no butterflies"
Amanda 'Goldilocks' Johnson
Daily Bleed in full, updated, in real color (if
your monitor supports such wanton extravagance):
http://www.recollectionbooks.
text excerpts, in true black & white of it:
JANUARY 6
COMANDANTA RAMONA
Zapatista leader, military commander of
the taking of San Cristóbal, Chiapas, México on January 1, 1994.
FEAST DAY OF ST. BALTHASAR: Patron
saint of playing card makers. He was also
invoked against epilepsy – as well he
might, epilepsy being a serious handicap
for card-players.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
OLD CHRISTMAS DAY. Still celebrated on Foula in the
Orkneys, & in the Gwaun valley south-east of Fishguard;
they are surviving British examples of resistance to
calendar reform & work.
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1832 -- French illustrator Gustave Dore lives.
1854 -- Sherlock Holmes lives ... loves his cocaine.
1858 -- Sébastien Faure lives, Saint-Etienne, France.
Studied to be a Jesuit priest. Closely associated with
Louise Michel, he became a major figure in his own right,
& one of the best-known anarchistes in the country.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1878 -- Carl Sandburg lives.
American poet, historian, novelist & folklorist,
whose works are deeply rooted in the life of common
people.
A labor organizer, editor of a business magazine,
published articles in the International Socialist Review
& later joined the staff of the Chicago Daily News.
His poems started to appear in Harriet Monroe's magazine
"Poetry." In 1918 he visited Sweden & was accused
upon his return of supporting the Bolsheviks in Russia
by Federal authorities. From 1945 he lived as a farmer
& writer, breeding goats & folk-singing.
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm
going but I'm on the way."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/
1883 -- Poet Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet) lives,
Bisharri, Lebanon.
1912 -- Christian anarchiste & author Jacques Ellul lives,
Bordeaux, France.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1915 -- British-American free religionist, mystic Alan Watts
lives, Chiselhurst, England. Wrote Book on the Taboo.
Daily Bleed Saint, 2002:
ALAN WATTS
The original California guru, polymath, liberationist.
http://deoxy.org/watts.htm
1916 -- US: Strike at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plant
declared by the 8,000 workers. Tomorrow the strikers'
wives & other members of their families join in protest
outside the factories.
Company guards employ tear gas bombs & fire into the crowd;
three strikers are killed & 25 others wounded.
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"Youngstown Strike" is one of Gropper's (one of the Ashcan
School of illustrators) most compelling works.
Gropper visited Youngstown during the 30s when similar strikes
were occurring, & commented on the incident in an article & a
series of descriptive action sketches published in "The Nation."
http://recollectionbooks.com/
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1927 -- Nicaragua: Marines re-invade to again "protect
US interests" after ending a 13-year occupation.
US Marines land, then forget to leave. US airplanes
bomb haphazardly, destroying villages.
Marines roam the forests, between abysses & high
peaks, roasted by the sun, drowned by the rain,
asphyxiated by dust, burning & killing all they find.
Even monkeys throw things at them.
Sandino's soldiers bite like jaguars & flit like birds.
When least expected they lash out in a single jaguar
leap, & before the enemy can even react are already
striking from the rear or the flanks, only to disappear
with a flap of wings.
— Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, p68
1931 -- E. L. Doctorow lives. (His historical novel Ragtime,
features such fine citizens as Emma Goldman.)
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1937 -- The Abraham Lincoln Brigade forms to fight fascism in
the Spanish Civil War.
"No man ever entered the earth more
honorably than those who died in Spain."
— Ernest Hemingway
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~
1958 -- e.e. cummings wins the Bollingen Prize for Poetry.
1961 -- This month sees publication of Avantgarde ist unerwünscht!
(The Avant-Garde is Undesirable!)
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/
1982 -- Albert Meister dies, Kyoto, Japan.
Swiss author & anarchist sociologist. Under various
pseudonyms he wrote many works on the problems of
labor associations, workers' self-management &
development in poor countries.
Founder of the international review "Community
Development." In a totally unrelated "field" Meister
& Jacques Vallet founded, in 1977, "Le Fou parle"
("The Insane One Speaks"), a magazine of art & humor.
2006 -- México: Zapatista leader Comandanta Ramona dies,
San Cristóbal, Chiapas.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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At what moment was choice
postponed?
We have let things go.
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— Anti-Hacker 1997-3045
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