Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0927.htm
Excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 27 -- BHAGAT SINGH
Legendary Indian Romantic, volcanic anti-imperialist.
ANCESTOR APPRECIATION DAY.
_____________________________
1722 -- Samuel Adams, patriot beer brewer, lives, Boston,
Massachusetts. Signs the Declaration of Independence.
1792 -- English caricaturist/illustrator George
Cruikshank lives
1840 -- Cartoonist Thomas Nast lives,
Germany. Pal of Mark Twain. (Auntie Dave washes dishes
& tosses crust with his great great grand nephew Tom Nast
at Morningtown Pizza Collective in mid-70s.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/morningtown/Morningtown.htm
1852 -- France: Opening of a private school directed
by anarchist Louise Michel in Audeloncourt (Haute-Marne).
1875 -- US: Striking textile workers demand bread for
starving children in Fall River, Massachusetts.
1897 -- US: Labor congress organized by Eugene Debs
in Chicago, addressed by Emma Goldman.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/DebsEugene.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
1906 -- Jim Thompson lives. One of the finest pulp
novelists of The Cold War era.
"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett & Cornell
Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly
union & produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson
would be it. "
—Washington Post
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#27/1906
1924 -- BleedMeister,
i offer an addendum (as opposed to a dum-dum,
a conundrum, or redrum): bud powell.
september 27, 1924. insane genius of the piano,
victim of police brutality & "modern" institutional psychotherapy,
friend of monk, one of the inventors of bebop. the only really
important person i share a birthday with (no offense to mr. nast,
& no, william "i meant to be
ambiguous" empson doesn't count).
— bleedster j valis
<---i was doing okay until i remembered what today was...>
In 1945, then 21, he received a beating by police after he tried
to help his pal & mentor Monk from being harassed.
Taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, he wrote on the
admittance form under occupation: “Pianist & composer of
over 1,000 songs.”
To which the attending doctor wrote, “delusions of grandeur”
& put him in a straitjacket.
Died: August 1, 1966
1927 -- In St. Abbondio, Switzerland,
Hugo Ball, a founder of the Dada movement,
dies (or 14 September?).
"Everybody their own
Football."
See Saint's Gallery page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/saints/sthugoball.htm
1932 -- US: Judge Thayer’s house is bombed (presumably
for his prejudiced role in the Sacco & Vanzetti case).
1937 -- US: School for Santa Clauses opens, Albion, NY.
1940 -- France? or Spain: Cultural theorist Walter Benjamin dies.
French authorities, anxious to
cooperate with the Nazis, refused to let
German exiles cross the border.
Benjamin attempted to walk across the
Pyrenees into Spain & was captured
by Spanish authorities.
Rather than face being turned over to
the Gestapo, Benjamin chose to take
an overdose of morphine. He died on
27 September 1940.
The next morning the rest of the group
of refugees that Benjamin was
traveling with were allowed to pass
through into Spain.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/07ref.htm#15/1892
1942 -- France: Several hundred Americans in Occupied France
are rounded up for internment in the monkey house of the Paris zoo.
1942 -- Heinrich Mann completes his novel Lidice,
while exiled from Germany, in California.
1950 -- Answering machine is invented. The
inventor could not be reached for comment by telephone
because he was busy at the moment.
1950 -- US: Movie producer Adrian Scott is sentenced to one year
in jail for refusing to tell HUAC whether he had been a Communist.
1954 -- US: Dirty Laundry? The US Senate calls for censure of
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator "TailGunner"
Joe McCarthy.
1957 -- Despite international protests, U.K. begins
nuclear bomb test series on aboriginal land,
Maralinga, South Australia.
1996 -- Songster Bob Gibson (1931-1996) dies.
Now he's part of the heavenly choir,
Where all of the poor restless souls can be found,
Ain't that a heavenly choir,
Ain't that a helluva sound.
— Heavenly Choir, by Bob Gibson & Shel Silverstein
1999 -- US: "America is now under martial law," one broadcast warns.
"Shut up. Be happy. Obey all orders. Relax.
Everything is done for you."
2000 -- Czech Republic: Prague protests renew 'Battle of Seattle'.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/prague.jpg
2002 -- US: Philippe Petit walks a tightrope over
Broadway this afternoon, New York City.
In 1974 he walked a wire seven times (!), for 45
minutes, between the famed Twin Towers before
they were brought down by terrorists:
"I had been out there on a wire,
dancing in the sky".
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/misc/PhilippeSm.jpg
_________________
— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, higher or lower or less, but not on no
tightrope...
Monday, September 27, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Daily Bleed for Sept. 25th
"Where are the snows of yesteryear?"
— François Villon (c. 1431–after 5 January 1463),
Ballade des dames du temps jadis
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0925.htm
excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 25 -- NORMAN O. BROWN
Sixties-era cultural philosopher,
& polemicist.
__________________________
1818 -- Daily Bleed to the Rescue?: First blood transfusion
operation, London, England.
1867 -- Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist & mystical
anarchist, visits the battlefield of Borodino to
visualize the scene 55 years before.
1868 -- Mikhail Bakunin founds the anarchist International
Alliance of Socialist Democracy.
1870 -- France: The armed workers of the Marseilles
Commune declare the abolition of the state & all debt.
1894 -- John Howard Lawson lives. Author,
playwright, screenwriter, member of the "Hollywood Ten"
1897 -- William Faulkner lives. American novelist,
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Faulkner found his writing requirements simple:
"Paper, tobacco, food, & a little whiskey."
1903 -- Artist Mark Rothko lives. Abstract impressionist.
1905 -- Sportswriter Red Smith lives. His writing needs,
like Faulkner's, are also simple:
"There's nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter
& open a vein."
1913 -- Mexico: Radical psychoanaltic critic Norman O. Brown
lives, El Oro.
1924 -- In a letter to his friend Alain Locke,
Langston Hughes writes "I've done a couple
of new poems. I have no more paper,
so I'm sending you one on the back of this letter."
The poem, "I, Too," is published two years later &
is among his most famous.
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.
1933 -- Ian Tyson lives. Canadian folksinger, of Ian
& Sylvia, who also formed the group Great
Speckled Bird.
1935 -- Maj Sjöwall lives. Swedish writer/journalist,
who created, with husband Per Wahlöö, widely
translated novels about detective Martin Beck &
his colleagues at the Central Bureau of Investigation
in Stockholm.
1938 -- Spain: Emma Goldman, accompanied by
Gudell & Herrera, visits the 28th division headed by
Gregorio Jover & the 26th division headed
by Ricardo Sanz at the battlefront.
1962 -- John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1963 -- Dominican Republic: Crónica de costumbres de
América Latina. A coup d'etat overthrows democratically elected
Dominican President Juan Bosch.
Now General Toni Imbert is fat & remolón & rarely
goes into the water but often returns to the beach of
his childhood. He likes to sit, to aim, to shoot sharks.
In Sosúa, the sharks fight with the poor for the effluvia
from the slaughter house. General Imbert is liked by
the poor -- sitting in the levee, he throws 10 dollar
bills at them.
Imbert looks much like his pal, General
Wessin y Wessin. Both can pick up the scent of a
Communist from great distances; & both have won
many medals for getting up early to kill people
bound in ropes. & when they say "the president,"
both always mean the president of the United States.
Generals Imbert & Wessin y Wessin, children of
the US School of the Americas, got fat under
protection of Trujillo. After Trujillo died there were
elections & the people voted enmasse for Juan Bosch.
The Generals sit with arms crossed: Bosch refused
to buy airplanes for the military, enacted agrarian
reforms, allowed divorce, & increased workers' wages.
Seven months "The Very Red One" lasted. They seize
power, that honeycomb of rich honey, in a military
coup at dawn.
The United States does not delay in recognizing the
new government.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19630925.htm
1968 -- US: Five-day Radical Theatre Festival at San
Francisco State College featured Bread & Puppet
Theatre, Teatro Campesino, & the San Francisco
Mime Troupe.
1970 -- Erich Maria Remarque dies. German author,
wrote the anti-war novel All Quiet On The Western Front.
1975 -- US Senate makes public 238 illegal FBI
burglaries against dissident groups. These actions
become known as COINTELPRO, an acronym for
counter-intelligence-programs.
1977 -- Steve Biko, South African civil rights activist,
buried after being beat to death in jail by cops.
1999 -- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999), scifi author, dies.
A pioneer in the field of woman-based science fiction, creating
strong, independent female protagonists.
http://www.nndb.com/people/068/000044933/
2003 -- US: Edward Said dies. Palestinian-American literary theorist,
outspoken Palestinian activist. Regarded as a founding figure in
post-colonial theory.
Another of those social critics (Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn,
Gore Vidal, et al.) of American policies who is ignored or unofficially
"blacklisted" by American mainstream media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said
=============
The Potawatomi were not
data-processing machines nor
computers for the storage of trivial
information. They needed "raw data"
about as much as they needed Wiske.
They made Wiske the butt of many of
their jokes. Among the Potawatomi,
the almighty Archon got no further than
to be the subject of funny stories.
Part-human, part-beast, & possessing
the Leviathanic virtue of existing
forever, Wiske the gift-giver
reappeared in the jokes as the
long-eared, long-membered &
long-tailed Trickster, forever setting
traps for animals & people & forever
trapping himself.
Jokes were for laughs. Linear events,
namely unexpected disruptions of life's
rhythms, were usually funny.
Sometimes they were tragic.
If the tragedy was repeated, then the
event was not linear but rhythmic, & it
was already known. Rhythms were
grasped with symbols & expressed
with music. Musical knowledge was
knowledge of the important, the deep,
the living. The music of myth
expressed the symphony of rhythms
that constituted the Cosmos.
— Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm
=============
— anti-CopyRite 1997-6000, more or less, & thensome
— François Villon (c. 1431–after 5 January 1463),
Ballade des dames du temps jadis
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0925.htm
excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 25 -- NORMAN O. BROWN
Sixties-era cultural philosopher,
& polemicist.
__________________________
1818 -- Daily Bleed to the Rescue?: First blood transfusion
operation, London, England.
1867 -- Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist & mystical
anarchist, visits the battlefield of Borodino to
visualize the scene 55 years before.
1868 -- Mikhail Bakunin founds the anarchist International
Alliance of Socialist Democracy.
1870 -- France: The armed workers of the Marseilles
Commune declare the abolition of the state & all debt.
1894 -- John Howard Lawson lives. Author,
playwright, screenwriter, member of the "Hollywood Ten"
1897 -- William Faulkner lives. American novelist,
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Faulkner found his writing requirements simple:
"Paper, tobacco, food, & a little whiskey."
1903 -- Artist Mark Rothko lives. Abstract impressionist.
1905 -- Sportswriter Red Smith lives. His writing needs,
like Faulkner's, are also simple:
"There's nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter
& open a vein."
1913 -- Mexico: Radical psychoanaltic critic Norman O. Brown
lives, El Oro.
