Evo Morales is still Hilarious

 

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APRIL 12 - The Daily Bleed

1989 -- Abbie Hoffman, Yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52. Commits suicide.

A Chicago Seven radical who founded the Yippie movement once tossed dollar bills onto the floor of the American Stock Exchange to disrupt business. It worked. Near-riot in the mad $cramble for free buckaroonies.

1968 -- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention perform at the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Dinner in New York City:
Zappa looks down at the audience & declares the event "a load of pompous hokum...All year long you people have manufactured this crap, now for one night you're gonna have to listen to it!"
Zappa later remarks, "We played the ugliest shit we could ... That's what they expected us to play."

http://www.zappa.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

The DAILY BLEED is a website I've enjoyed for probably a decade or so. It chronicles all the alternative news-worthy global events. On This Date

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Artist's Prank Punks Re-create 68

Artist's Prank Punks Re-create 68

They're referring, of course, to the Chicago Democratic National Convention of 1968 with Jerry and Abbie and Stew and the gang. So who's gonna kick whose ass? I got a headache trying to keep score of who's who but I DO know it's not cool to joke about that event with so many people poised to pick a side and go off just for drill.

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Yippie Museum Approved

A man named "Kenny the coke freak" once lived in the basement of the three-story brick building at 9 Bleecker St., just off the Bowery. In the early 1970s, when Kenny no longer could pay the rent, the Yippies moved in.

More than three decades later, the counterculture group founded by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin is looking to turn its Bleecker Street headquarters into a museum. The state Office of Cultural Education is recommending that the Board of Regents grant a five-year provisional charter to the Youth International Party - which spearheads an annual march calling for the legalization of marijuana - at its March meeting next week. The Regents are likely to follow the recommendation.

"It's sort of going to be like the Hard Rock Cafe of radical culture," a longtime member of the Yippies, Dana Beal, a co-curator of the museum, said during a tour through the building yesterday. Mr. Beal, (of Cures Not Wars) who has a shock of white hair and a moustache like Mark Twain's, has inhabited 9 Bleecker St. since 1973.

The items to be on display will include some of the cremated ashes of acid guru Timothy Leary and an American flag blazer donated by Hoffman's son, Andrew, who lives in Indonesia. [More...]

Yippie Museum Approved

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Paul Krassner's talking about the annual Rollling Thunder memorial ride to remember America's veterans where Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard Myers was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the American flag.

"Oh, if only Abbie Hoffman could have witnessed that."

I'll say. It used to be a serious offense to wear the flag. Very serious.

In October 1968, Hoffman was arrested in Washington for wearing a shirt that resembled the design of an American flag. Authorities at the maximum-security penitentiary did their worst to harass and humiliate him. They gave him a preventive de-lousing. They took a blood sample against his will, without affording him the sterile courtesy of a disposable syringe.

In support of Abbie, everyone began wearing flags as shirts, shawls, purses, patches for their broken jeans. I've told the story here of me getting a visit from 2 official dudes at school after they heard I had flags strung up as curtains in my room. They would have arrested me if I hadn't taken the flags down.

Things sure have changed if the good General can now wear the same thing that Abbie once got arrested for.

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With thousands of people expected in New York to protest the convention, but hotels and hostels booking fast, why not organize a campout, from, say, Aug. 27 to Sept. 12, for 20,000 people in East River Park, with a "welcoming center" in Tompkins Square Park? Why not call it the Abbie Hoffman-John Lennon Camporee? Why not have bongos, yoga, massages, weddings (gay and otherwise), street theater and the like? Ahhh, Springtime in New York. [link]

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April 12, 1989 -- Abbie Hoffman, Yippie peace activist of the 60's, dead at 52. Fifteen years ago. Murder or suicide? Read about Abbie on Stew Albert's website as he describes Abbiestock, the day Abbie took over the NYSE. Stew and Abbie had many adventures together.

His Steal This Book was a must have. Another ode to Abbie at the Pax Acidus site. (also a great read)

{Abbie Hoffman Quote}
"Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."

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:: New York Dolls, (most of them) reunite at Morrissey's request - [link]

:: David Bowie has teamed up with carmaker Audi for a "mash-up" contest for a chance to win a 2004 Audi TT coupe. Enter the contest here. Who is NOT doing a car ad?

Moshes to Yanni.

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Always enjoy looking in on Dave Cooper's site. His unique style is unmistakable [link]

After regular cuppa java #4, I sent out for espresso to quell the Monday morning blahs. And a Dr Enuf.

{Monday's Browsing}
::FreewayBlogger
Dedicated to free speech and guerilla artists everywhere

:: Sniggle - Culture Jammer's Encylopedia
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:: Coffee and Cigarettes trailer. Short stories from Jim Jarmusch that all have coffee and cigarettes in common. [link]

{Quote For Today}
"Free Speech is the right to yell 'Theater!' in a crowded fire." - Abbie Hoffman

Have envelope. Will push.

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{Artsy-Fartsy} American Museum of Beat Art is interesting site to sift through.

{Film News} Singer Pink to star in Joplin film. We've discussed this before. Renee Zellweger will play her in another movie about Janis. Previously, Melissa Etheridge and Brittany Murphy had tried for the role. (2 movies coming about Janis)

Duke plays U-Conn tonight for a chance for all the marbles, following the Oklahoma State - Georgia Tech game at 6:00 pm est. It'll be a miracle if Duke prevails. A miracle, I tell you. They're the underdogs this time.

{Local News} A murder mystery with an internet/website connection. Near my home in North Carolina, a fireman's burned, dead body was found on his property. Part of it. His limbs were found on the Blue Ridge Parkway. His wife is charged with his murder and his writer and website editor son, Donn Gash, of Deviant Minds, is being questioned as they note his fascination with homicide and horror, after investigating his website. Is he only under suspicion because he has an interest in horror? Creepy shit. [ link] (his info has been taken down from the site, but Google has him all over the place)

saturday morning me//
old faithful l/s black abbie hoffman tee/
camo capris/listening: jazz @wncw radio/
leftover dube/fresh espresso/banana/
pass the visine & draw the shades/
do we Spring Forward tonight?/
it's a gloomy, rainy day/
so how's about you?/

Please remain seated until this ride has come to a complete stop.

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Oh, Blogger, what am I going to do with you?

The word for the day is Revolution, children. As in, we almost had a __________, or Why don't we start a __________?

A Trip Back to the Contradictions of the Stormy 60's
The Weather Underground, a movie-documentary is now playing in New York and a few select venues around the country. During the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration, a group of white-bread, upper-middle-class college students took up guns and explosives to plot the violent overthrow of the United States government. Sam Green and Bill Siegel's energetic and incendiary documentary, The Weather Underground, tracks the history of this radical political group, the Weathermen, and examines the psychology and politics which led its members to commit countless acts of terrorist activism. FBI files on the Weathermen.



Steal This Movie, a 2000 movie about Abbie Hoffman and his life as an organizer, hippie radical and his life on the run is currently playing on cable and at your neighborhood video store. He also wrote a book called, Steal This Book that got a strange reception at book stores at the time and Steal This Urine Test. My copy also got stolen. So did my Soul On Ice copy. That summer I worked the phones at a Crisis Hot Line where we also had that book and others with a note to steal and to drop off your books, as well. But I remember him as an exuberant champion of the underdog and a founder of the Free Store feeder of the poor, and 1/7 of the Chicago 7.

You can make a poster here.

He asked for it all
So I gave my life and love
Crabs were a bonus
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Quote For Today
"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
~ J.M. Barrie

Can I trade this job for what's behind door #2?

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