Daily Bleed for March 26th, A Radical Anarchist daybook

Our Daily Bleed...

We shall not cease from exploration & the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... & know the place for the first time.

      — T.S. Eliot

MARCH 26

B. TRAVEN 

Anarcho-adventure writer, revolutionary, true identity muddy, 

most likely Ret Marut of Munich Soviet fame.

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FESTIVAL OF MASKED MASTURBATION.

UNIVERSAL DOLE DAY.

AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY

(Welcome! Mat?) FUN ON MATT'S BIRTHDAY. 

http://www.myspace.com/redmartian 

 

Whole world quits working for one day of sheer unadulterated feasting, cavorting, mayhem.

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752 -- Job stress?: Pope Stephen II dies after serving for only two days.

1199 -- Richard I, "Lion heart," wounded by a crossbow at Chalus. 

1720 -- England: In the 29th political killing of the year, a magistrate is dragged from his carriage & killed. 

Source: [Calendar Riots]

1790 -- US: Congress, through the act of 1790, decrees that "any alien, being a free white person who shall have resided within the limits & under the jurisdiction of the United States for a term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof."

The phrase "free white person" remains intact until 1873 when "persons of African nativity or descent" was added. This act is used to deny citizenship to Japanese & other Asian immigrants until the mid-20th Century. 

[Sources] 

Daily Bleed for January 20th, A Radical Anarchist Daybook

Our Daily Bleed...

Once upon a time       there was grass instead of       astro-turf,       more trees than telephone poles       & the sky was blue       when the sun came out.        — Susan Johnson, "Bedtime Story"

JANUARY 20

EGON BONDY 

Czech philosopher, writer, poet, underground activist.

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FEAST OF THE KITCHEN GOD: Offerings made, beans tossed over roof. 

EVE OF ST. AGNES. John Keats wrote poem on the legend a maiden could retire on this Eve, & if she would lie very still, she would see a vision of the man she would marry.

"St. Agnes' Eve, ah, bitter chill it was!"

It is supposedly one of the coldest nights of the winter. 

ST. PAULA'S DAY, celebrates a young girl saved from the passions of a pursuer by running into a church, where she grew a beard. 

Jewish: TU B'SHVAT 

Heads Up Seattle, Washington: First of the month of PLURIOSE (rain) in the French revolutionary calendar.

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820 -- Abu Abdallah M ibn Idris al-Sjafi'i Islamic dies (his Book of Motherpublished same year?). 

1781 --  First edition of Pieter 't Hoens' Post of Neder-Rhijn is published. Main mouthpiece of the democratic movement in early modern Netherlands, with a surprising echo in the press of the resistance during World War II.

1798 -- Dorothy Wordsworth's Alfoxen Journal begins: "After the wet dark days, the country seems more populous. It peoples itself with sunbeams." The journal becomes a record of her brother's friendship with Coleridge that resulted in their Lyrical Ballads (1798), the beginning of the Romantic movement in English poetry. 

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

1806 -- Writer/editor Nathaniel P. Willis, who founds the American Monthly Magazine in 1831, lives, Portland, Maryland.

1819 --  Lord Byron finishes Canto 2 of "Don Juan."

1847 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Governor of Taos, New Mexico, killed by rebellious Mexicans during Mexican War.

1850 -- Poland:

Strange Stuff:

Fall of caterpillar larvae after a snowstorm, Warsaw [All the Year Round, 8-253]  http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1855 -- French composer Ernest Chausson lives. His Poème for Violin & Orchestra is one of the most popular in the violin repertory.

1860 -- England:

More Strange Stuff:

Sound "resembling discharge of a gun high in the air" heard, near Reading, Berkshire [London Times, Jan 24] http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1862 -- Ooopsie?: General Felix Zollicoffer killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines. 

1862 -- France: Augustin Hamon (1862-1945) lives, Nantes. Sociologist, who became an anarchiste along with Fernand Pelloutier, in 1893. Later became a socialist. 

1869 -- During this month secret "Alliance" (International Brotherhood, or the Alliance of Revolutionary Socialists), founded in 1866 by the revolutionary anarchist Michael Bakunin, is dissolved. 

1872 -- Filipino soldiers & workers stage a bloody revolt against Spanish rule. 

