play with. So too a book. THC: Why do you think Americans so strongly desire to categorize novels? JC: I don’t think it’s just novels. Categorizing things makes life easier, no matter what it is you’re dealing with. The problem with doing it is you lose...
...school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood. It was sort of fun; I imagined sitting on a floating desk and paddling away. So I guess I was used to the idea of looking at an ordinary theme and imagining it as extraordinary. THC: When you write fantasy and you ask us to suspend disbelief, how do you know the limit? MR: It should be credible, and I tried very hard to make at least the possibility of its existence seem real. For example, for Astrophil [a mechanical, magic tin spider that is Petra?...
...parent-teacher conferences: you had to be wasted to enjoy them. And the genre had two tones, either apoplectic or apologist. But this summer is bringing us a bumper crop of movies and TV shows--Pineapple Express, The Wackness, Humboldt County and Showtime's Weeds among them--with THC in their DNA. Not stoner stories so much as plots that happen to involve pot, they ask, 37 years after the war on drugs was declared, whether there's a place in the culture for treatments of pot that neither criminalize nor celebrate...
...THC: Over the last two years in Newark there have been many challenges and some progress. Can you talk a little bit about both...
...THC: And what has been your biggest challenge in taking over a very intrenched system of corruption, trying to reform it, and trying to move forward as well...