considering how many jusers live in texas, it's a dadgum shame i hadda learn about this not just from the mainstream media (i guess hbo counts) but from that tool of stalin, bill maher.

musician, author, philosopher, raconteur and recent slot mahine jackpot winner kinky friedman is gonna run for governor of texas next year and yall aint nearly as excited as two armadillos encountering a rather comely lizardskin boot discarded along the median somewhere on i-30?  

kinky hopes to be the first independent governor since sam houston.  sadly, texas republicans and democrats have conspired to prevent an independent from qualifying to be on the ballot.  according to texas law, an independent must collect 45,000 signatures in 2 months--all from voters who don't vote in either the republican or democratic primaries.   

he's already gotta website Link, a slogan ("why the hell not?") and a secretary of energy (willie nelson) in the wings who drives a bus that runs on old cookin oil rather than some damn hummer or mercedez-benz or lincoln navigator.   

  “I believe musicians can better run this state than politicians,” Friedman said. “Heck, I think beauticians can better run this state than politicians.”

for those of you who aren't familiar with kinky's work or his place in american music (he was country when the eagles weren't hardly heard of) as frontman for 'kinky friedman & the texas jewboys', knock yourself out with a taste of 'we reserve the right to refuse service to you'. Link  (if yall are nice and promise to save your vote for kinky, i could be persuaded to let yall hear a truly poignant lil kf tune called 'the ballad of the highway cafe').

*oh yeah...movin to texas.  it aint that i dislike texas anymore than most places, it's just there's so much more of it to dislike.  specially west texas which is nothin short of a damn shame any way you look at it (something i wouldnt recommend).   i'm willin to make the supreme sacrifice if it gets down to the last day and kinky's only collected 44,999 signatures.  as i type this, for the first time i understand what nathan hale meant when he said he regretted having only one life to give for his country.   i'm sure ill regret this as well