Jesse Walker | December 25, 2008
It's a William Burroughs claymation Christmas!
Part two:
Those of you who disliked Burroughs' bitter Thanksgiving prayer can take heart: This tale is actually quite sweet, in its way.
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I was almost expecting a parody of O Henry's Gift of the Magi. A heroin addict and a cocaine addict mix up their powders...
"I was almost expecting a parody of O Henry's Gift of the
Magi."
The man sold his crack pipe to buy heroin for his junkie wife, and
his wife sold her needles for some crack for her crackhead
husband.
Oh the f*cking irony!
wow GREAT POST! watched that earlier today on google video. Burroughs was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Burroughs absolutely despised bureaucracy, liberals, and the drug war and was always advocating more freedom, less state. he is missed. merry x-mas
Hooker: I played that Tom Waits song on the Xmas edition of my radio show today. And "The Junkie's Christmas" too, of course.
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