Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Group hacks PBS website in WikiLeaks protest
Awesome! Man, PBS just isn't what it used to be before the subtle right-wing takeover.
30 May 2011 A group of hackers angered by a PBS documentary about WikiLeaks has posted a fake news story on the website of the public broadcaster claiming that dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and well. The group, Lulz Boat, attacked PBS' servers on Sunday, posting stolen passwords and other sensitive PBS information alongside a story headlined "Tupac still alive in New Zealand." "We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed," Lulz Boat said, referring to an hour-long documentary that aired on PBS' "Frontline" program on Tuesday.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Daily Bleed Radical Literary History for May 30th
one day we were selling them
so much killing hardware
their governmental teeth
were eroding with the metallic grind
but their appetites increased...
— Grace Paley, excerpt, "Leaflet"
Web double play:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0530.htm
May 30
RANDOLPH BOURNE
Birth-injured Greenwich Village literary radical.
MR BUCKET'S GOT A HOLE DAY.
______________________________
1593 -- Christopher Marlowe, dramatist, poet, brawler, & government agent,
is fatally stabbed with his own dagger in an argument over a tavern bill.
Elizabethan poet-dramatist Christopher Marlowe was not killed in 1593,
but banished; he continued writing under the pseudonym "William Shakespeare."
1814 -- Russia: Anarchist theorist Mikhail Bakunin lives, Prjamuchino.
Conspirator, rival of Marx, assassin of God.
"Inequality of conditions & rights, & the resulting lack of liberty for all,
is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities."
— Mikhail Bakunin
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Bakunin.htm
1883 -- US: Panic on the Brooklyn Bridge, six days after its opening, results in
12 people trampled to death.
1886 -- US: Randolph Bourne lives, (1886-1918). American literary radical, anarchist.
. . . If any man has a ghost,
Bourne has a ghost,
a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak
hopping along the grimy old brick & brownstone streets
still left in downtown New York,
crying out in a shrill soundless giggle:
War is the health of the State.
— John Dos Passos, 1919
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BourneRandolph.htm
1887 -- Julian West goes to sleep.
West had slept for 133 years, three months, & 11 days.
— Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
1901 -- Russia: Maxim Gorky, arrested on charges of printing revolutionary literature, is
released from prison after the anarchist/novelist Leo Tolstoy intercedes on his behalf.
"For all, mother dear, for all! The world is ours!
The world is for the workers!
For us there is no nation, no race.
For us there are only comrades & foes..."
— Maxim Gorky, Mother
1902 -- Belgium: Hem Day lives (1902-1969). Belgian scholar, secondhand bookseller,
pacifist, anarchist, & writer.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DayHem.htm
1904 -- US: Last Chance? Baseball's Frank Chance gets hit by a pitch FIVE times in a doubleheader.
1912 -- US: Two companies of Marines rushed to Nicaragua to "protect US interests."
"So heavy the price that they pay
As daily the fruit it is stolen
Over the blue Caribbean
But the lengthening shadow of Cuba
will hinder the way."
— Phil Ochs, "United Fruit"
http://goodfelloweb.com/werbe/oats.htm
1937 -- US: Police murder 10 fleeing workers, wound 30 more, & beat 55 so badly they
require hospitalization, during the "Memorial Day Massacre" at the Republic Steel
plant in south Chicago.
It was a day for parades, picnics & boat-rides — & tear-gas, bullets & death.
http://www.trussel.com/hf/memorial.htm
1943 -- US: San Antonio, Texass bureaucrats shut down the Chili Queens,
now memorialized every year on Memorial Day.
The Chili Queens didn't take any back talk from men & were blind to segregation —
after all, they were minorities themselves. Each night this diverse melting pot
of cultures would eat & sing the night away, not as foes, but as equals...
Hail to the Queens!
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#30/1943
1968 -- France: Trains don't run, airports closed; millions of workers have barricaded
themselves within their factories & offices; soccer players have occupied their stadiums;
there is no mail & it is almost impossible to make a phone call; Universities are closed;
France is in the middle of a massive General Strike! Leading politicians warn of a civil
war/revolution.
1969 -- US: 20,000 rally in a peaceful protest in Berkeley, California, to oppose state
suppression of People's Park, put flowers on the fences.
http://www.peoplespark.org/history.html
1980 -- Switzerland: Beginning of the "movement of the discontented," youth rebellion in
Zurich, spreading throughout the country, involving thousands — young & not so young — in
demonstrations & confrontations with police, demanding places where they would be free to
meet & share counter-cultural experiences. Escalated into broader demands, one being
"No Leaders!," & another being:
"Make Cucumber Salad Out of the State!"
1993 -- Ark-Angel, composer Herman "Sunny" Blount dies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra
_______________________________________________________
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is
like the condemned man who is proud of his cell."
— Simone Weil
_______________________________________________________
— Anti-daily the fruit it is stolen 1997-2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Daily Bleed Radical Literary History for May 28th
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)
— Theodore Roethke
excerpt, I Knew a Woman, Lovely in Her Bones
Web hotline:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0528.htm
May 28
GAMEL WOOLSEY
American belle-lettriste, chronicler of the Spanish Revolution.
FEAST OF ZEROWORK
Every 50 years the Ancients observed the jubilee —
a time of renewal when all slaves were freed, all debts
were canceled, all prisoners were released, all fields
lay fallow, & all laborers observed feast days & festivals
of zerowork!
http://cartoliste.ficedl.info/local/cache-vignettes/L400xH266/arton932-f4ea0.jpg
______________________________
1835 -- US: Bound To Last?: The Ladies Shoe Binders Society
is formed in New York.
1871 -- France: The The Paris Commune, initiated two months ago,
is today finally crushed; some 20,000 people are executed by the
government. (But, let us speak of murderous anarchists & terrorists....)
End of the "Bloody Week" (Semaine Sanglante). The slaughter
includes the anarchist bookbinder, Eugene Varlin (1839-1871).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#28/1871
1879 -- US: First American law prohibiting employment of women —
Illinois, in coal mines.
1897 -- Italy: Camillo Berneri lives. Professor of philosophy,
propagandist & anarchist militant & theorist.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BerneriCamillo.htm
1905 -- US: Playing Foul? NY police arrest 200 for playing baseball on Sunday.
1917 -- Author Edgar Rice Burroughs enlists in the Illinois reserve militia.
Wants to fight on Mars.
1924 -- Spain: The "Torturer of Barcelona," Rogelio Pérez, is killed by
anarchists, during uprisings sparked by the revolt in Vera de Bidassoa.
1941 -- US: Animated Cartoonists? Workers strike Walt Disney studios after
he fires union activists. Disney would drive through the mass of picketing
workers at the gates of the studios, on one occasion leaping out of his car
to attack Art Babbitt. The cartoonists wona the strike, some receiving pay
increases of nearly 50%.
1955 -- US: The two-hour work week is predicted by Albert Whitehouse of the
United Steelworkers of America. Great Psychic. Most steel workers are now
lucky to get any hours.
1958 -- US: Catholic anarchist Ammon Hennacy ends 40-day fast against US
nuclear weapons tests.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/HennacyAmmon.htm
1959 -- Charlie?: US Army launches two monkeys into space (Able & Baker).
Ask yourself this: Where was Elvis?
1968 -- France: The rejection of the Grenelle accords yesterday — together
with the anti-capitalist effigies hung outside the factories — show that
many workers are fighting for more than better conditions of wage slavery.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#28/1968
1985 -- US: Vanity Fair magazine, with a photo of Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader President Ronnie "Where's My Brain" Reagan & First Lady
Nancy "Where's My Astrologer" smooching on the cover, are removed from sale.
"Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. "
— Ed Abbey
1992 -- Spain: A half-day general strike is called in Spain.
Been me, would have been for the whole
1995 -- Italy: "To Sever & Destroy"? A CIA agent is arrested for a
1969 terrorist bombing.
1999 -- Billionaire George Soros predicts the US cannot bomb the world
into submission.
Lost His Job, last we heard.
& his Psychic Hotline number?
....out of service last we heard.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/bomb_lg.gif
2000 -- England: Anarchist history tour: in drizzling rain, several van
loads of London & Metro police officers, a couple of motorcycle cops & a
group of our flat footed friends trail behind (as usual!) 30-40 people
through the streets of London's East End.
Those gathered were on a tour of anarchist history; we can
only guess that the coppers were swatting for their ‘Know Your Reds’
exams or looking to become antiauthoritarian rebel outcasts.
Tour continues here:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#28/2000
2009 -- China: Artist/dissident Ai Weiwei, whose blog was read by
10,000 people every day, is shut down by the government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Ai_Weiwei
__________________________
— Auntie-Anti-Smooching 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Daily Bleed Radical Literary History for May 26th
"No man is an island entire of itself...any man's death
diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; &
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee".
— John Donne
Web version: http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0526.htm
excerpts:
MAY 26
JACOB RIIS
Compassionate photographer, champion of the poor.
FEAST OF VOODOO ECONOMICS. (See under US federal budget.)
______________________________
1788 -- A No-Brainer?: Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby
without a brain: Ayn Rand?
1851 -- US: San Francisco Stevedores & Longshoreman's strike.
1871 -- France: Paris Commune (Bloody Week). Battles at the
Bastille & Villette, the Communards are defeated this evening at
Belleville & Père Lachaise. The Versailles forces assassinate
casualties in their ambulances; a crowd seeks revenge by
executing 50 hostages on rue Haxo, despite the protests of Eugene
Varlin.
I know too the last heavy maggot;
And know the trapped vertigo of impotence.
I have traveled prone and unwilling
In the dense processions through the shaken streets . . .
— Kenneth Rexroth, "From the Paris Commune
to the Kronstadt Rebellion" (1936)
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/RexrothParisCommune.htm
1878 -- American modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan lives, San
Francisco. Daily Bleed Saint.
1894 -- Western Federation of Miners (WFM) strike for eight-hour
day in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/HAY_WFM.JPG
1895 -- Socially-aware photographer Dorothea Lange lives, Hoboken,
New Jersey.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/mmLange.jpg
1914 -- US: In Los Angeles, Emma Goldman continues delivering
propaganda & modern drama lectures (May 15-June 11), which
includes discussion of Irish playwright Seamus O'Kelly.
Her propaganda lectures include "Revolution & Reform—
Which?" & "The Place of the Church in the Labor Struggle."
Goldman reports to birth-control advocate Margaret
Sanger that "Not one of my lectures brings out such a
crowd as the one on the birth strike & it is the same
with the W[oman] R[ebel]." (May 26, 1914).
1920 -- US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Marine Transport Workers strike, Philadelphia.
1933 -- Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) dies.
"Tea for Texass, Tea for Thelma,
Tea for Ice-Tea, gonna be the
death of me..."
— Jimmie Rodgers
1937 -- US: Battle of the Overpass in Detroit Michigan, involving
Walter Reuther & the United Auto Workers (UAW).
Henry Ford's opposition to collective bargaining is in
evidence on this day in 1937, when company goons attack
United Auto Workers (UAW) organizers at the "Battle of
the Overpass" outside of the River Rouge plant. Though
General Motors & Chrysler signed collective bargaining
agreements with the UAW in 1937, Ford held out until 1942.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0730.htm#HenryFord
1937 -- US: "Little Steel" strike.
Over 600 workers maintained a mass picket through
the night. By daybreak, the huge mill, which normally
employed 6500 workers, was a ghost town.
1938 -- US Under the Bed Check?: House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAC) begins its (dirty) work. Over the
next 30 years its "legislative" function & record will be the most
dismal in US history. Kinda strange word that, work.
The HUAC hearings were degradation ceremonies.
Their job was not to legislate or even to discover
subversives ...
A successful status-degradation ceremony must be fueled by
moral indignation. The anti-Communist hysteria of the cold
war provided an ideal environment.
1944 -- France: Insurrectional General Strike against the Nazis
is called in Marseille; A US bombing raid on Marseille kills
6,000 in the workers' districts.
1945 -- Japan: 50 km of Tokyo are ablaze after US B-29
terrorist bombing raids on civilians (WW II).
1946 -- Snake Oil?: Patent filed in US for H-Bomb. Corners the
market in yet another sub-category of "Weapons of Mass Destruction".
1954 -- US: Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend use of atomic weapons
in Indochina.
1958 -- England: Jerry Lee Lewis plays the third & last of what
should have been a 37-date tour. The "London Morning Star"
runs an editorial calling him "an undesirable alien" & demands his
deportation. That night, Lewis is booed from the stage. The next
day, gone.
"GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!"
1963 -- Greece: Voted Down With Tires?: Gregory Lambrakis,
pacifist & member of Greek Parliament, is run down & killed
by military police in Salonika.
