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Bum Steer Hall of Fame »
In celebration of their lifetime achievements—or lack thereof—we hereby introduce, with great pleasure and big laughs, the first-ever inductees to the brand-new Bum Steer Hall of Fame.
January 2006
The Best Bum Steers. Ever. »
We published the first Bum Steer Awards in January 1974, and we haven’t missed a year since. We pored over all 32 installments—and more than 2,500 items—to come up with… the BEST BUM STEERS. EVER.
January 2006
Seriously, Folks »
Humorist Rich Malley on being clever, writing headlines, and putting together Bum Steers.
January 2006 Interview by Leah Fillion
Putting Together the Pieces »
Associate art director T. J. Tucker on co-designing this year’s Bum Steer Awards.
January 2006 Interview by Lindsay Meeks
Music to My Years »
When did I stop being cool?
June 2005 by Sarah Bird
Critters And Fritters »
You’d love my collection of vintage Texas cookbooks. Just don’t ask me to cook from them.
June 2005 by Anne Dingus
Sibling Ribaldry »
Developing my twisted sense of humor was a family affair.
April 2005 by Sarah Bird
“Confessions of a Skinny Bitch” »
Over the past thirty years, I’ve edited or written more than 28,000 restaurant reviews for this magazine. That’s a lot of crème brûlée under the bridge, folks. So what’s my life been like, exactly? And how have I stayed this thin? Good questions.
March 2005 by Patricia Sharpe
Message In a Bottle »
Blondness—natural or otherwise— is even more Texan than Big Hair.
February 2005 by Anne Dingus
Happily Enron After! »
The fairy tale is long over, but reality hasn’t necessarily set in.
February 2005 by Mimi Swartz
The Bottom 10 »
For connoisseurs of Bum Steer-worthy behavior, 2004 was an embarrassment of riches. Well, an embarrassment, anyway.
January 2005
Dome Improvement »
How I’ll change life at the Capitol as governor. (Hint: Spaying is involved.)
January 2005 by Kinky Friedman
Rounding Up the Steers »
Senior editor Anne Dingus on the Bum Steers traditions and mocking those other Simpsons.
January 2005 Interview by Kimberly Jeffries
The Funnies »
Illustrator Tim Bower, who worked on this month’s cover story, talks about drawing, humor, and his favorite Bum Steer.
January 2005 Interview by Kimberly Jeffries
The 2005 Bum Steer Awards »
It was a year of: Alamo amour, bollixed Bush, cheeseburger chagrin, dissed Davy, egregious ethics, film flops, guileful gynecologists, hibiscus hullabaloo, in-flight idiocy, jiggling Janet, konservative kross-dressers, laughable liposuction, microphone mishaps, numskull name-nabbing, opinionated obits, pot parfaits, Qaeda qualms, reckless Rather, streaking solons, tasteless Tecate, UT users, vulgar veeps, Wicca watchdogs, X-pensive X-crement, yoga yoke, and—zounds!—zero tolerance.
January 2005
L. on Wheels »
Eight days in a rental car with Larry L. King, the crotchety West Texan who has written some of the greatest magazine stories of all time, would be enough to drive anyone crazy. Except his biggest fan.
January 2005 by John Spong
Keep Gomorrah Weird »
A passionate, pointed, and in retrospect, pot-induced defense of Austin.
December 2004 by Kinky Friedman
Mentionables »
From bullet bras to panties emblazoned with the Lone Star flag, a brief history of women’s underwear in Texas.
November 2004 by Anne Dingus
Zero to Sixty »
A dreaded milestone approaches.
November 2004 by Kinky Friedman
Drawing on Politics »
Illustrator Steve Brodner discusses political satire and his new book, Freedom Fries.
November 2004 Interview by Kimberly Jeffries
The Wedding Partyer »
Do I, Kinky Friedman, take tequila-loving country singer
Pat Green to be my friend for life? I do.
August 2004 by Kinky Friedman
Arrivederci, Melanoma »
I never thought about saving my skin, until things got as
serious as cancer.
July 2004 by Kinky Friedman
The 2004 Bum Steer Awards »
It was a year of altitude-adjusting actors, bird-flipping benevolences, chili charlatans, dastardly deejays, embattled educators, flying freighty-cats, gubernatorial gallivantings, hip-hop hostilities, insatiable Isoptera, Judaically jolting jamborees, Kloroxed Kings, loblolly Leatherfaces, methodological manure-men, neuterings non grata, olé-less objets d'art, piscatorial policemen, queso quarrels, rear-end rectifyings, showboating second bananas, trio-trashing tractors, unamused über-actresses, vituperative vixens, wool-pulled-over Wal-Marts, x-coriated x-millionaires, "Yeehad" yuks, and zinged Ziggyburgers.
January 2004
My Library
