American culture lost a legend last week, with the passing of Kinky Friedman. He, along with his band, The Texas Jewboys, were an underrepresented minority in country music.
A sampling of his wisdom. Some of these quotes make more sense in the context of his run for Texas governor in 2006.
Kinky Friedman - They Ain't Makin' Jews
Wishing a happy, loving Fathers Day to all the fathers in my life; who strive to be worthy of that title - and who remember their own fathers with love, and seek, and in in their memories, a source of guidance
I was gratified, while channel surfing this morning, to see that NBC is referring to the clay-court tennis tournament underway in a Paris suburb as the Roland Garros. I was in Paris twenty-six years ago, during this annual event. When I asked around about the 'French Open', nobody knew what I was asking about. Nobody there calls it that, and nobody seemed to know that anybody else did. Like Wimbledon, it is named after the stadium where it is played – and the stadium that hosts this is named after an early French aviation hero, Roland Garros. American television has just been very slow to respect that.