1966 -- Bob Dylan & the Hawks rock the Royal Albert Hall in
London. Attendees include the Stones, some Beatles, etc. The
concert, heard on various bootleg albums, substantiate claims
that this is one of the high-water marks of live rock & roll.
1968 -- France 68: The May Days continue. The General
Strike has paralyzed the government, which is on the verge
of collapse.
"Every intelligent person now realizes that there is
something radically wrong with the social system under
which we are living.
...The argument for the General Strike is based on the
persistent & very logical working class conviction that the
ruling class will refuse to permit itself to be dispossessed
by any power weaker than its own & that public opinion,
political action & insurrection therefore will not be
permitted to be developed or used to any appreciable
extent."
— Ralph Chaplin, The General Strike (1933)
1972 -- US: 911?: First "Watergate break-in" attempt by
agents of Dick "I am not a Crook" Nixon's Committee to
Re-elect the President (CREEP) fails.
CIA/Keystone Kop operatives E. Howard Hunt &
Virgilio Gonzales spend the night hiding in
a staircase in the Watergate complex.
Dumb, but dedicated, tomorrow night another attempt to
pick the lock fails. They finally succeed on their third
try the following night, but the tap they put on Democratic
Chairman Lawrence O'Brien's phone fails to operate.
1991 -- 20,000 in Arab-Jewish peace rally, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1996 -- US: Seattle songster Jim Page plays the Speakeasy Cafe
(burned out in May 2001 — the cafe, not Page).
Staunch supporter of Real Change & the StreetLife Art Gallery,
Page also led the move to legalize street singing in Seattle when
the city government tried to outlaw busking.
Jim Page is acerbic, powerful, poignant, clever &
very funny — & can improvise a song in a flash.
He reveals the nuances, twists & turns of political &
everyday life in songs that are crafted to be engaging,
one interesting lyric at a time
Two songs can be heard online:
Whose World is This
http://www.liquidcity.com/sounds/jimpage/world.ram
Stranger In Me
http://www.liquidcity.com/sounds/jimpage/stranger.ram
Of Seattle songwriter Jim Page, the Grateful Dead's
Robert Hunter has said,
"If Jim Page ain't the bastard son of Woody Guthrie,
I'm T-Bone Walker!"
__________________
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
__________________
— @nti-ClimbingTallBuildings 1997-2011
(Also, the little bitty ones...
ditto climbing...)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never!
By Bill McKibben, Published: May 23
Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised the most active April for tornadoes in U.S. history). No, that doesn’t mean a thing.
It is far better to think of these as isolated, unpredictable, discrete events. It is not advisable to try to connect them in your mind with, say, the fires burning across Texas — fires that have burned more of America at this point this year than any wildfires have in previous years. Texas, and adjoining parts of Oklahoma and New Mexico, are drier than they’ve ever been — the drought is worse than that of the Dust Bowl. But do not wonder if they’re somehow connected... Read More...
Daily Bleed Radical Literary History for May 24th
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0524.htm
Text excerpts:
MAY 24
ZO D'AXA
French individualist anarchist, military deserter, writer, traveler.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/D'AxaZo.htm
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT DAY.
If all women are disarmed, only ....
______________________________
1856 -- US: Abolitionist John Brown, whose "truth goes marching on,"
leads six men in the killing of five pro-slavery Kansans at Dutch
Henry's Crossing on the Pottowatomie River, Kansas.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#24/1856
1861 -- Leo Tolstoy, visits Turgenev, is shown proofs of Fathers
& Sons. Tolstoy, after skimming a few pages, falls asleep as
Turgenev looks on.
1864 -- Zo D'Axa lives. French lampoonist, publisher, writer &
anarchist propagandist. Published "La Feuille," & ran an ass in
the elections, which caused street brawls.
http://photomaniak.com/upload/out.php/i165431_F2.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/D'AxaZo.htm
1874 -- Spain: Bull Algarrobo flees the bull ring in Cordova
with a woman on one horn & a policeman on the other.
1879 -- American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison dies.
1899 -- Henri Michaux lives (1899-1984). Belgian-born French
painter, journalist, & lyric poet, who revealed the inner world
by dreams, fantasies & drugs. His poems show his interest in
Surrealism & emphasize the impossibility to make sense of life.
1917 -- Canada: Mass demonstration against impending
draft calls, Montreal, Quebec.
1921 -- Beginning of the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti, anarchist
labor organizers, in Massachusetts. Their execution was the
culmination of a five-year government campaign to crush
political dissidents (particularly socialist & anarchist workers)
in the Land of the Free..
Here's to you, Nicola & Bart
Rest forever here in our hearts
The last & final moment is yours
That agony is your triumph
"Here's To You"
(Lyrics by Joan Baez, Music by Ennio Morricone)
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/vanzettipoem.htm
1933 -- Jimmie Rodgers, knowing he only has a few days left
to live, records 12 of the 24 songs for his last album.
"Tea for Texass, Tea for Thelma, Tea
for Ice-Tea, gonna be the death of me..."
1940 -- Poet Joseph Brodsky lives, Leningrad. Early poems earned
him a reputation as a free thinking writer & he was convicted as
a 'social parasite' & sentenced to five years hard labor —
commuted in 1965 after protests.
1941 -- Singer/songwriter, antiwar folkie, Robert Zimmerman lives.
1943 -- Bulgaria: March against anti-Semitism leads to stop
in Jewish deportations.
1944 -- US: Shoichi James Okamoto is shot to death at Tule Lake
concentration camp by a guard after stopping a construction truck
at the main gate for permission to pass.
Private Bernard Goe, the guard, is acquitted after
being fined a dollar for "unauthorized use of government
property" — a bullet.
1945 -- Japan: The US makes a massive terror bombing on
Tokyo. This criminal act of terrorism against civilians is not
considered a war crime in the US.
1949 -- US: Labor honcho Victor Reuther is shot & nearly killed
at his Detroit home by a cop.
1959 -- US: First house with built-in bomb shelter,
Pleasant Hills (sic), Pennsylvania.
DUCK'N'COVER!
1963 -- Elmore James suffers a fatal heart attack in Chicago,
age 45. Probably the most influential electric blues guitarist
of all time.
DUST MY BROOM!
1964 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Barry Goldwater,
running for President, proposes using nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
He sees a way brighter light at the end of the tunnel.
1968 -- Belgium, Germany, Italy, Chile: University occupations &
confrontations with authorities. In France such occupations have
led to a general strike of 9 million workers. As one person notes,
"The undertakers went on strike...
"NOW IS NOT A GOOD TIME TO DIE"
1968 -- France '68: By today, barely two weeks after the great
demonstration of May 13, approximately 10 million workers are
on strike. Immense demonstrations continue to occur, while the
government plans to call out the army.
In the evening battles break out in the streets & on the
barricades near the Lyon Station in the Latin Quarter.
In the provincial towns brawls break out.
1968 -- Nantes, France: the whole movement & events
of 1968 reach a pinnacle.
For a week the city & surrounding area is controlled
by workers themselves. The old guardians of power
& authority look on helplessly as workers control their
own lives.
1968 - US: Four protesters, including Philip Berrigan & Tom
Lewis, jailed six years each for pouring blood on draft cards,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Meanwhile the blood senselessly pours in SE Asia.
1970 -- US: "San Francisco Chronicle" reports Yevtushenko's
poem, "Flowers & Bullets," dedicated to 19-year-old Allison
Krause, one of four students killed by the National Guard
at Kent State University on May 4, has been printed in Pravda,
the Russian Communist party newspaper. It's theme is based on
her having put a flower on a National Guardsman's rifle
the day before her death, claiming that,
"Flowers are better than bullets."
See Flowers & Bullets & Freedom to Kill,
City Lights Books, 1970
1974 -- Jazz great Duke Ellington dies.
Daily Bleed patron saint 2006-2008
Big band composer, bon vivant, jazz genius.
1982 - Japan: Over 200,000 people participate in massive
anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo.
1983 -- US: Robert Toye, a blind man, is arrested for 17 bank
robberies, New York.
1984 -- New Zealand: Largest national gathering of women
in anti-nuclear demonstration, Aukland.
1985 -- Mexico: Strip Mining?? Miners in Hidalgo strip naked &
strike for 75 minutes; the company agrees to their naked demands.
1990 -- US: Bomb injures Earth First! members, Oakland, California.
Police arrest the victims!!
1993 -- Tibet: China uses tear gas on 2,000 anti-government
protesters, Lhasa.
2000 -- Canada: 10,000 Alberta health-care workers begin
an illegal strike.
_____________________
The more things change, the more they remain the same Department:
"Corrupted by wealth & power, your government is like a
restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican
waiters on one side & a set of Democratic waiters on the other
side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the
legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street
kitchen."
— Huey Long
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/300_globe-dollar.jpg
_____________________
— Anti-Copyrite 5000 or thereabouts (exact change, please)
Text excerpts:
MAY 24
ZO D'AXA
French individualist anarchist, military deserter, writer, traveler.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/D'AxaZo.htm
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT DAY.
If all women are disarmed, only ....
______________________________
1856 -- US: Abolitionist John Brown, whose "truth goes marching on,"
leads six men in the killing of five pro-slavery Kansans at Dutch
Henry's Crossing on the Pottowatomie River, Kansas.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#24/1856
1861 -- Leo Tolstoy, visits Turgenev, is shown proofs of Fathers
& Sons. Tolstoy, after skimming a few pages, falls asleep as
Turgenev looks on.
1864 -- Zo D'Axa lives. French lampoonist, publisher, writer &
anarchist propagandist. Published "La Feuille," & ran an ass in
the elections, which caused street brawls.
http://photomaniak.com/upload/out.php/i165431_F2.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/D'AxaZo.htm
1874 -- Spain: Bull Algarrobo flees the bull ring in Cordova
with a woman on one horn & a policeman on the other.
1879 -- American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison dies.
1899 -- Henri Michaux lives (1899-1984). Belgian-born French
painter, journalist, & lyric poet, who revealed the inner world
by dreams, fantasies & drugs. His poems show his interest in
Surrealism & emphasize the impossibility to make sense of life.
1917 -- Canada: Mass demonstration against impending
draft calls, Montreal, Quebec.
1921 -- Beginning of the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti, anarchist
labor organizers, in Massachusetts. Their execution was the
culmination of a five-year government campaign to crush
political dissidents (particularly socialist & anarchist workers)
in the Land of the Free..
Here's to you, Nicola & Bart
Rest forever here in our hearts
The last & final moment is yours
That agony is your triumph
"Here's To You"
(Lyrics by Joan Baez, Music by Ennio Morricone)
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/vanzettipoem.htm
1933 -- Jimmie Rodgers, knowing he only has a few days left
to live, records 12 of the 24 songs for his last album.
"Tea for Texass, Tea for Thelma, Tea
for Ice-Tea, gonna be the death of me..."
1940 -- Poet Joseph Brodsky lives, Leningrad. Early poems earned
him a reputation as a free thinking writer & he was convicted as
a 'social parasite' & sentenced to five years hard labor —
commuted in 1965 after protests.
1941 -- Singer/songwriter, antiwar folkie, Robert Zimmerman lives.
1943 -- Bulgaria: March against anti-Semitism leads to stop
in Jewish deportations.
1944 -- US: Shoichi James Okamoto is shot to death at Tule Lake
concentration camp by a guard after stopping a construction truck
at the main gate for permission to pass.
Private Bernard Goe, the guard, is acquitted after
being fined a dollar for "unauthorized use of government
property" — a bullet.
1945 -- Japan: The US makes a massive terror bombing on
Tokyo. This criminal act of terrorism against civilians is not
considered a war crime in the US.
1949 -- US: Labor honcho Victor Reuther is shot & nearly killed
at his Detroit home by a cop.
1959 -- US: First house with built-in bomb shelter,
Pleasant Hills (sic), Pennsylvania.
DUCK'N'COVER!
1963 -- Elmore James suffers a fatal heart attack in Chicago,
age 45. Probably the most influential electric blues guitarist
of all time.
DUST MY BROOM!
1964 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Barry Goldwater,
running for President, proposes using nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
He sees a way brighter light at the end of the tunnel.
1968 -- Belgium, Germany, Italy, Chile: University occupations &
confrontations with authorities. In France such occupations have
led to a general strike of 9 million workers. As one person notes,
"The undertakers went on strike...
"NOW IS NOT A GOOD TIME TO DIE"
1968 -- France '68: By today, barely two weeks after the great
demonstration of May 13, approximately 10 million workers are
on strike. Immense demonstrations continue to occur, while the
government plans to call out the army.
In the evening battles break out in the streets & on the
barricades near the Lyon Station in the Latin Quarter.
In the provincial towns brawls break out.