1924 -- In a letter to his friend Alain Locke,
Langston Hughes writes "I've done a couple
of new poems. I have no more paper,
so I'm sending you one on the back of this letter."
The poem, "I, Too," is published two years later &
is among his most famous.
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.
1933 -- Ian Tyson lives. Canadian folksinger, of Ian
& Sylvia, who also formed the group Great
Speckled Bird.
1935 -- Maj Sjöwall lives. Swedish writer/journalist,
who created, with husband Per Wahlöö, widely
translated novels about detective Martin Beck &
his colleagues at the Central Bureau of Investigation
in Stockholm.
1938 -- Spain: Emma Goldman, accompanied by
Gudell & Herrera, visits the 28th division headed by
Gregorio Jover & the 26th division headed
by Ricardo Sanz at the battlefront.
1962 -- John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1963 -- Dominican Republic: Crónica de costumbres de
América Latina. A coup d'etat overthrows democratically elected
Dominican President Juan Bosch.
Now General Toni Imbert is fat & remolón & rarely
goes into the water but often returns to the beach of
his childhood. He likes to sit, to aim, to shoot sharks.
In Sosúa, the sharks fight with the poor for the effluvia
from the slaughter house. General Imbert is liked by
the poor -- sitting in the levee, he throws 10 dollar
bills at them.
Imbert looks much like his pal, General
Wessin y Wessin. Both can pick up the scent of a
Communist from great distances; & both have won
many medals for getting up early to kill people
bound in ropes. & when they say "the president,"
both always mean the president of the United States.
Generals Imbert & Wessin y Wessin, children of
the US School of the Americas, got fat under
protection of Trujillo. After Trujillo died there were
elections & the people voted enmasse for Juan Bosch.
The Generals sit with arms crossed: Bosch refused
to buy airplanes for the military, enacted agrarian
reforms, allowed divorce, & increased workers' wages.
Seven months "The Very Red One" lasted. They seize
power, that honeycomb of rich honey, in a military
coup at dawn.
The United States does not delay in recognizing the
new government.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19630925.htm
1968 -- US: Five-day Radical Theatre Festival at San
Francisco State College featured Bread & Puppet
Theatre, Teatro Campesino, & the San Francisco
Mime Troupe.
1970 -- Erich Maria Remarque dies. German author,
wrote the anti-war novel All Quiet On The Western Front.
1975 -- US Senate makes public 238 illegal FBI
burglaries against dissident groups. These actions
become known as COINTELPRO, an acronym for
counter-intelligence-programs.
1977 -- Steve Biko, South African civil rights activist,
buried after being beat to death in jail by cops.
1999 -- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999), scifi author, dies.
A pioneer in the field of woman-based science fiction, creating
strong, independent female protagonists.
http://www.nndb.com/people/068/000044933/
2003 -- US: Edward Said dies. Palestinian-American literary theorist,
outspoken Palestinian activist. Regarded as a founding figure in
post-colonial theory.
Another of those social critics (Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn,
Gore Vidal, et al.) of American policies who is ignored or unofficially
"blacklisted" by American mainstream media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said
=============
The Potawatomi were not
data-processing machines nor
computers for the storage of trivial
information. They needed "raw data"
about as much as they needed Wiske.
They made Wiske the butt of many of
their jokes. Among the Potawatomi,
the almighty Archon got no further than
to be the subject of funny stories.
Part-human, part-beast, & possessing
the Leviathanic virtue of existing
forever, Wiske the gift-giver
reappeared in the jokes as the
long-eared, long-membered &
long-tailed Trickster, forever setting
traps for animals & people & forever
trapping himself.
Jokes were for laughs. Linear events,
namely unexpected disruptions of life's
rhythms, were usually funny.
Sometimes they were tragic.
If the tragedy was repeated, then the
event was not linear but rhythmic, & it
was already known. Rhythms were
grasped with symbols & expressed
with music. Musical knowledge was
knowledge of the important, the deep,
the living. The music of myth
expressed the symphony of rhythms
that constituted the Cosmos.
— Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm
=============
— anti-CopyRite 1997-6000, more or less, & thensome
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Daily Bleed for September 21st
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
______________________________
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...
================
"The truth is more important than the facts. "
— Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/specmedd.jpg
================
— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less,
reseverabrated for eternity
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
______________________________
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...
================
"The truth is more important than the facts. "
— Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/specmedd.jpg
================
— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less,
reseverabrated for eternity
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Daily Bleed for September 19th
The vandalism of man,
Unlike the ruthless elements,
Is held in the parabola
Of a broken shell.
— Gus Hellthaler, excerpt "Three Minute Orphic Eggs,"
("Fli-Back: A Journal of Cheap Shots," Detroit, 1972)
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0919.htm
Excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 19
PAULO FREIRE
Brazilian radical educational
theorist, social activist.
Alternate Saint:
ITALO CALVINO
Italian Cosmicomician
cyberfabulator extraordinaire.
Avening, Gloucestershire, England: PIG'S FACE FEAST,
commemorating boar's head feast in 1080.
______________________________
1833 -- US: Mary Jemison, "race traitor," adopted Senecan
"white Indian," dies — one of many escapees from dominant
culture, she had been adopted by Seneca Amerindians &
reviled by 'whites'.
Daily Bleed Saint 2003-4
"The White Woman of the Genessee."
Captured by Indians at age 15,
adopted into Seneca tribe,
she refused to return to white "civilization".
1776 -- US: George Washington's farewell address.
He strongly warns against permanent alliances with
foreign powers, large public debts, large military
establishment & devices of any "small, artful,
enterprising minority" to control or change
the government.
1865 -- US: Chinese coal miners driven out
of Black Diamond, Washington.
1892 -- US: Alexander Berkman found guilty on all counts in his
attempt to assassinate Henry Frick & sentenced to 22 years
in prison. His book based on his prison experience is now considered
one of the great classics of prison literature.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BerkmanAlexander.htm
1904 -- Octave Mirbeau play "Business Is Business"
opens in NY. Mirbeau, French author & anarchist,
also wrote The Torture Garden.
1911 -- Red Tuesday: 20,000 protest for universal rights.
1913 -- Seattle actress, activist & lobotomy victim Frances Farmer
lives. Destroyed by so-called mental health professionals.
1921 -- Brazil: Paulo Freire (1921-1997), Brazilian
philosopher & educator, lives, Recife.
http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
1923 -- Ernst Toller play "Der deutsche Hinkemann"
premiers, Leipzig.
1927 -- Nicaragua: Sandino's troops capture Telpaneca
from US marines & national guard.
1940 -- US: A Journalist 'discovers' Jay Fox, the "sole surviving
anarchist" farming at Home Colony, Washington.
1952 -- US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a
trip to England with his wife & four children to promote his
film Limelight. Beloved & Respected Comrade Freedom
Lover Attorney General McGranery orders his re-entry permit
revoked until such time as Chaplin could pass tests to prove
he had sound moral character & was not a subversive.
Guilty until proven innocent.
America is so terribly grim in spite
of all that material prosperity.
They no longer know how to weep.
Compassion & the old neighborliness
have gone, people stand by & do
nothing when friends & neighbors are
attacked, libeled & ruined."
1959 -- US: Nikita Khrushchev is angered when told he cannot visit
Disneyland for security reasons; the US is apparently worried he
will steal the secrets of the mechanical hippo (another source says
Walt Disney, an extreme rightwinger, refuses to let him in).
1966 -- US: Timothy Leary announces the
League for Spiritual Discovery (LSD).
1974 -- Canada: The Kootenai Indians declare war on the US.
1981 -- US: 300,000 march on Washington, D.C., for Solidarity Day.
1985 -- Italo Calvino dies in Siena, Italy. While working on
several communist periodicals, he began writing his
own stories, becoming one of the most important Italian
writers of the 20th century.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/calvino/
1990 -- US: Remains of 828 dead, radioactive beagles from
1950s animal experiments at UC-Davis are buried at
Hanford nuclear reservation. down wind, down river...
1995 -- US: "The Washington Post" is forced to publish "Industrial
Society And Its Future", the Unabomber's 35,000 word
critique of technocracy.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future
http://www.amazon.com/Unabomber-Manifesto-Industrial-Society-Future/dp/0963420526
2002 -- US: Boston archdiocese reaches a $10-million
settlement with 86 alleged victims of child molestation
by priest John Geoghan. The Catholic Church is going to hell...
_______________
The way of life can be free & beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls —
has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into
misery & bloodshed.
— Charlie Chaplin
___________
— anti-CopyRite 1997-5010
Unlike the ruthless elements,
Is held in the parabola
Of a broken shell.
— Gus Hellthaler, excerpt "Three Minute Orphic Eggs,"
("Fli-Back: A Journal of Cheap Shots," Detroit, 1972)
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0919.htm
Excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 19
PAULO FREIRE
Brazilian radical educational
theorist, social activist.
Alternate Saint:
ITALO CALVINO
Italian Cosmicomician
cyberfabulator extraordinaire.
Avening, Gloucestershire, England: PIG'S FACE FEAST,
commemorating boar's head feast in 1080.
______________________________
1833 -- US: Mary Jemison, "race traitor," adopted Senecan
"white Indian," dies — one of many escapees from dominant
culture, she had been adopted by Seneca Amerindians &
reviled by 'whites'.
Daily Bleed Saint 2003-4
"The White Woman of the Genessee."
Captured by Indians at age 15,
adopted into Seneca tribe,
she refused to return to white "civilization".
1776 -- US: George Washington's farewell address.
He strongly warns against permanent alliances with
foreign powers, large public debts, large military
establishment & devices of any "small, artful,
enterprising minority" to control or change
the government.
1865 -- US: Chinese coal miners driven out
of Black Diamond, Washington.
1892 -- US: Alexander Berkman found guilty on all counts in his
attempt to assassinate Henry Frick & sentenced to 22 years
in prison. His book based on his prison experience is now considered
one of the great classics of prison literature.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BerkmanAlexander.htm
1904 -- Octave Mirbeau play "Business Is Business"
opens in NY. Mirbeau, French author & anarchist,
also wrote The Torture Garden.
1911 -- Red Tuesday: 20,000 protest for universal rights.
1913 -- Seattle actress, activist & lobotomy victim Frances Farmer
lives. Destroyed by so-called mental health professionals.
1921 -- Brazil: Paulo Freire (1921-1997), Brazilian
philosopher & educator, lives, Recife.
http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
1923 -- Ernst Toller play "Der deutsche Hinkemann"
premiers, Leipzig.
1927 -- Nicaragua: Sandino's troops capture Telpaneca
from US marines & national guard.
1940 -- US: A Journalist 'discovers' Jay Fox, the "sole surviving
anarchist" farming at Home Colony, Washington.
1952 -- US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a
trip to England with his wife & four children to promote his
film Limelight. Beloved & Respected Comrade Freedom
Lover Attorney General McGranery orders his re-entry permit
revoked until such time as Chaplin could pass tests to prove
he had sound moral character & was not a subversive.
