Daily Bleed for Halloween!

Hi there bleed, this can't go on,
I'm getting no work done,
please take me off your list
for fear of losing my job,
cheers,

— M[...] in New Zealand.

(Bleedin sad bureaucrat, working for some Senator,
got her priorities all mixed up — ed.)

Daily Bleed, brim full, a veritable boiling cauldron,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1031.htm


"Ask her to wait a moment —
I am almost done."

— Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855),
while working, when informed that his
wife is dying

STUDS TERKEL
American labor, oral historian, "common man" proponent.

Alternate Saint:
CAPTAIN MISSION
Founded famed pirate utopia "Libertaria" in Madagascar.

Ghost of Chance ...returns us to territory familiar from
Burroughs' 'Cities of the Red Night' trilogy. We are in
'Libertaria', a utopian colony of ex-pirates set up 'on the
west coast of Madagascar'. Here 'Captain Mission' has
established a community of free spirits: 'There would be
no capital punishment, no slavery, no imprisonment for
debt, & no interference with religion or sexuality.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1995/aug/11/fiction.williamburroughs

HALLOWEEN. Pagan festival of fall during which the
dead can be communicated with & set to rest.
Appropriated, but not totally demolished, by the churches.

"The original reason for disguise tonight, it
being Mischief Night, was to prevent lonely spirits recognizing
you & snatching you away to their between-the-worlds home;
& it was an additional bonus that the costumes allowed you to
lead a mini-riot without being recognized ..."

THE WITCHES NEW YEAR.

ALL SAINT'S EVE. Human sacrifice became cakes
left out for the dead, thrown into the fire in the morning.
In Brittany all wore black, etc.

OLD CELTIC NEW YEAR'S EVE.
Struggle between old & new years.

______________________________


1870 -- Louise Michel, anarchiste, takes part in a massive
demonstration supporting the Paris Commune in front of
the Town hall.

1873 -- US: Oto chiefs, including Medicine Horse &
Stand-By, come to Washington D.C. to ask
for permission to hold one last buffalo hunt;
they are denied.

1881 -- Brazil: Edgard Leuenroth lives (1881-1968), São Paulo.
Important & influential figure in both the labor & anarquista
movements. The most important research archive in Latin
America is named after him (Archivo Edgard Leuenroth).

1894 -- France: In Paris, the "Procès des trente"
(Trial of the Thirty), which began August 6, comes to a close.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#31/1894

1905 -- US: The producer & players of Bernard Shaw's play,
"Mrs. Warren's Profession," are arrested, NY.

1913 -- Historians Will & Ariel Durant, ages 27 & 15,
are married at New York's City Hall.

In 1912 the youthful Will Durant headed the libertarian
Modern School, which became one of the most
important centers of the Radical movement in New York.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is
sometimes filled with blood from people killing,
stealing, shouting and doing the things historians
usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed,
people build homes, make love, raise children,
sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues.
The story of civilization is the story of what
happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists
because they ignore the banks for the river.

—Will Durant (1885–1981)
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ModernSchool.htm

1913 -- Corto Maltese, working for the mysterious crime boss
"the Monk" in the South Pacific, has his crew mutiny (he was
certainly unlucky in his crews!) & he was cast adrift in
mid-ocean, tied to a crate. (He is rescued by Rasputin
tomorrow).

1921 -- James Joyce writes the last words
of his novel Ulysses.

1921 -- Beginning date of the Poundian calendar,
designed by poet Ezra Pound. Inspires Pound Cake.

1922 -- Italy: Benito Mussolini (Il Duce)
becomes premier. Head office of the anarchico paper
"Umanita Nova" is again ransacked by Duce's fascists.

1922 -- Karl Capek play "The World We Live In"
(The Insect Comedy) opens in NY.

1925 -- Australia: Radio station 2KY begins broadcasting
in Sydney; it later becomes the world's first labor-owned
radio station.

1926 -- Italy: Mussolini escapes assassination attempt
by 15-year-old anarchicho Anteo Zamboni. Lynched by
the fascistes. Just last month Gino Lucetti also botched
an attempt ("Bullets pass, Mussolini stays").
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#11/1926

1926 -- No Pain, No Gain?: Magician Ehrich Weiss.
(Harry Houdini) dies after a punch to his tummy...

"I'm buried alive; I hang by a thread
& people pay money to see if I'm dead.
Like mama once said, 'That's the show biz.'
It's sad; it's strange,
Times change & change & change . . .

"I'm only a sham. Well, that's my appeal.
The people need sham 'cause the world is too real.
I know how they feel."

— 'Harry Houdini', Ragtime

1929 -- US: A little boy explodes some firecrackers on La Salle
Street in Chicago & rumors quickly spread that gangsters who
have lost heavily on the stock market are shooting up the street.
Squad cars of police arrive to find a very bewildered little kid.

"This old town should have burned down in 1929
That's when we stood in line
Waiting for our soup
Swallowing our pride."

— Janis Ian & Jon Vezner

1941 -- The destroyer Reuben James,
is torpedoed by a German submarine. 96 perish.

There's Harold Hammer Beasley, a first rate man at sea
From Hinton, West Virginia, he had his first degree.
There's Jim Franklin Benson, a good machinist's mate
Come up from North Carolina, to sail the Reuben James.

Dennis Howard Daniel, Glen Jones & Howard Vore
Hartwell Byrd & Raymond Cook, Ed Musselwhite & more
Remember Leonard Keever, Gene Evans & Donald Kapp
Who gave their all to fight about this famous fighting ship.

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/reuben.html

1947 -- US: Bertolt Brecht, having fled Nazi Germany,
now flees the US during the American witchhunts.

1955 -- François-Henri Jolivet (1875-1955) dies.
French working poet, anarchiste & pacifist, songster.

Encouraged by Edith Piaf, Jolivet continued appearing
in the cabarets of Montmartre until the end of his life.

1966 -- Ken Kesey's Acid Test Graduation.

1981 -- England: Six-month occupation of nuclear
power site ends, Luxulyan, Cornwall.

1997 -- US: Hallowe'en "Hell House" (presented by bible-thumpers)
opens for teens in Vacaville, California. Displays include a gay
man dead of AIDS, a teenage "grunge" suicide & bloody mock abortion.

2002 -- US: Hey! Saddam! Pentagon says it conducted sarin
nerve-gas experiments in Hawaii's rain forest in 1967.

2006 -- Folk-Legacy celebrates it's 45th anniversary!

The corporation, not deliberately,
established on a folkloristic date!

— Bleedster Sandy Paton

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/paton.jpg
http://www.folk-legacy.com/store/ProdImages/s-1.jpg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/30/sandy-paton-obituary
http://www.folklegacy.com/

2008 -- US: American oral historian, labor journalist Studs
Terkel dies, Chicago, Illinois.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/01/studs-terkel-usa

________________

"Now, now my good man, this is no
time for making enemies."

— Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed,
in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

________________

— anti-copyRite 1997-until Halloween, more or less, out on the Back 40,
in the Dark...as Usual

Daily Bleed for October 29th

Beware
the pomegranate
set loose
in an Airport.


