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Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:34:47 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily bleed: 12/9 EMMETT KELLY


Daily Bleed, full recount,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1209.htm

Excerpts,

"The person who borrowed my Martin Beck thriller, read it in a
sauna which melted the glue off the spine so the pages drifted
to the floor, stapled them together & returned the book,
thinking I wouldn't notice."

      – Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance
http://members.nbci.com/kam1892/

DECEMBER 9--EMMETT KELLY
Best of the hobo clowns. Patron saint of the Big Top.

Patzcuaro, Mexico: FIESTA OF THE MOTHER
OF HEALTH.
Fishermens' Fiesta, with much dancing, clowning &
fireworks.


1608 -- British "Paradise Lost": epic writer John Milton
lives, Bread Street, Cheapside, London. The "Prince of
Poets" also wrote First Defense of the English People,
justifying the execution of Charles I.

1640 -- Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from colony
of Massachusetts when he declares himself to
be free of original sin.

1842 -- Prince Peter Kropotkin, important geographer
& anarchist, lives Moscow, Russia. The Encyclopedia
Britannica (for which he wrote the "anarchy" definition
for the famed 11th edition) describes himself: "Although
he achieved renown in a number of different fields,
ranging from geography & zoology to sociology & history,
he shunned material success for the life of a revolutionist."

http://www.geocities.com/biologybooks/rkropotk.htm
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/kropotkin/Kropotkinarchive.html

1854 -- Alfred Tennyson's The Charge of the Light
Brigade published six weeks after the Battle of
Balaclava.

1893 -- France: Auguste Vaillant throws a small bomb
into the Chamber of Deputies. A symbolic gesture,
meant to wound rather than kill, Vaillant is condemned
to death, & guillotined February 5, 1894. The deputies
use the event to suppress the anarchists & their press.
See the Daily Bleed's Encyclopedia of Sinners,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AugusteVaillant.htm

1896 -- France: First performance (dress rehearsal) of
Ubu Roi, subversive play by Alfred Jarry. Sets off a riot.
http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ngzF92/jarrypub/commence.html

1898 -- Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie) lives.

1899 -- England: "Grand Meeting & Concert for the
Benefit of the Agitation in Favour of the Political
Victims in Italy" staged in London. Among a cast of
international anarchist speakers are Emma Goldman,
Louise Michel, & Peter Kropotkin.

1905 -- Dalton Trumbo, writer (Johnny Got His Gun),
film director, one of the blacklisted
"Hollywood Ten," lives.

Johnny Got His Gun published two days after the
beginning of WWII. Won an American Booksellers
Award for 1939

            "What you ask is against regulations."

http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Casualties-note.html
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/blacklist_10-24.html

http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html

HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST, by Dan Georgakas
(ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN
LEFT): http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtrumbo.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/trumbo.htm

1909 -- Great Sioux leader Red Cloud dies, Pine
Ridge, South Dakota.
      RED CLOUD 1997 SAINT
      Great Native American leader, Sioux warrior.

1949 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader, the
Honorable Representative J. Parnell Thomas,
former chairman of the House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC), sentenced to 6 to 18
months in federal prison.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/learn-from-blacklist.html

1953 -- General Electric announces all Communist
employees will be fired.

       General Electric president Charles Wilson said:
        "The problems of the U.S. can be summed up in
               two words: Russia abroad, labor at home."
Accordingly, Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act of
1947, which denied unions the right to organize unless
their leaders took an oath swearing they weren't
communists.
http://chicagotribune.com/leisure/features/article/0,2669,SAV-0002080084,FF.html


      If you had Westinghouse appliances or something
     like that in your household you were almost a
     traitor. I guess the bad word for that time in the fifties
     was a “communist.” "

http://libris.gonzaga.edu:1080/img/0359/trnscrpt.html

1955 -- Marianne Moore, hired by the Ford to name
the car eventually called "Edsel", suggests
Utopian Turtletop.

Ford sends her a dozen roses.
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~slatin/20c_poetry/projects/lives/mm.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/6168/

1961 -- England: Committee of 100, including Bertrand
Russell, hold demonstrations at various U.S. air &
nuclear bases.
http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm
http://www.zpub.com/notes/aan-read.html

1981     US: Black
             Philadelphia
             journalist &
             activist
             Mumia
             Abu-Jamal
             is arrested &
             charged
             with the
             killing of a
             Philadelphia
             policeman.


"If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing
important to say, why are so many
powerful people trying to shut him up?"

           --- John Edgar Wideman,
                author,
                Philadelphia
                Fire

See Terry Bisson's Newsday article:
http://www.sff.net/people/tbisson/MUMIA.html
& http://www.mumia.org/

 "There are many trials . . . in which the victim was
 already condemned to death before the trial took
 place, & it took place only to cover up the real
 meaning: the accused was to be put to death . . . the
 trial is just a mask for murder."

 ---Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong

Among the irregularities: Evidence disappears,
witnesses are intimidated by police, police officers
change their testimony to fit the official line, & the
prosecutor will eventually be the judge considering
Mumia's appeal of his death sentence. Phillie's
Police Guild mounts an unprecedented media
campaign to assure his execution.
http://mojo.calyx.net/~refuse/mumia/index.html

1983 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader &
Well-Fed Attorney General Edwin
Meese says people go to soup kitchens

  "...because the food is free & that's easier than paying
  for it...I think that they have money."

Of the 26 million people served through Second Harvest,
the national food banking network:

                    62% are women
                    37% are children under age 18
                    39% of households have at least
                    one adult who is working
                    Nearly 60% have no car
                    More than 24% have no facilities for cooking,
                    such as a stove or oven
                    Over a third had to choose between food
                    & rent

1991 -- Maurice Joyeux, outstanding figure of French
anarchism, dies.
Radio federation Libertarian, the libertarian world, etc
on the Web:
http://federation-anarchiste.org
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier4.html#29

1994 -- Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns
after her masturbation comments are criticized by
jerk offs.

          May is "National Masturbation Month," &
          May 7 is "National Masturbation Day."

Some pundits suggest we all form a circle &
celebrate this seminal event.
http://www.proaxis.com/~solo/showoff.htm



                    "Humour is the essential
                    ingredient of a democratic
                    society"
                    http://www.retroweb.com/prisoner.html#maxims

---anti-Melted the Glue Off the Spine, 2000


   

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