Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:47:24 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/23 RICHARD HUELSENBECK 





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APRIL 23

RICHARD HUELSENBECK
Dada drummer of Berlin & Zurich. Marches to a Different Drummer,
in-deed.

Old Swabia: ST. GEORGE'S DAY.
Church bells ring all day long to ward off vampires
(Nosferatu, Dracula, Vlad the Impaler
http://www.alaska.net/~strd/whatisa.htm > Count (F)Red [Knight
of the Living Dead].)

Corinth: "GREEN GEORGE" (man in cage of branches) dumped into
stream to ensure good pasturage.

Turkey: CHILDREN'S DAY:
Nationally elected students take over all levels of government.

Bulgaria: EWE'S DAY.
Milking is done through a round cake with a hole in the center.


1564 - William Shakespeare thought born this day in Stratford-
upon-Avon, where he also dies on his 52nd birthday.
http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Shakespeare/works.html

1616 - Miguel de Cervantes dies in Madrid, same day as
Shakespeare.  Somerset Maugham notes, "Casting my mind's eye
over the whole of fiction, the only absolutely original
creation that I can think of is Don  Quixote".

1616 - Playwright William Shakespeare dies, Stratford-on-Avon,
England. A curious will awards his "2nd best bed with the
furniture" to his wife, Anne Hathaway.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
                           ---*Henry VI, part 2*

1693 - In your (type)face?: William Caslon lives. English
typefounder.

1850 - British romantic poet William Wordsworth dies, Lake
District, England.
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/projects/pack/rom-chrono/links-w.htm#w-wordsworth

1860 - Charles H. Kerr lives (1860-1944). Establishes radical
cooperative publishing house, still going strong today. The
son of militant abolitionists, Charles H. Kerr  was a
libertarian socialist, antiwar agitator, author, translator,
vegetarian & scholar. The publishing firm he founded in
Chicago in 1886, a few weeks before Haymarket, is today the
oldest alternative publishing house in the world. Many books
recognized as classics in the fields of labor, socialism,
feminism, history, anthropology, economics, civil liberties,
animal rights & radical ecology originally appeared under the
Charles H. Kerr imprint.
http://www.bookzen.com/books/p_kerrhist.html

1871 - Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.

1887 - John Ceiriog Hughes, dies Montgomeryshire. His
satirical prose letters were published in 1948.

1892 - Richard Huelsenbeck (1892-1974) lives, Frankenau,
Hessen, Germany. Prominent figure of the Z=FCrich & Berlin dada
movements. He was an expressionist poet & writer & arguably
one of the great pre-Y2K drummers. See *Daily Bleed* Saints
Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/StHuelsenbeckRichard.htm

"He would best love to drum literature & to perdition."

1893 - John Galsworthy, bound from Samoa aboard the Torrens,
makes friends with the first mate, "a Pole called Conrad" who
has "a fund of yarns on which I draw fully."
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/conrad/index.html

1899 - Ngaio Marsh  lives (1899-1982), New Zealand.  One of
the "Great Ladies" of the English mystery Golden Age,
including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, & Dorothy
Sayers. Founded the British Commonwealth Theatre Company.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmarsh.htm

1899 - Vladimir Nabokov lives (1899-1977), St. Petersburg.
Russian-born American novelist/critic, who wrote both in
Russian & English, & spent most of his life in exile. Best
known work is *Lolita*, filmed  &  directed by Stanley Kubrick
(1962). The story, dealing with the desire of a middle-aged
pedophile  for a 12-year-old nymphet, gained huge success.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
http://hellco.pair.com/vlad.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nabokov.htm

1902 - Halldor Laxness lives (1902-1998), Reykjav=EDk, Iceland.
Recipient of 1955 Nobel Prize. Best known fiction depicts the
hard living conditions of the lower classes, & weaves a
tradition of sagas & mythology into social issues. Other
awards included Stalin Peace Prize, Danish Nex=F6 Award &
Sonning Award. Converted to Catholicism & during a stay in the
US adopted socialist views, reflected in his novels from the
1930s & 40s. Laxness skillfully changed styles novel to novel
but always maintained his ironic humor. Wrote *Independent
People* & *Bread of Life*. Died February 8, 1998
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/laxness.htm
http://www.nobel.se/
http://www.ffaire.com/sonning/sonning4.html
http://www.island.org/views/1/leary1.html

1904 - US: Flathead Indian Reservation (in northwestern
Montana) split into allotments; nearly half the land is then --
surprisingly -- given to white settlers.