Guilty until proven innocent.
America is so terribly grim in spite
of all that material prosperity.
They no longer know how to weep.
Compassion & the old neighborliness
have gone, people stand by & do
nothing when friends & neighbors are
attacked, libeled & ruined."
1959 -- US: Nikita Khrushchev is angered when told he cannot visit
Disneyland for security reasons; the US is apparently worried he
will steal the secrets of the mechanical hippo (another source says
Walt Disney, an extreme rightwinger, refuses to let him in).
1966 -- US: Timothy Leary announces the
League for Spiritual Discovery (LSD).
1974 -- Canada: The Kootenai Indians declare war on the US.
1981 -- US: 300,000 march on Washington, D.C., for Solidarity Day.
1985 -- Italo Calvino dies in Siena, Italy. While working on
several communist periodicals, he began writing his
own stories, becoming one of the most important Italian
writers of the 20th century.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/calvino/
1990 -- US: Remains of 828 dead, radioactive beagles from
1950s animal experiments at UC-Davis are buried at
Hanford nuclear reservation. down wind, down river...
1995 -- US: "The Washington Post" is forced to publish "Industrial
Society And Its Future", the Unabomber's 35,000 word
critique of technocracy.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future
http://www.amazon.com/Unabomber-Manifesto-Industrial-Society-Future/dp/0963420526
2002 -- US: Boston archdiocese reaches a $10-million
settlement with 86 alleged victims of child molestation
by priest John Geoghan. The Catholic Church is going to hell...
_______________
The way of life can be free & beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls —
has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into
misery & bloodshed.
— Charlie Chaplin
___________
— anti-CopyRite 1997-5010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Daily Bleed for September 17th - Helen Nearing
It was indeed a glad & gracious time, & the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war & cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern & angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight & offended no more in that way... ... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love... Amen. — Mark Twain, The War Prayer Daily Bleed in full, 84 entries, 28+ links, cuppla pitchers, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0917.htm Excerpts: SEPTEMBER 17 -- HELEN NEARING "Back-to-the-Land" dropout advocate, ecologist. WE ARE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS DAY. (Is it just me, or is it crowded on this bus?? —db) FUCKING DAY (Roman, traditional). ______________________________ 1858 -- US: All Indians, No Chiefs?: Colonel Wright dictates terms of surrender to Indians at Coeur d'Alene mission; 24 chiefs of Yakama, Cayuse, Wallawalla, Palouse & Spokane tribes are shot or hanged. 1859 -- Self-coronation of Emperor Norton I of US, in Frisco. America's Greatest Ruler. Joshua Norton, who lost his money in an attempt to corner the rice market, declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico. Greatest ruler America ever had. Curious Bookshop puts us in serious debt in 2009: "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars." — Emperor Norton I, 1872 edict 1861 -- A new theater, Tucker's Hall, opens with a performance of "Norton the First," or "An Emperor for a Day." http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/EmperorNorton/nortonAnitarCache.htm 1864 -- Albert Theodore Schroeder lives ... met & came to know the liberals, socialists, radicals & anarchists whose civil liberties he worked to uphold. 1883 -- William Carlos Williams lives & we degraded prisoners destined to hunger until we eat filth... No one to witness & adjust, no one to drive the car 1897 -- US: Portland editor A. J. Pope arrested & jailed for sending "obscene" material in the anarchist "Firebrand" through the mail. Abe Isaak & Henry Addis, the other "Firebrand" editors, are arrested within the next few days on the same charge. 1900 -- US: Ton of Trouble?: 100,000 Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners go on strike. But those who have no pennies O what do they do -- pray Lie down & get themselves buried While the world goes on it's way Oh no! For we'd have no pounds then If they were allowed to do that For without their toiling & moiling We'd none of us grow fat — Bertolt Brecht, nursery rhyme from Three Penny Opera, translated by Christopher Isherwood 1934 -- Vivien Eliot, no longer wanting to be separated from her husband, sent an ad to the London Times: "Will T.S. Eliot please return to his home, 68 Clarence Gate Gardens, which he abandoned Sept. 17, 1932." 1935 -- Hippie bus driver, psychedelician, author Ken Kesey lives. Wrote One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a vehicle for his anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions. "You are either on the bus or you're not on the bus." 1939 -- Soviet troops invade Poland, jointly occupying it with Nazis. Poland is not free of Soviet domination for another 60 years. "Springtime for Hitler & Germany, Winter for Poland & France. Deutchland is on the rise again, Bombs are dropping from the skies again." — Mel Brooks, The Producer 1961 -- England: 1,314 arrested in anti-bomb sit-down, Trafalgar Square, London, while Bertrand Russell sits in jail since his arrest on 13 September. 1967 -- The Doors perform "Light My Fire" & "People are Strange" on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Prior to the show, Sullivan asked Jim Morrison to change or omit the line "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" ... Morrison sang it anyway. 1980 -- Former US-supported Terrorist Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza assassinated. 1998 Australia: Huge (sic) Run on Viagra? Soldiers are officially given the all-clear to use performance-enhancing drugs to improve their strength. Saps no longer, no drooping troops in Kangaroo Land! 2001 -- US: America returns to normal following the September 11 "Attack on America". America, the largest weapons seller in the world, swears to "take out" weapons manufacturers. The largest military in the world begins to bring its occupation troops home from around the globe. Wall Street reopens, swears it will put people before profits. A Beloved & Respected Comrade Prez Bush rallies the nation to a "war" footing, to fight all wars & all terrorism — not only individual or group terrorism, but also the largest & worst purveyor of such horrors, "state terrorism." Like all politicians in the new millennium, he demands that morality, not expediency, rule the day. America unites, vows human tragedy will not beget another palette of death & destruction. The US government calls its history of military "solutions" suitable to "US interests" a miserable failure, & sets to work to fight for human solutions to problems that sit like a plague upon the world. Americans are told they can no longer check their brains at the flag pole, not see criticism as traitorous, newspeak become wisdom, freedom sacrificed at the alter of freedom. No longer does Pogo prove America's greatest political philosopher ("We have seen the enemy...he is us"). Relatives of victims refuse to sell their stories, TV mini-movies will not appear next month. The spectacles of the past will be a past spectacle. The Great American Way of Life, valuing life above all, reaffirms human & democratic values in the face of evil & the Dark Side. Poetry replaces war, play displaces work, utopian notions drive consumerism from the marketplace, gardens consume parking lots, media commits suicide. America unilaterally commits itself to putting the lie to Randolph Bourne's famed & succinct claim that, WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE ____________ Fredy Perlman: The idyl is gone now. Nothing is left but the dirty realities. Leviathan is all there is. These very words, written words, are inventions of the Lugal's scribes. They cannot convey dream time. Every meaning has been inverted. "Central Africa," "Australia," "America" are not the names of places where free human beings ever lived. They are names of unprecedented holocausts, of gigantic colonies, of monstrous Leviathanic trophies. They are Leviathan's "empty continents." From the vantage point of Death, all Life is an aberration. The languages of the two protagonists are mutually unintelligible. The very vocabularies are untranslatable. Leviathan's world is a Wilderness to free living beings. The freedom of living beings is a Wilderness to Leviathan. Against His-story, Against Leviathan!, 1983 http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm ____________ —anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Found this article while browsing the New York Times today. It gives some food for thought and while his sentiments about the death of reading in general are laudable, the demise of a Barnes & Noble fills our dusty hearts with a small amount of glee (especially after reading this other article linked here). The thought that people are actually said that Ye Olde Corporate Bookshoppe has to close down a branch are disgusting. Even the woman who laments about the closing of Tower Records and Blockbuster should be lined up against the wall of a Mom and Pop store and shot with home-made bullets.
We're all for capitalism as long as it represents the ability of people to work for themselves or for something they love, as opposed to all-consuming corporations with little regard for anything other than profits.
We're all for capitalism as long as it represents the ability of people to work for themselves or for something they love, as opposed to all-consuming corporations with little regard for anything other than profits.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Daily Bleed for 9.13.10
The struggle of Man against power is the struggle
of memory against forgetting.
— Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter & Forgetting
Daily Bleed in full, all the links,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0913.htm
Excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 13--RUDOLF ROCKER
Leading American anarchist intellectual of mid-20th century.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RockerRudolf.htm
Andalusia, Spain: VINTAGE FEAST. Parades, bullfights,
horse races, drinking & dancing until dawn.
______________________________
1743 -- Can of Worms? England, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia
sign Treaty of Worms.
Don't know how long it takes them to start squabbling over
dem spoils.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/worms.gif
1814 -- US: 'Star-Spangled Banner' written
to the tune of a drinking song. Just what our ears tell us...
1847 -- Mexico: The cadets of the Military
School face the American invaders at the
castle of Chapultepec.
"México centellea ante nuestros ojos"
[Mexico sparkles before our eyes]
Among the stones, the
winners plant the stars & stripes,
which rises from the smoke over
the huge valley.
The people, huddled together,
growl. From the roofs, it rains stones.
1848 -- Mexico: Irish of the Battalion of San Patricio
that fought next to the Mexicans against the US invaders
are executed by the gringos.
Even to this day, an Irish person in Mexico will
be told a countless number of times
about the famous 'Irish Martyrs' who defected
from the US Army & gave their lives
trying to save Mexico from US aggression
from 1846-1848.
They brand with hot irons the faces of the Irish
deserters & then hang them from the gallows.
The Irish made theirs the fate, ill fate, of the
Mexicans. Many died defending the Churubusco
monastery without ammunition.
The prisoners, their faces burned, swing
to & fro on the gallows.
— Eduardo Galeano
__________________________________
San Patricio meets Zapata on the way to the
cantina & over a tequila they discuss how
best to be rid of snakes.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#13/1847
__________________________________
1877 -- US: Battle of Canyon Creek, Montana,
in the Nez Perce War, is fought.
1958 -- American immigrant anarchist Rudolf Rocker dies.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RockerRudolf.htm
1961 -- England: Bertrand Russell, aged 89, & 32 others arrested
for a major demonstration against nuclear weapons in Trafalgar
Square, London.
1962 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President
John Kennedy says Soviet arms in Cuba are no threat to the US.
Fairy Tales From Camelot...check back next month when
Jack decides to recast this dull story as an exciting
morality play, as Jack & the Boys discover Niki is up to
no good & everyone begins waving their missiles!
1965 -- Russia: Andrei Sinyavsky & Yuli Daniel are
arrested for writing anti-Soviet fiction.
1971 -- Nixon's paranoia reaches a fever pitch
"Now here's the
point, Bob. Please get
me the names of the
Jews. You know, the
big Jewish
contributors to the
Democrats. Could we
please investigate
some of the
cocksuckers?"
1971 -- One thousand National Guardsmen, State
Troopers, & local police storm New York State's
Attica Prison.
