Plumtree's Potted Meat is a tumblelog.

So, here’s a story from A to Z
You wanna get with me, you gotta listen carefully
We got Em in the place who likes it in your face
You got G like MC who likes it on a…
Easy V doesn’t come for free, she’s a real lady
And as for me, ha you’ll see

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Some people will go to be tonight proud to have merely reduced their daily consumption of methamphetamine; others will be frustrated that their rank on the Forbes 400 list has slipped into the triple digits. Where one is satisfied to be in life often has a lot to do with where one has been.

I study marine invertebrates.

…the university is perceived to be a site for the contestation as well as for the reproduction of ideological dominants; that there is something immediately important at stake in our reading and teaching of Shakespeare; and that, if we suddenly discover ourselves to be not marginal but rather in positions of cultural and institutional power, we are also now compelled to choose if, when and how to employ that power…If we bring to our students and to ourselves a sense of our own historicity, an apprehension of our positionings within ideology, then we are at the same time demonstrating the limited but nevertheless tangible possibility of contesting the regime of power and knowledge that at once sustains us and constrains us.

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled –
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing –
that the light is everything… And I do.

(Source: withnailrules, via lajoiedevivre)