[AGL] Kinky begins his move (post no. 33 of the day)

[Gerry]

One afternoon in about 1977 Eddie Wilson and I had just finished smoking a
big joint in his first restaurant, the original Raw Deal. The place was
closed for the afternoon and the blinds were drawn. There was a loud knock
at the door and he got up to answer it. Who should appear but the Mayor of
Austin, Carole Keeton McClellan and 2 or 3 aides (professional looking
women).

He let them in and they joined us around a large table. The residual smoke
from the joint was thick in the little room as was its odor. But they didn't
know what it was. We engaged in a conversation which got lighter and giddier
as it went on. Finally it got downright silly.

When it ended they exited and went on up the street, filled with giddy
laughter, stoned as dogs. We wondered for a minute, assessing the risk we
might have taken by admitting them. Then we broke up. I half expected them
to come back. To this day I don't believe they knew what the smoke was or
why our little conversation became so light and funny.
G


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Kinky begins his move (post no. 33 of the day)


> Yes, Kinky is ahead of the Dem and that
> awful woman. I remember when she was
> the head of the AISD school board. She
> would be interviewed on TV and would
> waffle along never saying anything. The
> very embodyment of the political trimmer.
> The daughter of a UT dean of the law school
> who grew up in Austin but talks like a country
> cracker. With many husbands. And the overfed
> son who shilled for Bush. Oh that awful woman.
>
> I heard Kinky speak at Book People a way
> back. He is a smoothie but he had nothing
> interesting to say. He spoke in favor of an
> undefined spirituality and came out for more
> money to pay incompetents to make the
> Bubbas on the football team into something
> other than who they irremediably are. His novels are unreadable, his hobby
> of rescuing abandonned dogs is unattractive, his repressed or rather his
> closeted homosexuality, in this day and age, is sad. (by a coinky dinky I
> got an email
> this morning from Glen Maxey).
>
> I will vote for Kinky but I suspect that in the
> end, Governor Hair will be reelected.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Edwards" <laughingwolf at ev1.net>
> To: "ghetto 2" <ghetto2 at lists.whathelps.com>
> Cc: "ghetto survivors" <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:47 PM
> Subject: [AGL] Kinky begins his move (post no. 3 of the day)
>
>
> > Kinky Friedman Jumps 5 Points in Latest Poll
> > Surpasses Strayhorn, Bell Among Likely Voters
> >
> > Five Additional Polls Between March and May Show Friedman in Lead
> >
> > AUSTIN, Texas -- June 15, 2006 -- In the latest Rasmussen poll,
> > independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman jumped five
> > percentage points, surpassing independent candidate Carole Strayhorn
> > and Democrat Chris Bell.
> >
> > <http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/2006/06/
> > kinky_friedman_jumps_5_points.html>
> >
> > <http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReportPopup.aspx?g=5d90d44a-e155
> > -4d92-8f08-14fd1696d602&q=27091>
> >
> >
>
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