Happy Thanksgiving everyone - Here is a prayer from William S. Burroughs for you. | |
Fast 'n Bulbous
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71902859 United States 11/25/2021 02:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hard to believe this is from 1986…and truer by the day For John Dillinger and hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November Twenty-eighth, 1986 Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons Destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum Of challenge and danger Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin Leaving the carcasses to rot Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes Thanks for the American dream To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through Thanks for the KKK For n-killing lawmen feeling their notches For decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers Thanks for laboratory AIDS Thanks for Prohibition And the war against drugs Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business Thanks for a nation of finks Yes Thanks for all the memories, all right let's see your arms! You always were a headache and you always were a bore Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal Of the last and greatest of human dreams |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78340688 United States 11/25/2021 03:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We began posting this Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs and Gus Van Sant back in 2006, and a lot of things have changed since then. We cannot possibly hope to match the grim depths of the 2010 / 2011 iterations of the prayer, so we know better than to even make the attempt. But this year, we definitely have a face to go with Burroughs’ line about “decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 50752432 It is traditional for the head of the household — except in Oklahoma, of course — to lead the reading of this prayer before the family feasts upon the fruits of the harvest, or at least whatever canned items their Walmart coworkers have chipped in to give them. And then, it’s either time to risk the death gauntlet at the big-box store, or to see if your employer (hah!) has any money-saving tips for you, like going on ebay and selling off a few Christmas presents for dessert. So Happy Thanksgiving, America. May all your Hoverrounds come equipped with TruckNutz. May you return safely from your holiday travels without having actually punched any wingnut relatives in the nose. May your attempts to recite “Alice’s Restaurant” from memory be at least 30% successful. May you see everything twice. Or maybe there are some things you don’t even want to see once. May you get a pony. May you take heart that in many places in our land, families really will be starting the new year with health insurance for the first time. May you have plenty of reminders that not everything is terrible. And remember to Buy (almost) Nothing tomorrow! Love it! Thank you OP. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80959397 United States 11/25/2021 03:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Burroughs's line about "laboratory AIDS" seems almost quaint, as conspiracy theories go (and a reminder that you probably shouldn't get your epidemiology from a Beat poet, either). We can't rule out the possibility that William Burroughs might have turned out to be a COVID crank or an antivaxxer, just for the cussedness of it. Or maybe he'd look at the pandemic and be even more convinced than ever that we're a nation of idiots, suckers at the carnival happy to believe in magic pills as long as they're not recommended by the government. Hell, maybe he'd choose some from column Horse Paste, some from column Hollow Mordant Laughter. Burroughs might well look at 2021 and have a good rueful laugh. He told us so. We had An American Dream, and here we are, still on the verge of pissing it away because the loudmouthed crazy uncles on TV say we need a democracy for Whites Only, because the white children will feel sad if they know too much about how the Black children have been treated. We finally have a fighting chance to keep the planet habitable, but the most aggressive measures to get there were blocked because one senator really likes coal and fossil fuel profits. But for all the petty small-minded terribleness and evil out there, we still have the option of laughter, because it sure as hell beats giving in to the bastards. A happy and safe Thanksgiving to everyone everywhere, and remember to Buy (almost) Nothing tomorrow. |
Possum70
User ID: 77755286 United States 11/25/2021 03:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck Burroughs. Dirty old motherfucker. Murdered his wife. Horrible father. Junky. Pervert. Could care less what that freak said. I had a first edition Ace Doubleday edition of Junkie, (with Narcotic Agent on the reverse) in VERY good condition. I sold it years ago and used the money to feed my family and pay bills. You know, cuz I’m not a bourgeois degenerate. Screw him and his bullshit friends {{{Ginsburg}} and Kerouac. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76587889 France 11/25/2021 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck Burroughs. Dirty old motherfucker. Murdered his wife. Horrible father. Junky. Pervert. Could care less what that freak said. I had a first edition Ace Doubleday edition of Junkie, (with Narcotic Agent on the reverse) in VERY good condition. I sold it years ago and used the money to feed my family and pay bills. You know, cuz I’m not a bourgeois degenerate. Screw him and his bullshit friends {{{Ginsburg}} and Kerouac. Quoting: Possum70 1000x |
ElleMira