1981 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary
of State Haig says the US has physical evidence of Communist
poison-gas use in SE Asia (a lie). Inspires a later administration
to rework the mantra: "Weapons of Mass Destruction,"
"Saddam=Terrorism," "We Bring the Middle East
Peace & Democracy"...
1992 -- The movie "A River Runs Through It", based on the
Norman Maclean book, opens at the Toronto Film Festival.
"The river was cut by the world's great flood & runs over rocks
from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless
raindrops.
Under the rocks are the words, & some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters."
1994 -- Vatican: Pope John Paul II declares Sarajevo a symbol
of a cruel century. The Catholic Church has intimate knowledge
whereof it speaks.
2002 -- US: Five US citizens arrested near Buffalo, NY
as al-Queda terrorists.
2002 -- US: William Phillips, anti-Stalinist writer, editor, co-founder
of "Partisan Review" dies, New York City.
__________________
The poet seeks the truth & anger spins his motion.
He laughs at the great ones spinning out the lies.
& through the unforgiving streets the singer walks
the lonely beat
Raising up his voice & lays his heart out on the line.
The Poet's Cry (song for Phil Ochs)
by Len Wallace
__________________
I saw the news this morning
a tower all in in flames
I saw the ones about to die,
I didn't know their names.
I watched the screen in disbelief,
an unbelieving eye.
The questions come into my mind
for who, for what, for why?
Terror is an ugly word
for an ugly hateful hate.
Terror of the madmen
or terror of the State.
Terror from the death squads
or terror from the skies.
No matter where, no matter when
it's the innocents who die.
And the sadness grows, the sadness grows.
— excerpt, SEPTEMBER 11 (music & words by Len Wallace)
This song was written from a sense of sadness & anger with
the events of September 11.
— anti-2001-2001
of memory against forgetting.
— Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter & Forgetting
Daily Bleed in full, all the links,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0913.htm
Excerpts:
SEPTEMBER 13--RUDOLF ROCKER
Leading American anarchist intellectual of mid-20th century.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RockerRudolf.htm
Andalusia, Spain: VINTAGE FEAST. Parades, bullfights,
horse races, drinking & dancing until dawn.
______________________________
1743 -- Can of Worms? England, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia
sign Treaty of Worms.
Don't know how long it takes them to start squabbling over
dem spoils.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/worms.gif
1814 -- US: 'Star-Spangled Banner' written
to the tune of a drinking song. Just what our ears tell us...
1847 -- Mexico: The cadets of the Military
School face the American invaders at the
castle of Chapultepec.
"México centellea ante nuestros ojos"
[Mexico sparkles before our eyes]
Among the stones, the
winners plant the stars & stripes,
which rises from the smoke over
the huge valley.
The people, huddled together,
growl. From the roofs, it rains stones.
1848 -- Mexico: Irish of the Battalion of San Patricio
that fought next to the Mexicans against the US invaders
are executed by the gringos.
Even to this day, an Irish person in Mexico will
be told a countless number of times
about the famous 'Irish Martyrs' who defected
from the US Army & gave their lives
trying to save Mexico from US aggression
from 1846-1848.
They brand with hot irons the faces of the Irish
deserters & then hang them from the gallows.
The Irish made theirs the fate, ill fate, of the
Mexicans. Many died defending the Churubusco
monastery without ammunition.
The prisoners, their faces burned, swing
to & fro on the gallows.
— Eduardo Galeano
__________________________________
San Patricio meets Zapata on the way to the
cantina & over a tequila they discuss how
best to be rid of snakes.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#13/1847
__________________________________
1877 -- US: Battle of Canyon Creek, Montana,
in the Nez Perce War, is fought.
1958 -- American immigrant anarchist Rudolf Rocker dies.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RockerRudolf.htm
1961 -- England: Bertrand Russell, aged 89, & 32 others arrested
for a major demonstration against nuclear weapons in Trafalgar
Square, London.
1962 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President
John Kennedy says Soviet arms in Cuba are no threat to the US.
Fairy Tales From Camelot...check back next month when
Jack decides to recast this dull story as an exciting
morality play, as Jack & the Boys discover Niki is up to
no good & everyone begins waving their missiles!
1965 -- Russia: Andrei Sinyavsky & Yuli Daniel are
arrested for writing anti-Soviet fiction.
1971 -- Nixon's paranoia reaches a fever pitch
"Now here's the
point, Bob. Please get
me the names of the
Jews. You know, the
big Jewish
contributors to the
Democrats. Could we
please investigate
some of the
cocksuckers?"
1971 -- One thousand National Guardsmen, State
Troopers, & local police storm New York State's
Attica Prison.
1981 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary
of State Haig says the US has physical evidence of Communist
poison-gas use in SE Asia (a lie). Inspires a later administration
to rework the mantra: "Weapons of Mass Destruction,"
"Saddam=Terrorism," "We Bring the Middle East
Peace & Democracy"...
1992 -- The movie "A River Runs Through It", based on the
Norman Maclean book, opens at the Toronto Film Festival.
"The river was cut by the world's great flood & runs over rocks
from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless
raindrops.
Under the rocks are the words, & some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters."
1994 -- Vatican: Pope John Paul II declares Sarajevo a symbol
of a cruel century. The Catholic Church has intimate knowledge
whereof it speaks.
2002 -- US: Five US citizens arrested near Buffalo, NY
as al-Queda terrorists.
2002 -- US: William Phillips, anti-Stalinist writer, editor, co-founder
of "Partisan Review" dies, New York City.
__________________
The poet seeks the truth & anger spins his motion.
He laughs at the great ones spinning out the lies.
& through the unforgiving streets the singer walks
the lonely beat
Raising up his voice & lays his heart out on the line.
The Poet's Cry (song for Phil Ochs)
by Len Wallace
__________________
I saw the news this morning
a tower all in in flames
I saw the ones about to die,
I didn't know their names.
I watched the screen in disbelief,
an unbelieving eye.
The questions come into my mind
for who, for what, for why?
Terror is an ugly word
for an ugly hateful hate.
Terror of the madmen
or terror of the State.
Terror from the death squads
or terror from the skies.
No matter where, no matter when
it's the innocents who die.
And the sadness grows, the sadness grows.
— excerpt, SEPTEMBER 11 (music & words by Len Wallace)
This song was written from a sense of sadness & anger with
the events of September 11.
— anti-2001-2001
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Daily Bleed for Spetember 11th
In summer's mellow midnight,
A cloudless moon shown through
Our open parlour window
And rosetrees wet with dew.
— Charlotte Bronte,
"The Night-Wind," September 11, 1840
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0911.htm
Short sheets:
THEODOR ADORNO
Frankfort School theoretician, negative dialectician.
WRENCH IN THE WORKS DAY.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/film/chaplinModTimes.jpg
___________________________
1709 -- English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in the
Battle of Malplaquet but they lose 20,000 men (War of
the Spanish Succession). "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
is improvised after the Battle.
1773 -- Benjamin Franklin writes,
"There never was a
good war or bad peace."
1812 -- Luddite Potato riot in Nottingham, England.
1862 -- Joshua Norton I, Dei Gratia Emperor
of the United States & Protector of Mexico,
He Demands Suitable Attire
1885 -- Novelist, poet, essayist D. H. Lawrence lives.
Best known for his book Lady Chatterly's Lover,
wherein the Lady takes up an interest in pruning.
The book was banned for a time in both the UK & the
US as pornographic. In the UK it was published in
unexpurgated form in 1960 after a obscenity trial.
"...Lawrence really was the educated son of a coal
miner, sitting under a tree that was rapidly becoming
part of a world-wide, disemboweled hell, writing hard,
painful poems, to girls who carefully had been taught
the art of unlove..."
— Kenneth Rexroth, Bird in the Bush
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm
1889 -- Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure
"The Crooked Man".
1901 -- Katri Vala lives (1901-1944). Finnish poet, critic,
school teacher, central member of the literary group
Tulenkantajat (The Fire Bearers). Vala also wrote poems
that were radical in the social views & attacked war
& Fascism.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jaho.htm
1903 -- Frankfort School theorist Theodor Adorno lives.
Rather than subject, nature became object, made alien.
Men pay for the increase of their power with alienation
from that over which they exercised their power. The
quest for knowledge & power becomes war against nature,
man declares war upon himself. The body becomes both
machine (a tool in the process of production &
advancement) & the animal body the subject of experiment,
control, vivisection. In the process of turning nature
into substance & matter, "nothing is allowed to live."
http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html#frankfurt
1915 -- Wales: First British Women's Institute is formed,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllandysiliogogogoch WI,
Anglesey.
You can say that again.... or perhaps not....
1917 -- Coming & Going?: Jessica Mitford lives. English-born
writer / journalist noted for her investigative works of
American society, sister of novelist Nancy Mitford. Her
caustic examination of unscrupulous practices in the
American funeral industry, The American Way of Death (1963),
was a best-seller. In 1992, she published The American Way
of Birth, a look at the sad state of American obstetrical care.
http://www.mitford.org/
1924 -- Japan: During this month the aptly named Guillotine Society
(Girochin Sha) makes two attempts on the life of General Masatarô
Fukuda to avenge the murder of Ôsugi Sakae.
1926 -- Italy: A rocky day in Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Mussolini's life. The anarchist Gino Lucetti tosses a bomb
at Mussolini's car, but it deflected from the windshield.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#11/1926
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Costantini/Rome-11-Sept-1926.jpg
1926 -- Spain: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Dictator Primo de Rivera holds a plebiscite
on his rule - no negative votes are allowed.
You'll never guess the results...
1941 -- Charles Lindbergh decries that "the British, the
Jewish, & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get
the US into World War II.
A side of Lindbergh not often revealed in grade-school
texts or mainstream media was the deep-seated anti-Semitism
& the pro-Nazi stance of both Charles & (especially) his
wife, author, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/sfeature/fallen.html
1942 -- Norway: Underground Norwegian trade
union newspapers arrange thousands of letters to
the government rejecting Nazification.
1955 -- H.L. Mencken writes, "I believe that
religion, generally speaking, has been a curse
to mankind".
http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html
1973 -- CIA overthrows democratically elected
government of Chile, ending nearly 150 years of
democratic rule. Over 5,000 murdered & "disappeared"
while the US looks on approvingly. 16 years of repressive
military terror follows under Pinochet.
Should you ask me where I come from, I must talk
with broken things,
with fairly painful utensils,
with great beasts turned to dust as often as not
& my afflicted heart.
— Pablo Neruda
Over the horizon sail the U.S. warships, preparing
to show themselves off the Chilean coast....
— Eduardo Galleano, Century of the Wind
Guards singled out folk singer Victor Jara as he
continued to sing protest songs in the stadium,
beat him viciously & machine-gunned his mutilated
body in front of the other prisoners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Jara
...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"
mystery novelist & poet
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm
2001 -- US: Terrorists hijack passenger airliners & target them at
major symbols of American global corporate capitalism, military
& politics. Airliners crash into the Pentagon & NY City's World
Trade Center.