Daily Bleed, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1029.htm

Excerpts,

OCTOBER 29 -- TERRY SOUTHERN
Inspired American black-humorist, beat-era social rebel.

Iroquois FEAST OF THE DEAD.
Held every 12 years, the dead are reinterred & honored,
with huge a grave dug & lined with beaver skins.

FESTIVAL OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE.
Dancing on our own graves.

______________________________

1618 -- Got Canned?: Due to a failed expedition to
exploit Guiana, Sir Walter Raleigh (History of the
World) executed, Tower of London.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/RaleighTruck.jpg

1867 -- Tom MacInnes lives, Dresden, Ontario.
Canadian writer whose works range from vigorous,
slangy recollections of the Yukon gold rush (Lonesome
Bar, 1909), to a translation & commentary on the
philosophy of Lao-tzu, irreverently titled The
Teaching of the Old Boy (1927).

"Many men lost their minds on the Dead Horse Trail.
Others lost their lives as a diet of rotten horse flesh
led to raging fever. Screams of pain echoed through the
canyons like deranged spirits throughout the winter
of 1897."

1884 -- Rubén Darío writes "Epistola a Ricardo Contreras".

1886 -- England: "Freedom" begins publication in
London, as a monthly, in October 1886. From the start
it was intended not as the mouthpiece of a particular
group but as an independent voice in a wider movement.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Freedom.htm

1889 -- US: Katsu Goto is lynched. A prominent Hawaiian
merchant, labor sympathizer & interpreter, Goto was an
immigrant killed by some fine upstanding American
businessmen who didn't like the advocacy work he
performed on behalf of Japanese plantation workers.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#29/1889

1896 -- US: Every twelve years on this day, the
Amerindian Iroquois tribe celebrates its Feast
of the Dead, to honor the souls of departed
loved ones.

"No one owns their own property.
The property owns them."

— Robert G. Ingersoll (1896)

1897 -- Henry George dies.

"The equal right of all men to the use of land
is a clear as their equal right to breathe the air
— it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their
existence."

— Henry George, Progress & Poverty

1901 -- Leon Czolgosz, self-proclaimed anarchist,
electrocuted for the assassination of US President
McKinley. Emma Goldman is one of the few
anarchists who refuses to disown him.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#29/1901

1902 -- Fredric Brown, American writer, lives.
One of the most ingenious American crime & mystery
writers, Brown also wrote science fiction to overcome
— as he said — the too real aspect of detective fiction.

1918 -- Germany: Wilhelmshaven Revolt. Sailors mutiny,
take over naval base, garrison & city of Kiehl; Soldiers,
Sailors & Workers Councils elected. The German
government falls on November 10.

1929 -- US: Pandemonium on Wall
Street as stocks crash. American
securities lose 26 billion dollars in
value.

In Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath"), James Rosenberg created
an expressionist nightmare of teetering skyscrapers, suicidal
stockbrokers, storm clouds, & maddened crowds to convey
the sense of panic that overwhelmed Wall Street & the nation
in the last days of October
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/rosenbergDiesIrae.jpg

"Happy Days
Are Here
Again" Casa
Loma
Orchestra,
conducted by
Glen Gray,
10/29/29

The date on which the Casa Loma Orchestra waxed this
cheery tune is better remembered as Black Tuesday,
the day of the stock market crash. "Variety"'s October 30,
1929 headline read "WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG."

How big an egg? An average 40 percent loss in stock
values by mid-November, representing nearly 30 billion
dollars! This song (sans vocals here) expressed
pre-crash exuberance in the film Chasing Rainbows (a
young Jack Benny appeared in it), & it became a 'wishful
thinking' anthem as the Depression darkened.

— Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression:
American Music in the '30s"

1936 -- Songster Hank Snow makes his first recordings,
"Lonesome Blue Yodel" & "Prisoned Cowboy."

1940 -- USA: First compulsory peace-time draft initiated.

1942 -- d.a. levy lives, Cleveland, Ohio. Poet.
http://www.litkicks.com/DALevy/
http://www.thing.net/~grist/lnd/dalevyc.htm

1947 -- Belgium: Asger Jorn participates in the International
Conference of Revolutionary Surrealism in Brussels.

1952 -- France: "No More Flat Feet," a tract denouncing
Charlie Chaplin signed by the Lettrist International
(Serge Berna, Jean-Louis Brau, Guy-Ernest Debord &
Gil J. Wolman), is thrown into the crowd at a press
conference for Chaplin's film "Limelight."

1953 -- Poet Dylan Thomas' last
public engagement, City College of NY.

1958 -- Boris Pasternak, under intense pressure
from the Soviet government & press, wires the
Swedish Royal Academy his "voluntary refusal"
of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of his crimes
is to have written — in his novel, Dr. Zhivago —
too sympathetically of the anarchists, & not kindly
enough of the Bolsheviks.

"Am I a gangster or

murderer?

Of what crime do I stand
condemned?

I made the whole world
weep at the beauty of my
land."

1958 -- Good Ol' USA: Atomic bomb named 'Santa Fe'
explodes above ground; winds blow fallout over LA
where thermal inversion holds it over the city for several
days. Not that the residents can tell the difference —
it's a glow in the dark kinda place.

1961 -- Not to be outdone, the first 50-megaton
bomb explodes, USSR.

1963 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Bobby Kennedy's representative Desmond FitzGerald
tells the CIA a coup against Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Castro would receive US support.

1969 -- US: Chicago Eight Trial, 29th-31st: Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Judge Hoffman orders Bobby
Seale bound & gagged (after Seale is refused permission
to act as or have his own defense counsel).

1969 -- Paul McCartney is dead.

1970 -- US: Sans Hose? Anti-war protesters pelt Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Prez Dick M Nixon's motorcade
with rocks & eggs in San Jose, California.

1970 -- US: An FBI memo recommends 15,000 new domestic
intelligence operations. Ahhh, Freedom is a Grand Thing!

1979 -- "Up Against The Wall Street Journal" direct
actions disrupt New York Stock Exchange & financial
district on 50th Anniversary of the stock market crash
of 1929. Over 1,000 arrested.

1981 -- George Brassens, French anarchiste poet/songster,
dies. See 22 October 1921.

"La camarde, qui ne m'a jamais pardonné
d'avoir semé des fleurs dans les trous de son
nez, me poursuit d'un zèle imbécile..."

— "Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète"

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BrassensGeorges.htm

1984 -- US: "Doonesbury" has George Bush
place his manhood in a blind trust.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/mosque.jpg

1985 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting Pres.
Reagan claims Russian contains no word for "freedom" (wrong).

2000 -- Taiwan: Three martial arts students pull a truck,
& 100 men, — with
their
ppppppppppppppppppppppppppenises.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/keepon.jpg

2006 -- México: Violence flares in Oaxaca, as 10,000 military,
3,500 riot cops, 3,000 military police, violently sweep the streets.
This unprovoked aggression by the Mexican State against the
pacific & unarmed people of Oaxaca is one of the largest in the
recent history of México & Latin America.

