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	Kinky Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kinky graduated from a highly selective University of Texas Honors program (in which Kinky says most participants were recognized by characteristic facial tics), he joined the Peace Corps and served from 1966 to 1968 in the jungles of Borneo.
		Kinky then moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, where he became close friends with radio talk host Don Imus and a group of colorful Greenwich Village people who later became characters in his books, and he became a regular performer at New York's famous Lone Star Cafe.
		Kinky seldom performs except "at bar mitzvahs, whorehouses, and book signings." You'll be in for a treat to catch his act at any one of these places or at a rare public venue.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/FriedmanKinky.htm (615 words)

	Kinky Friedman Biography
		After graduation, Friedman served three years in the Peace Corps; he was stationed in Borneo, where he worked as an agricultural extension worker.
		Friedman got his break in 1973 thanks to Commander Cody, who contacted Vanguard Music on behalf of the acerbic young performer.
		In 2003 Friedman appeared in a nude, cigar-smoking triplicate on the cover of the Dallas Observer magazine, in a parody of the Dixie Chicks' nude Entertainment Weekly pose of that year.
	www.kinkajourecords.com /kinkybio.htm (598 words)

	Stop Kinky!
		Friedman last week said he would provide $100 million to Houston, or any other city facing similar crime problems, so Houston could hire 1,200 new police officers to deal with crime and weed out the "crackheads and thugs" among the thousands of Katrina evacuees from New Orleans who relocated to Houston.
		I believe Kinky Friedman should not be elected because of his reactionary views on many issues from reproductive choice to immigration to eroding the separation of church and state.
		Kinky's support has polled between 11% and 22% in polls that were conducted contemporaneously so his levels of support are obviously difficult to measure and highly dependant on the poll's method for identifying likely voters.
	stopkinky.blogspot.com (6764 words)

	Kinky Friedman
		Richard F. "Kinky" Friedman, born October 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American singer, songwriter and novelist.
		Friedman, an honors student, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and then served two years with the Peace Corps in Borneo and other areas of the southwest Pacific Ocean.
		They feature a Jewish country singer turned Greenwich Village private eye named Kinky Friedman, who sometimes returns to his native Texas; other characters are drawn from Friedman's circle of friends in both New York and Texas.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Kinky_Friedman.html (662 words)

	Amazon.de: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch.: English Books: Kinky Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kinky has three cases to handle and he has catalogued them with the names of the Three Stooges.
		The real Kinky Friedman has enlisted First Lady and fellow Texan, Laura Bush, in his humanitarian effort to raise money for an organization near and dear to his cold, cold heart, the Utopia Rescue Ranch in Medina, Texas, an animal shelter.
		Friedman expertly, and not at all heavy-handedly, ties the two cases together with his depictions of a Dickensian orphanage and the animal shelter that lives up to its name.
	www.amazon.de /Meanwhile-Back-Ranch-Kinky-Friedman/dp/0571209513 (488 words)

	Newsvine - kinky-friedman
		The Texas chapter of the NAACP asked comedian and independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman on Friday to apologize for using a racial slur during a 1980 nightclub act in Houston.
		Musician and mystery writer Kinky Friedman, brandishing his trademark cigar and spouting one-liners, turned in petitions with nearly 170,000 signatures on Thursday in his bid to run for governor of Texas as an independent candidate.
		Kinky Friedman's (he is a jewish cowboy, musician, satirist, & author if you haven't heard of him before) has released his newest campaign cartoon ad.
	www.newsvine.com /kinky-friedman (322 words)

	CMT.com : Kinky Friedman : Biography
		Kinky Friedman wrote and performed satirical country songs during the 1970s and has been hailed as the Frank Zappa of country music.
		After graduation, Friedman served three years in the Peace Corps; he was stationed in Borneo, where he was an agricultural extension worker.
		Many of Friedman's songs of the 1970s and early '80s were collected on two CD compilations, Old Testaments and New Revelations (1994) and From One Good American to Another (1995).
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/friedman_kinky/bio.jhtml (606 words)

