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Ricardo Cortés (illustrator)
Ricardo Cortés (born 1973) is an illustrator and author. He has written and illustrated a children's book about marijuana: '' It's Just a Plant''. He illustrated ''Go the Fuck to Sleep'', Adam Mansbach's bedtime story for adults, and '' I Don't Want To Blow You Up!'', a coloring book with pages devoted to famous Muslims who are not terrorists. A 2011 project is to raise money to distribute an illustrated booklet about jury nullification (under the title ''Jury Independence Illustrated''). The intention is to educate the public (specifically potential jurors) about their ability to acquit a defendant because the jury (or juror) disagrees with the law in question. A grant of $2,000 has been provided by the Department of Cultural Affairs' Greater New York Arts Development. Cortes graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijuana
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the cannabis plant. Native to Central or South Asia, the cannabis plant has been used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various traditional medicines for centuries. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main psychoactive component of cannabis, which is one of the 483 known compounds in the plant, including at least 65 other cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol (CBD). Cannabis can be used by smoking, vaporizing, within food, or as an extract. Cannabis has various mental and physical effects, which include euphoria, altered states of mind and sense of time, difficulty concentrating, impaired short-term memory, impaired body movement (balance and fine psychomotor control), relaxation, and an increase in appetite. Onset of effects is felt within minutes when smoked, but may take up to 90 minutes when eaten. The effects last for two to six hours, depending on the amount us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Just A Plant
''It's Just a Plant'' is a children's book, written, illustrated and published by Ricardo Cortés. It is designed for parents who want to educate their children about marijuana. The book's pro-marijuana legalization message has drawn widespread attention from critics and the media since its publication in January 2005. Synopsis The main character is a little girl named Jackie. She is awakened one night in her bedroom by an unusual smell in the air, and she sets out to find its source. She goes to her parents' room and discovers her parents smoking marijuana. When she asks what they're doing, they tell her they are smoking marijuana. Her parents decide to teach her the facts about marijuana. They travel to the farm where the family buys vegetables. The farmer shows her the variety of crops he grows, including some marijuana plants. He tells her about the history of marijuana, and remarks that many people use the drug, including doctors, teachers, and politicians. Following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go The Fuck To Sleep
''Go the Fuck to Sleep'' is a satirical book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés. Described as a "children's book for adults", it reached No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list a month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign during which booksellers forwarded PDF copies of the book by e-mail. Background When Adam Mansbach's daughter, Vivien, was three years old, she would take up to four hours to fall asleep. Exhausted and exasperated, one night Mansbach posted a note on Facebook, "Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, ''Go the Fuck to Sleep''". Following his post, friends of Mansbach responded enthusiastically, so that Mansbach began writing what was then only a hypothetical book. Mansbach had the illustrations for the picture book done by a friend, illustrator Ricardo Cortés (a contributor to ''The New York Times''), and approached Akashic Books, a book publisher from New York. Summary ''Go the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbach (born July 1, 1976) is an American author. He has previously been a visiting professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden, with their New Voices Visiting Writers program (2009–2011). Biography Mansbach graduated from Columbia College in 1998 and received a MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2000. Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" '' Go the Fuck to Sleep'', parodying bedtime stories. Other books Mansbach has written include '' Angry Black White Boy'', a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005, and '' The End of the Jews'' (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008). Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal ''Elementary''. His book '' Stay the Fuck at Home'' (2020), was written to support awareness of coronavirus self-isolation measures; it has yet to be formally published. The book was read on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' by actor Samuel L. Jackson. He lives in Berkeley, California a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
