Daily Bleed: Sept. 21

Daily Bleed. 13th Anniversary....
The cheery bloody details,
Read all about it...

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0921.htm

excerpts:

SEPTEMBER 21 -- H.G. WELLS
Pioneer science fiction writer, radical socialist, visionary.

BLEEDING HEARTS CLUB DAY. All Daily Bleed
recipients have the day off. If this falls on a weekend
or any other day,
take a full week off, on full pay...
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0921.htm

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1870 -- Make Room, Make Room!?: Decree from
Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the United States
& Protector of Mexico, that the Grand Hotel
furnish him rooms under penalty of being banished.

1870 -- Joshua Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the
United States & Protector of Mexico, He Banishes a
Traitor:

WHEREAS, one Phillipmagilder Alamagoozalum
Whangdoodlum Larryum Murrayum is engaged in
plotting with conspirators to usurp our prerogatives
& is a traitor to our person & scepter...

1881 -- Ernst Frick lives (1881-1956), Swiss artist,
archaeologist & scholar of primitive languages
(Anarchist - Kunstmaler - Archäologe - Urspracheforscher).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FrickErnst.htm

1904 -- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dies in his lodge
at Nespelem, Washington; agency physician lists cause
of death as "a broken heart."

1913 -- US: "Mother" Jones leads a march of miners'
children through the streets of Charleston.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#21/1913

1921 -- Russia: The anarchist poet Lev Chernyi is shot by the Cheka.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ChernyiLev.htm

1934 -- Leonard Cohen lives, Montreal, Canada.

What is a Saint?

Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a
seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.
His house is dangerous & finite, but he is at home in the world.
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine & twisted
shapes of the heart.

1937 -- J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit published.

Michael Moorcock, also a fantasy & scifi writer
despises Tolkien's written work, calling the Lord of the Rings,
"John Buchan for teenagers. A compendium of disguised bigotry
& English high church snobbery.

"I hate it for exactly those qualities which made it so popular.
It's a lullaby. Not sure we need lullabies at the moment.

"Unless we're all just going to give up, go to sleep & wake
up dead."

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/Moorcock.htm

1947 -- Stephen King begins a horrorible life.

1957 -- During this month [I don't have the exact day — ed.],
Guy Debord begins work on "Mémoires," a book 'composed
entirely of prefabricated elements.'
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists

1963 -- War Resisters League organizes first
anti-Vietnam War demonstration in the US.

1965 -- The Jefferson Airplane opens for Lightnin'
Hopkins at the Matrix on Fillmore St.

And he say

oooooooohhhh mister charlie
your rollin mill is burnin down

— Lightnin Hopkins, "Once in the Country"

1976 -- Former Chilean Foreign Minister & Ambassador
to the U.S. Orlando Letelier, & his colleague Ronni
Moffitt, a US citizen, are murdered in Washington D.C.
by CIA-supported agents of U.S.-installed Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Chilean President
Augusto Pinochet.

Human rights are universal. & there is no
statute of limitations for crimes against
human rights.

— Carlos Fuentes, "A Victim of Pinochet"

...The man in the river

wears a white shirt, dark pants & sprawls
as if sleeping while water riffles his hair.
This is a photograph from the coup or golpe,

meaning also hit or shock — just one death
from thirty thousand.

— Stephen Dobyns, "Paco"

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm

Background materials on the Chilean workers' movement
in the 1970s,
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#chile

1986 -- Hunter S. Thompson claims he remained
sober on this day.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead,
who never to himself hath said
As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed:
To hell with the rent... I'll drink instead!

— Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway

1986 -- Former Beloved & Respected Comrade Philippine
Leader Imelda Marcos explains why there were
so so so so many shoes (several thousand) in her closets:

"Everybody kept their shoes there.
The maids ... everybody."

1997 -- The Daily Bleed lives.

History has never been the same.

2001 -- Fourth anniversary.

"In the carriages of the past, you
can't go anywhere."

— Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/abes2.gif

2003 -- Umpteenth anniversary of the Daily Bleed.

Currently 600+ subscribers to the daily email virgin;
118, 911 have visited the Daily Bleed Archives;
no way of knowing how sneak through the back doors,
though each day now hosts about 200 readers a day.

27,240 visitors to our Anti-authoritarian Encyclopedia since
March, 2001; 184 to our Stan Iverson Lirbrary since Nov 2002
(the counter has been stuck on this figure since the first month)...

We still hold the record for having once received a $10 donation
(which we promptly drank back in '99).

We have also recently given ourselves an award, noting
after all these years no one else about to do so.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0921.htm

(Repetition bears repeating)

2006 -- No donations, no awards. Just chug, chug, chuggin' along,
254,212 visitors since May of 2005

"Scufflin' like ducks in the desert."

2010 -- Umpteenthieth anniversary. 1,753,000 visitors since May 2005
U do the math, my head hurts....
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/headache_md_wht.gif

Thems the facts as we knows them or has dressed them
up as nessessairy...

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"The truth is more important than the facts. "

— Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

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