What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World

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KINKY FRIEDMAN, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless wit and wisdom born from many a late night's experience, Kinky offers both pearls and cowpats that touch on life, death, and everthing in between.

Considering the current predicament of our nation and the world at large, the question is, "What would Kinky do?" His answers invoke Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Judy Garland, George Bush, and other cultural touchstones; reflect on Texas etiquette, smoking in bars, mullet haircuts, immigration policy, and how Don Imus died for our sins; and advise on how to handle a nonstop talker on a long flight, how to deliver the perfect air kiss, and what to do when a redneck hollers, "Hey y'all, watch this!"

Whether he's "the new Mark Twain" (Southern Living) "in a class with Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and, yes, Henry Youngman" (New York Post), "a Texas legend" (President George W. Bush), or "the MOther Teresa of literature" (Willie Nelson), Kinky Friedman is an outrageously funny and uncommonly smart observer of our common predicament: life and what to do about it.

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Singer-songwriter-humorist Friedman, author of more than 20 books (including Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned and You Can Lead a Politician to Water, but You Can't Make Him Think), now offers a collection of his Texas Monthly columns plus new essays. These musings ("the leftover lyrics of my life on the road") get an added boost from 20 outrageous drawings by the gutsy quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan. What emerges can be satirical and evocative, as in his chapter on car radio music at night: "You're blowing through Dripping Springs, and the hills are dark shadows; the highway's just a ribbon in the hair of a girl you used to know." Free-flowing and free associative, occasionally punctuating with puns, he targets topics from Jack Ruby and Michael Chabon to Texas etiquette and politics. Kinky's writing here is funny, focused and hugely entertaining. (July)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312561048
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/7/2009
Edition description: First Edition
Edition number: 1
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 537,158
Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman is a country music singer, politician, Texas Monthly columnist, the author of a successful mystery series, and was a candidate for governor in Texas in 2006. He wants to take things back to a time when the cowboys all sang and their horses were smart. To find out more, go to www.kinkyfriedman.com or www.utopiarescue.com.

Acknowledgments     xiii
A Message from the Author     xv
Introduction     1
Advice on Life, Death, and Everything in Between     5
Unfair Game     7
Arrivederci Melanoma     11
A Pocket Guide to Mullets     16
The Five Mexican Generals Plan     22
Bring Him On     25
Epilogue     30
Strange Bedfellows     32
I Don't     36
Zero to Sixty     41
Tennis Anyone?     46
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes     55
My Personal Heroes     61
The Navigator     63
Don Imus Died for Our Sins     67
Animal Heroes     72
Tangled Up in Bob     80
Poly-Ticks     85
Two Jacks     90
Hero Anagrams     95
Ode to Billy Joe     96
The Back of the Bus     100
Lottie's Love     108
Advice on Writing     113
Killing Me Softly     115
Fictional Characters Killed Off by Their Creators     120
Talent     124
Strange Times to Be a Jew: Notes on Michael Chabon's Latest Novel     129
Don't Forget     134
A Tribute to Me     142
What Would Kinky Read?     149
Questions From a British Journalist-1999     153
Does Not Compute     159
Advice on Going on a Journey     163
Texas for Dummies     165
Never Travel with an Adult Child     169
How to Deliver the Perfect Air Kiss     179
Let Saigons Be Bygones     183
Wild Man from Borneo     188
Mad Cowboy Disease     193
Cliff Hanger     197
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa     202
Watch What You Sing     209
Advice on Coming Home     215
A Little Night Music     217
God's Own Cowboys     220
Shoshone the Magic Pony     223
The Hummingbird Man     228
How To Handle a Nonstop Talker in a Post-9/11 World     233
Social Studies     238
Gettin' My Goat     243
Change, Pardners     255
Coming of Age in Texas     260
Romeo and Juliet of Medina     264

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