>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:30:32 -0800 >From: "David Brown, Recollection" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: biblioSpamaroonies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: (fyi) Daily Bleed: 1/16 DIAN FOSSEY; Monkey is as Monkey Do >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by emerald.oz.net id >IAA25227 > >Today's Daily Bleed web page updated, in full, >http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0116.htm > >Excerpts, > >DIAN FOSSEY >Friend to all primates, animal rights martyr. > >Japan: HARU-NO-YABUIRI. A festival of Zerowork for >overworked students & servants. > > >1769 -- England: Rock 'n' Roll? One of the worst riots >in theatre history kicks off at the London Haymarket after >a conjuror fails to appear. > >1794 -- Edward Gibbon (History of the Decline & Fall >of the Roman Empire) fat, feeble, & gout-ridden, dies at 56. >Religious reformer Hannah More writes: > > "How many souls have his writings polluted! > Lord preserve others from their contagion!" > >1874 -- Canadian poet/novelist Robert W. Service >lives to shoot Dan McGrew... > >1893 -- Hawaii: Queen Lilluokalani's regime is >overthrown by US pineapple tycoon Sanford Dole & >pro-annexation sugar interests... Beloved & Respected >Comrade Dole declares himself Hawaii's president & >lobbies for US annexation. It's manifestly in the can. > >1901 -- Laura Riding lives, New York. Influential poet, >critic, & prose writer among the literary avant garde of the >1920s & 30s. > >1919 -- Argentina: End of the "Sanglante" ("Bloody Week") in >Buenos Aires. The General Strike begun a week ago is crushed >in blood, with as many as 700 dead & 2000 wounded. Argentinean >anarchism is decimated by the following repression, & the trade >unions reformists are left fully in control. > >1933 -- Susan Sontag lives. American 'new intellectual' >essayist & novelist. > > "Interpretation is the revenge of the > intellect upon art." > >1938 -- Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall >when black members of his band are barred from performing. > >1952 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator >James Eastland introduces a resolution to declare a "state of >emergency" in the US. It allows Congress to invoke a McCarran >Internal Security Act provision under which American >Communists can be rounded up & jailed in concentration >camps. >http://www.freakytheclown.com/lovepack.jpg > >1963 -- Venezuela: Revolutionary students in Caracas make >an armed attack on an exposition of French art & carry off >five paintings, which they declare they will return in >exchange for the release of political prisoners. > >1968 -- US: Youth International Party (Y.I.P.) founded -- >Country Joe & Fish, Fugs (includes Tuli Kupferberg, "one of >the leading Anarchist theorists of our time" & Ed Sanders, >poet, editor, owner of the fabled Peace Eye Book Store), >Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, >Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin, et al (25 artists, writers & >revolutionaries). > > I spoke to Tolstoy: 'Emma Goldman's coming back!' > He sat there writing on a shard of red & black > Black & Red. Coming back! > Red & Black. They're comin' back!... > > I see the White House & I want to paint it Red > Willy Reich is shouting at me: 'Better Bed than Dead!' > Now Billy's roasting Yelstin: 'So long Bourgeois Flack!' > I spy the Kremlin Hey we're gonna take it back! > > RED & BLACK > GET IT BACK > RED & BLACK > WE'RE COMING BACK > RED & BLACK > RED & BLACK > RED & BLACK > > --- Tuli Kupferberg, excerpt, > > PAINT IT RED (& BLACK) > >http://www.uoregon.edu/~splat/Fugs.html >http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/coll_mss/fugs.html > >1980 -- Japan: Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for >possession of a half pound of marijuana. > > A pencil recall is underway in upstate New York > because a would-be anti-drug message ran smack into > real world physics. > > The pencils bear the message "Too Cool to Do Drugs," > but as they are sharpened the message becomes > > "Cool to Do Drugs," then "Do Drugs." > > http://www.seattlehempfest.com/ > >1985 -- Rwanda: Dian Fossey, primatologist, is >killed by poachers, Karisoke Center. >http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/dms/projects/women/mf > >1996 -- Where's the Beef?: Jamaican authorities open fire on >Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's >plane. U2 singer Bono was with Buffett, but neither was hurt. > > > WAR ON COWS? or, Next Stop, Afghanistan Heroin: > > The Colombian ambassador to the US has suggested > that if America gives 50 cows to every Colombian family > that grows coca, it will induce them to change their choice > of agricultural product. > > _______________ > > "I find television > very educating. > > Every time somebody > turns on the set, > > I go into the other > room & read a book." > > Groucho Marx(ist) > > >--- anti-CocaCows, 1997-2002
