The musician, author, and columnist needed an idea. Texas Monthly’s then–editor in chief said, “Make something up.” The rest is history.
A look at what to read, watch, and listen to this (wonderfully jam-packed) month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
He’s not Kinky, he’s “The Loneliest Man I Ever Met."
Texans are heading to the polls for this year's primary runoffs
He can't be in the run-off, but Matthew McConaughey is launching a write-in candidacy for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
It doesn't get any more Kinky Friedman.
The news that Kinky Friedman is considering another run for statewide office is not really news. It is just sick comedy.
Willie reveals this and several other details in an excerpt from his new memoir, Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die.
After eleven contested elections dating back three decades, Rick Perry remains undefeated. Is he brilliant? Lucky? Ruthless? We asked the people who know best—his vanquished opponents.
In this extraordinary oral history, Willie Nelson’s friends, kin, and collaborators (Jimmy Carter, Emmylou Harris, Robert Redford, Merle Haggard, and many more big names) tell their favorite stories about the Red Headed Stranger.
How I’ll change life at the Capitol as governor. (Hint: Spaying is involved.)
As the only man ever to run against both Bill White and Rick Perry, I have a few thoughts on how either one of these fine, upstanding, admirable men could beat the tar out of the other.
The Kinky-for-governor circus pulls into Galveston.
Wring your hands, cut your wrists, do anything, but just listen to how Kinky can sing.
Kinky Friedman, Andi Beierman, and Brent Humphreys.
Why cigar haters make ashes of themselves.
1. When Tea Parties Attack! Article III, Section 9, of the constitution of the state of Texas tells us that when a new session of the House of Representatives is seated, its first order of business is to elect a Speaker. What the constitution doesn’t tell us is that the Speaker’s election
Kinky Friedman tells the Dallas Morning News that he is mulling another run for governor.
In 2006, Kinky Friedman thought he'd be the better governor. In 2011, he is ready for a Perry presidency.
He has no policy, he is not serious, he is not credible. Moreover, he has no intention of ever becoming serious, of becoming credible, or caring about policy for more than the two seconds it takes for him to exhale his stank-filled cigar smoke — or for him to go
How would Jesus answer them? How will you?
“I always thought that if I was having fun doing what I was doing and making a living doing it, then I was already successful.”
Kinky Friedman for governor?!?
We knew he could sing, of course. What we didn't know was that he had such a great sense of humor. Here are some of Willie Nelson's favorite jokes from his just-published memoir, The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes.
Why did Willie, Lyle, and other big names pay homage to me by recording my songs? Because I asked them to. You got a problem with that?
The holiday season comes early for Asleep at the Wheel, who’ve just wrapped Merry Texas Christmas, Y’all (High Street/Windham Hill Records) at Austin’s Bismeaux studios. Highlights include Tish Hinojosa singing “Feliz Navidad” and Willie Nelson and Don Walser on “Silent Night.” Too homey for you? Wheel front man Ray Benson’s
Willie Nelson and I have been friends for years, so why did I decide only now to make him a character in one of my mystery novels? The plot thickens.
That’s what country music is, and that’s why it plays in Peoria.
The times, they are a’ changing. Fine, but how?
