Texas Gets Kinky

Good news for Texas, and philo-cowboy-semites everywhere -- Kinky Friedman is running for governor. Link via Tim Blair.

Comments

[Trey]

Get you bisquits in the oven and your buns in the bed!!

[Trey]

I can't wait to vote to get Kinky in the governor?s mansion!!! We know what happened to the last occupant!

The big rumor in Texas is the Sen Kay Baily H is leaving the senate to run for governor. Kinky will kick her ass!

[mobile]

Anyone remember Steven Wright?

One day I got on the usual bus, and when I stepped in, I saw the
most gorgeous blonde Chinese girl...I sat beside her. I said, "Hi,"
and she said, "Hi," and then I said, "Nice day, isn't it?," and she
said, "I saw my analyst today and he says I have a problem." So I
asked, "What's the problem?" She replied, "I can't tell you. I
don't even know you..." I said, "Well sometimes it's good to tell
your problems to a perfect stranger on a bus." So she said, "Well,
my analyst said I'm a nymphomaniac and I only like Jewish
cowboys...by the way, my name is Denise." I said, "Hello, Denise.
My name is Bucky Goldstein..."

[Call me snake]

Heard The Kinkster on Imus yesterday AM:

"I've got to be Governor: I need the closet space."

[smacky]

Get you bisquits (sic) in the oven and your buns in the bed!!

Best song title. Ever. This will be my wedding dance.

[Jesse Walker]

I think Kinky's finest moment was rhyming "Barukh atah Adonai" with "What the hell are you doing back there, boy?"

His novels are unreadable, though.

[Brett]

Hmmmmm, interesting. Governor Texas Jewboy.

But my hunch is he'll be running against Senator KBH, who will beat Perry in the primaries.

[Call me snake]

I'm fucking shocked no one's mentioned "Asshole from El Paso" and "They ain't Makin' Jews like Jesus anymore."

The ballad of Charles Whitman is quite good as well: "There was a rumor about a tumor, nestled at the base of his brain...."

Seriously "Nashville Casualty and Life" is a very good song on the merits.

[Trey]

I've always liked the title
"They Don't Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore"

I'm glad I'm not the only one not fond of his books.

[Ron Hardin]

Kinky's production values on Imus were zero. It's enough that it be about him, he thought. ``Maybe if we could move on to the next segment'' Imus often suggested helpfully.

[Jesse Walker]

Snake: Well, this is one topic where we agree. That Charles Whitman song is brilliant.

[Gary Gunnels]

My "secured transactions" (Article 9 of the UCC) casebook had many hypos featuring Kinky Friedman.

[anselm]

I love his books. Music not so much. He's one of a kind. He'd make an interesting governor. I might vote for him just for fun.

[Hairy Funnels]

It would be a nice way to remind the rest of the country that Texas Gov doesn't actually DO anything.

[David T]

"Always remember, only two kinds of people can get away with wearing their
hats indoors: cowboys and Jews. Try to be one of them." Kinky Friedman

[Douglas Fletcher]

I'd only vote for him if his campaign posters show him sitting on a barstool. That's really the only honorable way for a dark-horse candidate to run, IMHO.

[M. Simon]

I only read one of his novels (can't remember the title). I do remember I was amused.

[Shannon Love]

I don't know about Kinky eveytime he runs for office, even mayor, he threatens to invade somebody.

"Asked about the line in his January 2005 column in Texas Monthly where he suggests that as governor he might invade Oklahoma, Friedman offered a deadpan reply that gave no hint of whether he really would order troops across the Red River.

"I hope it doesn't come to that," he said. "I hope that a war with Oklahoma can be avoided."