9-11-01: 15 Saudis, 0 Iraqis.
US Secretary of State Madeline Albright has said
that if the US chooses to use force, it is because
we are America.
"We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall.
We see further into the future."
"U.S. officials & terrorism "experts" are filling the airwaves
with talk of the threat that terrorism poses in the coming century.
They have part of it right, terrorism will remain a threat.
What they forget, ignore or deny is that the biggest perpetrator
of terrorism on the world scene is the United States."
— Robert William Jensen, "Austin-American Statesman,"
September 1, 1998
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/terrorism.htm
"If history shows that a violent response to an
act of terrorism begets more terrorism, then why
is a violent response the predominant choice of the
experts & politicians of the world?"
— Beau Grosscup, The Newest Explosions of Terrorism
http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/inside/archive/98_09_24/top_story2.html
The towers contain one-third of the Wall Street
financial offices, & employ 50,000 workers.
The Pentagon controls the largest military in the world
(The US military budget is larger than the budgets of
the next 25 countries combined).
Brazilian writer Millor Fernandes notes that “in order
not to see reality, the ostrich sinks its head in the
television set. The machine dictates orders, the machine
stones you.
"The machine dictates orders, the machine stones you.
As people ran down the stairs, the loudspeakers were
ordering everyone to return to their workstations.
"Those who survived, disobeyed."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/16/732116/-Official-story-of-9-%2011-almost-entirely-untrue
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_find_active_superthermite_in_WTC_0404.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories
_________________
If our world survives, the next great challenge to
watch out for will come... when the curves of
research & development in artificial intelligence,
molecular biology & robotics all converge. Oboy...
It is certainly something for all good Luddites to
look forward to if, God willing, we should live so
long... Meantime...we can take comfort, however
minimal & cold, from Lord Byron's mischievously
improvised song,
As the Liberty lads o'er the sea
Bought their freedom, & cheaply, with blood,
So we, boys, we
Will die fighting, or live free,
& down with all kings but King Ludd!
— Thomas Pynchon, "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?"
_________________
— anti-CopyRite 1997-2010
A cloudless moon shown through
Our open parlour window
And rosetrees wet with dew.
— Charlotte Bronte,
"The Night-Wind," September 11, 1840
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0911.htm
Short sheets:
THEODOR ADORNO
Frankfort School theoretician, negative dialectician.
WRENCH IN THE WORKS DAY.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/film/chaplinModTimes.jpg
___________________________
1709 -- English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in the
Battle of Malplaquet but they lose 20,000 men (War of
the Spanish Succession). "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
is improvised after the Battle.
1773 -- Benjamin Franklin writes,
"There never was a
good war or bad peace."
1812 -- Luddite Potato riot in Nottingham, England.
1862 -- Joshua Norton I, Dei Gratia Emperor
of the United States & Protector of Mexico,
He Demands Suitable Attire
1885 -- Novelist, poet, essayist D. H. Lawrence lives.
Best known for his book Lady Chatterly's Lover,
wherein the Lady takes up an interest in pruning.
The book was banned for a time in both the UK & the
US as pornographic. In the UK it was published in
unexpurgated form in 1960 after a obscenity trial.
"...Lawrence really was the educated son of a coal
miner, sitting under a tree that was rapidly becoming
part of a world-wide, disemboweled hell, writing hard,
painful poems, to girls who carefully had been taught
the art of unlove..."
— Kenneth Rexroth, Bird in the Bush
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm
1889 -- Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure
"The Crooked Man".
1901 -- Katri Vala lives (1901-1944). Finnish poet, critic,
school teacher, central member of the literary group
Tulenkantajat (The Fire Bearers). Vala also wrote poems
that were radical in the social views & attacked war
& Fascism.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jaho.htm
1903 -- Frankfort School theorist Theodor Adorno lives.
Rather than subject, nature became object, made alien.
Men pay for the increase of their power with alienation
from that over which they exercised their power. The
quest for knowledge & power becomes war against nature,
man declares war upon himself. The body becomes both
machine (a tool in the process of production &
advancement) & the animal body the subject of experiment,
control, vivisection. In the process of turning nature
into substance & matter, "nothing is allowed to live."
http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html#frankfurt
1915 -- Wales: First British Women's Institute is formed,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllandysiliogogogoch WI,
Anglesey.
You can say that again.... or perhaps not....
1917 -- Coming & Going?: Jessica Mitford lives. English-born
writer / journalist noted for her investigative works of
American society, sister of novelist Nancy Mitford. Her
caustic examination of unscrupulous practices in the
American funeral industry, The American Way of Death (1963),
was a best-seller. In 1992, she published The American Way
of Birth, a look at the sad state of American obstetrical care.
http://www.mitford.org/
1924 -- Japan: During this month the aptly named Guillotine Society
(Girochin Sha) makes two attempts on the life of General Masatarô
Fukuda to avenge the murder of Ôsugi Sakae.
1926 -- Italy: A rocky day in Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Mussolini's life. The anarchist Gino Lucetti tosses a bomb
at Mussolini's car, but it deflected from the windshield.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#11/1926
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Costantini/Rome-11-Sept-1926.jpg
1926 -- Spain: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Dictator Primo de Rivera holds a plebiscite
on his rule - no negative votes are allowed.
You'll never guess the results...
1941 -- Charles Lindbergh decries that "the British, the
Jewish, & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get
the US into World War II.
A side of Lindbergh not often revealed in grade-school
texts or mainstream media was the deep-seated anti-Semitism
& the pro-Nazi stance of both Charles & (especially) his
wife, author, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/sfeature/fallen.html
1942 -- Norway: Underground Norwegian trade
union newspapers arrange thousands of letters to
the government rejecting Nazification.
1955 -- H.L. Mencken writes, "I believe that
religion, generally speaking, has been a curse
to mankind".
http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html
1973 -- CIA overthrows democratically elected
government of Chile, ending nearly 150 years of
democratic rule. Over 5,000 murdered & "disappeared"
while the US looks on approvingly. 16 years of repressive
military terror follows under Pinochet.
Should you ask me where I come from, I must talk
with broken things,
with fairly painful utensils,
with great beasts turned to dust as often as not
& my afflicted heart.
— Pablo Neruda
Over the horizon sail the U.S. warships, preparing
to show themselves off the Chilean coast....
— Eduardo Galleano, Century of the Wind
Guards singled out folk singer Victor Jara as he
continued to sing protest songs in the stadium,
beat him viciously & machine-gunned his mutilated
body in front of the other prisoners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Jara
...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"
mystery novelist & poet
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm
2001 -- US: Terrorists hijack passenger airliners & target them at
major symbols of American global corporate capitalism, military
& politics. Airliners crash into the Pentagon & NY City's World
Trade Center.
9-11-01: 15 Saudis, 0 Iraqis.
US Secretary of State Madeline Albright has said
that if the US chooses to use force, it is because
we are America.
"We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall.
We see further into the future."
"U.S. officials & terrorism "experts" are filling the airwaves
with talk of the threat that terrorism poses in the coming century.
They have part of it right, terrorism will remain a threat.
What they forget, ignore or deny is that the biggest perpetrator
of terrorism on the world scene is the United States."
— Robert William Jensen, "Austin-American Statesman,"
September 1, 1998
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/terrorism.htm
"If history shows that a violent response to an
act of terrorism begets more terrorism, then why
is a violent response the predominant choice of the
experts & politicians of the world?"
— Beau Grosscup, The Newest Explosions of Terrorism
http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/inside/archive/98_09_24/top_story2.html
The towers contain one-third of the Wall Street
financial offices, & employ 50,000 workers.
The Pentagon controls the largest military in the world
(The US military budget is larger than the budgets of
the next 25 countries combined).
Brazilian writer Millor Fernandes notes that “in order
not to see reality, the ostrich sinks its head in the
television set. The machine dictates orders, the machine
stones you.
"The machine dictates orders, the machine stones you.
As people ran down the stairs, the loudspeakers were
ordering everyone to return to their workstations.
"Those who survived, disobeyed."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/16/732116/-Official-story-of-9-%2011-almost-entirely-untrue
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_find_active_superthermite_in_WTC_0404.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories
_________________
If our world survives, the next great challenge to
watch out for will come... when the curves of
research & development in artificial intelligence,
molecular biology & robotics all converge. Oboy...
It is certainly something for all good Luddites to
look forward to if, God willing, we should live so
long... Meantime...we can take comfort, however
minimal & cold, from Lord Byron's mischievously
improvised song,
As the Liberty lads o'er the sea
Bought their freedom, & cheaply, with blood,
So we, boys, we
Will die fighting, or live free,
& down with all kings but King Ludd!
— Thomas Pynchon, "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?"
_________________
— anti-CopyRite 1997-2010
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Daily Bleed for September 9th
How well they flew together side by side
the Stars & Stripes my red & white & blue
& my Black Flag the sovereignty of no
man or law!
— Paul Goodman,
Daily Bleed,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0909.htm
excerpts
SEPTEMBER 9 -- PAUL GOODMAN
Anarchist, alternativist writer, bisexual,
grew up absurd
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoodmanPaul.htm
______________________________
1739 -- Cato Institute?: Slave revolt occurs
in Stono, S.C., led by a slave named Cato.
1828 -- Rebirthing in the New Age?: Novelist,
philosopher, & anarchist mystic Count Leo
Tolstoy lives.
"The startling thing about Tolstoy is precisely
that he was completely unalienated
& at the same time disbelieved utterly
in all the principles that were the
foundations of his society... "
Kenneth Rexroth, Classics Revisited
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm
In 1908 his admirers organize a Tolstoy fund & a grand jubilee
to celebrate his 80th birthday; he responds angrily:
"When there is nothing left to think about but death,
they want to bother me with that!"
1847 -- Mexico: US army hangs 16 Irish soldiers who joined
the Mexican army to oppose the American land grab (about
half of Mexico is taken).
1869 -- Anarchist, Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg lives.
Convicted of Haymarket bombing...
"...I despise you. I despise your
order, your laws, your
force-propped authority. Hang
me for it!"
____________
"The Words of this man
seemed like deeds..."
— FRANK HARRIS, author, editor, rogue
(All the anarchists, including Lingg,
were posthumously pardoned.)
1870 -- Switzerland: Mikhail Bakunin leaves Locarno for
Lyons arrives Sept 15) where he will be just in time for yet
another uprising.
1891 -- US: The first strike by African-American plantation
workers, for $1a day in Georgia & Arkansas, is lost.
1894 -- China: Sun Yat-sen leads his first
attempt at revolution.
1897 -- Hawaiian Senate ratifies the treaty of
annexation with the US. Nascent American empire
reaches into the pacific waters. Much more come in
the next few years.
1898 -- French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé dies.
