driving the freeway while
listening to the Country & Western boys
sing about a broken heart
& the honkytonk blues,
it seems that things just don't work
most of the time
& when they do it will be for a
short time
only.
well, that's not news.
nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
Poem: "The Last Song," by Charles Bukowski
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1005.htm
Excerpts:
OCTOBER 5
PHILIP BERRIGAN
Rebel American Catholic priest, antiwar activist,
Christian anarchist.
UNIVERSAL CHILDREN'S DAY.
WORLD HABITAT DAY.
FEAST OF THE EMPIRE OF LIES.
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1829 -- The Comédie-Française accepts Victor
Hugo's "Hernani."
1839 -- France: Eugene Varlin lives, near Paris.
Bookbinder, working militant, internationalist,
anarchist. Elected a member of the Paris Commune.
1840 -- England: John Addington Symonds, poet,
essayist, & literary historian, lives. Biographer of
Ben Jonson, Shelley, & Walt Whitman.
1908 -- US: Israel Zangwill play "The Melting Pot"
premiers. Wrote "Children of the Ghetto", "The King
of Shnorrers" & many other books.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#5/1908
1910 -- Portugal: 1ª Republic proclaimed. The king gracefully
scurries to England, brought down through a successful alliance
of Republicans & anarchists begun in 1908. The latter were fighting
& dying in various revolts, the Republicans protecting their
mansions (with a long eye on the palace).
1911 -- Irish novelist, dramatist, 26-year "Irish Times"
columnist, Flann O'Brien lives.
1919 -- Italy: Giliana Berneri lives (1919-1998), Florence.
Second child of Camillo & Giovanna Berneri. Sister of Marie
Louise Berneri. A family affair, antifascists & anarchists, the whole lot.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BerneriGiliana.htm
1923 -- Sweden: Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) lives.
Playwright, novelist, anarcho-trade unionist.
Created the review "40-tal," & wrote for the libertarian
"Arbetaren".
His works present a variety of themes prefiguring the
French existentialists. Wrote The
Snake (1945), & Island of the Condemned.
1923 -- Rebel priest, antiwar activist Phil Berrigan, lives.
Along with his brother Daniel Berrigan, also a priest &
anarchist, he was for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted
Fugitives list for actions against Vietnam war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Berrigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Berrigan
1934 -- French filmmaker Jean Vigo
dies. Son of the anarchist Eugene Vigo. Great filmmaker,
social rebel — French authorities gave him
Zero for Conduct
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/VigoJean.htm
1934 -- Spain: 40,000 miners & iron workers strike, seizing towns
around Gijon. 3,000 killed. The uprising in the mining districts of
Asturias, Spain, October 5-18, is followed by severe repression;
thousands of miners are executed, thousands more tortured, &
30-40,000 are imprisoned.
1936 -- Václav Havel lives. Prominent Czech playwright, poet &
statesman, one of the leading intellectual figures & moral forces in
Eastern Europe.
Satirized the communist bureaucracy & supported the
Prague Spring reform movement in 1968.
The music of Frank Zappa & Lou Reed inspired Havel & other
dissidents during their struggle against Soviet rule.
1959 -- Architect Maya Lin, lives, Athens, Ohio. Best-known for
her design of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
1966 -- US: Real Soda Jerks? Sodium cooling system malfunction
causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration
breeder reactor near Detroit, Michigan.
1966 -- High Seas: Haute Cuisine? A storm drops 2-cm maggots
on Olympic yachts off Acapulco.
1967 -- France: Two fly-poster comics announcing the appearance
of the periodical "Internationale Situationniste" #11, lead to Vaneigem
& René Viénet being called before a police judiciary for incitations to
theft, debauchery, rioting & murder (of rulers).
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/is11.html
1969 -- All Crossed Up?:
Premiere of "Monty Python's
Flying Circus." Mainstream
anarchy & mayhem.
1970 --
Ode on the
Absence of Real Poetry
Here This Afternoon
— A Poem in Dialectical Prose —
______________________________
Poetry, as poets are fond of relating, originated from religious or
magical incantations. The respect for the bard was due to the fact
that his words mattered. Supposedly, the precise phrases &
refrains were necessary to keep the crops growing, etc.
— Read by Ken Knabb at an open poetry reading
in Berkeley, October 1970.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/ode.htm
____________________________________________________
1973 -- US: A CIA assessment calls war in the Middle East
"unlikely." Someone please call George Dubya.
1986 -- Nicaragua: An illegal American CIA contra resupply
plane is shot down. Probably full of drugs...
1988 -- India: Salman Rushdie novel The Satanic Verses banned.
1988 -- Chile: Beloved & Respected Comrade Butcher General
Augusto Pinochet, running unopposed for president of Chile, loses (!).
1990 -- Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity
(Mappelthorpe photos).
1992 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General
Schwarzkopf is splattered with blood at a book signing, just
across the lake from Seattle, in Kirkland, Washington.
1995 -- Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins
the Nobel Literature Prize.
2000 -- Two physicists who magnetically levitated a frog
& an Australian author who believes people don't need to
eat win the 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes.
2002 -- US: 15,000 rally against war with Iraq, Portland, Oregon.
2006 -- US: Seattle Police Arrest Two, Crush Anarchist
Near-Revolution in Seattle.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=87913
_____________________
Nothing is left. & this nothing is increasingly
aggressive, totalitarian, & omnipresent.
Our experience today is the strange one of
empty political institutions in which no one
has any confidence any more, of a system
of government which functions only in the
interests of a political class, & at the same
time of the almost infinite growth of power,
authority, & social control which makes any
one of our democracies a more authoritarian
mechanism than the Napoleonic state.
— Jacques Ellul,
Anarchie et Christianisme
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— All Rights Reverberated & anti-CopyRite 1997-3000
... more or less exactingly
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