Daily Bleed. 13th Anniversary....
The cheery bloody details,
Read all about it...
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0921.htm
excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 21 -- H.G. WELLS
Pioneer science fiction writer, radical socialist, visionary.
BLEEDING HEARTS CLUB DAY. All Daily Bleed
recipients have the day off. If this falls on a weekend
or any other day,
take a full week off, on full pay...
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0921.htm
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1870 -- Make Room, Make Room!?: Decree from
Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the United States
& Protector of Mexico, that the Grand Hotel
furnish him rooms under penalty of being banished.
1870 -- Joshua Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the
United States & Protector of Mexico, He Banishes a
Traitor:
WHEREAS, one Phillipmagilder Alamagoozalum
Whangdoodlum Larryum Murrayum is engaged in
plotting with conspirators to usurp our prerogatives
& is a traitor to our person & scepter...
1881 -- Ernst Frick lives (1881-1956), Swiss artist,
archaeologist & scholar of primitive languages
(Anarchist - Kunstmaler - Archäologe - Urspracheforscher).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FrickErnst.htm
1904 -- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dies in his lodge
at Nespelem, Washington; agency physician lists cause
of death as "a broken heart."
1913 -- US: "Mother" Jones leads a march of miners'
children through the streets of Charleston.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#21/1913
1921 -- Russia: The anarchist poet Lev Chernyi is shot by the Cheka.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ChernyiLev.htm
1934 -- Leonard Cohen lives, Montreal, Canada.
What is a Saint?
Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a
seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.
His house is dangerous & finite, but he is at home in the world.
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine & twisted
shapes of the heart.
1937 -- J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit published.
Michael Moorcock, also a fantasy & scifi writer
despises Tolkien's written work, calling the Lord of the Rings,
"John Buchan for teenagers. A compendium of disguised bigotry
& English high church snobbery.
"I hate it for exactly those qualities which made it so popular.
It's a lullaby. Not sure we need lullabies at the moment.
"Unless we're all just going to give up, go to sleep & wake
up dead."
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/Moorcock.htm
1947 -- Stephen King begins a horrorible life.
1957 -- During this month [I don't have the exact day — ed.],
Guy Debord begins work on "Mémoires," a book 'composed
entirely of prefabricated elements.'
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists
1963 -- War Resisters League organizes first
anti-Vietnam War demonstration in the US.
1965 -- The Jefferson Airplane opens for Lightnin'
Hopkins at the Matrix on Fillmore St.
And he say
oooooooohhhh mister charlie
your rollin mill is burnin down
— Lightnin Hopkins, "Once in the Country"
1976 -- Former Chilean Foreign Minister & Ambassador
to the U.S. Orlando Letelier, & his colleague Ronni
Moffitt, a US citizen, are murdered in Washington D.C.
by CIA-supported agents of U.S.-installed Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Chilean President
Augusto Pinochet.
Human rights are universal. & there is no
statute of limitations for crimes against
human rights.
— Carlos Fuentes, "A Victim of Pinochet"
...The man in the river
wears a white shirt, dark pants & sprawls
as if sleeping while water riffles his hair.
This is a photograph from the coup or golpe,
meaning also hit or shock — just one death
from thirty thousand.
— Stephen Dobyns, "Paco"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm
Background materials on the Chilean workers' movement
in the 1970s,
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#chile
1986 -- Hunter S. Thompson claims he remained
sober on this day.
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead,
who never to himself hath said
As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed:
To hell with the rent... I'll drink instead!
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway
1986 -- Former Beloved & Respected Comrade Philippine
Leader Imelda Marcos explains why there were
so so so so many shoes (several thousand) in her closets:
"Everybody kept their shoes there.
The maids ... everybody."
1997 -- The Daily Bleed lives.
History has never been the same.
2001 -- Fourth anniversary.
"In the carriages of the past, you
can't go anywhere."
— Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/abes2.gif
2003 -- Umpteenth anniversary of the Daily Bleed.
Currently 600+ subscribers to the daily email virgin;
118, 911 have visited the Daily Bleed Archives;
no way of knowing how sneak through the back doors,
though each day now hosts about 200 readers a day.
27,240 visitors to our Anti-authoritarian Encyclopedia since
March, 2001; 184 to our Stan Iverson Lirbrary since Nov 2002
(the counter has been stuck on this figure since the first month)...
We still hold the record for having once received a $10 donation
(which we promptly drank back in '99).
We have also recently given ourselves an award, noting
after all these years no one else about to do so.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0921.htm
(Repetition bears repeating)
2006 -- No donations, no awards. Just chug, chug, chuggin' along,
254,212 visitors since May of 2005
"Scufflin' like ducks in the desert."
2010 -- Umpteenthieth anniversary. 1,753,000 visitors since May 2005
U do the math, my head hurts....
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/headache_md_wht.gif
Thems the facts as we knows them or has dressed them
up as nessessairy...
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"The truth is more important than the facts. "
— Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/specmedd.jpg
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— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less,
reseverabrated for eternity
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