1904 -- James Joyce & Oliver St. John Gogarty move into
the Martello tower in Sandycove, the setting for the first
scene of Ulysses.
1908 -- Cesare Pavese, lives... Italian poet, critic, novelist
1910 -- Alice B. Toklas & Gertrude Stein
(Saint, July 27) take up lifetime residence together.
1911 -- Anarchist, alternativist writer Paul Goodman lives
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoodmanPaul.htm
1917 -- US: Anarchist Antonio Fornasier is killed
by Milwaukee police after heckling a priest.
Ten men & a woman are arrested for inciting the ensuing riot;
later linked to a Nov. 24 bomb explosion that occurred
while they were still imprisoned; each found guilty &
sentenced to between 11 & 25 years imprisonment.
Emma Goldman will later protest the injustice of their
case, claiming a frame-up.
1918 -- Scottish & Anzac troops at the Etaples army base near
Boulogne begin a successful five day mutiny, attacking the military
police & demonstrating daily through the town.
1919 -- Open Fire?: Over 1,000 Boston police
strike when 19 union leaders are fired for
organizing activities.
1924 -- China: US marines begin fighting
in Peking (-Mar. 1, 1925). Open de door!
1925 -- The one-volume English edition of
My Disillusionment in Russia, with an
introduction by Rebecca West, is published
early this month, by C. W. Daniel of London;
Emma Goldman borrowed $250 from
Michael Cohn to underwrite its publication.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
1929 -- Cartier-Bresson, anarchist & photographer, gets three days
in the guardhouse. Accused of disobeying the rules, flying out of
bounds & turning somersaults above the clouds. When confronted,
he protests, quoting Jean Cocteau:
"The sky belongs to all of us."
1934 -- China: US marines begin fighting in Shanghai.
Kicking down the Open Door (again!).
1934 -- Sonia Sanchez lives...
Poet, playwright, short story
writer & author of children's books
1943 -- Bertolt Brecht play "Galileo" premiers, Zurich.
1945 -- Uruguay: Elena Quinteros lives. Teacher, activist in
the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). Arrested, tortured,
& disappeared by the Uruguayan government in 1976.
1966 -- "San Francisco Oracle" starts publishing.
1968 -- Committee of 100, pioneer British
anti-nuclear group of 1950's & early 60's,
dissolves itself.
1971 -- At the beginning of a four-day ordeal,
prisoners riot & seize control of the
maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility...
Shifty Henry said to Bugs, "For Heaven's sake
No one's lookin', now's our chance to make a break"
Bugsy turned to Shifty & he said, "Nix nix
I wanna stick around a while & get my kicks"
{Refrain}
Let's rock, everybody, let's rock
Everybody on the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
1972 -- US: A special issue on productivity in "Business Week"
champions the concept of "interdependence" between labor &
business, "inseparably linked in the productivity quest"...
Productivity-output per hour of work has fallen due
to worker dissatisfaction & unrest. By 1974 the US Labor
Department notes "the productivity of American workers
took its biggest drop on record as output slumped in all
sectors of the economy during the first quarter."
— John Zerzan, "Organized Labor
versus 'The Revolt Against Work'"
1976 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Mao Tse-Tung Chinese communist party chairman
(1949-76), dies at 82.
"I dance on the
heads of punks."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/music/melvis.JPG
1980 -- Eight activists, including Phil Berrigan,
from the Atlantic Life Community, hammer nose
cone of missile at GE plant in the first of what
becomes an international movement of many
dozens of "Plowshares" anti-nuclear direct actions.
1981 -- Sandinista government of Nicaragua
bans all strikes.
1991 -- England: The Joy Riots — urban &
suburban youth take on the cops in Newcastle,
Cardiff, Birmingham, Oxford & Bristol.
1998 -- Korea: People's International Conference
"Challenging The IMF: Neoliberalism, The IMF,
& International Solidarity".
1999 -- Global: All computers self-destruct, racked
with indecision, between today's date & the traditional
9999 shut-down code. Some go mad, some become evil,
most explode. Human civilization, as such, ends if you
click on the following link:
http://users.stargate.net/~tremor/kaboom.html
2000 -- Bolivia: The sucre goes out of circulation, replaced
by the US $$$$$$$$$. Dirty Sucre replaced with Good Clean
Filthy Lucre. Tomorrow, the World!
2002 -- Nelson Mandela calls the US "a threat to world peace".
Can't imagine why.
2005 -- Italy: 60th Anniversary of the Liberation. A remembrance
is held for the anarchist partisan commander, Emilio Canzi
("Un padre della Resistenza"), a leading figure of the resistance
movement in Piacenza & northern Italy.
______________________________________
Is it possible ... that Leviathan is as natural to
human beings as hives to bees? Anything is
possible, but the admission of such a
possibility is cynically misanthropic & it
precludes envisioning any exit from the trap.
Such a possibility cannot be admitted into a
song of freedom, because its admission is a
prognostication of Earth's doom.
— Fredy Perlman,
Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm
______________________________________
— anti-copyRite 9999 looks like buncha 6666 upside down,
without reservation, more or less
the Stars & Stripes my red & white & blue
& my Black Flag the sovereignty of no
man or law!
— Paul Goodman,
Daily Bleed,
http://www.recollectionbooks.
excerpts
SEPTEMBER 9 -- PAUL GOODMAN
Anarchist, alternativist writer, bisexual,
grew up absurd
http://recollectionbooks.com/
______________________________
1739 -- Cato Institute?: Slave revolt occurs
in Stono, S.C., led by a slave named Cato.
1828 -- Rebirthing in the New Age?: Novelist,
philosopher, & anarchist mystic Count Leo
Tolstoy lives.
"The startling thing about Tolstoy is precisely
that he was completely unalienated
& at the same time disbelieved utterly
in all the principles that were the
foundations of his society... "
Kenneth Rexroth, Classics Revisited
http://recollectionbooks.com/
In 1908 his admirers organize a Tolstoy fund & a grand jubilee
to celebrate his 80th birthday; he responds angrily:
"When there is nothing left to think about but death,
they want to bother me with that!"
1847 -- Mexico: US army hangs 16 Irish soldiers who joined
the Mexican army to oppose the American land grab (about
half of Mexico is taken).
1869 -- Anarchist, Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg lives.
Convicted of Haymarket bombing...
"...I despise you. I despise your
order, your laws, your
force-propped authority. Hang
me for it!"
____________
"The Words of this man
seemed like deeds..."
— FRANK HARRIS, author, editor, rogue
(All the anarchists, including Lingg,
were posthumously pardoned.)
1870 -- Switzerland: Mikhail Bakunin leaves Locarno for
Lyons arrives Sept 15) where he will be just in time for yet
another uprising.
1891 -- US: The first strike by African-American plantation
workers, for $1a day in Georgia & Arkansas, is lost.
1894 -- China: Sun Yat-sen leads his first
attempt at revolution.
1897 -- Hawaiian Senate ratifies the treaty of
annexation with the US. Nascent American empire
reaches into the pacific waters. Much more come in
the next few years.
1898 -- French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé dies.
1904 -- James Joyce & Oliver St. John Gogarty move into
the Martello tower in Sandycove, the setting for the first
scene of Ulysses.
1908 -- Cesare Pavese, lives... Italian poet, critic, novelist
1910 -- Alice B. Toklas & Gertrude Stein
(Saint, July 27) take up lifetime residence together.
1911 -- Anarchist, alternativist writer Paul Goodman lives
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1917 -- US: Anarchist Antonio Fornasier is killed
by Milwaukee police after heckling a priest.
Ten men & a woman are arrested for inciting the ensuing riot;
later linked to a Nov. 24 bomb explosion that occurred
while they were still imprisoned; each found guilty &
sentenced to between 11 & 25 years imprisonment.
Emma Goldman will later protest the injustice of their
case, claiming a frame-up.
1918 -- Scottish & Anzac troops at the Etaples army base near
Boulogne begin a successful five day mutiny, attacking the military
police & demonstrating daily through the town.
1919 -- Open Fire?: Over 1,000 Boston police
strike when 19 union leaders are fired for
organizing activities.
1924 -- China: US marines begin fighting
in Peking (-Mar. 1, 1925). Open de door!
1925 -- The one-volume English edition of
My Disillusionment in Russia, with an
introduction by Rebecca West, is published
early this month, by C. W. Daniel of London;
Emma Goldman borrowed $250 from
Michael Cohn to underwrite its publication.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1929 -- Cartier-Bresson, anarchist & photographer, gets three days
in the guardhouse. Accused of disobeying the rules, flying out of
bounds & turning somersaults above the clouds. When confronted,
he protests, quoting Jean Cocteau:
1934 -- China: US marines begin fighting in Shanghai.
Kicking down the Open Door (again!).
1934 -- Sonia Sanchez lives...
Poet, playwright, short story
writer & author of children's books
1943 -- Bertolt Brecht play "Galileo" premiers, Zurich.
1945 -- Uruguay: Elena Quinteros lives. Teacher, activist in
the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). Arrested, tortured,
& disappeared by the Uruguayan government in 1976.
1966 -- "San Francisco Oracle" starts publishing.
1968 -- Committee of 100, pioneer British
anti-nuclear group of 1950's & early 60's,
dissolves itself.
1971 -- At the beginning of a four-day ordeal,
prisoners riot & seize control of the
maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility...
Shifty Henry said to Bugs, "For Heaven's sake
No one's lookin', now's our chance to make a break"
Bugsy turned to Shifty & he said, "Nix nix
I wanna stick around a while & get my kicks"
{Refrain}
Let's rock, everybody, let's rock
Everybody on the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
1972 -- US: A special issue on productivity in "Business Week"
champions the concept of "interdependence" between labor &
business, "inseparably linked in the productivity quest"...
Productivity-output per hour of work has fallen due
to worker dissatisfaction & unrest. By 1974 the US Labor
Department notes "the productivity of American workers
took its biggest drop on record as output slumped in all
sectors of the economy during the first quarter."
— John Zerzan, "Organized Labor
versus 'The Revolt Against Work'"
1976 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Mao Tse-Tung Chinese communist party chairman
(1949-76), dies at 82.
"I dance on the
heads of punks."
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1980 -- Eight activists, including Phil Berrigan,
from the Atlantic Life Community, hammer nose
cone of missile at GE plant in the first of what
becomes an international movement of many
dozens of "Plowshares" anti-nuclear direct actions.
1981 -- Sandinista government of Nicaragua
bans all strikes.
1991 -- England: The Joy Riots — urban &
suburban youth take on the cops in Newcastle,
Cardiff, Birmingham, Oxford & Bristol.
1998 -- Korea: People's International Conference
"Challenging The IMF: Neoliberalism, The IMF,
& International Solidarity".
1999 -- Global: All computers self-destruct, racked
with indecision, between today's date & the traditional
9999 shut-down code. Some go mad, some become evil,
most explode. Human civilization, as such, ends if you
click on the following link:
http://users.stargate.net/~
2000 -- Bolivia: The sucre goes out of circulation, replaced
by the US $$$$$$$$$. Dirty Sucre replaced with Good Clean
Filthy Lucre. Tomorrow, the World!
