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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