Daily Bleed for October 13th

Holding the razorblade my arms became severed & fell off. Looking closer I see how cold & pale they are as if seriously threatened by something. Confronted with this I stood my pair of lost arms up as candlesticks to ornament my room with. The arms are dead but seem to show all the more nothing but fear of me. Such frail etiquette I consider more lovely than any flower basin. — Yi Sang, "Poem no. XIII" Daily Bleed Saint 2003-2004 Korean dadaist, rakehell, liberationist, political radical. http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/rift/rift04/rift0401.html#sang Daily Bleed in full, some color pictures thrown in for free... http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1013.htm excerpts: OCTOBER 13 -- NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN Qawwali singer, mystical Sufi seeker of the "stateless state" of Enlightenment Thailand: FLOATING OF LAMPS honors footprint left by Buddha on a riverbank. Roman FEAST OF FONTANALIA, celebrating good water (if you can find any). FESTIVAL OF UNMEDIATED PLAY. ______________________________ 1686 -- Poet, bookseller, & Edinburgh wigmaker Allan Ramsay lives, Leadhills, Lanarkshire. Wrote pastoral drama "The Gentle Shepherd," & started Scotland's first lending library. All poets & all used book sellers are a wee bit wiggy. 1766 -- England: A mob of over a thousand rise in Great Colton, Warwickshire, against bread price rises. They split into flying squads 300 strong & traverse the country, enforcing prices & fighting the soldiery in Kidderminster, Birmingham, Alcester & Stratford. 1812 -- U.S. attempt to invade Canada is unsuccessful. 1897 -- US: A well-attended event to raise money for the imprisoned editors of the anarchist "Firebrand" is held in Chicago. Speakers include Max Baginski, Moses Harmon, & Emma Goldman, who is on a speaking tour. Goldman speaks to the Lucifer Circle on the theme of "Prostitution: Its Causes & Cure" & on "Free Love." 1902 -- Prolific poet, librarian, & author of historical & juvenile fiction Arna Bontemps lives. 1909 -- Francisco Ferrer, founder of the "Modern School" movement, anarquista, murdered in Spain by the Catholic Monarchists. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco.htm Ferrer was well-known internationally, his execution caused a sensation throughout North America & Western Europe. In Great Britain, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle protested with Peter Kropotkin & other anarchists. Ferrer became a martyr for free thought &, with his execution, one of the most famous of Spanish anarchists. Violent confrontations between protesters & the police occur in Paris, where over 500,000 people turned out. In Argentina, a meeting improvised by the F.O.R.A. brings out 20,000 workers & results in a General Strike which begins tomorrow & lasts until October 17. 1909 -- Nicaragua: US consul reports United Fruit Co. troops & two US cruisers have taken over Nicaragua's Atlantic ports. 1910 -- American jazz great Art Tatum lives. http://www.links.net/vita/muzik/jaz/tatum/ 1911 -- US: Commemoration of the second anniversary of the death of Francisco Ferrer, New York City. Speakers include Leonard Abbott, James P. Morton, Harry Kelly & Emma Goldman. Bayard Boyesen, professor at Columbia University & a teacher at the Ferrer School, is later fired by university administrators for having shared the platform with Goldman at this event. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco.htm http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm 1914 -- US: Bombs are planted in St. Patrick's Cathedral & the Church of St. Alphonsus on this day, the five year anniversary of the execution of Francisco Ferrer. 1925 -- Lenny Bruce, standup comic, social rebel, hounded to death by cops for using such words as fuck & cocksucker on stage, lives. Of course the "Jackie Hauling Ass bit" wasn't funny to the all-Catholic jury he faced in Chicago. "When you can't say 'fuck,' you can't say 'fuck the government.'" 1929 -- "Mean Low Blues", Blues Birdhead (James Simons) "One of every 20 residents of New York is a Negro," wrote Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in 1935. "There are about 300,000 black, brown & yellow folk. One-half are not working, the other half is existing on the crumbs from the table." Evoking the rural South & the dislocation felt by many who left it for Northern cities, Blues Birdhead waxed "Mean Low Blues" in Richmond, Virginia, before the Depression. Whether the obscure harp player's fortunes would have improved had he joined the 1930's flood of New York-bound migrants is another matter. http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/mirror/Depressionmusic2.html 1943 -- US: Poet Robert Lowell, Jr., a conscientious objector (CO), is sentenced to a prison term of a year & a day for draft evasion. Shocked & dismayed by the Allied firebombing of civilians in German cities like Dresden, he declared himself at this time a conscientious objector. He served for several months in jail (his experiences form the basis of "Memories of West Street & Lepke." 1948 -- Pakistan: Sufi qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan lives (1948-1997), Lyallpur. In 1995, he collaborated with Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack to "Dead Man Walking." 1952 -- France: Second projection of "Howls for Sade," in Paris. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists 1961 -- Film visionary Maya Deren dies. "I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick." 1967 -- Two Marines killed, 21 wounded when a US Marine fighter mistakenly drops bombs on them near Conthien, South Vietnam. Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow, Why man, this is war au-go-go. There's plenty good money to be made By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade, Just hope & pray that if they drop the bomb, They drop it on the Viet Cong. [chorus] Well, come on mothers throughout the land, Pack your boys off to Vietnam. Come on fathers, don't hesitate, Send 'em off before it's too late. Be the first one on your block To have your boy come home in a box. ... Whoopee! we're all gonna die! http://www.countryjoe.com/ http://www.well.com/user/cjfish/game.htm http://www.war-stories.com/ 1970 -- Chile: CIA pays Chilean military plotter Viaux $20,000 to assassinate Allende. 1970 -- Angela Davis, 26, a former faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles, black militant, & self-proclaimed Communist, is arrested in NY City in connection with a shootout in a San Raphael, California, courtroom six days before. Later acquitted. 1978 -- Third day in a row, Sid Vicious (former Sex Pistol band member) kills girlfriend Nancy. She just won't stay down, & he just doesn't know when to quit? History as it happens — historians agree it happened, but not which day. 1980 -- Adolfo Perez Esquivel, architect & human-rights activist imprisoned & tortured in Argentina, wins the Nobel Peace Prize. 1984 -- Artist Alice Neel dies. 1992 -- Michael Ondaatje, Canada, wins Booker Prize for The English Patient; Barry Unsworth wins for Sacred Hunger. 1997 -- The ARMAGEDDONIA ANARCHISTS created today & compete in the Cosmic Underleague during the 1998 baseball season. The dream of a stateless society, devoid of any authority . . . "Whoever lays his glove on me is a tyrant..." "To Govern the Basepaths is to be ... http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/anarchQuotes.htm#ProudhonQuote 1997 -- Vietnam: A Nike plant in Hanoi is fined $5,000 for producing 51 rubber dildos. Profits go down the tube.... 1999 -- Guatemala: Workers at a Del Monte subsidiary are forced to quit their jobs at gunpoint in order to prevent a strike, Izabel. 2003 -- Israeli & US officials have admitted collaborating to deploy US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines...as Israel announces that states 'harboring terrorists' are legitimate targets. _____ LENNY BRUCE Talked dirty, influenced many. Daily Bleed Saint 1998. "They beat the crap outta me but I proved I was a man. They kept beating me but I didn't give them no names." "What names schmuck, you were arrested for exposing yourself." _____ — anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less