	Kinky's Texas campaign turns (almost) serious \| ajc.com
		Moreover, the $6 million that Friedman speaks of raising is a pittance in Texas, where $100 million was spent in the 2002 governor's race.
		Richard "Kinky" Friedman was born in Chicago to well-educated parents who bought 400 acres in Texas in 1952.
		Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys were paragons of political incorrectness.
	www.ajc.com /search/content/shared/news/nation/stories/12/NATKINKY1227A_5REP.html (1323 words)

	Kinky Friedman News
		Comedic candidate Kinky Friedman has far and away the most individual donations in the governor's race this year, collecting campaign cash from thousands across Texas and across the country.
		The private investigator who was the inspiration for Kinky Friedman's mystery novels appeared in a federal court in California on charges of trying to intimidate a government informant by impersonating an FBI...
		UNDATED Kinky Friedman's independent campaign for governor of Texas has released a new T-V ad in which he quotes Jesus' words from the Bible and says, "I want to be your good shepherd." Friedman tells viewers,...
	www.topix.net /who/kinky-friedman (724 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact
		Kinky, who never learned to sit still much, has grown tired of his second career—this year, at the age of sixty, he announced that his most recent mystery will be his last—and has sought out a third.
		Kinky's problem, he has said, is that he considers himself a serious soul who has never been taken seriously.
		Kinky found himself approached more and more by Texans desperate for an alternative to the sort of candidates they were used to, and he was starting to feel that he had a responsibility to these people.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/050822fa_fact (4587 words)

	The Austin Chronicle News: Here Comes the Guv: Kinky Friedman lights up his campaign
		Friedman isn't sure how his appearance is going to be received, and wonders out loud just what sort of audience attends a laser light show choreographed to Pink Floyd recordings.
		Friedman's supporters have spent nearly a year planning for the upcoming petition drive, building a grassroots network of petition volunteers, and, most recently, promoting the "Save Yourself for Kinky" campaign, urging supporters and would-be petition signers to abstain from the primary.
		Friedman is sitting in the living room of the unimposing, shack-like bungalow where he lives, at the top of a small hill amid the 400 acres in Medina that make up the Friedman family's Echo Hill Ranch.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2006-02-17/pols_feature.html (3687 words)

	BookPage Interview September 1999: Kinky Friedman
		Country-singer-turned-mystery-writer Kinky Friedman rises each morning in his little green trailer deep in the heart of the Texas hill country and tilts at America's sacred cows like a modern-day Don Quixote on mood elevators.
		When last we visited the cockeyed world of country-singer-turned-amateur-sleuth Kinky Friedman (in Blast from the Past), a chunk of ceiling plaster, dislodged by Winnie Katz's lesbian dance class upstairs, had transported the vicar of Vandam Street on a comatose trip back to the '70s.
		With an almost criminal glee, Kinky dupes and recruits his colorful cronies to find a would-be assassin of Katz, then unleashes them on the unsuspecting Winnie and her Danskin-clad students like a horde of locusts on a summer field.
	www.bookpage.com /9909bp/kinky_friedman.html (1134 words)

	News 8 Austin \| 24 Hour Local News \| ELECTION 2006
		Friedman has called himself many things, but now he's added the title of Independent candidate for governor.
		Friedman is known for his political quips and one-liners.
		If Friedman and Strayhorn get on the ballot as independents, it will be the first time that's happened for a statewide candidate in Texas in the past 147 years.
	www.news8austin.com /content/election_2006/?ArID=159763&SecID=539 (422 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ten Little New Yorkers: Books: Kinky Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Friedman's comic, semi-autobiographical mystery series apparently comes to an end with this downbeat 18th entry, which, like 2004's The Prisoner of Vandam Street, is suffused with melancholy and loss.
		Referring to Kinky in the past tense, Ratso, one of the Village Irregulars and a would-be Watson to Kinky's Sherlock, begins with the revelation that this, Kinky's seventeenth adventure, will be his final exploit.
		When the wallet of one of the victims of a series of seemingly unrelated murders turns up in his apartment, the Kinkster is implicated, especially after clues left at the scene of the various crimes reveal that either the killer is the Kinkster or is someone with considerable knowledge of his habits and music.
	www.amazon.ca /Little-New-Yorkers-Kinky-Friedman/dp/0786278366 (657 words)