2009 -- Brazil: Civil Police of Rio Grande do Sul, under the command
of Governor Yeda Crusius, break into the premises of the Federação
Anarquista Gaúcha.


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I have always imagined that Paradise
would be a kind of library.

— Jorge Luis Borges

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/library.jpg

====================
— anti-CopyRite 1997-30,000,000,000,000 more or less
Intellectual property rights protected, no, no, you can't have any
of these ideas, for better, for worse...they may not be shared or
otherwise distributed.
If you have an original thought that we have already had, or vice
versa, you will be persecuted & tormented but good. & Or else.

Daily Bleed for October 27th

You are murdering the young men. . . .
You,
The hyena with polished face & bow tie,
In the office of a billion dollar
Corporation devoted to service;
The vulture dripping with carrion,
Carefully & carelessly robed in imported tweeds,
Lecturing on the Age of Abundance;
The jackal in the double-breasted gabardine,
Barking by remote control,
In the United Nations...
The Superego in a thousand uniforms,
You, the finger man of the behemoth,
The murderer of the young men...

— Excerpt from Kenneth Rexroth's 20-minute poem
"Thou Shalt Not Kill" (with a free-jazz accompaniment),
a memorial poem for Dylan Thomas

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm

Daily Bleed, with a swash of color,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1027.htm

a-wash:

BRAD WILL
Indymedia activist, killed in street protests, Oaxaca, Mexico.

FEAST OF THE LORD OF MISRULE.
http://www.notbored.org/post-mortem.html

______________________________

1919 -- Emma Goldman appears before immigration
authorities at Ellis Island to appeal her deportation
order from the land of the free.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#27/1919

1920 -- US: 40,000 Philadelphia textile workers
are fired to get the radicals out of the factories.

1936 -- Spain: A Generalidad decree orders
militarization of the People's Militias.

"All power to the working class.

All economic power to the unions.

Instead of the Generalidad, the Revolutionary Junta."

— poster from the Friends of Durruti
posted on trees & walls throughout the city of
Barcelona, setting out their program, April, 1937
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DurrutiColumnEarly.htm

1947 -- "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx,
premieres on TV.

"There is no sweeter sound than the
crumbling of your fellow man."

1956 --
"Dear Hungarian Premier [Nagy]. We inform
you that yesterday the workers' council took
power in Borsod County in every respect.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#23/1956

1959 -- Cuba: Camilo Cienfuegos dies. Raised in an anarchist
family, he became a key figure of the Cuban Revolution, along
with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raúl Castro & Huber Matos.
Close friend of Cuban author & historian Carlos Franqui.

Cienfuegos has the beard & mane of a biblical prophet, but
where a worry-creased face should be, there's only an ear-to-
ear grin.

The feat he is most proud of is that time up in the mountains
when he fooled a light military plane by painting himself red
with iodine & lying still with his arms crossed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_Cienfuegos
http://www.cuba-junky.com/cuba/camilo-cienfuegos.html

1966 -- US: One alien body is allegedly recovered from a UFO,
northern Arizona. Pesky politicians under every cactus!

1967 -- Bloody Good Time?: Four people from Baltimore
pour blood on selective service records. Reverend Philip
Berrigan, a Josephite priest doing God's work, Tom
Lewis, David Eberhardt, & James Mengel pour duck's
blood over draft files, protesting Vietnam War.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/mk1.gif

1970 --
Ode on the

Absence of Real Poetry

Here This Afternoon

— A Poem in Dialectical Prose

... the precise phrases & refrains were
necessary to keep the crops growing...

http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/ode.htm

1991 -- Peru: Anarchist Andrés Villaverde arrested for
sabotage. Sent to prison without trial & despite a total
lack of proof to substantiate the charges.

2001 -- France: Liberto Sarrau Royes dies, aged 81.
Writer, member of the Juventudes Libertarias (JJLL) &
the famed Durruti Column. Part of the group 3 de Mayo.
Arrested in 1948, tortured & sent to prison.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#27/2001

2006 -- US: Conference, "Humanity and the Earth/L'Homme
et la Terre: The Legacy of Elisée Reclus" at Loyola
University (27-30th). Gathering in conjunction with
the New Orleans Bookfair.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ReclusElisee.htm

2006 -- Mexico: Brad Will, a 36-year-old documentary
filmmaker, freedom fighter, musician. Indymedia reporter
during a teacher's strike in the city of Oaxaca. "Civilian-clad
municipal police officers & other state officials" are implicated
in his murder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Will
http://tinyurl.com/yjsdff9
________

"The law that gives a
manor Lord the RIGHT to slice
open the bellies of no more
than two of his serfs, in order
to warm his feet in their
entrails, has gradually fallen
into disuse."

________

— anti-CopyRite 1997-3666, more or less

Daily Bleed for Saint Crispin's Day, Oct. 25th

Daily Bleed, updated & in real color:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1025.htm

The Black & White of it:

OCTOBER 25 -- MAX STIRNER
Young Hegelian individualist anarchist.

Saissons, France: ST. CRISPIN'S DAY, patron saint
of shoemakers, Cobbler's procession.:

"The twenty-fifth of October,
cursed be the cobbler
who goes to bed sober".

Chadron, Nebraska: UGLY PICKUP TRUCK contest,
& UGLY PICKUP QUEEN contest.

US: NATIONAL GREASY FOODS DAY.

US: PUNK-FOR-A-DAY DAY.

UP URANUS DAY. Ouch.

_____________________

1474 -- Berne under Niklaus von Diesbach declares war on Burgundy.

Der Schrank von benachbartem Cabernet, groß alarmiert,
Aufträge zählen Grappa de Wino, um seine Truppen zu
mobilisieren, um weg vom Weiß zu kämpfen.

Le coffret de Cabernet voisin, considérablement alarmé, ordres
comptent Grappa de Wino pour mobiliser ses troupes pour
combattre outre des blancs.

[Rough Translation: The
cabinet of neighboring
Cabernet, greatly alarmed,
orders Count Grappa de
Wino to mobilize his troops
to fight off the Whites.
Troops everywhere get
smashed.]

1784 -- Gee, Thanks!?: Crown representative in Canada
gives Mohawks some of their own land.

1806 -- Germany: Ego-philosopher Max Stirner lives

"The great are great only because
we are on our knees. Let us rise!"

1854 -- "Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismayed?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
Someone had blundered:
Theirs was not to make reply,
Theirs was not to reason why,
Theirs was but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.


1862 -- Ernest Coeurderoy dies, a suicide (or the 21st).
Intern, writer, libertarian Socialist forced into exile
because of his radical positions.

Good souls of the dominant language, it is you who incite to
murder, hatred, pillage & civil war.

In the shadow of a cruel & ridiculous spectacle arises the old
war of the poor against the rich, which today, masked &
falsified by ideological refraction, is the war of the poor who
want to stay poor & the poor who want to stop being poor.

