{"id":18664,"date":"2015-11-25T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=18664"},"modified":"2021-11-21T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T01:12:00","slug":"redux-dear-cannibals-have-a-happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/11\/redux-dear-cannibals-have-a-happy-thanksgiving.html","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Dear Cannibals, Have a Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18680\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/11\/redux-dear-cannibals-have-a-happy-thanksgiving.html\/thnxgiving\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dear Cannibals, Have a Happy Thanksgiving\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18680\" title=\"Dear Cannibals, Having a Happy Thanksgiving\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Our Thanksgiving team of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2012\/11\/burroughs-mustill-team-up-for-thanksgiving.html\">William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill<\/a> has been a happy pairing. It still is. But the Straight Up staff of thousands added a sweetener, something like cranberry sauce, to last year&#8217;s celebration. Here &#8216;tiz again:<\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Words by Heathcote Williams, narration and montage by Alan Cox.<\/strong><\/span><\/center><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIlkBCv8dTU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And from Straight Up&#8217;s Thanksgiving tradition: William S. Burroughs&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/11\/words_of_gratitude.html\">words of gratitude<\/a> posted with a couple of collages by Norman O. Mustill. It&#8217;s delish . . .<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3396\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/04\/self-portrait_mustill_in_his_d.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3396\" data-attachment-id=\"3396\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/mustill-from-flypaper560\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"560,372\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from &amp;#8216;Flypaper [Beach Books, 1967]\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from &amp;#8216;Flypaper [Beach Books, 1967]&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from &amp;#8216;Flypaper [Beach Books, 1967]&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3396\" title=\"Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from 'Flypaper' [Beach Books, Texts &amp; Documents]. CLICK FOR MORE BY MUSTILL.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from &#8216;Flypaper&#8217; <br \/>[Beach Books, San Francisco, 1967]<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for a Continent to despoil<br \/>\nand poison \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for Indians to provide a<br \/>\nmodicum of challenge and<br \/>\ndanger \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for vast herds of bison to<br \/>\nkill and skin leaving the<br \/>\ncarcasses to rot \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for bounties on wolves<br \/>\nand coyotes \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM<br \/>\nto vulgarize and to falsify until<br \/>\nthe bare lies shine through \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for the KKK,<br \/>\nfor nigger-killin\u2019 lawmen,<br \/>\nfeelin\u2019 their notches,<br \/>\nfor decent church-goin\u2019 women,<br \/>\nwith their mean, pinched, bitter,<br \/>\nevil faces \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for \u201cKill a Queer for<br \/>\nChrist\u201d stickers \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for laboratory AIDS \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for Prohibition and the<br \/>\nWar against Drugs \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for a country where<br \/>\nnobody\u2019s allowed to mind his<br \/>\nown business \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for a nation of finks \u2014 yes,<\/p>\n<p>thanks for all the<br \/>\nmemories \u2026 all right let\u2019s see<br \/>\nyour arms \u2026<br \/>\nyou always were a headache and<br \/>\nyou always were a bore \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for the last and greatest<br \/>\nbetrayal of the last and greatest<br \/>\nof human dreams.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a9 1986 by William S. Burroughs<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill has been a happy pairing. It still is. But the Straight Up staff of thousands added a sweetener, something like cranberry sauce, to last year&#8217;s celebration. Here &#8216;tiz again: Words by Heathcote Williams, narration and montage by Alan Cox. 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