	Amazon.de: God Bless John Wayne (Kinky Friedman Novels (Paperback)): English Books: Kinky Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Continuing his series of Kinky Friedman mysteries, the off-beat author has his equally off-beat alter-ego attempting to track down the birth parents of an old friend.
		Still Kinky has irreverant fun all the way through an attempt on his life, a few bottles of Jameson, a case of Cuban cigars, two Zippos and a tap dance rendition of Swan Lake by the lesbian dance class overhead.
		Kinky, has some of the most heinous humor with a direct in your face harmony woven into his own lifesytle observations.
	www.amazon.de /Wayne-Kinky-Friedman-Novels-Paperback/dp/055357633X (739 words)

	Steve's Soapbox: Kinky Friedman Letters to the Editor
		Maybe Sykes should look at Friedman's Web site and see that he not only has clear, solid stances on the important issues facing the state and nation but that his overwhelming base of support is proof that he's a "serious" candidate and will be a major contender in the November election.
		One of Friedman's ideas for border security entails working with the governors of New Mexico and Arizona to develop a border security plan that benefits all the states.
		Sykes faulted her "intelligent" friend for supporting Friedman and suggested it would be a waste to vote for a "comedian" rather than "serious" candidates.
	stevesmarketanddeli.com /2006/05/kinky-friedman-letters-to-editor.htm (1062 words)

	KLRU: Texas Monthly Talks > Kinky Friedman
		Kinky, born Richard, is the son of a speech therapist and an educational psychology professor.
		Tom Friedman taught at the Austin campus of the University of Texas, and, during the summers, the whole family ran a camp for children ages 7 to 13, in the Texas hill country.
		He tried again and was sent to Borneo to distribute seeds, but Kinky insists that monsoons made it impossible.
	www.klru.org /texasmonthlytalks/archives/kinky_friedman/bio.asp (371 words)

	Amazon.ca: Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola: Books: Kinky Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Friedman casts himself as a somewhat wacky, curmudgeonly sleuth solving the murder of a documentary filmmaker in this offbeat mystery.
		Kinky's friends are all featured extensively throughout the novel, which results in a number of hilarious boozy gatherings in various bars, restaurants and a gay burlesque theatre.
		Friedman is that his quips, wise-sayings and one-liners are SO DAMN GOOD - and they come so fast and frequently - that I'm constantly looking for a pen or pencil to write them down (so I can use them later).
	www.amazon.ca /Elvis-Jesus-Coca-Cola-Kinky-Friedman/dp/0553568914 (1177 words)

	Amazon.com: Kinky Friedman: Music: Kinky Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kinky's self-titled second album includes many of his best creations, and it works because, no matter how far the lyrics stray from traditional country terrain, the songs are always delivered with sincerity, conviction, and high-quality musicianship.
		Another highlight is Friedman's hysterical liner notes, which discuss the travails of a "Texas Jewboy" dealing with record execs and coming to grips with his station in country-music society.
		Kinky Friedman was a county and western musician who was probably too original for the establishment.
	www.amazon.com /Kinky-Friedman/dp/B0000014UC (1246 words)

	Kinky Friedman : Prisoner of Vandam Street : Book Review
		Friedman is left to the care of his "Village Irregulars," the aforementioned friends whom he has called upon for assistance in solving the various capers he has taken on over the years in his previous books.
		Kinky (both real and fictional) is a devout animal lover [see "Cuddles Epilogue"] and is torn between both cases, as--among other things--his case named Larry requires his spending time with Dylan's attractive sister, Julia, who appears willing to reciprocate Kinky's amorous intentions.
		Kinky Friedman, the protagonist (not the author) is an ex-country western singer turned private eye.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /humor/friedman.htm (1961 words)