1968 -- Nantes, France: the whole movement & events
of 1968 reach a pinnacle.
For a week the city & surrounding area is controlled
by workers themselves. The old guardians of power
& authority look on helplessly as workers control their
own lives.
1968 - US: Four protesters, including Philip Berrigan & Tom
Lewis, jailed six years each for pouring blood on draft cards,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Meanwhile the blood senselessly pours in SE Asia.
1970 -- US: "San Francisco Chronicle" reports Yevtushenko's
poem, "Flowers & Bullets," dedicated to 19-year-old Allison
Krause, one of four students killed by the National Guard
at Kent State University on May 4, has been printed in Pravda,
the Russian Communist party newspaper. It's theme is based on
her having put a flower on a National Guardsman's rifle
the day before her death, claiming that,
"Flowers are better than bullets."
See Flowers & Bullets & Freedom to Kill,
City Lights Books, 1970
1974 -- Jazz great Duke Ellington dies.
Daily Bleed patron saint 2006-2008
Big band composer, bon vivant, jazz genius.
1982 - Japan: Over 200,000 people participate in massive
anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo.
1983 -- US: Robert Toye, a blind man, is arrested for 17 bank
robberies, New York.
1984 -- New Zealand: Largest national gathering of women
in anti-nuclear demonstration, Aukland.
1985 -- Mexico: Strip Mining?? Miners in Hidalgo strip naked &
strike for 75 minutes; the company agrees to their naked demands.
1990 -- US: Bomb injures Earth First! members, Oakland, California.
Police arrest the victims!!
1993 -- Tibet: China uses tear gas on 2,000 anti-government
protesters, Lhasa.
2000 -- Canada: 10,000 Alberta health-care workers begin
an illegal strike.
_____________________
The more things change, the more they remain the same Department:
"Corrupted by wealth & power, your government is like a
restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican
waiters on one side & a set of Democratic waiters on the other
side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the
legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street
kitchen."
— Huey Long
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/300_globe-dollar.jpg
_____________________
— Anti-Copyrite 5000 or thereabouts (exact change, please)
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Daily Bleed for May 22nd
Web version, in full, 82 entries:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0522.htm
Excerpts:
MAY 22
SUN RA
Ark-Angel, musician from Saturn, via Birmingham.
Islam: NIGHT OF THE TREE OF EXTREMITY.
This tree has a leaf with a name on it for every person on earth.
On this night it is shaken.
If your leaf falls, you will die
in the coming year. Many prayers said in mosques.
______________________________
1805 -- Esoteric poet, proto-surrealist Gerard de Nerval lives, Paris.
1807 -- US: Burr-in-the-Saddle?: former Vice-President Aaron Burr
on trial for treasonably "assembling an armed force...to seize the
city of New Orleans...& to separate the Western from the
Atlantic states."
1813 -- German composer, anti-semite Richard Wagner lives.
Once seen stomping around the revolutionary barricades with
Mikhail Bakunin...
1845 -- American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt lives.
1856 -- US: Democracy in Action?: Congressman Preston Brooks
of South Carolina visits the floor of the Senate & beats Senator
Charles Sumner (Mass.) unconscious with a gutta-percha cane, as
two Georgia senators stand idly by. Sumner was incapacitated for
three & a half years.
1868 -- US: First train robbery in the world, in Indiana, when the
Reno gang makes off with 98,000 buckaroonies.
1871 -- France: "Bloody Week" — the brutal suppression of the
Paris Commune — enters its second day. Delescluze declares the
hour of revolutionary war has sounded.
Remember now there were others before;
The sepulchres are full at ford and bridgehead.
There will be children with flowers there,
And lambs and golden-eyed lions there,
And people remembering in the future.
— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt, "From the Paris Commune to the
Kronstadt Rebellion" (1936)
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/RexrothParisCommune.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#22/1871
1884 -- One-armed baseball pitcher Hugh Daily fans 13 hitters.
1885 -- Victor Hugo dies in Paris. Mourned as a national hero &
buried in the Pantheon.
1895 -- Railroaded?: Eugene V. Debs imprisoned for his role in the
Pullman railway strike, Woodstock, Illinois.
1895 -- Indian religious leader Jiddu Krishnamurti lives.
"Truth is a pathless land, & you cannot approach it by any path
whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless,
unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be
organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to
coerce people along any particular path."
1901 -- Italy Gaetano Bresci found dead in prison, "suicided"
by his guards. Italian-American anarchist who assassinated King
Umberto I.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BresciGaetano.htm
1906 -- US: Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane.
http://www.paperplane.org/
1925 -- Surrealist painter, sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)
lives.
1930 -- Birth of gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Killed by whacko
Dan White, who got a couple years in jail using the famous defense,
"It was the Twinkies I ate made me do it."
1938 -- Warren S. Van Valkenburgh (1884-1938) dies of a heart
attack. American anarchist editor ("Road to Freedom" & "Spanish
Revolution"). The Road to Freedom Group included Rose Pesotta,
Walter Starrett (pen name for Van Valkenburgh), Sadie Robinson
(secretary of the group), Lisa Brilliant & others.
1939 -- Despite success as playwright & poet, Ernst Toller hangs
himself in his Manhattan hotel room, convinced his plays are
passé. A German Expressionist involved with other writers &
anarchists in forming an insurrectionary Bavarian government.
Forced to flee Nazi Germany. Wrote Man & the Masses (1920).
"History is the propaganda of the victors."
The anarchist pacifist Ernst Friedrich helped form a
"Revolutionary Pacifist Group" whose membership
included such figures as Kurt Tucholsky, Walter
Mehring, & Toller.
(Julian Beck, Judith Malina & The Living Theatre
perform "Masse Mensch" in the late 1970s).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FriedrichErnst/FriedrichErnst.htm
1939 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leaders Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel."
Steel, of course, refers to their gonads. Pity the fools who follow
their leaders...as these governments, & those under B&RCL
Churchill, B&RCL Roosevelt, B&RCL Hirohito & B&RCL
Buck Truman soon wage the most horrific reign of terrorism
in the 20th century with weapons of mass destruction purposely
targeting whole cities of civilians (Warsaw, Dresden, London,
Nagasaki, Hiroshima, etc.)
1947 -- The manifesto "Freedom is a Vietnamese Word",
published in the anarchist paper "Le Libertaire", signed by
the surrealists Bonnefoy, Bousquet, Breton, Peret, Tanguy &
10 others, condemning the French imperialistic adventure in
Indochina.
1948 -- Black American writer Claude McKay dies,
Chicago, Illinois.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
1954 -- Mine's Bigger than Yours?:
Bobby Zimmerman is Bar Mitzvahed.
"A friend of my mother's who attended Minnesota
during Dylan's frat boy days... [said] he met Dylan
more than once, & all he ever talked about was how
he had the biggest Bar Mitzvah in the history of Hibbing."
1955 -- Domino Effect? Cops in Bridgeport, Connecticut cancel
a scheduled dance headlined by Fats Domino, because, authorities
say "rock & roll dances might be featured."
1957 -- US: Heads Up, India!: 10 megaton hydrogen bomb accidentally
falls from a bomber in an uninhabited area near Albuquerque owned
by the University of New Mexico.
Non-nuclear explosives
detonated, blasting a crater 12 feet deep & 25 feet across. Its
10-megaton nuclear charge miraculously does not detonate,
narrowly averting horror for New Mexico. The bomb is hundreds of
times more powerful than the one that had leveled Hiroshima. No
one was injured, but radiation was detected in the crater.
1958 --
Remember the list of fatal military accidents we came up
with?
Wasn't that in 1958? If so, here is another one:
Nike missiles explode, Leonardo, NJ; 10 die.
— BleedsterBob
1967 -- Hoods?: Premiere of Public Broadcasting System's longest-
running children's program, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood".
1968 -- France '68: In the Latin Quarter of Paris the police (the
"forces of order") & the students clash.
1968 -- US: NY City police raid of student occupations at Columbia
University results in 998 arrested, over 200 injured.
1969 -- Langston Hughes ("I, Too, Sing America") dies in New York.
A foremost champion of the black experience in America & poet of
the Harlem Renaissance. A target of that august poetry reading group,
HUAC.
1970 -- England: Bomb discovered at the new Paddington police
station in London: during the later trial, the prosecution claim
this is the first "Angry Brigade" action. Major Yallop (head of
laboratories at Woolwich Arsenal) admits to forensic work on
1,100 bombings in England between 1968 & 1971.
Busy days indeed.
1996 -- You've Lived the Life — Now See the Movie!
GUY DEBORD'S
"The Society of the Spectacle":
____________________________________________________
90 minutes. French videocopy. Pacific Film Archive,
Berkeley, Wednesday, 22 May 1996, 7:30 p.m.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/Debordfilm.htm
____________________________________________________
1998 -- Johnny Depp movie "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" opens.
2001 -- In a letter to Greenpeace, Coca Cola Spain says it fully backs
the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
— Anti-CopyRite 1997 & counting forward
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0522.htm
Excerpts:
MAY 22
SUN RA
Ark-Angel, musician from Saturn, via Birmingham.
Islam: NIGHT OF THE TREE OF EXTREMITY.
This tree has a leaf with a name on it for every person on earth.
On this night it is shaken.
If your leaf falls, you will die
in the coming year. Many prayers said in mosques.
______________________________
1805 -- Esoteric poet, proto-surrealist Gerard de Nerval lives, Paris.
1807 -- US: Burr-in-the-Saddle?: former Vice-President Aaron Burr
on trial for treasonably "assembling an armed force...to seize the
city of New Orleans...& to separate the Western from the
Atlantic states."
1813 -- German composer, anti-semite Richard Wagner lives.
Once seen stomping around the revolutionary barricades with
Mikhail Bakunin...
1845 -- American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt lives.
1856 -- US: Democracy in Action?: Congressman Preston Brooks
of South Carolina visits the floor of the Senate & beats Senator
Charles Sumner (Mass.) unconscious with a gutta-percha cane, as
two Georgia senators stand idly by. Sumner was incapacitated for
three & a half years.
1868 -- US: First train robbery in the world, in Indiana, when the
Reno gang makes off with 98,000 buckaroonies.
1871 -- France: "Bloody Week" — the brutal suppression of the
Paris Commune — enters its second day. Delescluze declares the
hour of revolutionary war has sounded.
Remember now there were others before;
The sepulchres are full at ford and bridgehead.
There will be children with flowers there,
And lambs and golden-eyed lions there,
And people remembering in the future.
— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt, "From the Paris Commune to the
Kronstadt Rebellion" (1936)
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/RexrothParisCommune.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#22/1871
1884 -- One-armed baseball pitcher Hugh Daily fans 13 hitters.
1885 -- Victor Hugo dies in Paris. Mourned as a national hero &
buried in the Pantheon.
1895 -- Railroaded?: Eugene V. Debs imprisoned for his role in the
Pullman railway strike, Woodstock, Illinois.
1895 -- Indian religious leader Jiddu Krishnamurti lives.
"Truth is a pathless land, & you cannot approach it by any path
whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless,
unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be
organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to
coerce people along any particular path."
1901 -- Italy Gaetano Bresci found dead in prison, "suicided"
by his guards. Italian-American anarchist who assassinated King
Umberto I.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BresciGaetano.htm
1906 -- US: Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane.
http://www.paperplane.org/
1925 -- Surrealist painter, sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)
lives.
1930 -- Birth of gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Killed by whacko
Dan White, who got a couple years in jail using the famous defense,
"It was the Twinkies I ate made me do it."
1938 -- Warren S. Van Valkenburgh (1884-1938) dies of a heart
attack. American anarchist editor ("Road to Freedom" & "Spanish
Revolution"). The Road to Freedom Group included Rose Pesotta,
Walter Starrett (pen name for Van Valkenburgh), Sadie Robinson
(secretary of the group), Lisa Brilliant & others.
1939 -- Despite success as playwright & poet, Ernst Toller hangs
himself in his Manhattan hotel room, convinced his plays are
passé. A German Expressionist involved with other writers &
anarchists in forming an insurrectionary Bavarian government.
Forced to flee Nazi Germany. Wrote Man & the Masses (1920).
"History is the propaganda of the victors."
The anarchist pacifist Ernst Friedrich helped form a
"Revolutionary Pacifist Group" whose membership
included such figures as Kurt Tucholsky, Walter
Mehring, & Toller.
(Julian Beck, Judith Malina & The Living Theatre
perform "Masse Mensch" in the late 1970s).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FriedrichErnst/FriedrichErnst.htm
1939 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leaders Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel."
