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The Naked Yuletide Feast
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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BakedPenguin|12.25.08 @ 9:15AM|#
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...
dhex|12.25.08 @ 12:02PM|#
oh damn mr. walker, i had no idea this existed.
|12.25.08 @ 12:37PM|#
A JUNKY'S CHRISTMAS
I thought it would be about the economy.
|12.25.08 @ 2:22PM|#
Well, it beats the bejesus out of It's A Wonderful Life...
MNG|12.25.08 @ 2:45PM|#
"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!
Hooker in Minneapolis|12.25.08 @ 3:23PM|#
Merry Christmas!
Hacha Cha|12.25.08 @ 6:57PM|#
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
Jesse Walker|12.25.08 @ 8:16PM|#
Hooker: I played that Tom Waits song on the Xmas edition of my radio show today. And "The Junkie's Christmas" too, of course.
|12.25.08 @ 9:02PM|#
LOL, good one dude! Thats pretty funny. Well done!
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