Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:53:45 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/29 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT


Daily Bleed in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1129.htm

excerpts,

              The Pharaoh, Chacal, & Hathor are glabrous
                                           perfectly
                                           balanced
                                  arm in arm. The weight
                                      of the Man-God
                             is on one foot / or the other.
                                 They create the gleam
                                    of this dimension,
                                  of this single process,
                                       of perfection.
                              But who is who? and WHAT?

                    – Michael McClure,
                       from Scratching the Beat Surface.
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mc-mce1.htm

NOVEMBER 29 --  LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Not the Little Woman most people imagine.
Daughter of Bronson, founder of the utopian
Fruitlands community.

FESTIVAL OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS

US: SQUARE DANCE DAY.


1814 -- "The London Times" -- first newspaper printed
on a mechanical press.


1831 -- Poland: Revolution!

       o prospectors o Anglo Saxons
       baby-faced dumplings who pacified the west
       with gattling guns with bounties for hides of babes
       mothers' vulvas made baseballs to their lust
       o bringers of civilization heros heros
       I will fight my way past you who guard the sacred
       border
       last frontier village of my dreams
       with shootouts tyrannies
       (he cries) who had escaped the law
       or brought it with him
       how vass I lost tzu get here

            — Jerome Rothenberg, excerpt, "Cokboy",
                        POLAND/1931

http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/ljr1.htm

1832 -- Germantown, Pennsylvania: Louisa May Alcott,
author of Work, lives. Daughter of the brilliant,
impoverished philosopher/teacher Amos Bronson
Alcott (born same day, 1799).

Known for her novel "Little Women", she also wrote
"Work", an autobiographical novel exposing the
exploitation of women workers & the evils of
industrialization in 1873.
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/alcott/littlew/index.html
            http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lmalcott.htm

1847 -- At a banquet in Paris commemorating the Polish
insurrection of 1830, the anarchist Michael Bakunin
delivers a speech denouncing the Russian government
& is subsequently expelled from France.
http://members.tripod.com/~anarcho/

1864 -- Sand Creek Massacre. Contingent of Colorado
Militia under J.M. Chivington (a Methodist pastor), fell
upon an unsuspecting Cheyenne camp (ordered away
from protection of Fort Lyon 4 days before), ignored a
white surrender flag & slaughtered 450 men, women &
children, scalped them, cut out the women's genitals &
stuck them on poles.

Nine of 900 cavalrymen were killed. A local newspaper
called this

                "a brilliant feat of arms"

     & stated the soldiers had

               "covered themselves with glory."

A chief cause of the Arapaho-Cheyenne war that
followed & far-reaching influence in the Plains
Indian wars of the next decade.
http://www3.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs640/sandcrk.htm
http://www.umc.org/genconf/NEWS/massacre.html
http://www.mcn.net/~wleman/sandcrk.htm

1883 -- Printer/publisher Dard Hunter lives,
Steubenville, Ohio. His writings on the history &
technique of papermaking include the autobiography,
My Life with Paper.
http://www.slis.ua.edu/ba/dardo.html

1902 -- Carlo Levi lives. Italian writer, journalist,
artist, doctor, whose first documentary novel,
Christ Stopped at Eboli

CARLO LEVI 1997 SAINT, 16 MAY
Italian anti-fascist activist, author, humanitarian.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/clevi.htm

1909 -- USSR: Novelist Maxim Gorky is expelled from
Communist Party. Later gets an airplane
named after him.
http://www.aha.ru/~mausoleu/a_lenin/gorky_e.htm#Gorky
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1274.htm

1918 -- Author Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless
Light; Walking on Water), lives

1919 -- US: Bogalusa Massacre...

Bleedster Gene recently introduced Bogalusa,
Louisiana Carpenters Memorial Resolution.
See Daily Bleed web page for details.

...four union organizers, & officers of Bogalusa UBC
local 2203 were murdered while they were working to
organize the Great Southern Lumber Company by
agents of the the company & the town mayor

See also Norwood, Stephen H. "Bogalusa Burning:
The War Against Biracial Unionism in the Deep
South, 1919." Journal of Southern History 63, no.3
(August 1997)
&
U.S. Supreme Court, WILLIAMS v. GREAT
SOUTHERN LUMBER CO., 277 U.S. 19 (1928)
http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/US/277/19.html

1947 -- German Green Party leader Petra Kelly lives,
Gunzburg, Bavaria.

PETRA KELLY 1997 SAINT
German Green Party leader, ecologist pioneer.
http://www.worldpaper.com/2000/august00/henderson.html

1949 -- Songster Stan Rogers lives, Canada.
http://stevebriggs.superb.net/stanrogers/

1965 -- Take Notice?: Dale Cummings does 14,118
consecutive sit-ups. Just like BleedMeister.

1966 -- In San Francisco, District Attorney John J.
Ferdon dropped charges against members of
The Diggers, who staged a Halloween puppet show
at Haight & Ashbury streets.
See:
            Eric Noble's Diggers Archive
            Linda McCartney's
            "Summer of Love" Exhibit at the Museum
            60's Map of the Haight-Ashbury District
            Colin Pringle's History of the Haight-Ashbury
            Bibliography of the Haight-Ashbury Era
 http://www.diggers.org/

1969 -- Australian cartoonist, artist, sculptor & novelist
Norman Lindsay dies. Often censored by the wowsers
for his big boobs & butts.
http://www.dot.net.au/~frankl/normanlindsay1.HTM


2000 -- US:

Florida ... Recount Reveals Nader Defeated
TALLAHASSEE, FL-- A third recount by Florida election
officials has "definitively determined" that Green Party
candidate Ralph Nader was defeated. "There was a very
significant 25,603-vote discrepancy between the first two
counts, with Nader losing by respective margins of
2,812,339 & 2,837,942, so we decided to conduct a
hand recount," Florida Attorney General Jim Smith
recounted.

"We now know that Nader lost by precisely 2,821,278 votes."

http://www.theonion.com/onion3641/nation_plunges_into_chaos.html


                     Coffee comes in five descending
                                           stages:

                                           Coffee,
                                            Java,
                                          Jamoke,
                                             Joe,
                              & Carbon Remover."

                       — Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road


---anti-Baby-faced dumplings, 2000