Source: [Calendar Riots]

1879 -- Great American modernist dancer Ruth St. Denis lives, Englewood, New Jersey.

RUTH ST. DENIS Patron Saint 2009-2011 

Great American modernist dancer, breaker of social taboos.

... show details

http://www.geh.org/link/sn/ruth-stdenis.html

1883 -- US: A passenger train stopped on the Tehachapi Summit slips its brakes & careens four miles down the grade, reaching a speed of 70 mph before derailing; wreck & ensuing fire kill 21, California.

1884 -- Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of A Soviet Heretic, & sci-fi allegory We, lives, Russia.

"When (in science, religion, social life, art) a flaming, seething sphere grows cold, the fiery molten rock becomes covered with dogma — with a hard, ossified, immovable crust.... Till one day a new heresy explodes & blows up the dogma's crust, together with all the ever so stable, rock-like structures that had been erected on it."

http://dannyreviews.com/a/Yevgeny_Zamyatin.html

http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1634/

1885 -- First switch-back railway (roller coaster) patented. 

1891 -- David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies.

1891 -- Italy:

Even Mo' Strange Stuff:

Luminous object or meteor in the sky, fall of stones from the sky & earthquake, Italy [L'Astronomie, 1891-154]  http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1892 -- US: First basketball game played at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Daily Bleed for January 10th, A Radical Anarchist Literary Daybook

Our Daily Bleed...

The perfume of flowers! A haw drops such odour it stops me in the wall of its fall. Love Arrests Lime-trees saturate the night. We walk in it On a path jonquils fill the air. Love — Charles Olson, "The Perfume/Of Flowers!..."

JANUARY 10 

 

FRANCISCO FERRER 

Spanish revolutionist, theorist, anarchist educator, martyr. 

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

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NEW YEAR'S DAY: For the Amerindian Iroquois who celebrate with a 'Feast of Dreams'. 

FOREIGN AGENTS' DAY.

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738 -- The final (sixth) phase of the Ball Court at Copan is dedicated by Mayan ruler 18-Rabbit.

1429 -- Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain.

Over the years, almost every federal agency has received a Golden Fleece Award. Some of the more memorable Golden Fleece recipients include:

The Economic Development Administration of the Commerce Department for spending $20,000 in 1981 to construct an 800-foot limestone replica of the Great Wall of China in Bedford, Indiana.

The National Endowment for the Humanities for a $25,000 grant in 1977 to study why people cheat, lie & act rudely on local Virginia tennis courts.

The Office of Education for spending $219,592 in 1978 to develop a curriculum to teach college students how to watch television.

The Department of the Army for spending $6,000 in 1981 to prepare a 17-page document that told the federal government how to buy a bottle of Worcestershire sauce.

The Health Care Financing Administration for spending $45 million in 1983 by allowing Medicare to foot the bill for cutting toenails.

The Environmental Protection Agency for spending an extra $1 million to $1.2 million in 1980 to preserve a Trenton, NJ sewer as an historical monument.

http://www.antiquesatoz.com/sgfleece/

1743 -- Poet/playwright Richard Savage arrested in Bristol for a debt of 8 pounds, owed to a coffee-house. 

Serves as inspiration for Starbucks. 

1776 -- Thomas Paine, American revolutionist, issues "Common Sense" (anonymously).

1837 -- Cardinal Newman takes issue with Jane Austen's novels: "Miss Austen has no romance.... What vile creatures her parsons are!" 

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

1845 -- Elizabeth Barrett, 38, & Robert Browning, 32, begin corresponding when she receives a note —"I love you" — from the little-known poet whose work she has praised in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship." 

1855 -- Villager Mary Russell Mitford dies in the village of Swallowfield, near Reading. She publishedMiscellaneous Poems (1810), Christina (1810), a number of lines being revised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, & five volumes of Our Village.

1855 -- US: The remaining 88 people in the Clackamas band sign a treaty trading the best timberland in Oregon Territory for $500 & some grub. 

1859 -- Spain: Radical educator & anarchist, Francisco Ferrer lives.

Hated & hounded by the Catholic Church & the government, he is murdered in a ditch by Spanish police in 1909.

1860 -- US: Pemberton Mill suddenly collapses, trapping 900 workers, mostly Irish women, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Fire breaks out, adding to the terror & destruction. 116 women are seriously hurt, while 88 are killed.

