EXTRA! EXTRA! Daily Bleed for February 29th

"What! all those children perched on my wall?"
With eight shots, Mr. Olive, a Toulon
property-owner made them scramble down,
covered with blood.

— Félix Fénéon's news item,
translated by Edward Morris for
Evergreen Review, no.13, 1960

No there is no 29th this year, but every Daily
publishes an "Extra, Extra!" now & zen.

February 29

A Day Without a Saint!
(Think of it as a vacancy reserved just for you)

LEAP YEAR DAY — to remind us that all calendars, like maps,
are particularist interpretations of subjective 'realities'.

FEAST OF THE BLUE MOON.

"Gimme a pigfoot & a bottle of beer..."
"Gimme a reefer & a gang of gin..."

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-12 -- The day before the last February 30th in the Roman
(Julian) calendar.

Hey, take the day off, it's on us!!

486 -- Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies laughing.

1788 -- Australia: Flower Power? James Freeman, Sydney, is
pardoned for stealing flour, on condition he become
public executioner.

1800 -- This is the second February 29 dropped by the Gregorian calendar.

Hey, take the day off, it's on us!!

1900 -- This is the third February 29 dropped by the Gregorian calendar.

Hey, take the day off, it's on us!!

1920 -- France: Le Libertaire annonce la mort du chansonnier
anarchiste Paul Paillette.

1944 -- Félix Fénéon dies. Art critic,
anarchist & friend of Seurat, Paul Signac, Theo van
Rysselberghe, Henri-Edmond Cross, André Gide, et al.


1956 -- Mexico: Simón Radowitzky (Szymon Radowicki) dies. Legendary
Polish anarchist who killed police chief Ramon Falcon & his
secretary with a bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#14/1909

2000 -- Some computer software may not recognize this date.

(Especially those of you trying to read the Daily Bleed
without a monitor. Also helpful if'n you plug your computer
in one of these days.)


2100 -- This is the 4th February 29 dropped by the Gregorian calendar.

Hey, take the day off, it's on us!

2200 -- This is the 5th February 29 dropped by the Gregorian calendar.

Hey, take the day off, it's on us! We'll see you TOMORROW on the 30th!

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— Away from this kingdom, from this last undefiled
place, I would keep our governments, our civilization,
& all other spirit-forsaken & corrupt institutions.

— Kenneth Patchen, excerpt from
"There Are Not Many Kingdoms Left",
The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen
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— Anti-31st of February, 1997-February 32nd 3000