— Raoul Vaneigem, 1972, "Terrorism or Revolution,"
an introduction to Ernest Coeurderoy

http://www.notbored.org/coeurderoy.html

1881 -- Pablo Diego Jose Francisco (etc.)
Picasso, commie doodler, lives.

"Computers are
useless. They can only
give you answers."

— Pablo Picasso

1886 -- The episode which brought Clement Duval,
the anarchiste burglar, to his ruin & part of the iconography
of the French regime, occurs.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DuvalClement.htm

1936 -- France: Bernard Thomas lives. Libertarian
journalist for "Canard Enchaîné".
Wrote Alexandre Marius Jacob (1970), Les provocations
policières (1972) & Aurore ou la génération
perdue (1984), etc.

"…As I see things, I am not a robber. In creating man,
Nature gave him the right to live & man has the duty
to exercise that right in full. So if society fails
to provide him with the wherewithal to
survive, the human being is entitled to
seize what he needs from wherever there is plenty."

— Marius Jacob

1950 -- US: Chrysler Pres. Kaufman Keller is appointed US
director of guided missiles. America is soon the only country
whose rockets come with chrome grills, air-brakes & automatic
transmissions.

1955 --

I will write peace

on your wings

& you will fly

all over the

world

— Sadako Sasaki
Sadako Sasaki dies. Classmates folded 356 paper
cranes so that 1,000 were buried with her.

1956 -- Hungary: Councils continue to form, despite
the Russian crackdown...

"Of the tendencies toward regroupment that have
appeared over the last few years among various
minorities in the workers movement in Europe," an
unsigned text pronounces, "only the most radical
current is worth preserving: that centered on the
program of workers councils."

— Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961).
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/6.insurrection.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/hungary.html

1962 -- American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel
Prize in literature.

1966 -- US: UCLA Teach-in. Teach your children well.

1973 -- US: Makin' the Cantaloupe Nervous?: A farmer interrupts a
meeting between space aliens & Sasquatches near Uniontown, Pa.,
& shoots one of the frisky 'squatches.
[Apparently the beasties are not on any "endangered species" list.]

1980 -- US: 225 newspapers drop the week-long "Reagan's Brain"
sequence of "Doonesbury." Against all proof contrariwise, the
US press foolishly think Beloved & Respected Comrade Acting
President Ronald Reagan has a brain. Able to adhere to such
fantasy, this proves, in the face of all proof contrariwise,
there is a free press in America.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/reagan.htm

1983 -- US troops invade Grenada following the death
of Maurice Bishop. A country 1/2,000 its population,
(US Wins! 5,000-0). Erases the humiliations of Vietnam,
proving America can whup 5th-world countries if they are
tiny enough.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader White House
spokesman Larry Speakes says a US invasion of
Grenada is "preposterous".

1984 -- No more Trout¿: "Hippie" novelist
Richard Brautigan suicides himself, Bolinas, California.

"At 1:30 in the morning a fart
smells like a marriage between
an avocado & a fish head."

The Final Ride

The act of dying
is like hitch-hiking
into a strange town
late at night
where it is cold
& raining,
& you are alone
again

1989 -- Mary McCarthy, novelist & critic, (wrote
The Group, books on the Vietnam War, etc.) dies.

1992 -- Germany: Salman Rushdie visits; the Bundestag
passes a resolution holding Iran responsible for his safety.

1993 -- South Korea: Writer Hwang Suk Young is sentenced
to eight years for visiting North Korea.

1994 -- US: Kentucky University, drooping under pressure,
agrees to redesign its logo so it looks less like a penis.

1997 -- Italy: 200,000 Communists
demonstrate for a 35-hour work week.

"Workers in the United States are putting in more hours than
anyone else in the industrialized world."

— United Nations' International Labor Organization (ILO)

2001 -- US: Congress gives police sweeping new powers to search
homes & business records secretly & eavesdrop on phone & computer
conversations.

Odd how those conservatives who "hate big government" & its
intrusions always make it bigger & more intrusive, & how liberals
who claim to "defend" civil rights are so quick to give them up.

2003 -- England: The 22nd London Anarchist Bookfair.

__________

"The glittering treasure you are
hunting for day & night lies buried
on the other side of that hill
yonder."

— B. Traven,
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TravenB.htm

__________

— anti-CopyRite 1997-666, more or less, & without (probly)
reservation(s)

Daily Bleed for October 23rd, Bitches.

"Mon cheminement à travers cette période trouble m'amène,
malgré tout, à ignorer le pessimisme qui est à l'homme ce
que l'hiver est à la nature. Or les pires froids n'ont jamais
empêché le printemps de revenir, ni l'été de mûrir les moissons,
et les plus abondantes seront toujours celles d'hommes forts
et d'esprits libres..."?

— Marcel Body, Un piano en bouleau de Carélie


Daily Bleed, in full:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1023.htm

excerpts:

OCTOBER 23 -- RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
Chronicler of the Street in the French Revolution.
Inventor of the term "communism."

San Juan, Capistrano: SWALLOWS DEPART.
Probly no place left to poop.

FEAST OF FOOLS. And you know who you are.

FESTIVAL OF FORGOTTEN GODS. Ditto.

______________________________


1734 -- Lazy Boy?: French writer, early communist
theorist, Restif de la Brettone lives.

"Chronicler of the Street" during the French Revolution,
inventor of the term "communism". Monsieur Nicolas,
Number 48 on Kenneth Rexroth's list in Classics Revisited.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm

1804 -- William Blake writes to William Hayley:

"Dear Sir, excuse my enthusiasm or
rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual
vision whenever I take a pencil or
engraver into my hand...."

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/saints/StBlakeWilliam.htm

1874 -- Germany: Otto Rühle lives. Left council communist
of the Spartacist League (anti-Leninist, it included Liebknecht,
Luxemburg, Mehring, et al).

1887 -- England: Huge crowds, gathering daily in
London's Hyde Park & Trafalgar Square to hear
speeches, turn into mobs.

1894 -- Marcel Body lives. Wrote for the
anarchiste & pacifist press.

"Pessimism is for man as winter is with nature.
Yet the worst cold never prevented spring from
returning, nor the summer to mature the harvests,
& most abundant always will be those of strong
men & free spirits... "

— Un piano en bouleau de de Carélie

1903 -- US: First attempt to test anti-anarchist immigration
act: At an event at Murray Hill Lyceum, where Emma Goldman
is scheduled to speak, the Brit John Turner is
arrested. Turner was "detained" on Ellis Island until deported,
with the words "Let freedom ring" burning his ears.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/04ref.htm#06/1904

1920 -- Spain: In Badalona several Cenetistas are arrested.
Part of an orchestrated attack on the best revolutionary labor
militants during this period, marked by targeted arrests & murders,
sponsored by business interests, rightwingers & the Catholic Church.

1926 -- US: Suffragette Olympia Brown dies
Daily Bleed Saint 1998. American suffragist
leader, women's rights activist.

1927 -- Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia lives (d.2005), Frisco, California.

Expelled from a junior high school for “intellectual delinquency”.

http://www.litkicks.com/PhilipLamantia/

1939 -- Author Zane Grey dies when his heart
attacks him, in an ambush from behind a rock.