User ID: 76494359 United States 11/25/2021 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck Burroughs. Dirty old motherfucker. Murdered his wife. Horrible father. Junky. Pervert. Could care less what that freak said. I had a first edition Ace Doubleday edition of Junkie, (with Narcotic Agent on the reverse) in VERY good condition. I sold it years ago and used the money to feed my family and pay bills. You know, cuz I’m not a bourgeois degenerate. Screw him and his bullshit friends {{{Ginsburg}} and Kerouac. Quoting: Possum70 this |
The Albuquerque Statesman
User ID: 77395904 United States 11/25/2021 04:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | William S. Nitwit! You are supposed to give thanks for things you love. He seems to love everything stupid and crazy. If he has the guts to say those things in God's face...? The man is a hard core lunatic. Sarcasm is for the cats. 230 here, but 0 there. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81260776 11/25/2021 04:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck Burroughs. Dirty old motherfucker. Murdered his wife. Horrible father. Junky. Pervert. Could care less what that freak said. I had a first edition Ace Doubleday edition of Junkie, (with Narcotic Agent on the reverse) in VERY good condition. I sold it years ago and used the money to feed my family and pay bills. You know, cuz I’m not a bourgeois degenerate. Screw him and his bullshit friends {{{Ginsburg}} and Kerouac. Quoting: Possum70 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81118315 United States 11/25/2021 04:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ^^^ 99% of these trolls and shills are under 25 years old. They know shit about anything that wasn't first programmed into their fucking rat brain by common core Marxism and shit for brains rap music. And these wigger white boys think they can run the show. Yeah, fuck that. I like the idea of running over antifa. Hey poster. Get in front of my car. After I run you over and your commie brains are on on the street, I'll piss down your fucking throat. Commie motherfucker. Trigger’s back with her usual copy and paste. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79915619 Singapore 11/25/2021 04:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck Burroughs. Dirty old motherfucker. Murdered his wife. Horrible father. Junky. Pervert. Could care less what that freak said. I had a first edition Ace Doubleday edition of Junkie, (with Narcotic Agent on the reverse) in VERY good condition. I sold it years ago and used the money to feed my family and pay bills. You know, cuz I’m not a bourgeois degenerate. Screw him and his bullshit friends {{{Ginsburg}} and Kerouac. Quoting: Possum70 1000x aw come on, they were fun reads in college... i had Kerouac's biographer as a professor of Eng.- required reading. anyway, it was a gas to read, lots of new words, ideas, etc. might pick up "on The Road" again to see how it wears... |
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Deplorable Zenobia
User ID: 75400580 United States 11/25/2021 08:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe this was one of Uncle Bill’s last videos. And still quite a shot… Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81058191 Would have loved to have been able to break bread, shoot some with that man. Mutual friend spent time with him, hilarious stories were never ending. And yeah, the man was as I understand it a decent shooter even in his advanced years. And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.' ...David Bohm “How, O Zenobia, hast thou dared to insult Roman emperors?” ...Aurelian, 44th Emperor of the Roman Empire |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79465280 United States 11/26/2021 03:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, this dude wrote Naked Lunch about injecting yourself with bug poison.. so I take what he says with a grain of fucking salt. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73188045 Naked Lunch... I saw that movie (I think it had the same title as the book anyway)... all I remember is a lot of freaky weirdness énd disgust. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79465280 United States 11/26/2021 03:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe this was one of Uncle Bill’s last videos. And still quite a shot… Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81058191 Would have loved to have been able to break bread, shoot some with that man. Mutual friend spent time with him, hilarious stories were never ending. And yeah, the man was as I understand it a decent shooter even in his advanced years. One thing seems certain - you probably would not have been bored in his company. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 86534457 United States 11/23/2023 09:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a wonderful thread! In recent days, many forumites have dropped their masks and revealed their true selves; warmongers, genocide fans, followers of a perverted Christianity that worships antichrists. The support for the degenerate who is the subject of this thread is, however, even more revealing of their “tastes”. All has been noted for future reference. Thank you. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84311942 United States 11/23/2023 09:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a wonderful thread! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86534457 In recent days, many forumites have dropped their masks and revealed their true selves; warmongers, genocide fans, followers of a perverted Christianity that worships antichrists. The support for the degenerate who is the subject of this thread is, however, even more revealing of their “tastes”. All has been noted for future reference. Thank you. Wut? |
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