The life and death of Gordon Barton A style all of his own Tribure: Gordon Barton
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I feel that my work is but a feeble expression of something that in itself is vague and doubtful ... Sometimes when I probe myself I find that my intentions in art aren't as sincere as they should be...I realize that I'm fairly good at drawing, but you see that's only because I've done so much of it, and it seems sometimes that the only reason I have stuck at it so diligently is because I have to sort of get even with society for not accepting me ... Subconsciously I want to make myself immortal among men, leave my mark on the earth to compensate for social inadequacy ... So I draw ... If I got rid of my greatness complex I probably would lose my desire to draw. It seems to me that a true artist is a man who is passionately in love with line, form, color or some aspect of life ... While these things appeal to me, I don't find any real burning passion for them within myself ... The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex ...
My work is full of sweating, nervous uneasiness, which is a big part of me and everybody else. Most people don't want to see that though, because it reminds them of inadequate parts of themselves.
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Though I might be very fond of particular
individuals, humanity in general fills me with contempt and despair. I
hate most of what passes for civilization. I hate the modern world.
Robert Crumb
He's a monolithic presence, who rewrote the rules of
what comics are.
Art Spiegelman,
author of Maus, on Robert
Crumb
Source: 'Mr. and Mrs. Natural' (NY Times,
January 21, 2007)
More Robert Crumb quotes at Wikiquote
We are the people who run this country. We are the
deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and
take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell.
Molly Ivins, American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and
best-selling author, born on August 30, 1944; 'Stand
Up Against the "Surge"',
January 12, 2007
Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun.
First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been
on blind dates better than that.
Molly Ivins
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds,
but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth.
Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that
freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the
sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it
was.
Molly Ivins; quoted by
John Nichols for
The Nation
If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time
pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili.
Molly Ivins on
Bill Clinton
The next time I tell you someone from Texas should
not be president of the United States, please, pay attention.
Molly Ivins
The greatest risk for us in invading Iraq is
probably not war itself, so much as: What happens after we win? The risks of an
invasion setting off reactions from a hideous civil war in Iraq to toppling
regimes all over the Middle East is very real.
Molly Ivins
Where, oh where is young Billy McLean,
Where, oh where is that gallant man,
He's gone to organise the union,
So working men they may yet be free ...
Australian folksong (source);
unionist Billy McLean was shot on August 30, 1894
August
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International
Day of the Disappeared
An annual commemoration day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives. The impulse for the day came from the Federation of Associations for Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos, or FEDEFAM), a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 in Costa Rica as an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment and forced disappearances in a number of Latin-American countries.
Work on secret imprisonment is an important part of the activities for a number of international bodies and organizations in the fields of human rights activism and humanitarian aid, including for example Amnesty International (AI), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The International Day of the Disappeared is an opportunity to highlight these institutions' work, increase public awareness, and to call for donations and volunteers.
Of those agencies, the ICRC has additional privileges due to its special status as a non-governmental sovereign entity and its strict policy of neutrality. In some cases, the ICRC is the only institution granted access to specific groups of prisoners, thereby enabling a minimum level of contact and inspection of their treatment. For affected families, messages transmitted by the ICRC are often the first and only hint about the fate of these prisoners.
Imprisonment under secret or uncertain circumstances is a grave violation of some conceptions of human rights as well as, in the case of an armed conflict, of International Humanitarian Law. The General Assemby of the United Nations adopted a Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance as resolution 47/133 on December 18, 1992. It is estimated that secret imprisonment is practiced in about 30 countries. The OHCHR Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has registered about 46,000 cases of people who disappeared under unknown circumstances.
FEDEFAM – Fighting Against Forced Disappearances in Latin America
Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance Forced disappearance
OHCHR – Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances The missing – A major ICRC initiative
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Feast day of St Fiaker, anchoret, called
by the French Fiacre,
and anciently, Fefre Patron saint of gardeners, celebrated on September 1
in Ireland and France, but August 30 in the official Roman Catholic
calendar. His patronage also includes barrenness,
box makers, fistula,
florists, haemorrhoids,
hosiers, pewterers, taxi drivers, sterility,
tile makers and venereal disease.
His emblem is a spade, and may be depicted as a man carrying a spade and a basket of
vegetables beside him, surrounded by pilgrims and blessing the sick. His
shrines were very popular for the cure of piles (haemorrhoids).