Steel, of course, refers to their gonads. Pity the fools who follow
their leaders...as these governments, & those under B&RCL
Churchill, B&RCL Roosevelt, B&RCL Hirohito & B&RCL
Buck Truman soon wage the most horrific reign of terrorism
in the 20th century with weapons of mass destruction purposely
targeting whole cities of civilians (Warsaw, Dresden, London,
Nagasaki, Hiroshima, etc.)
1947 -- The manifesto "Freedom is a Vietnamese Word",
published in the anarchist paper "Le Libertaire", signed by
the surrealists Bonnefoy, Bousquet, Breton, Peret, Tanguy &
10 others, condemning the French imperialistic adventure in
Indochina.
1948 -- Black American writer Claude McKay dies,
Chicago, Illinois.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
1954 -- Mine's Bigger than Yours?:
Bobby Zimmerman is Bar Mitzvahed.
"A friend of my mother's who attended Minnesota
during Dylan's frat boy days... [said] he met Dylan
more than once, & all he ever talked about was how
he had the biggest Bar Mitzvah in the history of Hibbing."
1955 -- Domino Effect? Cops in Bridgeport, Connecticut cancel
a scheduled dance headlined by Fats Domino, because, authorities
say "rock & roll dances might be featured."
1957 -- US: Heads Up, India!: 10 megaton hydrogen bomb accidentally
falls from a bomber in an uninhabited area near Albuquerque owned
by the University of New Mexico.
Non-nuclear explosives
detonated, blasting a crater 12 feet deep & 25 feet across. Its
10-megaton nuclear charge miraculously does not detonate,
narrowly averting horror for New Mexico. The bomb is hundreds of
times more powerful than the one that had leveled Hiroshima. No
one was injured, but radiation was detected in the crater.
1958 --
Remember the list of fatal military accidents we came up
with?
Wasn't that in 1958? If so, here is another one:
Nike missiles explode, Leonardo, NJ; 10 die.
— BleedsterBob
1967 -- Hoods?: Premiere of Public Broadcasting System's longest-
running children's program, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood".
1968 -- France '68: In the Latin Quarter of Paris the police (the
"forces of order") & the students clash.
1968 -- US: NY City police raid of student occupations at Columbia
University results in 998 arrested, over 200 injured.
1969 -- Langston Hughes ("I, Too, Sing America") dies in New York.
A foremost champion of the black experience in America & poet of
the Harlem Renaissance. A target of that august poetry reading group,
HUAC.
1970 -- England: Bomb discovered at the new Paddington police
station in London: during the later trial, the prosecution claim
this is the first "Angry Brigade" action. Major Yallop (head of
laboratories at Woolwich Arsenal) admits to forensic work on
1,100 bombings in England between 1968 & 1971.
Busy days indeed.
1996 -- You've Lived the Life — Now See the Movie!
GUY DEBORD'S
"The Society of the Spectacle":
____________________________________________________
90 minutes. French videocopy. Pacific Film Archive,
Berkeley, Wednesday, 22 May 1996, 7:30 p.m.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/Debordfilm.htm
____________________________________________________
1998 -- Johnny Depp movie "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" opens.
2001 -- In a letter to Greenpeace, Coca Cola Spain says it fully backs
the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
— Anti-CopyRite 1997 & counting forward
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Local Author Reading Series with Michelle Bellon
Support local authors attempt the impossible~with daring feats of Do and death-defying stunts never before seen in this modern era!!! Okay, we're kidding...sort of. Nevertheless, you should support your local anythings.
Come down Sunday afternoon from 2pm~3pm.
A blurb!
Ten years have passed since that hot July night, when Seth McCullough walked away from Krista Chancellor, his high school sweetheart; determined to keep hishis demons forever when he cut ties and joined the military, dark, tumultuous past from tainting her beautiful light. He thought he had buried but when he begins to suffer debilitating headaches, displacement of time, and horrifying nightmares, he starts to fear for his sanity. Desperate for relief and seeking solace, he takes off for Mexico only to awake one morning confused, bloody, and linked to multiple high profile murders. Suspicion grows as he realizes he is submerged in an agenda too terrifying to comprehend. Determined to find answers, Seth reaches out to the only person he has ever trusted, his old flame Krista, and together they find His Salvation.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Daily Bleed for May 20th
Web version in full, 124 entries (oh, my aching back!):
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0520.htm
A few excerpts:
MAY 20
STANISLAV MARKELOV
Russian human rights lawyer, activist, martyr.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5547721.ece
Old England: BEATING OF THE BOUNDS, ceremonial
perambulation of Parish boundaries. That's bounds, not hounds!
Wicken, England: LOVE FEAST UNDER THE GOSPEL ELM.
Florence, Italy: FESTIVAL OF THE CHIRPING CRICKETS.
FEAST OF ST. LUCIFER.
______________________________
1806 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher & radical reformer, lives,
London. Learns Greek at age three, Latin & arithmetic at eight,
logic at twelve. Like you & me.
1856 -- France: Henri-Edmond Cross (aka Delacroix) (1856-1910) lives.
Neo-impressionist/pointillist painter, illustrator, anarchist.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/CrossHenri-Edmond.htm
1899 - Speed Kills?: Jacob German of NY City is the first driver
ever arrested for speeding. Mr. German was whipping his taxicab
all over Lexington Avenue & going over the posted 12 mile-per-
hour speed limit. Impossible to go that fast in NY these days.
1904 - US warships ordered to Tangiers, Morocco to "protect U.S.
interests." Making Tangiers safe for Paul & Jane Bowles, William
Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, et al?
1911 - Mexico: The anarchist Magonistes of the Parti Libéral
Mexicano publish a proclamation calling for the peasants to take
collective possession of the land in the territories of Lower
California where they have driven out the government, for " a
free & happy life, without Masters or Tyrant".
1913 -- US: Emma Goldman & Dr. Ben Reitman arrested on arrival
in that bastion of "free speech," San Diego, California; vigilantes
surround the police station. Police order Goldman & Reitman to
board the afternoon train back to Los Angeles.
1931 - At the now-famous Parisian bookstore & lending-library
Shakespeare & Company, Anaïs Nin joins up & borrows e.e. cummings'
Enormous Room.
1933 -- US: No Condoms? Rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio.
1937 - Spain: Author & one-time used bookseller George Orwell,
sympathetic to the anarchists, & fighting for the Republic, is shot on
the front lines. His Homage to Catalonia is based on his experiences
during the Spanish Revolution.
"When I see an actual flesh & blood worker in conflict with his
natural enemy, the police[man], I do not have to say which side I
am on."
— George Orwell
1953 -- French General Navarre says he can see "light at the end
of a tunnel" in Vietnam. Can't call him a dim wick...big ol' tunnel.
1959 -- US: Hawaiian protest songster Israel Kamakawiwo'ole lives.
Activist for Hawaiian rights & Hawaiian independence. Best known
for the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Kamakawiwo'ole
1961 -- Wales: Protest demonstration by the CND (Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament), in Aberystwyth.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#20/1961
1964 - US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) wins
free-speech fight, Roosevelt University, Chicago.
1968 - France: The upheavals of 1968 continue: Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader General de Gaulle howls as more
than six million workers are now on strike. France is practically
paralyzed.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#11/1968
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#France68
1969 -- Hold the McMustard?: US troops make their 11th assault in
10 days on "Hamburger Hill," finally capturing it in one of the
Vietnam War's bloodiest battles. The mountain proves of little
strategic value, & is abandoned eight days later.
Plenty of time to pick up the bodies.
1970 -- China: Mao Tse-tung issues People of the World,
Unite & Defeat the US Aggressors & All Their Running Dogs!
1971 -- Chicago lead singer Peter Cetera beaten up by four creeps
at a Cubs baseball game. The men objected to the length of his
hair. Cetera underwent four hours of emergency surgery.
1974 -- Russia: Human rights activist, martyr Stanislav Markelov lives,
Moscow. Shot dead on January 19, 2009 while leaving a news conference.
Anarchist/journalist Anastasia Baburova was also murdered when she
tried to come to his aid.
http://anarkisterna.com/blog/2009/02/19/remembering-anastasia-baburova-and-stanislav-markelov/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Markelov
1989 -- China: Martial law in Beijing ordered to quell the pro-
democracy movement & massive student demonstrations.
1997 -- About 50 activists occupy & prematurely harvest a trial
field of genetically engineered maize (corn), ruining the test.
Schonfeld, Germany.
2002 -- Stephen Jay Gould dies.
Biologist/Paleontologist. Mr. Gould wrote a heck of a
whole lot on evolution & the science of man. He thought
evolution a "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought."
He debated creationists. A baseball fanatic, he appears
in the Ken Burns documentary, "Baseball". Among Stephen's
works are Ever Since Darwin, The Mismeasure of Man, &
The Panda's Thumb.
____________
"Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell
____________
— Anti-PastFuturePresent, 1897, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2024 more or less
http://recollectionbooks.com/
A few excerpts:
MAY 20
STANISLAV MARKELOV
Russian human rights lawyer, activist, martyr.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
Old England: BEATING OF THE BOUNDS, ceremonial
perambulation of Parish boundaries. That's bounds, not hounds!
Wicken, England: LOVE FEAST UNDER THE GOSPEL ELM.
Florence, Italy: FESTIVAL OF THE CHIRPING CRICKETS.
FEAST OF ST. LUCIFER.
______________________________
1806 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher & radical reformer, lives,
London. Learns Greek at age three, Latin & arithmetic at eight,
logic at twelve. Like you & me.
1856 -- France: Henri-Edmond Cross (aka Delacroix) (1856-1910) lives.
Neo-impressionist/pointillist painter, illustrator, anarchist.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1899 - Speed Kills?: Jacob German of NY City is the first driver
ever arrested for speeding. Mr. German was whipping his taxicab
all over Lexington Avenue & going over the posted 12 mile-per-
hour speed limit. Impossible to go that fast in NY these days.
1904 - US warships ordered to Tangiers, Morocco to "protect U.S.
interests." Making Tangiers safe for Paul & Jane Bowles, William
Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, et al?
1911 - Mexico: The anarchist Magonistes of the Parti Libéral
Mexicano publish a proclamation calling for the peasants to take
collective possession of the land in the territories of Lower
California where they have driven out the government, for " a
free & happy life, without Masters or Tyrant".
1913 -- US: Emma Goldman & Dr. Ben Reitman arrested on arrival
in that bastion of "free speech," San Diego, California; vigilantes
surround the police station. Police order Goldman & Reitman to
board the afternoon train back to Los Angeles.
1931 - At the now-famous Parisian bookstore & lending-library
Shakespeare & Company, Anaïs Nin joins up & borrows e.e. cummings'
Enormous Room.
1933 -- US: No Condoms? Rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio.
1937 - Spain: Author & one-time used bookseller George Orwell,
sympathetic to the anarchists, & fighting for the Republic, is shot on
the front lines. His Homage to Catalonia is based on his experiences
during the Spanish Revolution.
"When I see an actual flesh & blood worker in conflict with his
natural enemy, the police[man], I do not have to say which side I
am on."
— George Orwell
1953 -- French General Navarre says he can see "light at the end
of a tunnel" in Vietnam. Can't call him a dim wick...big ol' tunnel.
1959 -- US: Hawaiian protest songster Israel Kamakawiwo'ole lives.
Activist for Hawaiian rights & Hawaiian independence. Best known
for the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1961 -- Wales: Protest demonstration by the CND (Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament), in Aberystwyth.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1964 - US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) wins
free-speech fight, Roosevelt University, Chicago.
1968 - France: The upheavals of 1968 continue: Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader General de Gaulle howls as more
than six million workers are now on strike. France is practically
paralyzed.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1969 -- Hold the McMustard?: US troops make their 11th assault in
10 days on "Hamburger Hill," finally capturing it in one of the
Vietnam War's bloodiest battles. The mountain proves of little
strategic value, & is abandoned eight days later.
Plenty of time to pick up the bodies.
1970 -- China: Mao Tse-tung issues People of the World,
Unite & Defeat the US Aggressors & All Their Running Dogs!
1971 -- Chicago lead singer Peter Cetera beaten up by four creeps
at a Cubs baseball game. The men objected to the length of his
hair. Cetera underwent four hours of emergency surgery.
1974 -- Russia: Human rights activist, martyr Stanislav Markelov lives,
Moscow. Shot dead on January 19, 2009 while leaving a news conference.
Anarchist/journalist Anastasia Baburova was also murdered when she
tried to come to his aid.
http://anarkisterna.com/blog/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1989 -- China: Martial law in Beijing ordered to quell the pro-
democracy movement & massive student demonstrations.
1997 -- About 50 activists occupy & prematurely harvest a trial
field of genetically engineered maize (corn), ruining the test.
Schonfeld, Germany.
2002 -- Stephen Jay Gould dies.
Biologist/Paleontologist. Mr. Gould wrote a heck of a
whole lot on evolution & the science of man. He thought
evolution a "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought."
