Tuesday, January 27, 2009

[Daily Bleed] 1/27 NELLIE BLY

If the river was whiskey
& I was a duck,
I'd dive to the bottom
& never come up.

— Holy Modal Rounders

JANUARY 27
Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0127.htm

NELLIE BLY
Committed social journalist, adventuress, proto-feminist.
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BIRTH OF UNCANNY CONJUNCTURES.

FESTIVAL OF ROOT VIBRATIONS.
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1593 -- The Vatican begins a seven year trial
against scholar Giordano Bruno.

When in Rome do like a Roman,
Ave Maria,
Gee it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an'
Sort of dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican Rag!


1606 -- Guy Fawkes & his fellow conspirators tried & convicted.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/fawkes1.jpg

1832 -- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) lives, England. Mathematician, pedophile, author of Alice in Wonderland, creator of the famed Cheshire cat.

1903 -- US: Police arrest Emma Goldman & Max Baginski in New York City for being "suspicious persons"; released after questioning.

Why upstanding anarchists would be considered "suspicious" is beyond us.
What is to suspect!?

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/anarchist/@bomb.jpg


1941 -- Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of an impending Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1957 -- US: For the second time in a year, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed.

1977 -- Happy Hour?: Vatican bars women from priesthood.
Millions around the globe break into song, bellowing,

First you get down on your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
Bow your head with great respect
& genuflect, genuflect ...

— Tom Lehrer, The Vatican Rag


1987 -- France: Clara Thalmann-Ensner dies, in Nice. Swiss revolutionary & anarchist, fought in the Spanish Revolution, founded Serena Commune in Nice in 1953 with her husband Pavel.

"I am going to make the revolution in the sky."

— Clara Thalmann, 1953

1990 -- Serbia: Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo begin demonstrations, five die.

1991 -- Iraq: Gulf Peace Team evicted from peace camp by US troops, Judayyidat Ar'ar.

"Two Local Wars" (Situationist article on the Vietnam & Arab-Israel wars),
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/11.wars.htm
"The War & the Spectacle" (on the Gulf war & the media),
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/gulfwar.htm

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"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete &
staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment
by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly,
like a laborious mosaic."

— Anais Nin
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— Aunti Ave Maria, 2009

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