{"id":71177,"date":"2025-11-26T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=71177"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:46:37","slug":"a-straightup-thanksgiving-its-a-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/11\/a-straightup-thanksgiving-its-a-tradition.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>A Straightup Thanksgiving \u2014 It&#8217;s a Tradition<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" 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\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thnxgiving.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18680\" 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><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>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 since 2012. It still is. So here they are again, sharpened by the spice of Heathcote Williams&#8217;s words in a narration-cum-montage by Alan Cox.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIlkBCv8dTU\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure><\/center>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/04\/self-portrait_mustill_in_his_d.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" 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\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3396\" style=\"width:630px;height:417px\" 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><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from &#8216;Flypaper&#8217; <br>[Beach Books, San Francisco, 1967]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>And here are Burroughs\u2019s words of gratitude.&nbsp;&nbsp;They\u2019re delish:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the wild turkey<br \/>and the passenger pigeons,<\/p>\n<p>destined to be shit out<br \/>through wholesome American guts \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for a Continent to despoil<br \/>and poison \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for Indians to provide a<br \/>modicum of challenge and<br \/>danger \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for vast herds of bison to<br \/>kill and skin leaving the<br \/>carcasses to rot \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for bounties on wolves<br \/>and coyotes \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM<br \/>to vulgarize and to falsify until<br \/>the bare lies shine through \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for the KKK,<br \/>for nigger-killin\u2019 lawmen,<br \/>feelin\u2019 their notches,<br \/>for decent church-goin\u2019 women,<br \/>with their mean, pinched, bitter,<br \/>evil faces \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for \u201cKill a Queer for<br \/>Christ\u201d stickers \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for laboratory AIDS \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for Prohibition and the<br \/>War against Drugs \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for a country where<br \/>nobody\u2019s allowed to mind his<br \/>own business \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for a nation of finks \u2014 yes,<\/p>\n<p>thanks for all the<br \/>memories \u2026 all right let\u2019s see<br \/>your arms \u2026<br \/>you always were a headache and<br \/>you always were a bore \u2014<\/p>\n<p>thanks for the last and greatest<br \/>betrayal of the last and greatest<br \/>of human dreams.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 1986 by William S. Burroughs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill has been a happy pairing since 2012. It still is. So here they are again, sweetened  by Heathcote Williams&#8217;s words in a narration-cum-montage by Alan Cox. 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