Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Kinky Friedman
An email arrives from Nige - 'As a Texan and a Jew, you imperatively must get yr hands on the Best of Kinky Friedman. You will not be sorry.' I have been in some appalling scrapes that began with Nige saying, 'You will not be sorry', but I am such a sucker... Kinky Friedman, the ragtime cowboy Jew, it is.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
He also ran an interesting carnival-like campaign for governor of Texas a few years back. There's a short piece on it here:
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Yes, Kinky is a bit of a one-off, with a writing style starting at the charmingly crude (Dr Kinky at your cervix), but reaching an apotheosis in rather touching utterances on lost love (I never used to drink white wine, but I knew somebody once who used to love it, and I used to love her)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he drank her blood, too? That's what Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton did, back when they loved each other.
ReplyDeleteWine, bodily fluids, whatever....
Speaking of the charmingly crude, in the Friedman book I read he repeatedly referred to a turd as a 'Nixon' e.g. 'I went to the john and deposited a Nixon'. I thought this was a rather excellent idea and spent a few months delighting in telling folk every time I left the room that I was off to 'take a Blair'. Brown doesn't work, for obvious reasons, though 'Excuse me, I'm off to the bog now to do a Gordon' works very well indeed.
ReplyDelete"Gordon happens!'
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