2002 -- Nelson Mandela calls the US "a threat to world peace".
Can't imagine why.
2005 -- Italy: 60th Anniversary of the Liberation. A remembrance
is held for the anarchist partisan commander, Emilio Canzi
("Un padre della Resistenza"), a leading figure of the resistance
movement in Piacenza & northern Italy.
______________________________
Is it possible ... that Leviathan is as natural to
human beings as hives to bees? Anything is
possible, but the admission of such a
possibility is cynically misanthropic & it
precludes envisioning any exit from the trap.
Such a possibility cannot be admitted into a
song of freedom, because its admission is a
prognostication of Earth's doom.
— Fredy Perlman,
Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
http://recollectionbooks.com/
______________________________
— anti-copyRite 9999 looks like buncha 6666 upside down,
without reservation, more or less
W.S. Merwin featured in The Los Angeles Times
Learn more about W.S. Merwin at
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William Stanley Merwin (New York City, September 30, 1927) is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from his interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in Hawaii, he writes prolifically and is dedicated to the restoration of the islands' rainforests.
Merwin has received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (in both 1971 and 2009) and the Tanning Prize, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets, as well as the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings. In 2010, the Library of Congress named Merwin the seventeenth United States Poet Laureate to replace the outgoing Kay Ryan.[1][2]
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Daily Bleed for September 7th
Daily Bleed, full boat,
http://www.recollectionbooks.
A few excerpts,
SEPTEMBER 7 -- KAREN BLIXEN
Danish-born African-based writer of
fantasy, decadence.
______________________________
1822 -- Brazil: Declaration of independence from Portugal
(National Day).
1830 -- England: "Large bodies of men in disguise" tear
down the fences, hedgerows & buildings erected by
Lord Abingdon on Otmoor.
1872 -- Mikhail Bakunin, anarchist nemesis of Karl Marx,
is booted from the First International.
It is here that Marx & Engels determine it is better
to destroy the International than allow the growing
democratic & anti-authoritarian influences to gain control.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1888 -- US: Jesse James' last holdup.
1893 -- England: The collieries at Featherstone
are destroyed by strikers.
1908 -- US: Ben Reitman delivers a speech on the meaning
of Labor Day at Cooper Union. He gets arrested.
1908 -- US: Esperanto Association of North America is organized.
http://dailybleed.blogspot.
1911 -- Author Guillaume Apollinaire is jailed,
suspected of masterminding the sensational heist
of the Louvre's Mona Lisa.
1917 -- Jacob Lawrence lives.
A leading painter in chronicling African-American
history & urban life.
1920 -- Italy: "Umanità nova" publishes an article & leaflet, at the
urgings of Errico Malatesta, in support of the factory occupations &
attempts at self-management.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1933 -- US: The first strike by cranberry pickers takes place in
the bogs of Cape Cod. The strikers formed the Cranberry Pickers
Union, but their strike was unsuccessful.
http://morrillmajority.org/
1936 -- Rock & Roll legend Buddy Holly lives,
Lubbock, Texas.
1936 -- Spain: Josep Renau named Director General of Fine
Arts by fellow communist Jesus Hernández, Minister of Public
Instruction in the government of Largo Caballero.
1945 -- End of Slan Shack (US sci-fi fans group).
The slans are to be destroyed simply because they exist.
Humanity can't deal with their strangeness. Humanity wants
them all to die. We don't have to look very far in history or
in recent headlines to see the same story played out over
& over.
See the novel Slan, by A. E. Van Vogt (1940)
1948 -- 3,000 attend rally in public launch of Peace
Council, Melbourne, Australia.
1949 -- US: American Bar Association opposes ratification
of the UN Genocide Convention.
1963 -- Carlos Castaneda first uses jimson weed (a drug!)
(Teachings of Don Juan).
1968 -- US: Got Meat?: For the first time, feminist
protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant.
1972 -- US: Nixon tells aides to place spies among a
Secret Service detail assigned to protect Kennedy.
1977 -- India: Workers in Ghaziabad burn factory &
lynch two finks; solidarity strike of 40,000 follows.
1977 -- Panama: Omar Torrijos & Beloved &
Respected Peanut Head Jimmy Carter sign a treaty returning
sovereignty of the Canal Zone to Panamá.
General Torrijos says he does not want to enter history.
He wants to enter the Canal Zone, stolen by the US at the
beginning of the century.
When accused of serving Moscow or Havana, Torrijos laughs.
Every people, he says, swallows its own aspirin for its own
headache. & if it comes down to it, he gets along with the
Castristas better than the castrati.
Under pressure of world opinion, the US agrees to
slowly return the Canal in stages.
"It's better this way," says Torrijos, relieved. They've
saved him the disagreeable task of blowing up the
canal & all its installations.
— Eduardo Galleano, Century of the Wind, p245
1996 -- US: Two women arrested for trespass at the Norfolk
(Virginia) Naval Base after walking into the
base with a banner reading
"Love Your Enemies."
1999 -- US: "What's the Frequency, Kennard?"
2001 -- England: The Giant Jump — 1 million British students
jump at the same time. This triggers seismographs all across
Britain. Rotten youth trying to sink the island.
2002 -- US: George W. Bush & British PM Tony Blair meet to
drum up international support for their war on Iraq.
Most of the world — sans the US media, Congressmen, politicians
& a portion of gullible Americans — reject their concoction of
half-truths, distortions & outright lies.
2002 -- UN human-rights chief Mary Robinson accuses the US,
Russia & China of hiding behind the war on terrorism to trample
civil rights.
2007 -- 3rd International Anarchist & Libertarian Bookfair,
Florence, Italy, September 7th-9th.
_____________________
There is a certain
hagiographic literature on the
steam hammer. One cannot
imagine much on the electric
toothbrush.
___________________
The first
landing on Mars will pass unnoticed at
Disneyland.
— Raoul Vaneigem, "Technology &
its Mediated Use"
— anti-copyMediatedRite 6000
http://www.recollectionbooks.
A few excerpts,
SEPTEMBER 7 -- KAREN BLIXEN
Danish-born African-based writer of
fantasy, decadence.
______________________________
1822 -- Brazil: Declaration of independence from Portugal
(National Day).
1830 -- England: "Large bodies of men in disguise" tear
down the fences, hedgerows & buildings erected by
Lord Abingdon on Otmoor.
1872 -- Mikhail Bakunin, anarchist nemesis of Karl Marx,
is booted from the First International.
It is here that Marx & Engels determine it is better
to destroy the International than allow the growing
democratic & anti-authoritarian influences to gain control.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1888 -- US: Jesse James' last holdup.
1893 -- England: The collieries at Featherstone
are destroyed by strikers.
1908 -- US: Ben Reitman delivers a speech on the meaning
of Labor Day at Cooper Union. He gets arrested.
1908 -- US: Esperanto Association of North America is organized.
http://dailybleed.blogspot.
1911 -- Author Guillaume Apollinaire is jailed,
suspected of masterminding the sensational heist
of the Louvre's Mona Lisa.
1917 -- Jacob Lawrence lives.
A leading painter in chronicling African-American
history & urban life.
1920 -- Italy: "Umanità nova" publishes an article & leaflet, at the
urgings of Errico Malatesta, in support of the factory occupations &
attempts at self-management.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1933 -- US: The first strike by cranberry pickers takes place in
the bogs of Cape Cod. The strikers formed the Cranberry Pickers
Union, but their strike was unsuccessful.
http://morrillmajority.org/
1936 -- Rock & Roll legend Buddy Holly lives,
Lubbock, Texas.
1936 -- Spain: Josep Renau named Director General of Fine
Arts by fellow communist Jesus Hernández, Minister of Public
Instruction in the government of Largo Caballero.
1945 -- End of Slan Shack (US sci-fi fans group).
The slans are to be destroyed simply because they exist.
Humanity can't deal with their strangeness. Humanity wants
them all to die. We don't have to look very far in history or
in recent headlines to see the same story played out over
& over.
See the novel Slan, by A. E. Van Vogt (1940)
1948 -- 3,000 attend rally in public launch of Peace
Council, Melbourne, Australia.
1949 -- US: American Bar Association opposes ratification
of the UN Genocide Convention.
1963 -- Carlos Castaneda first uses jimson weed (a drug!)
(Teachings of Don Juan).
1968 -- US: Got Meat?: For the first time, feminist
protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant.
1972 -- US: Nixon tells aides to place spies among a
Secret Service detail assigned to protect Kennedy.
1977 -- India: Workers in Ghaziabad burn factory &
lynch two finks; solidarity strike of 40,000 follows.
1977 -- Panama: Omar Torrijos & Beloved &
Respected Peanut Head Jimmy Carter sign a treaty returning
sovereignty of the Canal Zone to Panamá.
General Torrijos says he does not want to enter history.
He wants to enter the Canal Zone, stolen by the US at the
beginning of the century.
When accused of serving Moscow or Havana, Torrijos laughs.
Every people, he says, swallows its own aspirin for its own
headache. & if it comes down to it, he gets along with the
Castristas better than the castrati.
Under pressure of world opinion, the US agrees to
slowly return the Canal in stages.
"It's better this way," says Torrijos, relieved. They've
saved him the disagreeable task of blowing up the
canal & all its installations.
— Eduardo Galleano, Century of the Wind, p245
1996 -- US: Two women arrested for trespass at the Norfolk
(Virginia) Naval Base after walking into the
base with a banner reading
"Love Your Enemies."
1999 -- US: "What's the Frequency, Kennard?"
2001 -- England: The Giant Jump — 1 million British students
jump at the same time. This triggers seismographs all across
Britain. Rotten youth trying to sink the island.
2002 -- US: George W. Bush & British PM Tony Blair meet to
drum up international support for their war on Iraq.
Most of the world — sans the US media, Congressmen, politicians
& a portion of gullible Americans — reject their concoction of
half-truths, distortions & outright lies.
2002 -- UN human-rights chief Mary Robinson accuses the US,
Russia & China of hiding behind the war on terrorism to trample
civil rights.
2007 -- 3rd International Anarchist & Libertarian Bookfair,
Florence, Italy, September 7th-9th.
_____________________
There is a certain
hagiographic literature on the
steam hammer. One cannot
imagine much on the electric
toothbrush.
___________________
The first
landing on Mars will pass unnoticed at
Disneyland.
— Raoul Vaneigem, "Technology &
its Mediated Use"
— anti-copyMediatedRite 6000
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Daily Bleed for September 5th
Daily Bleed in full,
SEPTEMBER 5 -- TOM LYTTLE
Cybernaut author, publisher, gourmet chef, conspiritologist.
International: BE LATE FOR SOMETHING DAY
Officially sponsored by the Procrastinators' Club of
America, which protested the War of
1812 in 1967. The official news release for this
year's observances has yet to be issued.
