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retread01 (August 8th, 2008 @ 2:29 pm)

Somehow, seeing Burroughs 'sell out' like this doesn't upset or annoy me. It's strangely in keeping with his outlook on life. Why not take their money? Someone offers you money, take it. If you read his work you know he is on a completely different level for anything like doing an advert to alter. Why Nike chose him in the first place is the real question.

causticBANANA (June 24th, 2008 @ 6:17 pm)

I guess he needed the money.

innocent1234 (June 18th, 2008 @ 7:13 pm)

When he was asked why he did the commercial Burroughs said in an interview it was simply for the money. Don't know how much he got paid, but it was probably a lot. I don't blame him for it. I probably would have done the same...

myroncope (June 14th, 2008 @ 7:02 pm)

the beats were all egotists to begin with. They totally sold themselves right from the beginning. I'm a reader of burroughs but they wouldn't have been famous without their giant egos

myroncope (June 14th, 2008 @ 6:59 pm)

Huh. Burroughs did sell out to the "devil's bargain" as he so often referred to.

russellcroew (May 28th, 2008 @ 7:45 am)

Oh Contrare! ..."hustlers of the world(this is you Nike) there is one mark you can not beat....the mark inside" -William Burroughs Buy Puma or Addidas or Reebok..

exadverso (May 27th, 2008 @ 7:14 pm)

Nike 1 - Burroughs 0

DutchComedian (May 15th, 2008 @ 11:01 pm)

pretty sure that's G Love playing in the background "Things that I used to do"

OrchidMorphine1 (April 30th, 2008 @ 11:30 pm)

William Burroughs is an inspiration to me but seeing him do a nike commercial just doesn't seem right.

ChrisRichnak (April 30th, 2008 @ 10:43 pm)

Burroughs was a great writer, naked lunch will go down as his greatest novel, the movie directed by David Cronenburgh was a masterpiece.I just new some body,who took their own life by putting their head in a oven and inhaled the gas, who thought Burroughs was evil for taking his wife's life, playing William Tell with a 45 revovlver. This doesn't explain why she took her life. She was just using misdireted annimosisty for her own problems. Nothing to do with William S. Burroughs.

JoelMonroe (April 28th, 2008 @ 1:38 pm)

You've obviously read some stories...but have you read Bourroughs? What exactly are you intrested in? Are you intrested in art or biographies? Burroughs wasa great writer, read Exterminator. Read Naked Lunch for fuck sake. Or keep reading biographies, that seems more your style, you cunt.

Mick342 (April 24th, 2008 @ 12:26 pm)

But My God It Is REFRESHING to S WSB Plug Nike Rather than The Latest Sports/Music/Movie/Television "Personalitey"doing So.