A Candidate For Whom I Could Move To Texas*

Will Wonders Never Cease?

Published on August 29, 2005 By kingbee In Politics

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

Comments (Page 2)

kingbee

on Aug 29, 2005

even ~gasp~ west Texas

(in far west Tx.of all places

there's nothing wrong with West Texas (or West, Texas either.) Just add water

i didn't mean to suggest kf hadda problem with west texas. mine is mostly a combination of two things.

having spent several weeks driving across texas one day a couple times (and it really don't make a whole lotta difference whether you're traveling east, west, north or south).

a conversation with the late great texas bluesman sam 'lightnin' hopkins during which he informed me the lunar landing had been faked...and he knew the exact spot in west texas they'd prolly used for location shooting.
the more i thought bout that the more i realized the moon might be a more habitable place.

Spc Nobody Special

on Aug 29, 2005

what kinda turtle?

big sea turtle I think, isn't it?

what kinda mileage are you doin weekly and what kinda times?

Been pissin' around about twenty miles a week, 8, 8 and a half minute miles depending on how far. I'm about to start another marathon cycle.

I'd been at about 40 a week about six months ago, and got wiped completely out by pneumonia. I want to maybe do a couple of half-marathons or a 30k this fall, and run the Austin Freescale Marathon again next February. This time, I want to get under 3:45. (Perry beat me in the last one with like a 3:55.)(And the month before at a 30k in Buda dammit....)

kingbee

on Aug 30, 2005

big sea turtle I think, isn't it?

looks that way. but its such a small image i can't tell which one (obviously not a leatherback but beyond that...)

pneumonia musta been a bitch. for a couple years i was doin 5-8 on weeknites and 15-18 mile tours around the peninsula on weekends. near the end of one of those (with brain completely drained of blood obviously) i suddenly felt inspired to use one of those metal barrier things--the kind used around curves and to letcha know you've reached a point at which they don't want you to drive further--as a hurdle. if only my following toetip had cleared it (or it had been a real hurdle that mighta collapsed or something), i wouldnt have torn my hamstring quite so badly.

i'd promised to rabbit for a guy in a 5k the following weekend...and i did it. after a week of withdrawals cuz i could barely walk--not nearly a long enuff recuperation--i was out on the street again.

so i can only imagine how bad it musta been (and sympathize over) having to deal with a serious illness as well as being kicked to the curb runningwise.

Spc Nobody Special

on Aug 30, 2005

i suddenly felt inspired to use one of those metal barrier things--the kind used around curves and to letcha know you've reached a point at which they don't want you to drive further--as a hurdle.

Nope, never done anything so blatantly foolish. And banged myself in the balls on a concrete post as a result. Never. And I never ran into that glass wall. Or drove a motorcycle into the front doors of a building. Not me. Must be someone else you're thinking of.

after a week of withdrawals cuz i could barely walk--not nearly a long enuff recuperation--i was out on the street again.

Yeppers. I think I'd been out of the hospital for about ten days, and tried to go two miles. I finished, but it took me about 35 minutes. On the plus side however, I did clear a hell of a lot of phlegm out of my lungs.

15-18 mile tours around the peninsula on weekends.

If you want to have a safer rush, instead of hurdles, run by a friend's house about 8, 10 miles away, and prank knock..........but let them see you running off. Smile and wave. It never fails to blow their mind. (Or to suck if they aren't home)

kingbee

on Sep 01, 2005

much better alternative for sure.

strangely enuff, i've never been tempted to try hurdling again. amazingly i managed to keep myself from falling, but i doubt i'll ever forget the popping sound of that hamstring tearing.

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