He debated creationists. A baseball fanatic, he appears
in the Ken Burns documentary, "Baseball". Among Stephen's
works are Ever Since Darwin, The Mismeasure of Man, &
The Panda's Thumb.
"Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past."
— Anti-PastFuturePresent, 1897, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2024 more or less
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Daily Bleed for May 18th
Come & see the blood in the streets,
come & see
the blood in the streets,
come & see the blood
in the streets!
— Pablo Neruda, "I Explain Some Things."
Web version,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0518.htm
excerpts:
MAY 18
AUGUSTO SANDINO
Nicaraguan revolutionary leader, guerrilla, martyr.
VICTORIA DAY.
INTERNATIONAL GOODWILL DAY. Yep.
______________________________
1593 - Kyd Me Not?: Warrant issued for the arrest of
Christopher Marlowe, falsely accused of heresy by his
roommate Thomas Kyd in an effort to save his own ass.
1781 - Tupac Amaru II, leader of Inca Rebellion, Micaela Bastidas
& other leaders, drawn & quartered in the same Peruvian square as his
great-grandfather two centuries before (Plaza Mayor del Cuzco).
1814 - Anarchist activist/philosopher Mikhail Bakunin lives
(Julian calendar; he gets to do it again on the 30th). Karl Marx's
chief nemesis.
Bakunin, like many other Russian anarchists, including
Peter Kropotkin & Leo Tolstoy, is born into the educated class
but will spend his life fighting for the peasantry.
Competing with Marx for leadership of the International
Workingmen's Association, Bakunin believed the Marxist theory
of revolution as a recipe for either parliamentary misrepresentation
or elitist tyranny.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Bakunin.htm
1827 - Josiah Warren opens Time Store in Cincinnati — first
commercial cooperative.
He founded several "equity" stores, based on the idea of exchanging
goods for an equivalent amount of labor and on the principle that cost
should be the limit of price.
See Kenneth Rexroth's chapters on Josiah Warren &
Robert Owen in Communalism
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism6.htm
1855 - George Speed lives, active in the Haymarket defense of the
falsely accused martyrs, Coxey's Army, Pullman Strike, & was an
organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
1872 - Bertrand Russell lives (1872-1970), Wales.
Philosopher, mathematician & social critic, one of the most
widely read philosophers of the 20th century. Awarded a Nobel
in 1950. Outspoken pacifist, imprisoned during WWI. Abandoned
pacifism during WWII, but was a leading figure in the antinuclear
movement. Imprisoned in 1961 for taking part in a demonstration
in Whitehall. A pioneer of logical positivism.
1889 - Gunnar Gunnarsson lives (1889-1975). Prolific Icelandic
writer, who published in Danish to gain a wider audience. With
Guðmundsson & Laxness, among the first internationally known
Icelandic authors.
1895 - Birth of Augusto Sandino, hero of Nicaraguan independence.
Nace en Niquinohomo, Augusto C. Sandino: The magical kings do
not come from distant places to greet his birth, but leave gifts for
the farmer, carpenter, & vivandera passing to market. The midwife
buries the placenta, like a root, in a corner of the orchard. She
buries it in good place, where it will get the full strength of
the sun.
1917 - US: WWI draft enacted. That's how popular the war is,
not enough patriots ready to voluntarily die for flag & pie.
On the same day that the Selective Service Act is passed
authorizing federal conscription for the armed forces &
requiring the registration of all men between the ages of
21 & 30, Emma Goldman addresses an anti-conscription
gathering of close to 10,000 people...
1917 -- Eric Satie ballet "Parade" premiers, Paris, with art
work by Picasso (also a book by Jean Cocteau & choreography
by Leonide Massine). Apollinaire describes Picasso's sets &
costumes as "surrealist" — the first use of the term.
1919 -- Novelist Vladimir Nabokov learns to fox-trot.
1925 - Downhill Races?: First celebration of International
Goodwill Day.
1928 - Big Bill Haywood, IWW & labor activist, dies in lonely
exile, Moscow, USSR.
Radical militant labor leader & a founder of the "Wobblies,"
aiming to organize all workers into "one big union."
1949 - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
incorporates.
1952 -- US / Canada: Which Side Are You on?
Paul Robeson, in dramatic defiance of government's ban on
his leaving US soil, standing on a flatbed truck parked one foot
inside the US border at the Peace Arch, in Blaine, Washington,
speaks & sings to a crowd of 40,000 Canadians & Americans
gathered on both sides of the border.
1965 - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names — including Kirk —
for Star Trek Captain. It will never fly say some.
1968 - France '68: The Wild Days of May continues.
Such was the power of this upswell that tumultuous mass meetings
were called by people in almost every conceivable walk of life. A
mania for organization swept the people. Housing estate (project)
housewives, office employees & highly paid professionals,
astronomers & museum curators, hospital staff members &
people in the most varied workplaces & neighborhoods set up
"action committees" to organize the practical needs of the
struggle as well as the details of daily life, since official
seemed paralyzed.
By the end of May, 450 such committees had sprung up, in Paris
alone, in loose coordination with the Sorbonne General Assembly.
1968 - 10,000 march in Madrid, Spain, erect barricades & clash with
police, in solidarity with revolt in France.
1968 -- Italy: Protests flare up in Rome during the May Days.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#11/1968
1972 - US: Founding of radical senior advocacy group Gray
Panthers. Militant Oldy Moldys.
1979 - US: Silkwood vs. Kerr-McGee case establishes corporations
are responsible for the people they irradiate.
1980 - South Korea: Widespread civilian uprising for democracy
begins in Kwangju.
1980 - US: McDuffie Riots, Liberty City section of Miami, when
four cops are acquitted after killing an innocent black man in
his home. 14 killed, 200 injured.
1981 - Italy: Voters retain one of the most liberal abortion laws
in Europe despite intense pressure from the Vatican.
1984 -- "Under the Volcano" (based on the novel by Malcolm Lowry)
receives a great ovation at Cannes Film Festival.
1986 - David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yard
pool & Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups.
1989 - China: Demonstrations in Tiananmen Square during USSR-
China talks.
1993 -- Mexico: Greenpeace protesters place a gas mask on
statue of Diana, Mexico City.
1995 - Henri Laborit (1914-1995) dies. French libertarian writer
& researcher. Laborit was, in turn, surgeon, biologist,
philosopher, theorist of behavior.
His work revolutionized modern psychiatry, & his studies of
human behavior were adapted to cinema by Alain Resnais in
film "Mon oncle d'Amérique".
Laborit was a familiar figure to anarchist listeners of Radio
Libertaire Paris, where he made numerous broadcasts.
2002 -- Poland: Anarchist Press & Literature Fair, today & tomorrow,
Rozbrat squat, Poznan. Along with publications for sale, display &
trade, the Fair includes lectures, discussions, exhibitions & film
presentations.
Be There & Be Hexed?!
Includes International football game for three teams —
a situationist version of football (devised by the Danish
artist Asger Jorn, meant to disrupt one's everyday idea of football)
in which three teams play together on one hexagonal field.
In an emblematic fashion this [a goal in the team's orifice] perpetuates
the anal-retentive homophobic techniques of conventional football whereby
homo-erotic tension is built up, only to be sublimated & repressed.
Damn anarchists!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_sided_football
See also "The Radical History of Football", from "Do or Die" Issue 9
http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no9/football.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/eu/poland/
2011 -- Canada: Montreal’s 6th International Anarchist Theatre Festival,
featuring Pol Pelletier & artists from Germany & Quebec.
http://anarchistetheatrefestival.com/index_en.php
___________________
"Living never wore one out so much as the
effort not to live."
— Anais Nin
___________________
— Anti-Copyrite 1997-2011 more or less extant
Monday, May 16, 2011
We've gotten a ton of CDs, LPs, VHS, Audio Books and DVDs in recently...
Come get them out of here, they're all cheap cheap cheap!
CDs = $2 - $5
DVDs = $4
VHS = $1 - $2
LPs = $2 and up
Audio Books = $3 & up
The mobile book blogger strikes again!
CDs = $2 - $5
DVDs = $4
VHS = $1 - $2
LPs = $2 and up
Audio Books = $3 & up
The mobile book blogger strikes again!
Daily Bleed for May 16th
How heavy the heart is now, and every heart
Save only the word drunk, power drunk
Hard capsule of the doomed. How distraught
Those things of pride, the wills nourished in the fat
Years, fed in the kindly twilight of the books
In gold and brown, the voices that had little
To live for, crying for something to die for.
The philosophers of history,
Of dim wit and foolish memory,
The giggling concubines of catastrophe —
Who forget so much — Boethius' calm death,
More's sweet speech, Rosa's broken body —
Or you, tough, stubby recalcitrant
Of Fate.
— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt, "Again at Waldheim"
http://bopsecrets.org/rexroth/poems/1940s.htm
Web version, 60 entries in 2002, 83 in 2006, 91 this:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0516.htm
Excerpts:
MAY 16
DJANGO REINHARDT
Belgian-born Gypsy jazz musician, bon-vivant.
ST. BRENDAN'S DAY: Commemorating his sixth-century
voyage from Ireland to ... The Garden of Eden? America?
______________________________
1717 -- France: Voltaire, suspected of writing subversive
satire, is imprisoned for the first time in the Bastille.
1763 -- James Boswell & Samuel Johnson meet in the back of
Tom Davies' London bookshop.
Aware of Johnson's well-known prejudices, Boswell at
this long-waited meeting admits:
"I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it."
1770 -- Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of
France, after a "swept off her feet romance."
She later confesses: "I just lost my head."
(Over 800 people are killed by fireworks at the wedding.)
1871 -- Paris Commune, following the decree of April 12,
destroys the Vendôme Column ("monument de barbarie").
1887 -- Brazil: Maria Lacerda de Moura lives (1887-1945),
Barbacena, Minas Gerais.
Teacher, one of Brazil's first feminists, a journalist &
anarchist writer.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#16/1887
1901 -- Gustave Lefrancais (1826-1901) dies. French
revolutionary, member of the First International, of the
Paris Commune, & a founder of the Jura Federation.
Lefrancais helped Elisée Reclus in producing his famed
Géographie Universelle. Eugene Pottier, who wrote
"The Internationale", dedicated the song to Gustave.
1904 -- US: US Supreme Court upholds the deportation of
British anarchist John Turner.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/04ref.htm#06/1904
1910 -- Henri-Edmond Cross (aka Delacroix) (1856-1910)
dies. French neo-impressionist/pointillist painter, illustrator.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/CrossHenri-Edmond.htm
1912 -- Author Studs Terkel lives, New York City.
1915 -- US: The Modern School retreats from New York City
to rural Stelton, New Jersey, while the Ferrer Center perilously
remains in the city until 1918 when the anti-radical hysteria
following America's entry into the war drove it out of existence.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#16/1915
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ModernSchool.htm
1918 -- US Congress passes Sedition Act against radicals.
Signed into law by Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal
President Wilson on May 21.
1927 -- Booked To Die?: US Supreme Court rules booksellers
must file income tax returns.
1933 -- Swiss-German anarchist, gay writer John Henry Mackay dies.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MackayJohnHenry.htm
1933 -- Germany: The first blacklist of 'unacceptable' books is
declared by National Socialists of the Berlin Librarian Commission.
Among the titles banned by the Nazi's are B. Traven's novels
The Carreta & Government:
"I wish to do my share so that authority
figures & authority worship vanish."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TravenB.htm
1934 -- US: General strike backs Teamsters union strike
for recognition in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Other Minneapolis workers enthusiastically support
the strike. 35,000 building-trade workers & all taxi
drivers walk out in sympathy.
Militant farmers' organizations, meanwhile, contribute
food to the strike kitchen, which feed 10,000 people
a day.
The strike culminates in a May 21st battle against
business goons.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#16/1934
1943 -- The Warsaw ghetto resistance is crushed by the
Nazis. 56,000 die in the process.
1958 -- Eli Beeding experiences 83g deceleration on a
rocket sled, New Mexico. Changes his name to
"Bleeding" we suspect.
1968 -- France, May '68: The upheaval continues, universities,
factories, places of work shut down or occupied. Permanent
forums, going 24-hours a day, developed, open to all,
where float black flags & red flags.
Slogans flower the walls, & poetry takes again its place in the sun.
Certain notions abound, people — strangers — talk to each other,
engage in debate, in the streets, everywhere:
"All is possible "...
The worker's movement continues to spread, with wildcat
strikes & new occupations. Today the workers take over
the works at Renault de Billancourt.