1956 -- Hungarian Revolution erupts, spontaneous
workers' councils form, state capitalism is threatened,
Russian tanks called in.

250,000 people, many students, workers & soldiers,
demonstrate in Budapest in support of the insurrection
in Poland.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#23/1956

1962 -- England: 124 arrested in demonstrations at US & USSR
embassies in London against Cuban Missile Crisis. Nice turn out,
considering this crisis has the world on the edge of nuclear
destruction.

"Don't you hear the H-bomb's thunder /
Echo like the crack of
doom?"

— John Brunner,
science fiction author,
wrote the "CND anthem"

1973 -- US: Eight impeachment resolutions introduced
in the House. Dick's in trouble again & they
be kickin' his tires hard.

1978 -- Cut & Run?: "The Stories of John Cheever"
published to great acclaim but Cheever remarks:

"A collection of short stories is...for the elderly
writer who wants to display the trophies of his
youth, along with the trout flies."

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cheever.htm

1987 -- US: B-a-a-d to the Bone?: Senate rejects Acting
President Reagan's nomination of Bobby Bork to the
Supreme Court. Says one observer of Bork's failure to
win over undecided senators,

"The dogs just didn't like the food."

1987 -- Tahiti: Slumming in Paradise? Slum dwellers
& youth go on a rampage of looting, smashing & burning
in the business & tourist quarters of the capital.

1995 -- No Art-a-Chokes?: Rapper Tone-Loc is
ordered to take an anger management class after
fighting a pizza delivery person (Anne Chovey?)
over a pizza he didn't like.

1998 -- US: Dr. Barnett Slepian, a 51-year-old doctor
providing abortion services, is shot & killed in Amherst,
NY, in front of his wife & child, by anti-abortion
"pro-life" (sic) terrorists.

1999 -- US: You Are Being Watched For Your Own Safety...
http://www.notbored.org/ap.html

_______________

"A Criminal is a person with
predatory instincts without sufficient
capital to form a corporation."

— Clarence Darrow

_______________

— anti-Catchup 1997-3666, more or less
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/shirtlimits.gif

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Daily Bleed for October 21st

"Let there be joy in baseball
again, like in the days when Babe
Ruth chased an enemy
sportswriter down the streets of
Boston & ended up getting drunk
with him on the waterfront &
came back the next day munching
on hotdogs & boomed homeruns
to the glory of God."

— Jack Kerouac, "Escapade," July, 1959

Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1021.htm

excerpts,

OCTOBER 21 -- ANTE CILIGA
Croatian born Left-Communist, anti-Stalinist theorist.

BABBLING DAY.

FESTIVAL OF PARLOR SHAMANISM.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/bushWave.gif

______________________________


1663 -- US: Jesus Smokes 'em? John Harlow fined 50 lbs
of tobacco for missing church in Warwick, Virginia.

Secondhand smoke is not a problem. If
children don't like to be in a smoky
room, they'll leave. (As for infants,)
... at some point, they crawl.

— Charles Harper, chairman, RJR Tobacco Company

1772 -- Romantic poet/critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge lives.

1796 -- First parachute jump, from a balloon, Paris, France.
(Don't know the result, probably don't want to know.)

O, gentlemen, the time of life is short!...

— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I

1835 -- US: Blasphemy? Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
narrowly escapes death after being attacked by a Boston mob
infuriated by his pronouncement that "all men are created equal."
Apparently white guys aren't made that way in Boston.

1894 -- French Guyana: Tonite a prison revolt breaks out,
organized by the quite large group of French anarchists
imprisoned there.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#21/1894

1909 -- In a Free Speech fight, Emma Goldman loses in the
"City of Brotherly Love".

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the
people who make them unsafe."

— Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief & mayor of Philadelphia

1917 -- Jazz bop great Dizzy Gillespie lives.

1920 -- Italy: About 25 delegates of the Unione Sindicale Italiana
(USI, a syndicalist union 300,000 strong), meeting at Bologna,
are all arrested.

With the tide of fascism on the rise, this is part of a
government crackdown against the union & numerous
anarchist organizations & publications, which results in
the jailings of hundreds of activists, among them Armando
Borghi, Virgilia d'Andrea, Errico Malatesta, & the editorial
staff of newspaper "Umanita Nova".

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BorghiArmando.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MalatestaErrico.htm

1920 -- Spain: Cenetista Ramón Jaume Mateu is attacked by
"Pistoleros del Libre" (rightwing assassins supported by anti-labor
business & the Catholic Church). Attacks such as these against
militant workers are common during this period.

1921 -- Massive demonstrations all over Europe in support
of Sacco & Vanzetti. In Paris 10,000 police
& 18,000 soldiers attempt to control the crowds.

1929 -- US: Ursula LeGuin lives. Science
fiction/fantasy novelist, activist, anarchist.

"You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make
the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It
is in your spirit or it is nowhere."

— Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed

1939 -- France: Serge Livrozet lives. A burglar sent
to prison numerous times who became an libertarian & writer
who, after meeting Biker Michel Foucault, formed the
"Comités d'Action des Prisonniers". Livrozet wrote a dozen
books involving the world of prison life.

1954 -- US: No Pinko Shorts? Indiana State Athletic
Commission rules boxers & wrestlers must swear, under
oath, that they are not Communists.

Oafs of the ropes, these "artistes of the epithet" are
stunned by the imposition of a new language barrier.
Speechless in Indiana...

1966 -- Wales: 144 die as a coal waste landslide
engulfs a school in South Wales.

"A corporation cannot be ethical; its
only responsibility is to turn a profit!"

— Milton Friedman, "free-market" economist

1967 -- US: Yippies, Diggers, anti-authoritarians & other
high priests meet in Washington DC for "Exorcism of the
Pentagon" to rid the world of the global evil spirit virus
infecting all who work there.

1969 -- Beat writer Jack Kerouac, On the Road
no more, dies, age 47, of abdominal bleeding
caused by drinking...

REMEMBERING JACK KEROUAC

Writers are, in a way, very powerful indeed.
They write the script for the reality film. Kerouac
opened a million coffee bars & sold a million pairs
of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his
pages. Now if writers could get together into a real
tight union, we'd have the world right by the words.
We could write our own universes, & they would all
be as real as a coffee bar or a pair of Levis or a prom
in the Jazz Age. Writers could take over the reality
studio. So they must not be allowed to find
out that they can make it happen. Kerouac understood
this long before I did. Life is a dream, he said.

— from White Fields Press Published in
Heaven Poster Series #10. Poster includes photo
"Allen Ginsberg taking photograph of
William S. Burroughs: Lawrence, Kansas
1992" courtesy of Allen Ginsberg.

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kerouac.htm

1992 -- Ante (or Anton) Ciliga, philosopher/Left Communist,
libertarian sympathizer, dies.

While in one of Stalin's prisons, Anton Ciliga observed
that "technical questions of organization turned out to
be social questions."

— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

"Neither God nor Master, a voice from the depths of
my subconscious whispered. Perceptible, firm, imperative.
The portrait of Lenin from the table of my cell was torn in
thousand pieces & tossed into the trash can... "

— Anton Ciliga

1994 -- ANARCHY IN THE UK 94 - London festival
TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
The biggest anarchist festival with over 500 events
throughout, Oct 21- 30th.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#21/1994

1994 -- Seattle Spoonster, Artis the Spoonman,
plays the Fillmore.

Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman

— Soundgarden

2000 -- Netherlands: Second Anarchistische
Boekenmarkt, Utrecht. Inspired by the long-running
annual Bookfair in London.

2006 -- England: 26th Anarchist Bookfair, London.
Largest & most important regular gathering of anarchists
in the world. 80 stalls through four rooms.

____________

"They were Bad Boys, Subterraneans, Dharma Bums,
White Negroes, living in disreputable neighborhoods,
eschewing real jobs, dressing to make a statement,
engaging in "free love," doing drugs, boogying to a
different drummer, taking as their heroes dubious
characters like Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, Baudelaire
& Oscar Wilde, & their own outlaw demimonde
as their literary country...

American science fiction [became] sole surviving heir
through destiny & circumstance to Twain & Miller &
Burroughs & Ginsberg & Kerouac, to Huck Finn &
Billy the Kid & the Dharma Bums, to America's own
secret song of itself."

— Norman Spinrad, "Science Fiction & the Beats"

Spinrad's full article at:
https://www.sff.net/people/normanspinrad/beats.htm


____________


— anti-CopyRite 1997-3666, more or less

Daily Bleed for Oct. 19th

Daily Bleed, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1019.htm

Excerpts,

OCTOBER 19 -- LU XUN
Famed Chinese writer of rebellion & revolution.

FEAST OF THE WICKED SCAM.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/warsham.gif


1745 -- Irish satirist & scatological critic Jonathan Swift,
77, dies, Dublin. Declared of unsound mind, lonely, paralyzed.
He  would have a made a fine American.

1878 -- Henry James spends an awkward afternoon with
George Eliot & George Henry Lewes. As James leaves,
Lewes, not realizing he is talking to the author of the volumes,
thrusts a pair of blue bound volumes — the first edition of
The Europeans — into his hands, saying,
"Take them away, please, away!"

1895 -- Architect & culture critic Lewis Mumford lives.
Universal humanist, a philosophical fountainhead for
the organicist & environmentalist movements of today.
http://www.albany.edu/mumford/About_us/who_is_lm.html
http://library.monmouth.edu/spcol/mumford/mumford.html

1899 -- Guatemala: Miguel Angel Asturias lives,
Guatemala City. Poet, novelist, diplomat,
winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asturias.htm
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/asturias-bio.html

1910 -- France: Death of Luigi Lucheni found hung in his cell.
Anarchist advocate of "propaganda by the deed"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/LucheniLuigi.htm

1923 -- War Resister's League founded by Jessie Wallace Hughan.
http://www.awomanaweek.com/hughan.htm
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG026-050/DG040WRL.html

1936 -- Chinese revolutionist, writer Lu Xun
dies, Shanghai.

                   LU XUN
                   Famed Chinese writer of rebellion &
                   revolution. Daily Bleed Saint, 19998.

1938 --  Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson musical "Knickerbocker
Holiday" opens, NY.

1946 -- First exhibition of the work of Josef Nassy, an
American citizen of Dutch-African-Jewish descent, is held in
Brussels. Consists of 90 paintings & drawings rendered while
in a Nazi-controlled internment camp during World War II.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005677

1966 -- US: Ken Kesey, back from Mexico, arrested.

1969 -- Japan: Thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters
                    paralyze the streets of Tokyo.

1977 -- South Africa: 18 organizations working for black
liberation closed down by government.
http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?include=docs/misc/2010/umzabalazo.html

1981 -- US: California state senator John Schmitz tells a TV
interviewer that if Reagan's policies fail, "the best we could
probably hope for is a military coup or something like that."
He explains that he is talking about "a good military coup,
not a bad military coup."

1996 -- US (More or Less): I was a little worried when I
got to the Blue Moon Tavern in Seattle [today].

                             Sorry, We're open!

    Not only was my luggage lost & I was trusting United Airlines
    to get it to the bar (& me) that evening, but the crowd didn't look
    like your usual Stale Urine fan club: mostly older, single men in
    their late 30s or early 40s. I was guessing that hard-rockin' '70s
    bands would be more their style, not experimental performance
    art industrial nerds.

     http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/bluemoon.htm

2001 -- Mexico: Digna Ochoa (1964-2001) assassinated.
Abogada, incansable defensora de los Derechos Humanos,
asesinada el 19 de  octubre de 2001 en la Ciudad de México.

2005 -- Iraq: Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for
crimes against humanity. Next up, George W. Bush?
http://www.peterwerbe.com/bushpages.html
   

                                    __________

                             "Free thought, necessarily
                            involving freedom of speech &
                         press, I may tersely define thus:
                           no opinion a law  — no opinion a
                                       crime."

                             — Alexander Berkman

                                    __________

              — anti-CopyRite 1997-3009, more or less

Daily Bleed for Oct. 17th

she becomes what
they ask her they

put their
pens deep in

& she sucks
them dry

— Lyn Lifshin, "Madonna of the Interview"
Uzzano Number Four. Winter, 1977.

Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1017.htm

Excerpts,

OCTOBER 17

NIKOLAI CHERNYSHEVSKY
Premier 19th-century revolutionary theorist, social critic.

Japan: KANNAME-SAI HARVEST FESTIVAL

BLACK POETRY DAY.

Isle of Ely, England: ST. AUDREY'S (origin of
"Tawdry") FAIR.

______________________________

1727 -- Political maverick John Wilkes
("Essay on Women") lives. Apocryphal interchange with
Lord Sandwich, when the latter sputters:

"Wilkes, you will die of a pox or on the gallows,"

to which he replies:

"That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace
your lordship's mistress or your lordship's
principles."

1760 -- Henri Saint Simon, French utopian theorist, lives.

1883 -- Anti-authoritarian educator A.S. Neill lives.
Establishes his school, Summerhill, with Lyme
Regis, in England.

1889 -- Chernyshevsky, Russian radical critic, dies.
He helped lay the basis for revolutionary
populism. Wrote What is to be Done?,
a political novel that influenced two generations of
Russian intelligentsia.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm

1892 -- David Edelstadt (1866-1892), American
Yiddish anarchist & poet, dies.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/EdelstadtDavid.htm

1903 -- Nathanael West lives, New York City.
American writer who satirized in his books the
American Dream, & who attracted attention after
World War II first in France.

With the rise of consumerism & commodity
fetishism the distinction between image & reality
is critically blurred. West was one of the first
writers to see this situation developing.
The Day of the Locust ...depicts the consequences
of the blurring of the line between substance
& image.

The wooden horse, Balso realized as he walked
on, was inhabited solely by writers in search of an
audience, & he was determined not to be tricked
into listening to another story. If one had to be
told, he would tell it.