	Kinky Friedman: a success against all odds
		Kinky is perhaps the least likely of modern literary success stories.
		Today, with 15 novels to his credit, Friedman boasts a legion of fans worldwide, many of whom are unaware of his previous incarnation.
		Kinky Friedman: It was thrilling -- 1973 with Vanguard Records, the company that turned down Bob Dylan.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20040414a1.asp (615 words)

	Cigar Aficionado \| People Profile \| Kinky Friedman
		One secret of Friedman's success and a key reason his campaign appearances draw large crowds is that at the precise moment you begin to take him too seriously, he lets go with a patented one-liner, such as this observation on one of the most contentious topics in politics today:
		Friedman made good use of this by meticulously planning his next scheme: a country band he would christen Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys.
		Friedman generally smokes eight cigars a day, though he says 12 is more typical when he's writing.
	www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,218,00.html (2275 words)

	Author intro:Kinky Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fun of it all is Kinky populates his books with people he knows, often featuring them as cheats, cons and murderers much to their glee.
		Kinky Friedman was born Richard S.Friedman and was a child prodigy.He went on to form The Texas Jewboys (
		Kinky says there are ten million imaginary horses in this valley who gallop around the trailer in an ever encircling carousel of death.
	www.scifi.demon.co.uk /kinky4.htm (374 words)

	USATODAY.com - Author, entertainer Friedman running for Texas governor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Musician-turned-mystery author Kinky Friedman is promising an unconventional campaign in his independent bid to get elected Texas governor next year.
		The 60-year-old Friedman formally made his announcement Thursday in front of the Alamo, the quintessential symbol of Texas independence, after an invocation from country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver.
		Friedman's given first name is Richard and picked up the nickname Kinky for his wiry curly fl hair when he was at the University of Texas in the 1960s.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-02-03-kinky-governor_x.htm (812 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Review: Kinky Friedman's annoying yet entertaining 'Club' - September 8, 2000
		Friedman's stories are characterized by bathroom humor, tales of alcoholic and narcotic excess, and nonstop one-liners that are about as subtle as a runaway cement mixer.
		Friedman's own unique takes on love, greed, and New York, the author stocks his plots with his own friends, the "Village Irregulars": reporter Mike McGovern, editor Larry "Ratso" Sloman and "technical advisor" Steve Rambam.
		Meanwhile Kinky and Khadija have an amorous encounter, during which he manages to figure out her none-too-subtle agenda for recovering her case and its contents.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/reviews/09/08/review.friedman (872 words)

	freedomforum.org: Kinky Friedman relishes job as 'equal opportunity offender'
		By that time, Friedman had already puffed enough smoke from his Cuban cigar to fill the 100-seat auditorium; had interrupted the center's founder John Seigenthaler with a belch of "First Amendment"; and had repeated a tasteless joke that got a producer fired after the musician appeared on the "Crook and Chase" show.
		Paulson and Siegenthaler then eased into a rambling conversation with Friedman that revealed the musician to be the first full-blooded Jew to play the Grand Ole Opry, a man on his second day of vegetarianism and the only non-land-owning, cigar-smoking, mystery-writing, cat-loving, Irish whiskey-swigging, country artist and Jewish sex symbol from Texas.
		Friedman said he identifies most closely with people who spent their lives misunderstood and rattled off names such as Jesus, Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson and the late comedian Lenny Bruce.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=9080 (589 words)

	GruntDoc: Kinky Friedman in Fort Worth
		FORT WORTH -- Kinky Friedman has a perfect explanation for what he calls "Guinness-Gate," and he gave newspaper publishers convened in Fort Worth a scoop.
		Friedman was not driving, but he was in violation of the state's open container law.
		At Tuesday's annual meeting of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association, Friedman, who hopes to collect enough signatures to get his name on the ballot as an independent candidate for Texas governor in the November election, did acknowledge he had a beer with him in the car.
	www.gruntdoc.com /2006/03/kinky_friedman.html (498 words)

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