Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:01:39 -0800
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Dark Glasses: 3/27 SARAH VAUGHN


                I whispered: memory hurts
                wherever you touch it.

                                          ^× George Seferis

Web Version:
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0327.htm

excerpts:

SARAH VAUGHN
"Divine Sassie," the legendary jazz vocalist.

Ancient Rome: LIBERALIA, the festival of the Vegetation
God, Liber Pater, which in the third century B.C.
exploded into the wild nocturnal orgies of the Bacchanalia,
later suppressed by the state.

Egypt: SMELL THE BREEZES DAY.  In the morning, smell a cut
onion, get dressed up and head for a picnic in the country.

LAZY MOOCHER'S DAY.

1513 - Pedophilia?: Ponce de Leon reaches Florida looking
for fountain of youths.

1814 - Massacre of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Band). Beloved
& Respected Comrade Leader General Andrew Jackson
overwhelms Creek forces.

To count the dead, whites cut
off their noses -- piling 557 of them  --- & skin bodies
to tan hides for souvenirs. What Ayn Rand, for one,
calls "bringing them civilization."

1871 - Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) lives, Lübeck. German
writer, brother of Thomas Mann.

Attacks on militarism, nationalism & the authoritarian
social structure of German society led to his exile in 193.
Studied bookbinding. Best known novel ^ÓProfessor Unrat^Ô,
has been filmed many times, but best known version
is ^ÓDer Blaue Engel^Ô (The Blue Angel), directed by
Von Sternberg, featuring  Marlene Dietrich.

1912 - Canada.: Start of 8-month Fraser River Strike by IWW
(Industrial Workers of the World) railroad construction
workers, British Columbia.

1917 - US: Toothless In Seattle? The Seattle Metropolitans become
the first US hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the
Montreal Canadiens, 600-1, more or less. Pucker Up.

1924 - Legendary jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughn lives.

1928 - D. H. Lawrence, writing to Aldous Huxley, calls
Arnold Bennett "a pig in clover."

   Exactly three years later,
   Bennett dies of typhoid after drinking water
   in a Paris hotel to prove to companions that it is safe.

1953 - The US State Department bans Dashiell [DASH-ell]
Hammett's novels from its overseas libraries.

 McCarthy's boys found 300 Hammett detective stories....

Questioned by the House Un-American Activities
Committee, Hammett would not say whether he was a
Communist, when he wrote the books, nor whether royalties
ended up in party coffers. Hammett frustrated the committee
with these ambiguous words,

  "If I were fighting Communism, I don't think I would do it
  by giving people any books at all."

http://www.mysterynet.com/history/hammett/

1966 - South Vietnam: 20,000 Buddhists in silent march for
peace, Hue.

1967 - A riot broke out at a Rolling Stones concert in
Halsinborg, Sweden. 5 days later, 154 fans were arrested in
another riot at a Stones concert in Vienna, Austria. And
then 3 weeks later, another riot broke out at a Stones
concert in Zurich, Switzerland.

1970 - Alice Herez dies after immolating herself on 16
March to protest the Vietnam War.

1971 - New York radio station WNBC bans the song ^Ó"One
Toke Over the Line"^Ó by Brewer & Shipley for alleged drug
references. Other stations around the country follow suit.

1971 -- Today Heberto Padilla, the renowned Cuban poet
& former editor of "Granma" (fired for favorable
comments on the work of Guillermo Cabrera
Infante), is jailed for 37 days.

    Out of the Game

    The poet, get rid of him
    He has nothing to do around here
    He does not play the game
    lacks enthusiasm
    He does not make his message clear
    does not even notice the miracles.
    He spends the whole day thinking
    always finds something to object to
    That fellow, get rid of him
    Remove the party pooper
    the summer malcontent
    who wears dark glasses in the new dawn
    of time without history
    He is even out of date
    He likes only the old Louis Armstrong
    Humming, at most, a song of Pete Seeger
    He sings 'Guantanamera' through clenched teeth
    No one can make him talk
    No one can make him smile
    each time the spectacle begins...

1975 - Christ's body found in Detroit -- by the ^ÓFifth
Estate^Ô newspaper staff. This possibly explains this anarchist
paper's longevity, as it continues to publish today.

The issue carries stories about protests against
global capitalism, mental hospitals, radical
sexuality, utopias, the myths of the democratic
process & a review of Detroit's anarchist band, The Layabouts.
 http://www.goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/index.html

1986 - Welfare Bums?: US Senate approves 100 million for
rightwing Nicaraguan contras while cutting domestic programs,
slashing welfare programs.

1998 - Five thousand demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in
support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, & other
political prisoners in the U.S.

1999 - The Fourth Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair,
in Frisco. Over 60 Anarchist groups will be exhibiting.
Over 2000 persons  attend.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/


ICHOR
  n. A fluid that serves the gods & goddesses in place of
     blood.

    Fair Venus, speared by Diomed,
    Restrained the raging chief and said:
    "Behold, rash mortal, whom you've bled --
    Your soul's stained white with ichorshed!"

         --- Mary Doke, in Ambrose Bierce,
              ^ÓThe Devil's Dictionary"


---Anti-CopyRite 2041

"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech &
press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law --
no opinion a crime."

       ---Alexander Berkman