— from The Dream Life of Balso Snell

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nwest.htm

1920 -- John Reed, American radical journalist, dies
in Moscow at age 32. Chronicled Mexican & Soviet
revolutions. Wrote Ten Days That Shook the World.

"The leaders die, but the cause lives on."

1930 --

This mining town I live in is a sad & lonely place
Where pity & starvation is pictured on every face!

Some coal operators might tell you the hungry blues are not there.
They're the worst kind of blues this poor woman ever had.

— Aunt Molly Jackson, mother, miner's wife,
songster, "Ragged Hungry Blues"

On the 17th morning in October my sister's little girl waked
me up early. She had 15 little ragged children & she was
taking them around to the soup kitchen ...

You could track them to the soup kitchen
by the blood.

After they had passed by I just set down to the table &
began to wonder what to try to do next. Then I began to
sing out my blues to express my feeling. This song comes
from the heart and not just from the point of a pen."

1930 -- Germany: Thomas Mann gives his speech
"An Appeal to Reason" — Nazis disrupt it.

1933 -- Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from
Nazi Germany.

"To the Village Square we must carry the facts
of Atomic Energy. From there must come
America's Voice."

— Albert Einstein

1936 -- Spain: In Perdiguera (Aragon), the International Group
of the Durruti Column, composed of 250 anarquistas, engage in a
battle against the fascists.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DurrutiColumnEarly.htm

1938 -- Eat Your Heart Out, Foucault?: Deconstructionist
Daredevil Evel Knievel lives. Discovers the true
philosophical meaning & purpose of flying motorcycles.

1939 -- Warren Billings, labor activist, released from
Folsom Prison.

1943 -- France: André Respaut arrested & tortured before
being sent to Buchenwald, where he was known for his courage
& generosity — saving several deportees from death.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RespautAndre.htm

1949 -- Spain: Six antifascist guerrillas, militants of the CNT,
including José Sabater Llopart, are trapped & killed in Barcelona.

José teamed up with his brother "Quico," & the two became the
nightmare of the forces of repression in Catalonia.Their brother
Manuel joined an action group headed by Ramon Capdevila.
http://libcom.org/history/articles/1910-1949-jose-sabate-llopart
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spain/after_afa.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/SabateFrancisco.htm

1950 -- "Salt of the Earth" strike begins in Silver City,
New Mexico; strikers' wives "man" & walk picket lines
for seven months during 14-month strike.

1954 -- Composer/anarchist John Cage's "34' 46.776"
premiers, Donaueschingen.

1957 -- French-Algerian author Albert Camus awarded
Nobel Prize for literature. Camus wrote for many years for
the anarchist & left wing press in France.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#17/1957

1960 -- Thierry Maricourt lives. Poet, novelist, anarchiste,
with numerous reference works to his credit.

1961 -- Paris police massacre over 200 Algerians
protesting against police oppression & the curfew
imposed against their community in Paris.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#17/1961

1966 -- "The Diggers," holds
its first free street feed in Frisco.

1979 -- S. J. Perelman dies in New York. American
humorist, master of wordplay. Brother-in-law of Nathanael
West (see 1903 above).
http://www.ralphmag.org/perelman.html

1985 -- Legendary jazz & blues singer Alberta Hunter
dies, NY City. Achieved fame in Chicago jazz clubs in
the 1920's, toured Europe in the 1930's &, after over
20 years anonymity as a nurse, returned to performing
in 1977.

2005 -- Ba Jin (formerly Pa Chin) dies.
Chinese novelist, discovered anarchism with the reading
of Kropotkin & Emma Goldman & created his pseudonym
Ba (from Bakunin ) & Jin (from Kropotkin). Cruelly
persecuted by the Chinese communists, a contender for
the 2001 Nobel Prize. In 1966 he was again in disgrace,
his writings condemned as seditious & he.branded as

"A great poisonous weed"

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#25/1904a

_____________

"We have oftener than
once endeavored to attach
some meaning to that
aphorism, vulgarly imputed
to Shaftesbury, which
however we can find
nowhere in his works, that
"ridicule is the test of
truth."

— Voltaire

_____________

— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/fbi.gif

Daily Bleed for October 15th

Under
the paving

stones

the beach...


Daily Bleed in full, more or less
(99 entries, 40 links more or less)
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1015.htm

lessfull excerpts:

OCTOBER 15 -- MICHEL FOUCAULT
Major French philosopher of our day,
conceptual historian of knowledge, madness,
prisons, sexuality, selfhood. Biker Dude.

Saragossa, Spain: PARADE OF THE GIANTS (20-30 feet
high) & Dwarves (man-sized, with enormous heads), with
Moorish dances & fireworks.

MUSHROOM DAY. & you know who you are.

NATIONAL GROUCH DAY -- What!*?! We need a day?

_____________________________________________


1814 -- Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, lives.
Exiled twice to the Caucasus because of his libertarian verses.

1842 -- During this month Michael Bakunin's "Reaction in
Germany" is published.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Bakunin.htm

1844 -- Friedrich Nietzsche lives.
German philosopher/poet, wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra.

NIETZSCHE, 1998 Daily Bleed Sweetheart

"One must have chaos within oneself, if
one is to be a dancing star."

1881 -- Humorist P.G. Wodehouse, author of the Jeeves
stories, lives.

1896 -- France: Célestin Freinet lives. Pedagogist, founder
of the Coopérative de l'Enseignement Laïc (C.E.L),
author of "The French Modern School." Influenced
Spanish artist Ramón Acin, who founded a school based
on the ideas of Ferrer & Freinet. His partner Elise, also a
militant educator, carried on his work following his death.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FreinetElise-Celestin.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/AcinRamon.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco.htm

1902 -- France: André Prudhommeaux lives. Early communist,
then an anarchist, he founded a Paris bookshop specializing
in social history — & the scene of many lively debates.

1902 -- Spain: Amparo Poch y Gascon lives (1902-1968).
Spanish anarquista feminist, propagandist for sexual freedom.

Studied sociology & medicine. Worked with women's
education & in 1936, with Mercedes Comaposada & Lucia
Sanchez, she founded "Mujeres Libres" (Free Women).

1915 -- US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Free Speech fight in Fresno in de Land of de Free.

1920 -- Italy: Errico Malatesta arrested. He is held responsible,
as is Armando Borghi, for workers' factory occupations in Milan
during the summer.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#15/1920

1920 -- Russia: Les makhnovistes & les bolcheviques signent
un accord de collaboration contre les troupes du général Wrangel.
Soon the treacherous Bolsheviks will turn on the makhnovistes.