"Never do tomorrow
what you can do the day
after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain
______________________________
1568 -- Tommaso Campanella lives (1568-1639),
Italian utopian author of The City of the Sun.
1831 -- Naval Drip?: Charles Darwin is
interviewed by Capt. Fitzroy of the "Beagle" for the
position of ship's naturalist; Fitzroy almost rejects
Darwin because of the shape of Darwin's nose.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/faf_snifferdog.jpg
1869 -- Switzerland: Basle Congress of International opens.
Michael Bakunin appears for the slugfest, the communists
(Bakuninists) opposed to the collectivists (Marxists).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#05/1869
1871 -- France: Victor Hugo is hailed publicly in Paris upon return
from banishment on Guernsey in the Channel Islands, where he
wrote Les Châtiments & Les Misérables.
1882 -- First US Labor Day.
30,000 workers march in the parade in NY City.
1882 -- US: Sioux chief Crazy Horse murdered.
"I will return
to you in
stone."
Crazy Horse & his starving
people had peacefully
surrendered to the US army on
May 6th. Crazy Horse was
assassinated on orders from the
local Reservation Agent,
bayoneted in the back by a US
soldier, while in custody at Fort
Robinson, Nebraska.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#05/1877
1894 -- France: A two-day rain of toads
at Chalon-sur-Saone, France.
1899 -- At the invitation of Kate Austin, Emma Goldman
travels to the farming community of Caplinger Mills,
Missouri, where she delivers three lectures,
including "Patriotism."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#Austin
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
1905 -- Arthur Koestler lives. Indicts the police state
in Darkness at Noon.
1906 -- Mexico: Followers of the anarchist Flores Magon, from
Douglas, Arizona, try to take Agua Prieta, Sonora, to begin a revolt
against Diaz (US police later arrest them). Meanwhile, campesinos
of Acayucan, Veracruz form a mutual-defense pact against Diaz.
1911 -- England: Pupils desert their classrooms & parade
in the streets after a Llanelli boy is punished for passing
around a note urging his friends to strike against corporal
punishment. In the next fortnight,schools in over 60 major
towns & cities come out in solidarity.
Dear BleedMeister
You, of all people, should know that Llanelli is
in Wales, the land of song & socialism.
As usual the English get all the credit.
But I love the Daily Bleed.
— Bleedster Mary G., 2006
1912 -- Anarcho-musicologist John Cage lives.
A moment of silence, please.
Daily Bleed Saint 2004.
thE
braiNs
throuGh
wIth
aNd
academieS
Burning
monEy
1914 -- Nicanor Parra lives, Chile. Mathematician & often
considered to be the most influential poet Chile has produced
since Pablo Neruda. Self-described "antipoet," due to his
distaste for standard poetic pomp & function.
1917 -- Palmer raids on all IWW halls & offices in
cities across the US...done without warrants &
total disregard for civil or legal rights.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/intell.html
1923 -- First use of smoke-screen for concealing troops.
Military is finally catching up with politics.
1939 -- Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun published
two days after the beginning of WWII. Blacklisted following
the war, Trumbo, as a screenwriter, wrote under 13 different
pseudonyms before he was able to get his name back on
screen in 1960.
"What you ask is against regulations."
1957 -- Jack Kerouac's On the Road, an inspiration
for a generation of restless spirits, is published.
1958 -- Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago is
published in US for the first time.
1964 -- Joe Hill's "Rebel Girl", Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn dies. One-time anarchist & labor militant who
became a honcho in the American Communist Party.
uncontrollably all over themselves.
1990 -- US: Trainites set fire to restaurant when unable
to obtain items listed on the menu...
http://tal.forum2.org/sheep
1990 -- US: Los Angeles police chief Darryl Gates testifies
before the US Senate that "casual drug users should be taken
out & shot".
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/bush37a.gif
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/viagra.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/drugs/bushcoke.jpg
1991 -- US: AIDS activists inflate a 15-foot condom on roof of
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pasted postage stamps all over himself to
prevent arrest since he was First-Class Mail.
http://www.disinfo.com/2008/10/tom-lyttle-memorial-site-collected-works/
______________________
We must make the world safe for
poverty Without dependence on
government."
— John Cage
"Three-fourths of
philosophy & literature is
the talk of people trying
to convince themselves
that they really like the
cage they were tricked
into entering."
— Gary Snyder, Zen Anarchist Poet
________________
— anti-copyRite 1997, 2009, 34, 6, 32 punt (more or less)
SEPTEMBER 5 -- TOM LYTTLE
Cybernaut author, publisher, gourmet chef, conspiritologist.
International: BE LATE FOR SOMETHING DAY
Officially sponsored by the Procrastinators' Club of
America, which protested the War of
1812 in 1967. The official news release for this
year's observances has yet to be issued.
what you can do the day
after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain
______________________________
1568 -- Tommaso Campanella lives (1568-1639),
Italian utopian author of The City of the Sun.
1831 -- Naval Drip?: Charles Darwin is
interviewed by Capt. Fitzroy of the "Beagle" for the
position of ship's naturalist; Fitzroy almost rejects
Darwin because of the shape of Darwin's nose.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1869 -- Switzerland: Basle Congress of International opens.
Michael Bakunin appears for the slugfest, the communists
(Bakuninists) opposed to the collectivists (Marxists).
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1871 -- France: Victor Hugo is hailed publicly in Paris upon return
from banishment on Guernsey in the Channel Islands, where he
wrote Les Châtiments & Les Misérables.
1882 -- First US Labor Day.
30,000 workers march in the parade in NY City.
1882 -- US: Sioux chief Crazy Horse murdered.
"I will return
to you in
stone."
Crazy Horse & his starving
people had peacefully
surrendered to the US army on
May 6th. Crazy Horse was
assassinated on orders from the
local Reservation Agent,
bayoneted in the back by a US
soldier, while in custody at Fort
Robinson, Nebraska.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1894 -- France: A two-day rain of toads
at Chalon-sur-Saone, France.
1899 -- At the invitation of Kate Austin, Emma Goldman
travels to the farming community of Caplinger Mills,
Missouri, where she delivers three lectures,
including "Patriotism."
http://recollectionbooks.com/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1905 -- Arthur Koestler lives. Indicts the police state
in Darkness at Noon.
1906 -- Mexico: Followers of the anarchist Flores Magon, from
Douglas, Arizona, try to take Agua Prieta, Sonora, to begin a revolt
against Diaz (US police later arrest them). Meanwhile, campesinos
of Acayucan, Veracruz form a mutual-defense pact against Diaz.
1911 -- England: Pupils desert their classrooms & parade
in the streets after a Llanelli boy is punished for passing
around a note urging his friends to strike against corporal
punishment. In the next fortnight,schools in over 60 major
towns & cities come out in solidarity.
You, of all people, should know that Llanelli is
in Wales, the land of song & socialism.
As usual the English get all the credit.
But I love the Daily Bleed.
— Bleedster Mary G., 2006
1912 -- Anarcho-musicologist John Cage lives.
A moment of silence, please.
Daily Bleed Saint 2004.
thE
braiNs
throuGh
wIth
aNd
academieS
Burning
monEy
considered to be the most influential poet Chile has produced
since Pablo Neruda. Self-described "antipoet," due to his
distaste for standard poetic pomp & function.
1917 -- Palmer raids on all IWW halls & offices in
cities across the US...done without warrants &
total disregard for civil or legal rights.
1923 -- First use of smoke-screen for concealing troops.
Military is finally catching up with politics.
1939 -- Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun published
the war, Trumbo, as a screenwriter, wrote under 13 different
pseudonyms before he was able to get his name back on
screen in 1960.
"What you ask is against regulations."
1957 -- Jack Kerouac's On the Road, an inspiration
for a generation of restless spirits, is published.
1958 -- Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago is
published in US for the first time.
1964 -- Joe Hill's "Rebel Girl", Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn dies. One-time anarchist & labor militant who
became a honcho in the American Communist Party.
1972 -- Juan Puig Elias (1898-1972) dies. Spanish teacher
& militant anarcho-syndicalist.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#05/1972
1973 -- "Many music lovers don't know that nearly
a whole generation of original & highly talented
musicians in Detroit were either snuffed out or
forced to flee Detroit to keep their music careers
alive..."
— Eddie "Guitar" Burns, interview in
Fifth Estate, September 5, 1973
1978 -- US: Unexplained green slime falls on Washington,
DC (-Sept. 6). What's to explain, you ask? Politicians dripping& militant anarcho-syndicalist.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1973 -- "Many music lovers don't know that nearly
a whole generation of original & highly talented
musicians in Detroit were either snuffed out or
forced to flee Detroit to keep their music careers
alive..."
— Eddie "Guitar" Burns, interview in
Fifth Estate, September 5, 1973
1978 -- US: Unexplained green slime falls on Washington,
uncontrollably all over themselves.
1990 -- US: Trainites set fire to restaurant when unable
to obtain items listed on the menu...
1990 -- US: Los Angeles police chief Darryl Gates testifies
before the US Senate that "casual drug users should be taken
out & shot".
http://recollectionbooks.com/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
Beloved & Repected Comrade Leader Senator Jesse Helms'
Virginia home. Should have put it on his head: "Fits like a glove!"
1997 -- Cuba: Dissident Hector Palacio Ruiz sent to prison on a
charge of "disrespect for authority" for having criticized Cuban
President Fidel Castro... he strongly criticized Castro's rule,
called for reforms, & at one point called Castro "crazy."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#05/1997
1997 -- John Sayles movie "Men With Guns" premiers,
Toronto Film Festival.
2002 -- Afghanistan: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader President Karzai, surrounded by US body guards
during the American occupation, survives an assassination
Later in the month, he claims on US TV,
"I'm No US Puppet".
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/020511Karzai.jpg
2008 -- Psychedelics researcher, blotter artist Tom Lyttle dies,Virginia home. Should have put it on his head: "Fits like a glove!"
1997 -- Cuba: Dissident Hector Palacio Ruiz sent to prison on a
charge of "disrespect for authority" for having criticized Cuban
President Fidel Castro... he strongly criticized Castro's rule,
called for reforms, & at one point called Castro "crazy."
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1997 -- John Sayles movie "Men With Guns" premiers,
Toronto Film Festival.
2002 -- Afghanistan: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader President Karzai, surrounded by US body guards
during the American occupation, survives an assassination
Later in the month, he claims on US TV,
"I'm No US Puppet".
http://recollectionbooks.com/
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pasted postage stamps all over himself to
prevent arrest since he was First-Class Mail.
http://www.disinfo.com/2008/
______________________
We must make the world safe for
poverty Without dependence on
government."
— John Cage
"Three-fourths of
philosophy & literature is
the talk of people trying
to convince themselves
that they really like the
cage they were tricked
into entering."
— Gary Snyder, Zen Anarchist Poet
________________
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