1915 - Poet Rupert Brooke, 27, dies of blood poisoning on the
Greek Island of Skyros. Winston Churchill noted: "he was all
that one would wish England's noblest sons to be in days when
no sacrifice but the most precious is acceptable, & the most
precious is that which is most freely proffered."
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/brooke.html

1932 - Jim Fixx, author of  *Complete Book of Running*, which
kick-started the 1970s jogging craze, lives. He fixxated on
running until his bum ticker seized up like a rusty chain saw.

[Cut to later scene]: Fixx walks out of  house & begins
jogging. Goes a short distance when he has a massive coronary:
His autopsy  reveals one  coronary artery 99% clogged, another
80% obstructed,  a third 70% blocked .... Fixx had three other
attacks in the weeks prior to his death.
http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock/jokes/dumb-die.htm

1941 - Newspaper headline:

EX-RED GUARD NAMES BRIDGES
'Told He Belonged but Keep My Mouth Shut'

BULLETIN:

A former guard at local Communist Party headquarters, Richard
St. Clair, testified today that Harry Bridges conferred there
several times with local party leaders and longshore
officials. Mr. St. Clair said other Communists told him: "Yes,
Bridges is one of us, but keep your mouth shut about it."

Robert Wilmot, a former Portland, Ore., Communist, expressed
the opinion in the Bridges deportation hearing today that
"Harry Bridges is the greatest enemy the labor movement ever
had." http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/bridges.html

1942 - Franklin Roosevelt addresses the American Booksellers Convention:

"We all know that books cannot be killed by fire. . .
People die, but books never die. No man & no force can abolish
memory...."

1946 - Korean Anarchist Congress concludes (April 20-23), in
Anwui. Significant in establishing the considerable influence
of the ideas of Peter Kropotkin in post-war Asia. Shin Chae-H0
(1880-1936), a Korean historian, was one of the precursors of
anarchism in this country. Then, later, the brothers Li Jung-
Kyu (1897-1983) & Li Eul Kyu (1894-1972) -- called " Korean
Kropotkin -- are the architects of this congress, along with
another outstanding figure in modern Korean anarchism: Ha Ki
Rak, who takes part, in 1987, in the congress of the Korean
Anarchist Federation.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril4.html#23

1947 - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Ireland, political activist
lives.

1954 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits first of his 755 homers.
http://www.totalbaseball.com/player/a/aaroh101/aaroh101.html

1955 - Declaration on peace & cooperation by Third World
countries, Bandung, Indonesia.

1956 - Elvis Presley, accompanied by Bill Black & Scotty
Moore, makes his Las Vegas debut as opening act for the
Freddie Martin Orchestra & comedian Shecky Greene. The two
week run is called off after a week due to poor reception;
Presley won't do Las Vegas again for almost 13 years.

1956 * Hot Potato?: USSR announces possession of H-bomb.

1956 - Canada: Founding of the Canadian Labor Congress.

1958 - Five U.S. paratroopers killed, 137 injured when the
101st Airborne Division stages a mass drop at Fort Campbell,
Kentucky.

1959 - US: Mack Parker lynched.
http://ccharity.com/lynched/mississippilynched.htm

1961 - Right-to-Sing protest staged, Washington Square Park,
New York City.

1962 - NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat
Pirates 9-1.

1963 - US: Committee for Nonviolent Action holds vigil in
protest of the commissioning of nuclear submarine Polaris,
Groton,  Connecticut.

1964 - 9 Pins?: US: Beatles do the Hollywood Bowl.

