'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik

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Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik.  Available in hardcover from Garrett County Press.

A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Harry Partch

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SEPTEMBER 3 — HARRY PARTCH
American avant-garde microtonal composer, radical.

Harry Partch, Delusion of the Fury, Part One

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
CELEBRATION OF THE CROWDED OCTAVE.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 2 IN HISTORY…
1752 — English Parliament cancelled for ten days in constitutional crisis.
1811 — Utopianist John Humphrey Noyes born, Brattleboro, Vermont.
1813 — “Uncle Sam” image used for first time, in Troy, New York, Post.
1859 — French socialist leader Jean Jaures born, Castres, Tarn, France.
1883 — Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev dies, politically exiled, Bougival, France.
1962 — American poet e.e. cummings dies, North Conway, New Hampshire.
1969 — Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh dies, Hanoi.
1974 — Microtonal composer, hobo Harry Partch dies, San Diego, California.
1981 — Prison revolts in Poland, 150 escape.
1991 — Filmmaker, US nationalist propagandist Frank Capra dies, La Quinta, CA.American rock prophet, cultural renegade, rebel hero.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Henry George

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SEPTEMBER 2 — HENRY GEORGE
“Wealth, in itself, is a good, not an evil; but wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few corrupts
on one side and degrades on the other.”

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Nussairis, Asia Minor: FEAST OF ALI.
China: Festival of P’ING AN FU CHU WANG, the Star King.

ALSO ON AUGUST 25 IN HISTORY…
1666 —Great Fire of London begins, will burn for three days.
1766 — James Forten, abolitionist, inventor, born.
1839 — Economic critic Henry George born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1872 — Mikhail Bakunin expelled from Communist International.
1973 — British medievalist, fantasist, J. R. R.Tolkien dies.

'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik

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Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik.  Available in hardcover from Garrett County Press.

A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.

The Diggers Papers No. 23 – "Anti-Rat Demonstration"

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Arthur is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late ’66 through ’67. The Diggers’ ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader.

Most of the documents that we are presenting are broadsides originally published on a Gestetner machine owned and operated in the Haight by the novelist/poet Chester Anderson and his protege/sidekick Claude Hayward, who used the name “Communication Company,” or more commonly, “Com/Co.” According to Claude, these broadsides were then “handed out on the street, page by page, super hot media, because the reader trusted the source, which was another freaky looking hippie who had handed it to him/her.”

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