The fire inquest reveals the cast-iron pillars used to support construction were too weak for the brick walls & heavy machinery. The engineer in charge of construction, Captain Charles Bigelow, knew this from the start, but the jury will find no evidence of criminal intent.

1869 -- England:

Strange Stuff:

"Extraordinary meteor" seen in the sky, Weston-super-Mare, near Bristol; five hours later three shocks felt said to have been earthquakes [Chudleigh Weekly Express] Source: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1870 -- US: Against unanimous opposition of his cabinet, Beloved & Respected President Grant proposes to Congress that the Dominican Republic be annexed to protect US interests. Must be the rum. 

1873 -- Italy: The Italian Congress of the International is convened, to meet on March 15 at Mirandola, where Cleso & Arturo Cerretti live.

Before they can meet, however, the local section was dissolved, Cleso Cerretti is arrested. The corresponding commission instead invites the delegates to meet at Bologna...

[Details / context]

1880 -- US: Emperor Norton I, America's greatest leader ever, is buried at Masonic Cemetery in Frisco. The funeral cortege is two miles long, with 10,000-30,000 people paying homage & celebrating.

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html

1880 -- Birth of the Swiss clown known as ‘Grock’.

1880 -- Tintin & his dog Snowy, characters created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé (Georges Remi), appear for the first time, in Vingtième Siècle.

1883 -- Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1883-1945) lives. Novelist, playwright, historian, & short story writer, a former nobleman who emigrated to western Europe after the Russian Revolution, but returned in 1923, a supporter of the Communist Party & honored artist, receiving three Stalin Prizes.

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

Daily Bleed for January 8th, A Radical Anarchist Literary Daybook

Our Daily Bleed...

i am in favor of these united states, here is a land baptized & broken. here are the rising foundations for the spartan existence. the family will no longer control the western hemisphere. it will exist in its pleasure but not in its tyranny. our lungs will extol the notes of a pure, more powerful democracy intricate in its simplistics a leadership of snowflakes. — Patti Smith, from "combe", in Early Work, 1970-1979

JANUARY 8 

NOBLE DREW ALI 

Prophet & founder of the Moorish Science Temple, America's first "black islamic" sect. 

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REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH DAY. You & Bill Gates share de Pork...

US: JACKSON DAY, a holiday – but only in Louisiana. 

General Andrew Jackson defeated the British at New Orleans in 1815. 

The score: 700 British killed, 1,400 wounded, 500 taken prisoner, against 8 Americans killed & 13 wounded. 

The battle was actually fought two weeks after a treaty had been signed – but news hadn’t reached either side.

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624 -- Abu Sufjan ibn Harb Kurashite chief, dies in battle.

1353 -- Jews of Basel, Switzerland, burned alive in their houses. 

1632 -- Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf lives.

1642 -- Astronomer Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti, Italy, leaving us with "the finger." [The middle one we suspect.] 

1656 -- Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands).

1704 -- England:

Strange Goings-on:

Earthquake "preceded" by a violent tempest [Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1852] — Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

1775 -- England: Printer/type designer John Baskerville dies, & at his request is buried in the family garden. Printer to Cambridge University since 1758 — & manufacturer of his own paper & ink — he published his masterpiece, a folioBible, in 1763. 

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

1811 -- US: Louisiana slave uprising, in New Orleans. 

1815 -- US: Better Late...? Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Andy Jackson wins the most decisive battle of the War of 1812 — the Battle of New Orleans — not knowing the war ended two weeks ago. (The Treaty of Ghent, officially ending the hostilities, was signed December 24, 1814.) The British had over 2,000 casualties; the Americans lost 71. Jackson got a new email account shortly thereafter & teamed up with songsters Jimmy Driftwood & Johnny Horton for a smash-hit single. 

http://www.billslater.com/driftwood.htm

1824 -- First major English detective novelist, Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White; The Moonstone) lives, London.

"I was enthralled by The Moonstone. I was reading a cheap paperback which fell apart as I read it. I threw pages in the wastepaper basket when I finished them. (In this splendid novel, the detective comes to realize that it was he himself (in an opium stupor) who stole the diamond."