1967 - Vladimir Komarov dies when his space craft, Soyuz I,
crashes after re-entry.

1968 - US: Beginning of occupation & anti-Vietnam War sit-in
(23-30th) at Columbia University.

Initially protesting racist policies, during the week they
also express dissatisfaction with their own condition &
society in general. Took over five campus buildings in protest
of the university's research for the Department of Defense
(DoD), affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analysis &
its Pentagon-related research, & construction of athletic
facility opposed by neighboring Harlem. Sparks a wave of
student occupations lasting for next several years. Police
storm the campus eight days from now, resulting in numerous
casualties. Mark Rudd becomes famous as leader, 700+ arrested,
& the strike continues for another month.

1969 - Northern Ireland independence activist Bernadette
Devlin takes a seat as Member of Parliament in the British
House of Commons.

1971 - In the final event of Operation Dewey Canyon Three,
nearly 1,000 Vietnam War veterans return their combat medals
to the government.

The Vietnam Vets have planned to return the medals in body
bags, but authorities have erected a fence around the Capitol
building.  So the veterans throw the medals over the fence.

Some of the Vets, before tossing their medals, dedicate them
to comrades -- both American & Vietnamese -- who have died in
battle. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/imagetop.html

1973 - Fifteen federal & local narcotics agents mistakenly
invade the home of Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Giglotto of
Collinsville, Illinois &, without a warrant, ransacked their
home, smashing much of their property. No drugs were
discovered & no arrests were made.

1973 - "Spirit of Peace" sails into French South Pacific
nuclear test zone from Tauranga, New Zealand

1975 - Peter Ham, guitarist/songwriter for Badfinger, hangs
himself in his London garage. He was reported to be deeply
depressed by financial problems the group
was having. A friend  explains, "The guy's a goof, he was just
Hamming it up."

1977 - Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops  & only loses
10.

1977 - Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games
simultaneously. Mates with 10 at a whack.
http://www.cdmag.com/traditional_vault/chessmaster_5000_review/article.html

1980 - Death of Ida Mae Stull, first woman coal miner.

1983 - Over 250 cats of the Beverly Hills Cat Club sponser a
benefit for Harp Seals Sea Shepherd Conservation Ship.

1985 - Sam Ervin dies.  Senator "Sam" chaired the Watergate
hearings in the spring of 1973.

On the convictions of former attorney general John Mitchell &
former White House aide John Ehrlichman for their roles in the
scandal, he said:

"I don't think either one of them would have recognized the
Bill of Rights if they met it on the street in broad daylight
under a cloudless sky."
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0297/nixon.htm

1989 - China: Students in Beijing announce class boycotts. The
government announces they can't -- given they're already
classless.

1992 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker, dies.

*SATYAJIT RAY, SAINT 1998*
Fine Indian filmmaker of daily life struggles of the poor.

1993 - Death of Cesar Chavez (1927-1993), nonviolent civil
rights activist & founder of the United Farm Workers.

*CESAR CHAVEZ, SAINT, March 31*
Organizer of migrant farm workers, "wretched of the earth."
http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~ccipp/cecresources.html
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/bio/

1996 - Ukraine: Nineteen demonstrators arrested in Kiev,
during illegal anti-nuclear protest marking 10th anniversary
of Chernobyl.

"An art of life in continual rising up, wild but gentle -- a
seducer not a rapist, a smuggler rather than a bloody pirate,
a dancer not an eschatologist.

Liberation is realized struggle -- this is the essence of
Nietzsche's "self-overcoming." The present thesis might also
take for a sign Nietzsche's wandering. It is the precursor of
the drift, in the Situ sense of the derive & Lyotard's
definition of driftwork. We can foresee a whole new geography,
a kind of pilgrimage-map in which holy sites are replaced by
peak experiences & T[emporary] A[utonomous] Z[ones]s: a real
science of psychotopography, perhaps to be called "geo-
autonomy" or  "anarchomancy."

---Hakim Bey, *The Temporary Autonomous Zone: Ontological
Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism*
http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/taz/taz.htm


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