May Day

[threeplusfire]

INTERNATIONAL: WORKERS' DAY

In much of the world (76 countries), May 1st, or May Day, is
celebrated as International Workers' Day. (The United States's Labor
Day is the first Monday in September.) May Day has been observed
since ancient times, but the political significance of this day didn't
appear until the late 1800s. (See today's Today in History.) Today,
Labor Day is usually marked by rallies of labor unions and groups
fighting for workers' rights.

Labor Day is rooted in the industrial revolution:
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/vol2no4/labor10124.htm
good old Bob Jensen, one of UT's most vocal professors

The pagan origins of May Day:
http://www.planet.net.au/innovations/may96/mayday.html

More about May Day traditions:
http://www.salmonriver.com/words/nancy/maia.html
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So the fire killed one student, and the other has been flown to the Army burn unit in san Antonio. It's bad if they take you there. The man who murdered his family down the street from me is still there recovering before they take him to jail.
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I was thinking about a line I heard in Mysteries of the Organism. (Which I think Daina would like, since it's half in Serbo-Croation and includes part of this hilarious socialist sex movie) Anyways, it's this silly sepia toned scene of people in a field having sex, with a woman's voice over saying "Comrades! Fuck freely for the Revolution!" and various other socialist slogans. Anyways, I was thinking it would be fun to write a story about a Communist girl & a Red Army boy, with lots of socialist sex. It would be ideologically correct, and something like those pulp paperbacks the Soviets so encouraged in the 1930's & 1940's. I have only a few examples of the social-realist short story at hand. I so want to find more. I know most of it is trash, propoganda, but I'm so interested in seeing it for myself.

Enough rambling. I should or something for the Revolution. I spent part of my afternoon reading Margaret Anson's The Order of the Rod, a classic of Victorian whipping. That was my decadence for this sunny afternoon, reading old erotica by the pool and drinking ginger ale. The water was perfect today. May is my favorite month.

Comments

[seitvonzu.livejournal.com]

a classic of victorian whipping?
wowwy.
i miss good book stores, where do you get suggestions? or do you browse?

the land of books

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I frequent Half-Price most often, and read the jackets of all the new fiction in Barnes & Noble. I tend to just wander the shelves until I see a name or a cover or a title that strikes me.

My professors are more than willing to send me away with a book or two, so I get a lot of recommendations from them and the grad students. But the wandering through the store method is probably my favorite. :) You find the most interesting random things. Like Victorian erotica hidden in the psychology section, Soviet short stories in the bargain bins, hilarious Gore Vidal novels and cheap paperback editions of Henry James. Hurrah for used bookstores everywhere!

[warhol.livejournal.com]

I think I remember that movie!

you should!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I would certianly hope that having a strange person drag you to watch wacky socialist sex would make an impression! :P

[(Anonymous)]

Sex? Silly dialogue? Serb Croatian language?

Girl, I think you found me my new favorite film!

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

You should definitely see this film! It's always also called Mysteries of the Orgasm by a constant Freudian slip. It was made in the late 60's by some wacky Yugoslavs. There is silly singing too, a great song with lyrics that go:
"Kill kill kill for peace
Kill kill kill for peace"
Heheheheh. You would love this!! Sex with handsome Russian ice skaters and lovely Yugoslavian women! Hee. Beware the end is freaky!