[AGL] Kinky is as kinky does

[Michael Eisenstadt]

What memories! Even before Eddie got fired from the Armadillo and
Fletcher who had the lease let him open a restaurant at the Sabine address,
a certain someone whom I dare not name used to take me over to
Eddie's office at the Armadillo. Eddie used to get West coast bud as
a house gift from the out-of-town rockers when they played the
Armadillo. Talk about one toke weed!

Why did Mayor Bubblehead and aids come calling? Not for the
swill that that restaurant served surely.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Kinky begins his move (post no. 33 of the day)


> 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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