1923 -- Italian cyber-fabulist Italo Calvino lives. Calvino
broke with the Communist Party during the tragic uprisings
in Hungary in 1956.
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#Authors

1926 -- Harley-Semiotic?: French biker-philosopher
Michel Foucault lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

1926 -- Japan: Nakahama Tetsu executed for
anti-government acts, including a plan to assassinate
Prince Hirohito. Member of the Girochin Sha.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GuillotineSociety.htm

1933 -- US: Liberal Mabel Carver Crouch, during this
month, begins working furiously for Emma Goldman's
readmission to the "Land of the Free".
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#15/1933

1936 --
"Detroit Moan"
Victoria Spivey &
the Chicago Four,
10/15/36

Michigan's black population of 17,000 in 1910 soared
to over 117,000 in the 1920s. Borrowing from the practices
of Southern plantation patriarchs, Henry Ford paid black
workers $1 a day in 1931 & invested the other $3 owed them
into 'communal enterprises' in the subdivision called Inkster.

— Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s"
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0730.htm#HenryFord

1937 -- One time New Christy Minstrels member, gravelly
voiced singer of "Eve of Destruction," Barry McGuire lives.

New blood was always being added
to the group, while seasoned musicians went off to make
careers of their own. Famous alumni include: Kenny
Rogers, The "First Edition", Karen Black, John Denver,
Roger McGuinn & Gene Clark, Kim Carnes & many,
many more.

1957 -- Guy Debord's "Remarques sur le concept d'art expérimental"
(Remarks on the Concept of Experimental Art), a critique of the text
"Pour un concept d'expérimentation musicale" (Toward a Concept of
Musical Experimentation) by Walter Olmo of the Situationist
International's Italian Section.

1958 -- Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums is published; Kerouac,
with Allen Ginsberg, meets D.T. Suzuki.

1959 -- US: Robert Crumb's "Fritz the Cat" comic strip premiers.

1961 -- Belgium: 7,000 march for nuclear disarmament, La Louviere.

1969 -- Millions of Americans across the US demonstrate
against the Vietnam War in the first Vietnam
Moratorium/Peace Day held in the US

1969 -- England: Imperial War Museum gutted by
incendiary device.

1979 -- El Salvador: President Romero deposed by a military
coup (February 1981 — US admits to having sent 18 advisers
to help the military junta. El Salvador leftists claim 100 US advisers.)

1984 -- US: Associated Press reports the existence of a
CIA-prepared terrorist manual advising rightwing Nicaraguan rebels
how to blackmail unwilling citizens into supporting their cause,
arrange the deaths of fellow rebels to create martyrs &
how to kidnap & kill (or as the manual puts it, "neutralize")
government officials.

"Come the counterrevolution, there will be a massacre
in Nicaragua. We have a lot of scores to settle. There
will be bodies from the border to Managua."

— Contra officer, "Newsweek," November 8, 1982

1990 -- Rocky Mountain High!?: Abandoned barrels of military
psychotomimetic contaminates Denver's water supply.

1997 -- Going for Broke?: Songster/mystery writer Kinky
Friedman is given a key to the City of Ft. Worth at
"Books & Authors" luncheon of the Friends of the Ft.
Worth Public Library

"This is my childhood dream come true," Kinky said after
receiving the key. He says he is the only non-land-owning,
cigar-smoking, mystery-writing, cat-loving, Irish
whiskey-swigging, Jewish country musician & sex symbol
from Palestine (Texass, that is) to ever receive a key to
the City of Ft. Worth.

1998 -- Two days ago radio host Art Bell disappears
from the airwaves (Big Ol' UFO got him)...

1999 -- Doctors Without Borders wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

2004 -- No More Trout¿: Kilgore Trout dies at midnight tonight,
suicide by Dra-no Trout in Cohoes, New York, following his
consultation with a psychic, who informed him that George W.
Bush would win the US Presidential election by a vote of 5-to-4
in the Supreme Court.

The Final Ride

The act of dying
is like hitch-hiking
into a strange town
late at night
where it is cold
& raining,
& you are alone
again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgore_Trout

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"Under capitalism man exploits man;
under socialism the reverse is true."

— Ancient Polish proverb


"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."

— Fredy Perlman,
Against His-story, Against Leviathan!

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm

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— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less

Daily Bleed for October 13th

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

Purveyors of Useless and Forbidden Knowledge

We received an email from one of our regular customers the other day expressing a discomfort with one of the titles we have in stock, "Uncle Fester's Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture", which led to some soul searching. Here is the text of those email exchanges.

"I propose that selling books about how to produce methamphetamine is
immoral and unethical.  Is this the way Last Word Books is revolutionizing
our community?  You have a karmic responsibility for the suffering that
will result from your decision.  Meth is a destroyer.  It turns people
into devils.  Tweekers will be the zombie armies of the future, and we
will all suffer as a result of your choices here.  Do not cash in on
suffering.  That's what Capitalists do."


To which we (or rather I) responded, saying thus:


"What is immoral and unethical? How to produce methamphetamines, or how to disrupt/destroy/overthrow a government? While both may fit the category of immoral/unethical activity, they are sources of knowledge. The interesting thing about Uncle Fester books (the guy who wrote the meth books in question) is that it takes a serious amount of knowledge of chemistry to be able to do anything. Uncle Fester also wrote about manufacturing LSD. Do you have a problem with that? I know, I know: it isn't the same thing. But I will posit a small caveat, if you will. Meth, or speed in general, is horribly destructive to a person's body/soul/anima because it is such a cheep, nasty drug. What if there were people who made it in the same way as craftsmen made chairs or books or LSD?

That isn't the same, I know. I, personally, have had discussions with my business partners about the ethicality of selling such books much to no avail. But were I to say this or that is ethical or not, I would be judging. While I enjoy doing so on a great number of occasions, I try not to judge based on the idea of knowledge. There is a whole category of logic dedicated to this fallacy which I won't go into now. Suffice it to say, knowledge is dangerous. Books on Ninjutsu sold to young boys can equally cause harm and damage and it must be assumed that certain titles in the wrong hands can cause a great deal of suffering.

We come to this then: There are books which no one should read. Should we then destroy them? Does that not make them more valuable and sought after? Does that not cause the exact opposite of the desired effect, namely the reduction of methamphetamine consumption? Should we not show those would-be meth heads what goes into the drug? How it is cooked? What it can do to your body? We also carry a title about the demonization of heroin, which supports the fact that heroin usage can be done in a manner that does not cause horrible addiction and death. Shall we burn that one, too? Where do we stop?

I understand what you are saying. But, in truth, we don't make money off selling books about the manufacture of methamphetamine. We make money (if only a little) off selling books in general. We discern and recognize patterns in individual's reading habits; what they like, or don't like; what they might want to read in the future, et cetera. That is not to say we graduate children from reading Treasure Island to manufacturing highly addictive drugs. We make choices. We keep the book in the case and only rarely have sold a copy, and even then to someone with an interest in chemistry and not for the purpose of manufacturing. There have been a few times when we have sold the book to someone looking to make meth, only to have them come back and say they don't understand what's in the book. Ha ha on them, then. They thought they were getting an Idiot's Guide to Methamphetamine Manufacture."

Then, I started thinking about what others might have said on this subject. Here are a few links to articles discussing similar titles (some of which we also carry) and whether or not they should be "censored". Read on:

http://matadornetwork.com/life/should-these-books-be-banned-censored/


http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/log/2000/09/18/anarchy/index.html


What do you think? We'd love to hear your responses.