{"id":12593,"date":"2015-11-26T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2015-11-25T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:48:06","slug":"going-traditional-on-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/going-traditional-on-this-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Traditional Again on This Day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Nomadics<\/strong>\u00a0blog & Straight Up<\/strong><\/a> tradition (well, must be the third or fourth or fifth repeat \u2014 when does ‘tradition’ begin?) continues. William S. Burroughs\u2019s\u00a0words of gratitude\u00a0on Thanksgiving Day paired with two\u00a0collages by Norman O. Mustill. Look and\u00a0listen<\/a>. It\u2019s delish . . .<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from \u2018Flypaper\u2019 [Beach Books, San Francisco, 1967]<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons,
\ndestined to be shit out through wholesome American guts \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for a Continent to despoil
\nand poison \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for Indians to provide a
\nmodicum of challenge and
\ndanger \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for vast herds of bison to
\nkill and skin leaving the
\ncarcasses to rot \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for bounties on wolves
\nand coyotes \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM
\nto vulgarize and to falsify until
\nthe bare lies shine through \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for the KKK,
\nfor nigger-killin\u2019 lawmen,
\nfeelin\u2019 their notches,
\nfor decent church-goin\u2019 women,
\nwith their mean, pinched, bitter,
\nevil faces \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for \u201cKill a Queer for
\nChrist\u201d stickers \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for laboratory AIDS \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for Prohibition and the
\nWar against Drugs \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for a country where
\nnobody\u2019s allowed to mind his
\nown business \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for a nation of finks \u2014 yes,<\/p>\n

thanks for all the
\nmemories \u2026 all right let\u2019s see
\nyour arms \u2026
\nyou always were a headache and
\nyou always were a bore \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for the last and greatest
\nbetrayal of the last and greatest
\nof human dreams.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 1986 by William S. Burroughs<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Nomadics\u00a0blog & Straight Up tradition (well, must be the third or fourth or fifth repeat \u2014 when does ‘tradition’ begin?) continues. William S. Burroughs\u2019s\u00a0words of gratitude\u00a0on Thanksgiving Day paired with two\u00a0collages by Norman...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[1606,763],"class_list":["post-12593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever","tag-norman-o-mustill","tag-william-burroughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}