Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:23:08 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/5 JEAN JAURES


Grayline Virtual Web Tour Version:
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0405.htm

text excerpts:

" . . . what/is virtue

     but the lack of strong temptation;

better to leave us with our lie of being good."

                 — Stephen Dobyns, "Bleeder"


APRIL 5

JEAN JAURES
French socialist, humanitarian, pacifist idealist,
historian.

GO FOR BROKE DAY.

Zurich: SIX RINGINGS FESTIVAL: Boog (Old Man Winter),
a giant snowman stuffed with explosives, is jeered, taunted,
& then blown up. Much feasting & revelry.

Tibet: SUNNING OF THE BUDDHA.  Lamas bring buddha statues
out of temples of abstract tranquility to enjoy the sun.
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/recent/buddhists.htm

*PEACE, HUMOR & ENLIGHTENMENT BE UNTO YOU*


1208 - Quetzalcoatl, Toltec king, priest, astronomer &
culture-hero, dies; he reduced Mayan calendar & appendices
to a system of signs & ideographs which fitted all languages
equally.

   Just like your Daily Bleed, except just the opposite &
   all chopped up like confetti.

1531 - Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison
an archbishop.

1800 - Luminous flying ship spotted over Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.

1837 - Algernon Swinburne lives, London, England.

11839 -- Constant Martin lives, Entrevaux (the Low-Alps).
Teacher, elected a member of the Paris Commune, First
International, Blanquist, anarchist. Martin wrote for Sebastien
Faure's paper, "Le journal du peuple" until his death in 1906.
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/MartinConstant.htm

1877 - Italy: Debut of the anarchist "Gang of Matese".
Carlo Cafiero, Errico Malatesta, & Pietro Cesaré Ceccarelli
are among the 26 who will be so-called by the government
after the town of Letino declares a social revolution &
libertarian communism three days hence.

1917 - Writer Robert Bloch, lives. Also writes as Collier
Young. American crime & suspense writer, who famous for stories
about psychopaths. Best known is “Psycho”, a stunning film by
Alfred Hitchcock (1960). Also wrote humorous fantasy, science
fiction, short stories, screenplays & radio plays.
Bloch was asked that tired old question: why he wrote
horror fiction. Bloch, who always had a quick wit, thought for a
moment & replied,

    "I have the heart of a small boy... & I keep it in a
     drawer at home."

http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/bloch.sht
http://mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com/bloch.html
http://web.tiscalinet.it/andrebalza/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rbloch.htm

1924 - F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "How We Live on
$36,000 a Year" in the Saturday Evening Post to help defray the
expenses of high living.

1926 - Precious metal?: H.L. Mencken arrested in front of
hundreds of cheering spectators in Boston, for selling
“American Mercury.”
http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

1930 - Antoine Cyvoct dies.  Lyons anarchist militant.
Cyvoct then worked in the bookstore business, & gave talks
in the anarchist circles on living conditions in the prisons.

1930 - India: Gandhi's march to the sea begins.

1942 - Austrian novelist Robert Musil dies, Geneva,
Switzerland.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/indexns4.html

1952 - No Blacklist?: Howard Hughes temporarily closes
down MGM studios. His explanation:  The authors of all 11
stories on the current shooting schedule were suspected
Communist sympathizers.

1955 - US: Farmers Home Administration offers loan
guarantees for home fallout shelters.

1956 - Columnist Victor Riesel, a crusader against labor
racketeers, blinded in New York City when a hired assailant
threw sulfuric acid in his face.

1959 - Cuba: Censorship of the media, prohibition of
strikes & other anti-labor actions in Castro's regime.

1967 - US: Grayline Tours starts touring Haight-Ashbury
hippie scene.

1969 - US: Anti-war marches in 50 U.S. cities attract an
estimated 150,000 Vietnam War protesters.

1972 - Pioneer 11 launched. Where did it go?

1974 - Luxemburg: Founding of the Confederation of
Socialist Parties of the European Community.

1976 - China: Tien an men Square incident, popular
demonstration of criticism of the Chinese regime in power
in defiance of banning such criticism.

1976 - Germ Warfare?: Howard Hughes dies. Despite living in
plastic bags for over 30 years, the germs finally get him.

                   War is hell.

1981 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ronnie Reagan is
declared a public moron, Berkeley, California.

1982 - Ireland: Nuclear free zone declared by Dublin City
Council.

1983 - El Salvador: Two members of a christian community in
San Ramon are abducted, tortured & shot by the national
police. In September, death squads will bomb the Jesuit
residence in San Salvador.

Since 1981, 17 priests, nuns & religious workers have been
killed.

1986 - Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set
397 ft. (121m)  (Always wear eye protection when throwing.)
http://www.utexas.edu/students/mother/

1992 - Over 500,000 march in Washington, D.C. to  support
women's reproductive rights & equality.

1992 - Bosnia: Nonviolent demonstration against war,
Parliament building, Sarajevo.

1994 - Black Is...Black Ain't: Marlon Riggs dies.
Marlon Riggs (1957-1994), Fearless queer American
filmmaker,
black activist, AIDS martyr; SAINT 1998, 24 February.
http://www.newsavanna.com/gravity/BlackIs/biographyofmarl_419.shtml
http://www.aidsquilt.org/online_display/June/riggs.html
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/RiggsInterview.html

1996 - US: Twelve arrested during protest at weapons
manufacturing plant of Lockheed-Martin in King of Prussia,
Pennsylvania.

1997 - The climatic conclusion of one generation arrives
when Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (“Howl”) suddenly dies.

I have the
secret, I carry
Subversive Salami in My
ragged briefcase
Garlic, Poverty
a will to Heaven

            — Allen Ginsberg

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~slatin/20c_poetry/projects/gh/howl2.html
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/AllenGinsberg.html
http://www.ginzy.com/


   "So I said good-bye to government, & I gave my reason;
   That a really good religion, is a form of treason."

                         --- Vonnegut, “Cat's Cradle”


 --- Auntie-Ragged Brief Case 2001