"As soon as the relations of exploitation & the
violence that underlies them are no
longer concealed by the mystical veil, there
is a breakthrough, a moment of clarity, the
struggle against alienation is suddenly revealed as a
ruthless hand-to-hand fight against naked power, power
exposed in its brute force & its weakness, a vulnerable
giant . . . . sublime moment when the complexity of the
world becomes tangible, transparent, within everyone's
grasp."
— Raoul Vaneigem, "Basic Banalities"
(Situationist International Anthology, p. 93)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/7.basic1.htm
1969 -- A Stand-Up Guy?: Pope John Lennon, declared
"an inadmissible immigrant to the US," seeks a visa to
visit America. 10 days ago his "standing visa" was
revoked by the US Embassy.
1972 -- Another Blow for Freedom? Baseball's
Greg Luzinski's 500 foot home run hits the Liberty Bell
monument in Philadelphia.
1979 -- A. Philip Randolph dies. Black labor leader & peace
activist, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
1988 -- Undercover Trashman? US Supreme Court rules trash
may be searched without a warrant.
1989 -- China: 250,000 continue protests in Tiananmen Square.
Protests in Shanghai & five provincial capitals.
2007 -- US: Baristas at the Wealthy St.(!) Starbucks in East
Grand Rapids announce their membership in the IWW Starbucks
Workers Union. Starbucks, notorious for poor treatment of workers,
follows with numerous anti-labor violations & is forced by the
NLRB to settle Grand Rapids union worker complaints in October.
2010 -- Israel: Noam Chomsky, an 81-year-old professor emeritus
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & critic of Israel, is
refused admittance to speak at Berzeit University. This follows a
pattern of refusing to allow United Nations investigator Richard Falk,
Ivan Prado, one of Spain’s most famous clowns, & critics such as
Norman Finkelstein & others into the country.
__________________
When evil is allowed to compete
with good, evil has an emotional
populist appeal that wins out
unless good men & women stand
as a vanguard against abuse.
— Hannah Arendt,
Origins of Totalitarianism
__________________
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were abused & permanently harmed in the production
of the web page (per)version.
— anti-CopyRite 1997-76,000, more or less
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/thief.jpg
Save only the word drunk, power drunk
Hard capsule of the doomed. How distraught
Those things of pride, the wills nourished in the fat
Years, fed in the kindly twilight of the books
In gold and brown, the voices that had little
To live for, crying for something to die for.
The philosophers of history,
Of dim wit and foolish memory,
The giggling concubines of catastrophe —
Who forget so much — Boethius' calm death,
More's sweet speech, Rosa's broken body —
Or you, tough, stubby recalcitrant
Of Fate.
— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt, "Again at Waldheim"
http://bopsecrets.org/rexroth/poems/1940s.htm
Web version, 60 entries in 2002, 83 in 2006, 91 this:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0516.htm
Excerpts:
MAY 16
DJANGO REINHARDT
Belgian-born Gypsy jazz musician, bon-vivant.
ST. BRENDAN'S DAY: Commemorating his sixth-century
voyage from Ireland to ... The Garden of Eden? America?
______________________________
1717 -- France: Voltaire, suspected of writing subversive
satire, is imprisoned for the first time in the Bastille.
1763 -- James Boswell & Samuel Johnson meet in the back of
Tom Davies' London bookshop.
Aware of Johnson's well-known prejudices, Boswell at
this long-waited meeting admits:
"I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it."
1770 -- Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of
France, after a "swept off her feet romance."
She later confesses: "I just lost my head."
(Over 800 people are killed by fireworks at the wedding.)
1871 -- Paris Commune, following the decree of April 12,
destroys the Vendôme Column ("monument de barbarie").
1887 -- Brazil: Maria Lacerda de Moura lives (1887-1945),
Barbacena, Minas Gerais.
Teacher, one of Brazil's first feminists, a journalist &
anarchist writer.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#16/1887
1901 -- Gustave Lefrancais (1826-1901) dies. French
revolutionary, member of the First International, of the
Paris Commune, & a founder of the Jura Federation.
Lefrancais helped Elisée Reclus in producing his famed
Géographie Universelle. Eugene Pottier, who wrote
"The Internationale", dedicated the song to Gustave.
1904 -- US: US Supreme Court upholds the deportation of
British anarchist John Turner.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/04ref.htm#06/1904
1910 -- Henri-Edmond Cross (aka Delacroix) (1856-1910)
dies. French neo-impressionist/pointillist painter, illustrator.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/CrossHenri-Edmond.htm
1912 -- Author Studs Terkel lives, New York City.
1915 -- US: The Modern School retreats from New York City
to rural Stelton, New Jersey, while the Ferrer Center perilously
remains in the city until 1918 when the anti-radical hysteria
following America's entry into the war drove it out of existence.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#16/1915
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ModernSchool.htm
1918 -- US Congress passes Sedition Act against radicals.
Signed into law by Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal
President Wilson on May 21.
1927 -- Booked To Die?: US Supreme Court rules booksellers
must file income tax returns.
1933 -- Swiss-German anarchist, gay writer John Henry Mackay dies.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MackayJohnHenry.htm
1933 -- Germany: The first blacklist of 'unacceptable' books is
declared by National Socialists of the Berlin Librarian Commission.
Among the titles banned by the Nazi's are B. Traven's novels
The Carreta & Government:
"I wish to do my share so that authority
figures & authority worship vanish."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/TravenB.htm
1934 -- US: General strike backs Teamsters union strike
for recognition in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Other Minneapolis workers enthusiastically support
the strike. 35,000 building-trade workers & all taxi
drivers walk out in sympathy.
Militant farmers' organizations, meanwhile, contribute
food to the strike kitchen, which feed 10,000 people
a day.
The strike culminates in a May 21st battle against
business goons.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#16/1934
1943 -- The Warsaw ghetto resistance is crushed by the
Nazis. 56,000 die in the process.
1958 -- Eli Beeding experiences 83g deceleration on a
rocket sled, New Mexico. Changes his name to
"Bleeding" we suspect.
1968 -- France, May '68: The upheaval continues, universities,
factories, places of work shut down or occupied. Permanent
forums, going 24-hours a day, developed, open to all,
where float black flags & red flags.
Slogans flower the walls, & poetry takes again its place in the sun.
Certain notions abound, people — strangers — talk to each other,
engage in debate, in the streets, everywhere:
"All is possible "...
The worker's movement continues to spread, with wildcat
strikes & new occupations. Today the workers take over
the works at Renault de Billancourt.
"As soon as the relations of exploitation & the
violence that underlies them are no
longer concealed by the mystical veil, there
is a breakthrough, a moment of clarity, the
struggle against alienation is suddenly revealed as a
ruthless hand-to-hand fight against naked power, power
exposed in its brute force & its weakness, a vulnerable
giant . . . . sublime moment when the complexity of the
world becomes tangible, transparent, within everyone's
grasp."
— Raoul Vaneigem, "Basic Banalities"
(Situationist International Anthology, p. 93)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/7.basic1.htm
1969 -- A Stand-Up Guy?: Pope John Lennon, declared
"an inadmissible immigrant to the US," seeks a visa to
visit America. 10 days ago his "standing visa" was
revoked by the US Embassy.
1972 -- Another Blow for Freedom? Baseball's
Greg Luzinski's 500 foot home run hits the Liberty Bell
monument in Philadelphia.
1979 -- A. Philip Randolph dies. Black labor leader & peace
activist, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
1988 -- Undercover Trashman? US Supreme Court rules trash
may be searched without a warrant.
1989 -- China: 250,000 continue protests in Tiananmen Square.
Protests in Shanghai & five provincial capitals.
2007 -- US: Baristas at the Wealthy St.(!) Starbucks in East
Grand Rapids announce their membership in the IWW Starbucks
Workers Union. Starbucks, notorious for poor treatment of workers,
follows with numerous anti-labor violations & is forced by the
NLRB to settle Grand Rapids union worker complaints in October.
2010 -- Israel: Noam Chomsky, an 81-year-old professor emeritus
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & critic of Israel, is
refused admittance to speak at Berzeit University. This follows a
pattern of refusing to allow United Nations investigator Richard Falk,
Ivan Prado, one of Spain’s most famous clowns, & critics such as
Norman Finkelstein & others into the country.
__________________
When evil is allowed to compete
with good, evil has an emotional
populist appeal that wins out
unless good men & women stand
as a vanguard against abuse.
— Hannah Arendt,
Origins of Totalitarianism
__________________
Note: Several dozen HTML standards
were abused & permanently harmed in the production
of the web page (per)version.
— anti-CopyRite 1997-76,000, more or less
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/thief.jpg
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Drunken Poetry Will Be Happening This Monday Night, @ Last Word @ 8:30 PM
Bring all your dead drunk poets and friends.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Daily Bleed for May 14th
A motley flush passed lightly over the marble man; raising
Korotkov's hand delicately, he drew him toward a little table,
reiterating, "I'm very glad, too. But here's the rub, imagine it
— I don't even have a place where you can sit down. We're being
kept in a pen in spite of our significance.
— Mikhail Bulgakov, Diaboliad p30
Web version, 61 entries 6 years ago, 91 this; in full:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0514.htm
Excerpts, now sent semi-daily to some 597+ crazed stalwarts:
MAY 14
ROQUE DALTON
Salvadorean poet, martyred by former comrades.
UNDERGROUND AMERICA DAY.
______________________________
1771 - Industrialist utopianist Robert Owen lives, Wales.
1812 - Luddites involved in Loughborough Market riot.
As the Liberty lads o'er the sea
Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,
So we, boys, we
Will die fighting, or live free,
And down with all kings but King Ludd!
— Thomas Pynchon , "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?"
1856 - Daily Bleed Competitor?: The editor of the "San Francisco
Daily Evening Bulletin" is assassinated by a rival newspaper
owner. A vigilante group seized the assassin from the sheriff, &
tried, convicted, & executed him.
1874 -- England: Sotheby's holds an important chess-book auction.
1887 -- US: Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) dies. Utopian,
individualist anarchist Massachusetts abolitionist & anti-monopolist.
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/
1905 -- US: The Asiatic Exclusion League is formed in San Francisco,
marking the official beginning of the anti-Japanese movement.
Among those attending the first meeting are labor leaders
(& European immigrants) Patrick Henry McCarthy & Olaf
Tveitmoe of the Building Trades Council of San Francisco
& Andrew Fufuseth & Walter McCarthy of the Sailor's Union.
1912 - August Strindberg dies. Wrote bold & concentrated
dramatic works combining naturalism with his own conception
of psychology.
1920 -- Italy: During this month in Livorno, Carabinieri & Royal
Guards are called in following rioting by anarchists & footballers.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#14/1920
1931 -- Italy: Arturo Toscanini refuses to conduct a fascist song in
Bologna & is attacked by a fascist youth.
1932 -- "We Want Beer" marches are held in cities all over
America, with 15,000 unionized workers demonstrating in Detroit.
1940 - Death of feminist anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) while
in Toronto, Canada raising money for anti-Franco forces in Spain.
Outspoken birth control advocate & champion of women's rights.
"If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution."
Her death finally allowed her a visa back into the
US, where she was buried in Waldheim Cemetery, next to the
Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
Karl Shapiro's early poem, "Death of Emma Goldman," described
that passionate anarchist, "dark conscience of the family" (her
own and humanity's), with gentle appreciation. At the same time, it
reviled the people who, after her death, called her immoral
because she never married her lover, Alexander Berkman:
Triumphant at the final breath,
Their senile God, their cops,
All the authorities and friends pro tem
Passing her pillow, keeping her concerned.
But the cowardly obit was already written:
Morning would know she was a common slut.
— Karl Shapiro, "Death of Emma Goldman,"
from Person, Place, & Thing (1942)
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#Death
There is also a Kenneth Rexroth poem on her death ("Again at Waldheim")
"Your stakes were on the turn
Of a card whose face you knew you would not see."
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/poems/1940s.htm
1961 - US: Bus with the first group of Freedom Riders is bombed &
burned in Alabama. Segregationists attack & burn the "Freedom
Rider" Greyhound bus near Anniston. (Bob Dylan writes "Ballad of
Emmett Till.")
"Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain.
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie,
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die..."
— Bob Dylan, Ballad of Emmett Till
1965 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Labor Leader
AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany criticizes opponents of the Vietnam
War. American labor, like most of the US, has a ring in its nose,
allowing it to be happily led from one humiliation to the next.
1966 - The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" on pop charts since '63,
enters the Hot 100 for the ninth & last time with a re-released
version. Incites controversy over its unintelligible, but assumed
obscene lyrics.
"Smash your left hand down about right here three times, then
twice up in this area, then three times right about here . . .
that's "Louie Louie.""
