Pot Psychology's How to be: Low-Minded Advice from High People

Author(s): Tracie Egan Morrissey

HUMOUR

Nobody needs advice, but everybody wants it. Conversely, everybody wants to give advice but we need to. It's in our blood...because we're stoned. That's the point. And what better way to legitimize two stoned people's need to babble advice than with a book? Allow us to introduce ourselves: We're Tracie and Rich. We go way back. We met as teenagers in 1998, during our freshman year at NYU. We were at a dorm party, where lesbians and gay men were making out. Tracie had short hair and glasses; Rich approached and asked, "Do you like Ani DiFranco?" That was not a come-on. We didn't kiss (and Tracie is not a lesbian, anyway), but we did shotgun a joint. From there, a friendship was born. Flash forward 12 years. We host an Internet video series in which we answer viewer-submitted questions, solving their problems with the help of an herbal remedy. Basically we get stoned and tell people how to live their lives. We give our two cents (or is that 420 sense?) on all of life's non-problems from party etiquette, problems in the workplace, what religion to be, to whether or not your boyfriend/girlfriend/parent/friend/teacher/pet is gay. At this point, we want to get higher, and take things to the next level. We've already gotten inside people's heads-now we want to get in their pants. With a pocket guide, pervert. It is intended to be a reference guide for people to carry through life. Because you never know when life will present a non-problem outside of a wifi hot zone. (And that's a non-problem solved right there.)


Product Information

Like the web series it's spun off of, this is a reference book for people who are too stoned to think for themselves. Catering to stoners' attention span-or lack thereof-it will present 101 non-problems solved in one page or less.

Tracie Egan Morrissey is a Senior Writer at Jezebel.com, which she helped found, having worked there since before its launch in May 2007. She has been the most-read author on the site, consistently receiving the highest number of unique readers per month, as charted by Gawker Media. Before that, she was a Senior Writer at the influential feminist magazine BUST, where, in the seven years she spent there, helped quadruple its subscriptions, and more than tripled its circulation. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Vice, VH1, Gawker, Playgirl, Best Sex Writing 2009, Street Carnage, and BUST. Rich Juzwiak is a Senior Editor at VH1.com, where he developed and maintains the channel's shows blog, the definitive source of interviews, reviews and news of the network. It typically receives an excess of 200,000 readers a week. In his downtime, he maintains his personal pop culture blog, fourfour, which routinely receives over 20,000 daily readers. That blog is home to a variety of recaps, reviews and viral videos, many of which have received over a million views on YouTube (the videos on his current primary YouTube account have received a total of 10.5 million views). He studied journalism at NYU and has contributed to Village Voice, This American Life, Miami New Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, Pitchfork, Magnet Magazine and BUST.

General Fields

  • : 9781455502813
  • : Little, Brown & Company
  • : Grand Central Publishing
  • : 0.594
  • : 31 August 2012
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United States
  • : 01 December 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tracie Egan Morrissey
  • : Paperback
  • : 1212
  • : Lindsay Mound
  • : 818.602
  • : 288
  • : Integrated b&w illustrations