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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:57:47 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/27 HARRY SMITH 


Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1127.htm

excerpts:

    Someone basic as a fuse
    in the cellar of a tenement darkened by lightning,
    one who makes sure water comes out of the faucets,
    maintains the necessary order of things at the highest
    level of discreet invisibility like simplicity itself,
    is often the indigenous immigrant at the root

    of what makes the whole show continue,
    the human janitor, who must not be slashed
    like a throwaway book by the cut-crazy backstabbers
    of the people, the he or she who is the real
    governor of the state of things
    still possibly human.

          – Jack Hirschman, from "Something Basic"
         (For Local 87 AFL-CIO)


NOVEMBER 27 --   HARRY SMITH
Historian of indigenous cultures, video artist, beatnik,
drop-out. (Just try & do a search for links on
"Harry Smith" — HemoMeister)

FESTIVAL OF SOLITUDE.

1726 -- Jonathan Swift gleefully writes to Alexander
Pope of initial reactions to the newly published
Gulliver's Travels, noting an Irish bishop called the
satire "full of improbable lies."

1832 -- South Carolina Convention calls for armed
resistance, if necessary, against the U.S. government.

1885 -- Earliest photograph of a shower
http://excaliburfilms.com/dvd/images/singingrain.jpg

1900 -- U.S. troops coax information from Filipino town
president by forcing salt water down his throat from
100-gallon tank. Then they burned the town to the
ground. To "protect US interests".

1909 -- American journalist James Agee (Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men; A Death in the Family) lives,
Knoxville, Tennessee:

            "I lived there, so successfully disguised
            to myself as a child."

JAMES AGEE 1997 SAINT
Compassionate American chronicler of poverty, despair.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/fa/agee.james.html
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/a/agee20.htm

1920 -- Makhno's anarchist commanders executed
yesterday after being lured to a meeting with
Leon Trotsky under a flag of truce.

                        "Your flags black in the wind,
                                     black for our sorrow,
                                         red for our blood."

    ---excerpt from the song "Makhnovchtchina"
 http://people.nirvanet.net/m/makhno/public_html/
 http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/makhno/Makhno.html

http://www.spunk.org/library/quotes/sp000092.txt

1942 -- Jimi Hendrix lives! Seattle, Washington.
http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/guitar/Guitar_Gear_Supro.asp

1965 -- Ken Kesey's first acid test takes place.
http://www.halcyon.com/colinp/kesey.htm

1969 -- 700 U.S. Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage
a fast to protest the Vietnam War.

1970 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
J. Edgar Hoover warns of terrorist plot by Catholic
priest Berrigan brothers (Daniel & Philip) & others.
http://www.infoshop.org/graphics/J_Edgar.gif

1978 -- San Francisco Mayor George Moscone & City
Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, shot to
death by former supervisor Dan White who argues the
Twinkies he ate made him do it.
http://www.jps.net/funnyguy/hive/anitwink.gif

1990 -- Charles Johnson wins the National Book Award
for his novel Middle Passage. He is the fourth
African-American to win the award.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/books/sneaks/1998/03/25review.html

1991 -- Visionary videographer Harry Smith dies,
Chelsea Hotel, New York City. Early childhood was
spent in the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Anacortes
& Bellingham. By the age of 15 Harry had spent time
recording many Indian songs and rituals, and was
compiling a dictionary of several Puget Sound dialects.
Studied anthropology at the University of Washington for
five semesters between 1942 & 1944. After a weekend
visit to Berkeley during which he met a number of
bohemians, intellectuals & artists (including Woody
Guthrie), & experienced marijuana for the first time,
he dropped out of college.
http://www.arthouseinc.com/smitharchives/smitharchives.html


                             "We need
                              help, the Poet
                              reckoned."

                                — Ed Dorn

http://www.corpse.org/issue_4/burning_bush/dorn.htm


--- anti-Improbable Lies, 3000 or thereabouts


   

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