1968 - Paris '68: Sorbonne students occupy & open the University
to the population, inviting "the workers to come & discuss with
them the problems of the University". Between May 13-30 similar
events & demonstrations are inspired, bringing daily life in the
modern industrial countries & authority itself into question -- in
Madrid, Rome, Berlin, NY, & Czechoslovakia (during "Prague
Spring").
"Be realistic. Demand the Impossible!"
"Beneath the paving stones, the beach!"
There is a story told about how at 4 in the morning on the "night
of the barricades," several students phoned up George Séguy, head
of the General Trade Union Confederation (CGT), led by the PCF,
& told him:
"We can't hold out. We need the proletarians to come &
help us."
"One does not mobilize the working class at this time
of night," Séguy reportedly replied.
Workplace occupations start. A significant aspect of the May
Upheaval. By the end of this month over 10,000,000 workers are
involved in occupations. In Nantes, the workmen of South-Aviation,
begin the first occupations of factories.
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/Paris6814th.htm
1969 - US: Police build fence around People's Park in Berkeley,
California, tonight.
NOT PEOPLE'S PARK
PEOPLE'S PLANET, CAN THEY
FENCE THAT ONE IN, BULLDOZE IT
4 A.M.?
— Diane di Prima, "Revolutionary Letter #38"
1970 -- US: Exterminate Dorm Rats? Mississippi: Jackson State
Riot Number Two. Two African-American students killed & 10
others wounded when state police fire into a Jackson State College
woman's dorm during anti-war demonstrations.
1974 -- Only Group Riding Their Hearst Before the Funeral?:
Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, six killed.
"Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the working masses."
1980 -- Some 600 Salvadoran refugees are killed attempting to
cross the Sumpul River from El Salvador to Honduras by
US-supported government troops from both countries.
1999 -- US: Seattle Spoonster, Artis the Spoonman,
plays The Moore Theater with KVHW.
All my friends are Indians
All my friends are brown & red, Spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones, Spoonman
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman
— Soundgarden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artis_the_Spoonman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundgarden
2000 -- Karl Shapiro, American poet, professor & Pulitzer
Prize-winner, dies. He was 86.
"I am an atheist who says his prayers. I am an anarchist, &
a full professor at that. I take the loyalty oath."
— Karl Shapiro, "The Bourgeois Poet"
2005 -- US: 2nd annual Art of Resistance (Criminal Beauty)
conference, Seattle Washington.
________________
"Fighting against the government is like
fanning the flames of a dying fire"
— John Cage
________________
— Auntie-Fire 1997-2011
Korotkov's hand delicately, he drew him toward a little table,
reiterating, "I'm very glad, too. But here's the rub, imagine it
— I don't even have a place where you can sit down. We're being
kept in a pen in spite of our significance.
— Mikhail Bulgakov, Diaboliad p30
Web version, 61 entries 6 years ago, 91 this; in full:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0514.htm
Excerpts, now sent semi-daily to some 597+ crazed stalwarts:
MAY 14
ROQUE DALTON
Salvadorean poet, martyred by former comrades.
UNDERGROUND AMERICA DAY.
______________________________
1771 - Industrialist utopianist Robert Owen lives, Wales.
1812 - Luddites involved in Loughborough Market riot.
As the Liberty lads o'er the sea
Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,
So we, boys, we
Will die fighting, or live free,
And down with all kings but King Ludd!
— Thomas Pynchon , "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?"
1856 - Daily Bleed Competitor?: The editor of the "San Francisco
Daily Evening Bulletin" is assassinated by a rival newspaper
owner. A vigilante group seized the assassin from the sheriff, &
tried, convicted, & executed him.
1874 -- England: Sotheby's holds an important chess-book auction.
1887 -- US: Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) dies. Utopian,
individualist anarchist Massachusetts abolitionist & anti-monopolist.
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/
1905 -- US: The Asiatic Exclusion League is formed in San Francisco,
marking the official beginning of the anti-Japanese movement.
Among those attending the first meeting are labor leaders
(& European immigrants) Patrick Henry McCarthy & Olaf
Tveitmoe of the Building Trades Council of San Francisco
& Andrew Fufuseth & Walter McCarthy of the Sailor's Union.
1912 - August Strindberg dies. Wrote bold & concentrated
dramatic works combining naturalism with his own conception
of psychology.
1920 -- Italy: During this month in Livorno, Carabinieri & Royal
Guards are called in following rioting by anarchists & footballers.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/05ref.htm#14/1920
1931 -- Italy: Arturo Toscanini refuses to conduct a fascist song in
Bologna & is attacked by a fascist youth.
1932 -- "We Want Beer" marches are held in cities all over
America, with 15,000 unionized workers demonstrating in Detroit.
1940 - Death of feminist anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) while
in Toronto, Canada raising money for anti-Franco forces in Spain.
Outspoken birth control advocate & champion of women's rights.
"If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution."
Her death finally allowed her a visa back into the
US, where she was buried in Waldheim Cemetery, next to the
Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
Karl Shapiro's early poem, "Death of Emma Goldman," described
that passionate anarchist, "dark conscience of the family" (her
own and humanity's), with gentle appreciation. At the same time, it
reviled the people who, after her death, called her immoral
because she never married her lover, Alexander Berkman:
Triumphant at the final breath,
Their senile God, their cops,
All the authorities and friends pro tem
Passing her pillow, keeping her concerned.
But the cowardly obit was already written:
Morning would know she was a common slut.
— Karl Shapiro, "Death of Emma Goldman,"
from Person, Place, & Thing (1942)
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#Death
There is also a Kenneth Rexroth poem on her death ("Again at Waldheim")
"Your stakes were on the turn
Of a card whose face you knew you would not see."
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/poems/1940s.htm
1961 - US: Bus with the first group of Freedom Riders is bombed &
burned in Alabama. Segregationists attack & burn the "Freedom
Rider" Greyhound bus near Anniston. (Bob Dylan writes "Ballad of
Emmett Till.")
"Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain.
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie,
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die..."
— Bob Dylan, Ballad of Emmett Till
1965 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Labor Leader
AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany criticizes opponents of the Vietnam
War. American labor, like most of the US, has a ring in its nose,
allowing it to be happily led from one humiliation to the next.
1966 - The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" on pop charts since '63,
enters the Hot 100 for the ninth & last time with a re-released
version. Incites controversy over its unintelligible, but assumed
obscene lyrics.
"Smash your left hand down about right here three times, then
twice up in this area, then three times right about here . . .
that's "Louie Louie.""
1968 - Paris '68: Sorbonne students occupy & open the University
to the population, inviting "the workers to come & discuss with
them the problems of the University". Between May 13-30 similar
events & demonstrations are inspired, bringing daily life in the
modern industrial countries & authority itself into question -- in
Madrid, Rome, Berlin, NY, & Czechoslovakia (during "Prague
Spring").
"Be realistic. Demand the Impossible!"
"Beneath the paving stones, the beach!"
There is a story told about how at 4 in the morning on the "night
of the barricades," several students phoned up George Séguy, head
of the General Trade Union Confederation (CGT), led by the PCF,
& told him:
"We can't hold out. We need the proletarians to come &
help us."
"One does not mobilize the working class at this time
of night," Séguy reportedly replied.
Workplace occupations start. A significant aspect of the May
Upheaval. By the end of this month over 10,000,000 workers are
involved in occupations. In Nantes, the workmen of South-Aviation,
begin the first occupations of factories.
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/Paris6814th.htm
1969 - US: Police build fence around People's Park in Berkeley,
California, tonight.
NOT PEOPLE'S PARK
PEOPLE'S PLANET, CAN THEY
FENCE THAT ONE IN, BULLDOZE IT
4 A.M.?
— Diane di Prima, "Revolutionary Letter #38"
1970 -- US: Exterminate Dorm Rats? Mississippi: Jackson State
Riot Number Two. Two African-American students killed & 10
others wounded when state police fire into a Jackson State College
woman's dorm during anti-war demonstrations.
1974 -- Only Group Riding Their Hearst Before the Funeral?:
Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, six killed.
"Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the working masses."
1980 -- Some 600 Salvadoran refugees are killed attempting to
cross the Sumpul River from El Salvador to Honduras by
US-supported government troops from both countries.
1999 -- US: Seattle Spoonster, Artis the Spoonman,
plays The Moore Theater with KVHW.
All my friends are Indians
All my friends are brown & red, Spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones, Spoonman
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman
— Soundgarden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artis_the_Spoonman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundgarden
2000 -- Karl Shapiro, American poet, professor & Pulitzer
Prize-winner, dies. He was 86.
"I am an atheist who says his prayers. I am an anarchist, &
a full professor at that. I take the loyalty oath."
— Karl Shapiro, "The Bourgeois Poet"
2005 -- US: 2nd annual Art of Resistance (Criminal Beauty)
conference, Seattle Washington.
________________
"Fighting against the government is like
fanning the flames of a dying fire"
— John Cage
________________
— Auntie-Fire 1997-2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
(Found on a bathroom wall somewhere in the U.S.A.)
I literally "stumbled-upon" this one under the category of Anarchism. Walls are for writing.
You've taken over my mind. You've raped my thoughts with your image viruses then sold me fake cures for your own disease. Your words and pictures scream orders at me like angry prison wardens. When I cover my ears, your voices echo in my head. I hate you. When I see your billboards, your talk shows, your rock concerts and your factories, when I see the work of your twisted libidos, I want to kill you. I want to set fires, plant bombs, derail trains. I want to smash your buildings and tear at your bodies until the skin of my hands is worn to the bone. I am filled with a rage that burns my eyes.
I don't want to feel this way. You have done this to me. These feelings are the fruits of your multi-billion dollar sowing. And I am not alone. There are others like me out here. Every suicide, every madman, every man and woman who gets a gun and just starts shooting -- these are your illegitimate children. They don't all know what they are doing. All they know is hate for the invisible walls which you have raised around them, hate for the narrow path you have tried to make them walk. And the innocent pay in blood for your negligence.
Remember this: My mind is big. The more you try to push me down and make me small, the greater the pressure inside me becomes. The greater the pressure, the greater the chance of an explosion. There was once a time when I felt love, but now I feel only hate and anger, and fear at what I might do. And you can tell me to "BE HAPPY," but I know that you really mean "BE QUIET".
Believe me, I want to be happy. You stand in my way.
Abrupt Flyer #5, Feb. 1992 (Revised for WWW July 1995)
You've taken over my mind. You've raped my thoughts with your image viruses then sold me fake cures for your own disease. Your words and pictures scream orders at me like angry prison wardens. When I cover my ears, your voices echo in my head. I hate you. When I see your billboards, your talk shows, your rock concerts and your factories, when I see the work of your twisted libidos, I want to kill you. I want to set fires, plant bombs, derail trains. I want to smash your buildings and tear at your bodies until the skin of my hands is worn to the bone. I am filled with a rage that burns my eyes.
I don't want to feel this way. You have done this to me. These feelings are the fruits of your multi-billion dollar sowing. And I am not alone. There are others like me out here. Every suicide, every madman, every man and woman who gets a gun and just starts shooting -- these are your illegitimate children. They don't all know what they are doing. All they know is hate for the invisible walls which you have raised around them, hate for the narrow path you have tried to make them walk. And the innocent pay in blood for your negligence.
Remember this: My mind is big. The more you try to push me down and make me small, the greater the pressure inside me becomes. The greater the pressure, the greater the chance of an explosion. There was once a time when I felt love, but now I feel only hate and anger, and fear at what I might do. And you can tell me to "BE HAPPY," but I know that you really mean "BE QUIET".
Believe me, I want to be happy. You stand in my way.
Abrupt Flyer #5, Feb. 1992 (Revised for WWW July 1995)
I Want to Beat Edward Cullen With a Stick.
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otahyoni- March 25th, 2008
From otahyoni's livejournal. I thought this was clever enough to repost, enjoy:
Bad Book Month
In Which I Read Bad Books on Purpose
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Oh, my. This book justifies Bad Book Month all by itself. It's appalling. The redeeming factors are few and far between (mostly Charlie, because he's sweet; and maybe Jasper), but they're helpless against the overwhelming gag factor.
The most appalling element, however, is how popular this novel is...more...
In Which I Read Bad Books on Purpose
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Oh, my. This book justifies Bad Book Month all by itself. It's appalling. The redeeming factors are few and far between (mostly Charlie, because he's sweet; and maybe Jasper), but they're helpless against the overwhelming gag factor.
The most appalling element, however, is how popular this novel is...more...
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Excellent Video from Iraq Veterans Against the War
Watch this and forward it to all your friends and family members, especially those in the military.
Daily Bleed for May 12th
However far
I'd gone,
it was still
where it had all begun. . .
— Robert Creeley, from "A Feeling"
Web version, in full, 81 entries:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0512.htm
Text excerpts:
MAY 12
JAMELÃO
Great Brazilian samba crooner, official carnival puxador.
