Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:40:01 -0800
Subject: Daily Bud: 1/22 LORD BYRON


                  Januaries, Nature greets our eyes
                  exactly as she must have greeted theirs:
                  every square inch filling in with foliage ^×

                   ^× Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502"

Daily Bleed, web page updated in full, available around the
globe...in any town square with access to the internet...

http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0122.htm

Excerpts,
                 LORD BYRON
                 Wit, dandy, into incest & man-boy love.
                 Died fighting for Greek freedom
                 & romantic ideals. Good poet, too.


FESTIVAL OF INVOKING & BANISHING.

ST. VINCENT'S DAY. Patron saint of both
winemakers & drunkards, inspires Thrift Stores.

FESTIVAL OF THE ORGONE.


1778 -- US: Board of War induces Congress to approve
an invasion of Canada.

1788 -- Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, lives.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0122b.htm#1788

1821 --

                    Through life's road so dim & dirty
                    I have dragged to three & thirty.
                    What have these years left to me?
                    Nothing except thirty-three."

                      ^× Lord Byron, 1821, his 33rd birthday
1824 --

                    'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
                    Since others it hath ceased to move:
                    Yes, though I cannot be beloved,
                    Still let me love!

                       ^× Lord Byron, On This Day I Complete My
                           Thirty-Sixth Year

1871 -- France: For the first time anarchist Louise Michel,
armed with a rifle, takes a shot against the Breton mobiles
of Trochu in front of the Town hall.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws55_louise.html
http://tigerden.com/~berios/libertarians.html

1879 -- Francis Picabia, surrealist, lives.

           "La plus belle invention de l'homme
           est le bicarbonate de soude"

                                    ^× Francis Picabia

 http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0122b.htm#1879

1888 -- France: In Paris, an attempt to kill Louise Michel
results in her being wounded.  The budding anarchist testified
in behalf of her attacker, arguing for his acquittal.
http://www.web.net/~blakrose/louise.htm

1899 -- P. Mustapää (1899 - 1973) lives. Finnish poet/folklorist.

1905 -- Russia: Bloody Sunday, massacre of demonstrators
in St. Petersburg: Troops  open fire on 100,000 workers,
women & children, leaving over 1,000 demonstrators dead
& 3,000 wounded.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0122b.htm#1905

1905 -- France: Burial of Louise Michel.

            A procession of over 100,000 people accompany
            her coffin to the Levallois cemetery where she is
            buried. The Lepine prefect, who tried to follow
            the procession, was driven off by the anarchists.

1924 --
                 Joseph
                 Spivak
                 (1882-1971)
                 is being
                 watched, much like you, we
                 think...
                             [Agent Report In re:] Neie Geselshaft,
                             Free Workers Forum, Joseph Spivak ^×
                             Russian (Jewish) Anarchist Activities,
                             Los Angeles [19]24 Jan. 22; Reel 66:

http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/JosephSpivak.htm

1925 -- D. H. Lawrence writes:

"Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, &
if he doesn't like it ^× if he wants a safe seat in the audience ^×
let him read somebody else."

1932 -- El Salvador: Peasant uprising leading to the
"Matanza Massacre" of 30,000.

        The El Salvador government crushes
        the peasants like bugs.

        Children die too, for Communists, like snakes,
        need to be killed young....

http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/CenturyoftheWind.htm#IZALCO

1951 -- Beanie Baby?: Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter
League baseball game after beaning batter.

1964 -- US: World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured,
Wisconsin. Sorry, we don't know which President it was.

1971 -- John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Power to the People"
which goes on to reach  number 11 on the charts. Nice idea...

1991 -- US: 14 ACT-UP AIDS activists arrested while
             simultaneously disrupting CBS, NBC & PBS
             evening news broadcasts with "Fight AIDS, not
             Arabs" banners. Members burst onto the CBS
             Evening News with Dan Rather & the Public
             Broadcasting System's MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.

 http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0122b.htm#1991

1993 -- Kobo Abe dies in Tokyo, Japan, after a successful
writing career that has seen most of his avant-garde works of
bizarre & allegorical situations, such as Woman in the Dunes,
& The Boxman,  translated into English.

1997 -- South Korea: 150,000 workers walk off their jobs to
protest recent labor legislation. The wave of strikes over
the previous three weeks have already "cost" South Korean
corporations about $3 billion in lost production.

2179 -- Hikaru Walter Sulu lives, Frisco, California.

                   "And the day came when
                    the risk it took to
                    remain tight inside the
                    bud was more painful
                    than the risk it took to
                    blossom."

                                                   ^× Anais Nin

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