Charisteria,
Roman
Empire Feast day of St Agilus, or Aile, Abbot of Rebais Feast day of St Alexander Newski Feast day of St Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster Feast day of St Arsenius Feast day of St Bononius Feast day of St Bronislava of Poland Feast day of St Edward Shelley Feast day of Ss Felix and Adauctus, martyrs Feast day of St Gaudentia Feast day of St Jeanne Jugan Feast day of St John Roche Feast day of St Loarn of Downpatrick Feast day of St Margaret Ward Feast day of St Maria Ragols Feast day of St Narcisa de Jesus Martillo Moran Feast day of St Pammachius, confessor Feast day of St Pelagius Feast day of St Peter of Trevi Feast day of St Richard Leigh Feast day of St Richard Martin Former feast day of St Rose of Lima
(Santa Rosa),
virgin, patroness of Peru,
The
Americas and the Philippines
(now commemorated August
23) Feast day of St Rumon (Ruan) Aga-ou (Offerings: particulary goats,
peppers, peppermint), (Aug
30, 31) Voudon
(Voodoo) Source More Floral Festival, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Liberation Day, Hong Kong Huey P Long Day, Louisiana, USA Victory Day, Turkey (commemorates the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922)Late August, Early September, Freeing the Insects, Japan Burning Man, August 30 -
September 6, 2004
On which day of the week were you born? Find out here 1748 Jacques Louis David (d. December 29, 1825), French painter (The Rape of the Sabines) 1797 Mary Shelley (d. 1851), English author (Frankenstein
or the Modern Prometheus). Daughter of feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft and prominent anarchistic atheist philosopher
William
Godwin, she married
the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after
the suicide of his first wife. During the summer of 1816, the
Shelleys visited Lord Byron in Switzerland.
The three, together with Byron's physician John William Polidori, agreed that
they would each write a ghost story. Only Polidori and Mary Shelley
finished their stories. He produced The
Vampyre (1819) and
she created Frankenstein. 1871 Lord Ernest Rutherford (d. 1937), New Zealand physicist whose description of the atom formed the basis of nuclear physics. 1893 Huey Long (d. 1935), American politician 1896 Raymond Massey (d. 1983), actor 1896 Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (TV series Dr Kildare; movies Arsenic and Old Lace; East of Eden); scion of the Massey side of the Massey-Ferguson farm implement manufacturing business. He said that the British thought he was American and the Americans thought that he was British. His first appearance was in a stage production in Siberia, during its occupation by American Forces in 1918. 1898 Shirley Booth (born Thelma Booth Ford; d. 1992), American Oscar-winning actress 1901 Roy Wilkins ( 1981), civil rights leader 1906 Joan Blondell (d. 1979), American actress (The Cincinatti Kid; Grease) 1908 Fred MacMurray (d. 1991),
American actor (TV series: My Three Sons)
Born in New Zealand, Nancy Wake came to Australia at the age of two, and left at the age of 22 for France because she and her mother did not get on. She worked as Hearst newspapers' European correspondent and was in her words "very frivolous, mad as a meat-axe". She married Henri Fiocca, and joined a
resistance group in Marseilles against the German occupiers, helping
to smuggle out escaped British prisoners. Germans soon put her under
surveillance, but she escaped them under machine gun fire, jumping
from a train and trudging through a blizzard to England. Henri
stayed behind to cover her tracks but was betrayed and executed by
the Nazis. Wake joined the British SOE and parachuted
back into France. There, she arranged weapons-drops, blew up
convoys, broke a sentry's neck, and was in a raid on a Gestapo HQ
in which 38 Germans were killed. As she was not in Australian service, she did not receive any Australian military decorations, but won the George Cross (Britain), Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (USA), Croix de Guerre with Palm and Bar, the Croix de Guerre with Star (France's highest award for valour), Medaille de Resistance, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and Croix d'Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France). In March 2004, she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. The White Mouse by Nancy Wake Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter Fitzsimons
1917 Denis Healey, British Labour Party statesman 1919 Kitty Wells, country music singer 1927 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer The life and death of Gordon Barton A style all of his own Tribure: Gordon Barton 1930 Warren Buffett, entrepreneur
1935 John
Phillips (d. March 18, 2001),
American singer
and songwriter, lead singer and main
songwriter of the The Mamas & The Papas. He was married to co-band member, Michelle Phillips from 1962 to 1970. They had one child together, Chynna Phillips, the founder of the singing group Wilson Phillips. Their marriage ended due, it is said, to infidelity on Michelle's part. He was also the father of actress Mackenzie Phillips, and Bijou Phillips, and father-in-law of William Baldwin. He received a liver transplant in 1992 after years of abusing alcohol and illegal drugs (particularly heroin) had taken their toll. John Phillips died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Palm Springs Mausoleum, Palm Springs, California. Important dates in the career of the Mamas and Papas Wilson's Almanac Book of Days hip list 1939 John
Peel, long-running BBC Radio 1 DJ
Crumb published the first issue of his Zap Comix in early 1968; other artists who gained fame through Zap include S Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso and Gilbert Shelton. Crumb, or 'R', as he is known to his many fans worldwide, has also produced volumes of non-comix artwork, including an illustrated version of James Boswell's wonderful 18th-Century London Journal. Crumb products More about R Crumb Museum online 'Mr and Mrs Natural' (NY Times, January 21, 2007) Shop
Robert Crumb More Comix, comics and cartoons in the Book of Days 1944 Molly Ivins (d. January 31, 2007), American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author who lost her life to inflammatory breast cancer 1947 Peggy Lipton, actress 1948 Lewis Black, stand-up comedian 1951 Timothy Bottoms, actor 1972 Cameron Diaz, actress (There's Something About Mary,
Any Given Sunday, Shrek)
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