1840 --

Strange Goings-on:

Scotland: Sounds like cannonading, listed as "earthquakes," one of 247 such occurrences in same place between 1839 & 1841, Comrie, Scotland [Edin. New Phil. Jour., 32-107] http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1864 -- US: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (1864-1943), first American Federation of Labor (AFL) woman organizer, lives, Hannibal, Missouri. A skilled bookbinder, she organized the Woman's Bookbinder Union in 1880 & a founder of the National Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) in 1903.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWkenney.htm

1865 -- US: Warmongers beat Doves, 36-11. Near present-day San Angleo, 370 brave strong macho Texass militiamen attacked what was assumed to be an encampment of 1400 Comanches (they were actually peaceful Kickapoo). This engagement, called the "Battle of Dove Creek", was one of the last battles in Texas between Anglos & Native Americans. The militia lost 36 men, with 60 wounded; the Indians lost 11, with 61 wounded. Inspires the Houston Oilers, Texass Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks, etc.

1867 -- Emily Balch lives. Co-founder of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom. Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1946/balch-bio.html

1867 -- US: Congress overrides Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Andy Johnson's veto of a bill granting all adult male citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote, & the bill thus becomes law. It is the first election law passed in America granting African-American men the right to vote.

The amendment of voting practices in the nation's capital stipulates that every male citizen of the city who is 21 years of age or over has the right to vote, except welfare or charity recipients, those under guardianship, men convicted of major crimes, or men who voluntarily sheltered Confederate troops or spies during the Civil War.

1867 -- US:

Strange Goings-on:

Garrison startled from sleep by what was supposed to be an earthquake & a sound like thunder, followed by darkness, sky covered with black smoke or clouds, & fall of brownish ashes; another "frightful" shock half an hour later; sighting of dark column of smoke in direction of Klamath Marsh; no report of volcanic eruption, Fort Klamath, OR [Smithsonian. Miscell. Cols., 37-Appendix, p71] http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1880 -- US: Death of Norton I, Emperor of the United States & clearly its greatest leader; drops dead on California St. at Grant Ave.

He was on his way to a lecture at the Academy of Natural Sciences in San Francisco. His funeral was a grand procession of thousands, followed by a rousing party lasting for days. 

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort3.html 

Emperor Norton I lives!?! at the wiki, 

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

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html 

On January 10, Our Beloved Leader was buried in the Masonic Cemetery. The funeral cortege was two miles long — between 10,000 & 30,000 people reportedly attended.

1881 -- Austria: Fire destroys the Ring Theater in Vienna, taking more than 640 lives.

1883 -- France: In Lyon the trial of the Internationale, against the anarchists known as "The 66", begins.

"The 66" are accused of promoting workers' strikes, & the abolition of the rights of property, family, fatherland, religion, & thus attacking the public peace.

Stiff sentences were handed down: "Leaders" such as Peter Kropotkin, Émile Gautier, Joseph Bernard, & Toussaint Bordat received four years in prison; 39 of their cohorts received sentences ranging from six months to three years.

http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier08.html

1885 -- Netherlands: A.J. Muste, radical American pacifist priest & co-founder of Fellowship of Reconciliation & War Resisters League, lives, Zierikzee. 

http://www.ajmuste.org/ajmbio.htm 

http://www.san.beck.org/GPJ24-Russell,Muste.html 

http://www.warresisters.org/ 

Very informative detailed biography, from rightwingers, at: 

http://www.reocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1777/muste.htm

1886 -- US: Moorish mystic Noble Drew Ali lives, North Carolina.

All slave laborers at Recollection Books claim to be members of the Moorish Temple; the Moors they once had a trouble spot on the web, but one of de bums allowed it to fall into disgrace, & now no one knows just where it is anymore, moor or less. Howsomever, we have found a suitable site, a veritable Garden of Delight in the Great Dismal Swamps... 

Recollection Books' own SaintMeister James Koehnline, whose collages grace many of our humble pages. 

http://deoxy.org/moorish.htm 

http://hermetic.com/moorish/catechism.html 

The FBI is zealous jealous: 

Moorish Science Temple of America, light reading, a mere 3,117 pages 

http://foia.fbi.gov...moortemp.htm & Noble+Drew+Ali

1886 -- France: Décret du président de la République accordant sa grâce à, Louise Michel. Elle refuse, puis consent. 

[Source: Michel Chronologie]