The Naked Yuletide Feast

Jesse Walker | 12.25.2008 8:00 AM

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 17 years ago

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 17 years ago

oh damn mr. walker, i had no idea this existed.
Warren 17 years ago

A JUNKY'S CHRISTMAS

I thought it would be about the economy.
Jim Walsh 17 years ago

Well, it beats the bejesus out of It's A Wonderful Life...
MNG 17 years ago

"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 17 years ago

Merry Christmas!
Hacha Cha 17 years ago

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 17 years ago

Hooker: I played that Tom Waits song on the Xmas edition of my radio show today. And "The Junkie's Christmas" too, of course.
Jason Bourne 17 years ago

LOL, good one dude! Thats pretty funny. Well done!

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