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The Las Vegas Sun's Joe Brown has piece on Kinky in the July 10 edition.

Do it like Kinky

Are you ready for a Kinky week in Las Vegas? Kinky Friedman — eminently quotable satirical sage, author, singer-songwriter, Texas gubernatorial candidate, animal rescuer and star of his own mystery series — has just published a new book, “What Would Kinky Do? How to Unscrew a Screwed Up World,” and he’ll be popping up (but mostly sitting down) around town for the next few days.

The June 20 Lawrence Journal-World featured a piece on Kinky be Jon Niccum.

Getting Kinky: Songwriter, novelist and political candidate Friedman not one to blow smoke

Kinky Friedman is probably more comfortable holding a cigar in his hand than he is a guitar or microphone.

"I smoke eight to 10 a day, and I hope to live forever," Friedman says.

Even so, the iconic Texan can't quite recall the first time he ever puffed on a cigar.

President Bush has just completed his eight-day tour of Europe. As you may know, many Europeans do not like him or us. In France, 57 percent of the folks have a negative view of America. In Germany, the number is a whopping 66 percent.

Now, our pal, Kinky Freidman is also just back from a European tour. He joins us from Austin, Texas, anticipating his new book "What Would Kinky Do" how to unscrew a screwed up world. The book comes out June 26th.

All right, you were on a three week, 18 city concert tour of Europe. And you wore the outfit so they knew you weren't from Romania. Why do they dislike us? One thing? Is it the Iraq War?

Dutch magazine HUMO interviews Kinky while on tour in Europe

As I arrive at Paradiso for my audience with the Kinkster, I am told he's still in the hotel taking a nap. I watch Little Jewford and Washington Ratso bring the sound up to speed and as we stroll out towards the hotel I guide them safely'round the Amsterdam tramway and the multitude of cyclists, as they're a little intimidated by them. We meet a sleepy-eyed Kinky, cowboyhat firmly on the frizzled hair, a cigar, which he will be putting out and firing up a gazillion times during the interview, firmly planted between the lips. I'm wearing my best cowboyboots hoping this true southern gentleman will warm up to me and he kindly notices them: "Nice boots. Elephant foreskin, are they?"

Read Robert Clayton's story from the May 30 edition of the Jewish Telegraph. Click below to open a .pdf file of the story.

May 30, 2008 - The Jewish Chronicle features Kinky

The Kosher Cowboy
By Paul Lester
Kinky Friedman is a singing, writing, cigar-smoking Texan. Which doesn't make him any less Jewish, he tells Paul Lester

Richard S "Kinky" Friedman has done it all. He toured America in the '70s as part of Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue with his country band Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys; he has written 28 detective novels; for most of this decade he has penned a column for the magazine Texas Monthly; he runs an animal-rescue ranch, and he was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Satirist, novelist, animal-lover - whatever you call him, just do not call him a politician.

Kinky's May 2008 piece in Texas Monthly magazine

The Four Questions
An epistle to Texas Christians.

What Jesus Would Do: He'd say, "Let he who has lived a blameless life deport the first illegal."

Many people may not realize it, but the Last Supper was a Jewish Passover service known as a seder. Traditionally, the youngest person at the seder asks the Four Questions, the first of which is "Why is this night different from all other nights?" I forget the other three questions, but, then, I'm not the youngest person at the seder anymore. In fact, I'm getting to be just about old enough to hide my own Easter eggs. I do seem to recall that Jesus drank an adult portion of Chateau de Catpiss that night, told the waiters, "Separate checks, please," and wandered off into the raw poetry of history.

Listen to Kinky on Imus in the Morning!

Kinky Friedman takes on the establishment. Pity the establishment.

By Lance Contrucci

The governor says knock it off!" It is a noisy morning at Kinky Friedman's ranch outside Austin. His five mutts, the Friedmans, are roughhousing something fierce, and a scruffy guest from New York named Ratso is loudly lamenting the state of Texas bagels. Friedman, puffing on a Kinkycristo cigar-his latest business venture-is boasting that he won $36,000 in Las Vegas over the weekend. "And I was down $200,000 at one point." But no one can hear him.

"That's it!" he barks. "The governor says the Friedmans are going outside!"

O'REILLY: "Unresolved problem" segment tonight, at this point, the Reverend Wright's story is winding down, but not fast enough for DNC chief Howard Dean.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: Governor, are you suggesting that bringing up Jeremiah Wright is race baiting and hate and divisive?

DEAN: Yes, I am suggesting that kind of stuff. I think when you start bringing up candidates that have nothing to do with the issues -- when you start bringing up things that have nothing to do with the candidate and nothing to do with the issues, that's race baiting and that's exactly what it is. Just like Willie Horton was race baiting so many years ago.