BORDERS: Texas politics getting Kinky in '06 election

BORDERS: Texas politics getting Kinky in '06 election: "Kinky Friedman has reinvented himself a number of times over the past three decades. He came into the public eye as a singer songwriter firmly planted in the second tier of Texas country outlaw music with his band, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. In that mode he's penned such dubious classics as “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven (and Your Buns in the Bed),'' and “They Don't Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore.” He's written a few other songs whose titles are best left out of the newspaper, lest I get a phone call from my mother objecting to the language. Or from somebody else's mother.

Kinky later took up writing mystery novels starring a detective by the name of Kinky Friedman. He's published 17 detective novels, a few of which I have read. It's not literature, but Kinky's books are entertaining and can be devoured in a single sitting if you have enough libations at hand. And, until he embarked on his latest endeavor, Kinky wrote a back-page humor column for Texas Monthly that was always the first piece I turned to when the magazine showed up in my post-office box."