England: GARLAND DAY, Olde May Day
(Hey! Let's do it again).
______________________________
1812 - Nonsense rhymer, artist, Edward Lear lives, London.
"There once was a man named Nation,
Who worked for a radio station.
Although he was tall,
His hands were too small,
Wee paws for station identification."
1828 - Voice From the Grave?: Painter/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti
lives 1828-1882). A founding member of Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood, wanting to bring back into art a pre-Renaissance
purity of style & aim. The movement was waning, but new disciples
Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris brought fresh enthusiasm.
When his wife died Rossetti buried the only complete manuscript
of his poems with her. The manuscript was later recovered &
published in 1870.
1856 -- Australia: Trade unions in Victoria demonstrate
for the 8-hour day.
1885 -- Canada: Col. Otter defeats Riel's main rebel force at Batoche
(Sask.); Gabriel Dumont & his Metis warriors run out of ammunition;
they fire stones & nails before giving up the fight.
1907 - Decadent Symbolist writer Joris-Karl Huysmans dies.
Wrote À rebours (Against the Grain), & Là-bas (Down There).
1913 -- Brazilian sambo singer, great carnivalist Jamelão
lives, Rio de Janeiro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamel%C3%A3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDmR-r-eVv8
1916 - Connolly Ain't Nothing But a Train Station in Dublin?:
Execution of James Connolly, IWW organizer & Irish freedom
fighter.
James Connolly is executed for his part in this spring's Easter
Rebellion, which challenged British rule in Dublin. Already
wounded from the uprising, Connolly is shot as he sits in a
chair. He is the 15th Easter Rebellion leader executed this last
week. An Irish woman describes the killing: "It was like
watching a stream of blood coming from under a closed door."
Then sing our rebel song as we
proudly sweep along
To end the age-old tyranny
that makes for human tears.
Our march is nearer done, with
each setting of the sun.
And the tyrants' might is passing
with the passing of the years.
— James Connolly, "A Rebel Song," from
"The Socialist," May 1903
1917 -- Frederick Henry is wounded (WWI) in Hemingway's
novel A Farewell to Arms.
1921 - German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, lives.
1921 - Canada: Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf) lives.
1921 -- US: "Three Day's Battle" begins along both shores of the
Tug River, in West Virginia, with sniping by strikers at state police,
deputies & coal company officials.
God, if You had but the moon
Stuck in Your cap for a lamp,
Even You'd tire of it soon,
Down in the dark & the damp.
Nothing but blackness above
& nothing that moves but the cars. . . .
God, if You wish for our love,
Fling us a handful of stars.
— Louis Untermeyer
excerpt from "Caliban in the Coal Mines" from
Challenge, 1914 (based on the the historical
character of "Few Clothes" Johnson, the
character played by James Earle Jones in
John Sayles' film Matewan.)
1926 - Massachusetts Supreme Court upholds the death
sentences of Sacco & Vanzetti.
The prosecution left a trail of doctored eyewitness
accounts, altered testimony & false ballistics reports.
That trail appears to exonerate the victims while
convicting the executioners.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#SaccoVanzetti
1927 - Nicaragua: Sandino guerrillas decide to continue their
fight until they defeat the invading US Marines. A Sandino
manifesto asserts, "it is better to be killed as a rebel than to
live on as a slave".
1937 -- Scrabble From the Apple??: George Carlin, great Language
Arts Teacher, lives, White Harlem, New York City.
J. Edgar Hoover couldn't take a joke...
Documents show that in 1969, after Carlin
appeared on Gleason's TV variety show & did a
short spoof on the FBI & its director, the bureau
began collecting information on Carlin.
http://georgecarlin.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin
1946 - Founding Congress of the Anarchist Federation of Japan
held in Tokyo.
1950 - Bowled Over?: The American Bowling Congress
abolishes its white males-only membership restriction after
34 years. The recalcitrant pins remain all-white though.
1958 - Cabbage Patch Doll?: Robert S. McNamara, future Defense
Secretary, suggests Americans eat cabbage & broccoli to withstand
radiation fallout.
1963 - Bob Dylan walks out of dress rehearsals for "The Ed
Sullivan Show."
CBS censors tell Dylan he cannot perform his
"Talking John Birch Society Blues." When told the
tune may be libelous, Dylan refuses
to appear on the show.
1968 - France: Paris, 1968. At least a thousand people have
joined the few dozen students who had seized the Fine Arts School
& turn it into a poster factory. Working in teams of 200, &
submitting each design to the Sorbonne General Assembly, during
the six-week occupation they were able to put out 350 different
posters in print runs of tens of thousands.
The imagination, impatience & forcefulness with which
they mocked authority incited astonishment & delight below —
& grim horror above.
1968 -- Vietnam: US bombs & napalms the "Vietcong" in Saigon slums.
In America we do not call this "terrorism".
1972 - Police clash with 3,000 anti-war protesters in Frisco.
1974 - "The New York Times" reports remarks by Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader President Dick ("I am a pacifist") Nixon alluding
to SEC staff members as "Jewboys" & Judge John Sirica as a "Wop"
were deleted from the public transcript of a conversation
recorded in the Oval Office on 28 February 1973.
"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?"
1984 - Animal Rights demonstration, London, England.
1984 - US: The number two man at the Housing Dept., Philip Abrams,
expresses doubt that Hispanics live in crowded homes because of
poverty. "I don't think so," he says.
"I'm told that they don't
mind & they prefer, some prefer, doubling up ...
It's a cultural preference, I'm told."
1998 -- Turkish human-rights leader Akin Birdal
survives assassination attempt.
2000 -- Cuba: Felix Bonne, dissident, is freed from jail.
2003 US: Bleedster Robert Braunwart adds 450,000th entry to his
(yet-to-be-published) chronology database. That's 7,500 printed
pages, by his way of reckoning it...On May 6, 2004 he reaches
480,000 entries (8,000 pages).
______________
Raymond, Retired Textile Worker, London, UK):
"I wore this cape when I took Johnny to visit his father in a
Budapest prison. The Nazis were going to ship him to a
concentration camp.
Johnny asked the Hungarian policeman 'When are you
going to let my father come home?'
He never did."
______________
— Anti-CopyRite 1997-2009
The Daily Bleed - Sinners & Saints galore
"Better to go hungry than to feast on lies.":
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/calmast.htm
"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech &
press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law — no
opinion a crime."
— Alexander Berkman
I'd gone,
it was still
where it had all begun. . .
— Robert Creeley, from "A Feeling"
Web version, in full, 81 entries:
http://www.recollectionbooks.
Text excerpts:
MAY 12
JAMELÃO
Great Brazilian samba crooner, official carnival puxador.
England: GARLAND DAY, Olde May Day
(Hey! Let's do it again).
______________________________
1812 - Nonsense rhymer, artist, Edward Lear lives, London.
"There once was a man named Nation,
Who worked for a radio station.
Although he was tall,
His hands were too small,
Wee paws for station identification."
1828 - Voice From the Grave?: Painter/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti
lives 1828-1882). A founding member of Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood, wanting to bring back into art a pre-Renaissance
purity of style & aim. The movement was waning, but new disciples
Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris brought fresh enthusiasm.
When his wife died Rossetti buried the only complete manuscript
of his poems with her. The manuscript was later recovered &
published in 1870.
1856 -- Australia: Trade unions in Victoria demonstrate
for the 8-hour day.
1885 -- Canada: Col. Otter defeats Riel's main rebel force at Batoche
(Sask.); Gabriel Dumont & his Metis warriors run out of ammunition;
they fire stones & nails before giving up the fight.
1907 - Decadent Symbolist writer Joris-Karl Huysmans dies.
Wrote À rebours (Against the Grain), & Là-bas (Down There).
1913 -- Brazilian sambo singer, great carnivalist Jamelão
lives, Rio de Janeiro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
1916 - Connolly Ain't Nothing But a Train Station in Dublin?:
Execution of James Connolly, IWW organizer & Irish freedom
fighter.
James Connolly is executed for his part in this spring's Easter
Rebellion, which challenged British rule in Dublin. Already
wounded from the uprising, Connolly is shot as he sits in a
chair. He is the 15th Easter Rebellion leader executed this last
week. An Irish woman describes the killing: "It was like
watching a stream of blood coming from under a closed door."
Then sing our rebel song as we
proudly sweep along
To end the age-old tyranny
that makes for human tears.
Our march is nearer done, with
each setting of the sun.
And the tyrants' might is passing
with the passing of the years.
— James Connolly, "A Rebel Song," from
"The Socialist," May 1903
1917 -- Frederick Henry is wounded (WWI) in Hemingway's
novel A Farewell to Arms.
1921 - German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, lives.
1921 - Canada: Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf) lives.
1921 -- US: "Three Day's Battle" begins along both shores of the
Tug River, in West Virginia, with sniping by strikers at state police,
deputies & coal company officials.
God, if You had but the moon
Stuck in Your cap for a lamp,
Even You'd tire of it soon,
Down in the dark & the damp.
Nothing but blackness above
& nothing that moves but the cars. . . .
God, if You wish for our love,
Fling us a handful of stars.
— Louis Untermeyer
excerpt from "Caliban in the Coal Mines" from
Challenge, 1914 (based on the the historical
character of "Few Clothes" Johnson, the
character played by James Earle Jones in
John Sayles' film Matewan.)
1926 - Massachusetts Supreme Court upholds the death
sentences of Sacco & Vanzetti.
The prosecution left a trail of doctored eyewitness
accounts, altered testimony & false ballistics reports.
That trail appears to exonerate the victims while
convicting the executioners.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1927 - Nicaragua: Sandino guerrillas decide to continue their
fight until they defeat the invading US Marines. A Sandino
manifesto asserts, "it is better to be killed as a rebel than to
live on as a slave".
1937 -- Scrabble From the Apple??: George Carlin, great Language
Arts Teacher, lives, White Harlem, New York City.
J. Edgar Hoover couldn't take a joke...
Documents show that in 1969, after Carlin
appeared on Gleason's TV variety show & did a
short spoof on the FBI & its director, the bureau
began collecting information on Carlin.
http://georgecarlin.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1946 - Founding Congress of the Anarchist Federation of Japan
held in Tokyo.
1950 - Bowled Over?: The American Bowling Congress
abolishes its white males-only membership restriction after
34 years. The recalcitrant pins remain all-white though.
1958 - Cabbage Patch Doll?: Robert S. McNamara, future Defense
Secretary, suggests Americans eat cabbage & broccoli to withstand
radiation fallout.
1963 - Bob Dylan walks out of dress rehearsals for "The Ed
Sullivan Show."
CBS censors tell Dylan he cannot perform his
"Talking John Birch Society Blues." When told the
tune may be libelous, Dylan refuses
to appear on the show.
1968 - France: Paris, 1968. At least a thousand people have
joined the few dozen students who had seized the Fine Arts School
& turn it into a poster factory. Working in teams of 200, &
submitting each design to the Sorbonne General Assembly, during
the six-week occupation they were able to put out 350 different
posters in print runs of tens of thousands.
The imagination, impatience & forcefulness with which
they mocked authority incited astonishment & delight below —
& grim horror above.
1968 -- Vietnam: US bombs & napalms the "Vietcong" in Saigon slums.
In America we do not call this "terrorism".
1972 - Police clash with 3,000 anti-war protesters in Frisco.
1974 - "The New York Times" reports remarks by Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader President Dick ("I am a pacifist") Nixon alluding
to SEC staff members as "Jewboys" & Judge John Sirica as a "Wop"
were deleted from the public transcript of a conversation
recorded in the Oval Office on 28 February 1973.
"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?"
1984 - Animal Rights demonstration, London, England.
1984 - US: The number two man at the Housing Dept., Philip Abrams,
expresses doubt that Hispanics live in crowded homes because of
poverty. "I don't think so," he says.
"I'm told that they don't
mind & they prefer, some prefer, doubling up ...
It's a cultural preference, I'm told."
1998 -- Turkish human-rights leader Akin Birdal
survives assassination attempt.
2000 -- Cuba: Felix Bonne, dissident, is freed from jail.
2003 US: Bleedster Robert Braunwart adds 450,000th entry to his
(yet-to-be-published) chronology database. That's 7,500 printed
pages, by his way of reckoning it...On May 6, 2004 he reaches
480,000 entries (8,000 pages).
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Raymond, Retired Textile Worker, London, UK):
"I wore this cape when I took Johnny to visit his father in a
Budapest prison. The Nazis were going to ship him to a
concentration camp.
Johnny asked the Hungarian policeman 'When are you
going to let my father come home?'
He never did."
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— Anti-CopyRite 1997-2009
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press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law — no
opinion a crime."
— Alexander Berkman
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