Plumtree's Potted Meat

Scylla & Charybdis

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:15:08 -0400

Scylla & Charybdis

"The winner of the derby was I’ll Have Another. I watched it in a bikini, red silk kimono, and..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 16:01:16 -0400

“The winner of the derby was I’ll Have Another. I watched it in a bikini, red silk kimono, and big straw hat while drinking mint juleps. Asking for more is ungrateful.”

- Nicole, on the Kentucky Derby

Jazz Fest 2012

Sun, 06 May 2012 13:38:19 -0400

Jazz Fest 2012

My Morning Jacket, “Wordless Chorus”

Sun, 06 May 2012 13:29:18 -0400

My Morning Jacket, “Wordless Chorus”

"Though the present remains A dangerous place to live, Cynicism would be a reckless luxury"

Wed, 02 May 2012 13:15:32 -0400

“Though the present remains
A dangerous place to live,
Cynicism would be a reckless luxury”

- Keorapetse Kgositsile, ‘Wounded Dreams’

"Once the first avowal has been made, “I love you” has no meaning whatever; it merely..."

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:16:15 -0400

“Once the first avowal has been made, “I love you” has no meaning whatever; it merely repeats in an enigmatic mode—so blank does it appear—the old message (which may not have been transmitted in these words).”

- Roland Barthes, “I Love You” from A Lover’s Discourse

Campus cat takes a nap.

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:00:15 -0400

Campus cat takes a nap.

"To be confronted by her with the obvious—they eat meat, he and she, and there are so many..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:58:11 -0400

“To be confronted by her with the obvious—they eat meat, he and she, and there are so many unspeakable happenings skin-to-skin close, human to human, real, not symbolic, around them.”

- Nadine Gordimer, from No Time Like the Present

"We have seen young love, married love, and the love of an aged mother for her son. We have heard..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:04:14 -0400

“We have seen young love, married love, and the love of an aged mother
for her son.
We have heard the music, tasted the drinks, and looked at colored
houses.
What more is there to do, except stay? And that we cannot do.”

- John Ashbery, from “The Instruction Manual”

"Eight deer on the slope in the summer morning mist. The night sky blue. Me like a mare let out to..."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:44:49 -0400

“Eight deer on the slope
in the summer morning mist.
The night sky blue.
Me like a mare let out to pasture.
The Tao does not console me.
I was given the Way
in the milk of childhood.
Breathing it waking and sleeping.
But now there is no amazing smell
of sperm on my thighs,
no spreading it on my stomach
to show pleasure.
I will never give up longing.
I will let my hair stay long.
The rain proclaims these trees,
the trees tell of the sun.
Let birds, let birds.
Let leaf be passion.
Let jaw, let teeth, let tongue be
between us. Let joy.
Let entering. Let rage and calm join.
Let quail come.
Let winter impress you. Let spring.
Allow the ocean to wake in you.
Let the mare in the field
in the summer morning mist
make you whinny. Make you come
to the fence and whinny. Let birds.”

- Linda Gregg, “Let Birds”

"You become one with comma splices and run-on sentences and dangling-ass modifiers, having once been..."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:48:25 -0400

“You become one with comma splices and run-on sentences and dangling-ass modifiers, having once been someone who was alive and had a psyche but now knowing you are dead language ghosting the surreal afterlife with a purple pen.”

- from “The Stages of Grading”

"Lord, what am I, that with unceasing care Thou did’st seek after me, that Thou..."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:19:12 -0400

“

Lord, what am I, that with unceasing care
Thou did’st seek after me, that Thou did’st wait
Wet with unhealthy dews before my gate,
And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?
Oh, strange delusion, that I did not greet
Thy blest approach, and oh, to heaven how lost
If my ingratitude’s unkindly frost
Has chilled the bleeding wounds upon Thy feet.

How oft my guardian angel gently cried,
“Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see
How He persists to knock and wait for thee!”
And oh, how often to that Voice of sorrow,
“Tomorrow we will open,” I replied,
And when the morrow came I answered still “Tomorrow.”

”

- Lope de Vega’s “Tomorrow,” trans. H.W. Longfellow

GPOY: “The Next Week”

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:36:29 -0400

GPOY: “The Next Week”

The only song I want to hear forever, so let it whip.

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:05:08 -0400

The only song I want to hear forever, so let it whip.

"What is love? You learn only as you go along. It’s not what overwhelmed at the..."

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:08:50 -0400

“What is love? You learn only as you go along. It’s not what overwhelmed at the beginning… Any more than you would have thought of hijacking (everyday on the roads now) as part of freedom; but you should’ve because there could be consequences of freedom not succeeding—not possible to in less than one generation? Not accepting the revolutionary ways and means to achieve the closure, historically vast as Space itself, between the rich and poor in human span as opposed to eternity.”

- Nadine Gordimer, from No Time Like the Present

FRANDZ

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:05:21 -0400

FRANDZ

A corgi gets vaccum’d.

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:37:58 -0400

A corgi gets vaccum’d.

"What is Samuel L. Jackson’s character’s life need?"

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:21:09 -0400

“What is Samuel L. Jackson’s character’s life need?”

- Question from a quiz our screenwriting professor left on the copier.

"To come so near the prize and then crumple in humbleness. Then you deserve what you suffer, when you..."

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:24:00 -0400

“To come so near the prize
and then crumple in humbleness.
Then you deserve what you suffer,
when you love, and are loved, and dare not.”

- Antonio, from de Vega’s The Duchess of Amalfi’s Steward

Plumtree's Potted Meat

Scylla & Charybdis

"The winner of the derby was I’ll Have Another. I watched it in a bikini, red silk kimono, and..."

Jazz Fest 2012

My Morning Jacket, “Wordless Chorus”

"Though the present remains A dangerous place to live, Cynicism would be a reckless luxury"

"Once the first avowal has been made, “I love you” has no meaning whatever; it merely..."

Campus cat takes a nap.

"To be confronted by her with the obvious—they eat meat, he and she, and there are so many..."

"We have seen young love, married love, and the love of an aged mother for her son. We have heard..."

"Eight deer on the slope in the summer morning mist. The night sky blue. Me like a mare let out to..."

"You become one with comma splices and run-on sentences and dangling-ass modifiers, having once been..."

"Lord, what am I, that with unceasing care Thou did’st seek after me, that Thou..."

GPOY: “The Next Week”

The only song I want to hear forever, so let it whip.

"What is love? You learn only as you go along. It’s not what overwhelmed at the..."

More thorough post to hit shelves soon, but

FRANDZ

A corgi gets vaccum’d.

"What is Samuel L. Jackson’s character’s life need?"

"To come so near the prize and then crumple in humbleness. Then you deserve what you suffer, when you..."