Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:11:41 -0700 From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/11 FESTIVAL OF HAPPY FEET Image & link burdened web page: http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0811.htm Rough, Bad-landing comments, unrested travellers. pisst-off, unrequited smokers, possible flat tire, maybe broken wheel, trashed toilet... — Ed Dorn, excerpt, The Denver Landing — 11 Aug 1993 AUGUST 11 -- CONLON NANCARROW Polytemporal player-piano composer, Lincoln brigadier. Lost Colonies, High on a Hill, Carolinas: Day after "Wild Bill" Koehnline's Birthday; father of SaintMeister; the only Daily Bleed recipient with an Art Gallery named after him & his peculiar tastes. We have nothing that is ours except time, which even those without a roof can enjoy. — Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y Arte de prudencia Unless de roof fall in... — Auntie Dave FESTIVAL OF HAPPY FEET. 1471 -- Hazards?: Republic of Novgorod becomes subject to the Dukes of Moscow. Changes name to Notgood? Bleedster Piero writes from Poland: This was rather a tragedy. According to the order of Ivan IV the Terrible, all the people that lived in Novgorod were killed, burned, drown in the river, thousands of people, including women, kids and elders - few were sold as slaves to other regions of Russia. The city was burned, building destroyed and the land was ploughed - not anyone to remember in Russia about the republic of Novgorod, the Athens of the North, where authority was strongly based on direct democracy and republican. The Moscow Russia was to be one man ruled, tsarist country. 1797 -- England: A secret Home Office report suspects Wordsworth & Coleridge of being enemy agents because of their strange behaviour — wandering the countryside with camp stools & making detailed observations of the landscape. 1833 -- Agnostic iconoclast Robert Ingersoll lives, Dresden, New York. ROBERT INGERSOLL 19th-century American agnostic, free-thinker. Daily Bleed Saint 1998 http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/ http://www.SecularHumanism.org/ingersoll 1880 -- Aleksandr Grin lives, Slobodskoy, Russia. Soviet prose writer notable for romantic short stories of adventure & mystery. Among the most exotic of all Russian literature, fantastic & whimsical. His work was condemned as antisocial, bourgeois, & decadent by the communists. 1882 -- Voline, Russian revolutionary & anarchist historian, lives. Arrested January 14, 1919, Trotsky had ordered his execution. Voline escaped death only by sheer accident: the Red Trade Union International was meeting in 1921 just as anarchists in the Taganka prison went on hunger strike, causing a scandal at the Congress, & forcing the Bolsheviks to release them all (on condition they leave Russia — the first political prisoners deported from the vaunted Red Fatherland of the Proletariat). http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/voline/index.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3998/Russia.html http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/2163/bolintro.html 1892 -- Hugh MacDiarmid lives, Langholm, Dumfriesshire. Preeminent Scottish poet of the first half of the 20th century... 1894 -- Federal troops drive some 1,200 jobless workers from the nation's capital across the Potomac River. Led by an unemployed activist, Charles "Hobo" Kelley, the group came from western states & camped in Washington D.C. beginning in early July. The "soldiers" in Kelley's Hobo Army include a young journalist named Jack London & also William Haywood... 1897 -- Poet Louise Bogan lives, Livermore Falls, Minnesota. http://shrike.depaul.edu/~cfosterl/lb.html 1936 -- American author André Dubus lives. 1945 -- Striking Mexican filmworkers bar distribution of US films. http://www.cat.org.au/spectacular/specmed9.jpg 1952 -- Philip Morrison, a Cornell Professor of Physics, expresses doubts about atomic warfare & then faces a Congressional anticommunist investigating committee for doing so. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/commieCleanser2.jpg http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/morrison.html 1964 -- Spain: Stuart Christie & Carballo Blanco arrested in Madrid. Protests at Christie's imprisonment leads to machine-gunning of US Embassy by First of May Group. Christie, along with Albeert Meltzer was instrumental in re-starting the Anarchist Black Cross. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia pages, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#ABC http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/ChristieStuart.htm http://au.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/meltzer/meltzer.html 1965 -- US: Watts Riots begin in LA when a white policeman stops Marquette Frye, a black driver, for drunkenness. By 16 August, when the riots end, 34 are dead, 800 wounded, 3,000 arrests & $200 million worth of property destroyed. The greatest horror, as one observer noted, was, “These rioters don’t have any leaders.” http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/10.Watts.htm http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/watts.html 1970 -- United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez begins a hunger strike to protest union harassment by Teamsters union officials. 1984 -- During a radio voice test Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting Prez Ronnie Reagun joking: "I have signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes." 2000 -- US: The North American Anarchist Conference, from August 11-17 2000, in Los Angeles, upstages Democratic Convention & the whacko Pat Buchanan-Ross Perot party of brotherly love. http://naac.8m.com/ ---anti-FiveMinuteBombings 2001
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