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3	Musician, author and-would be politician Kinky Friedman (Born November 1, 1944) is the former leader of the band Music/TheTexasJewboys. He has written several murder mysteries about [[AuthorAvatar a musician, author and would-be politician named Kinky Friedman]], who also dabbles in private detection. While most of the books are set in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, one or two are set in UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}.
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5	This is a partial list of his novels:
6	* ''A Case of Lone Star''
7	* ''Armadillos and Old Lace''
8	* ''Blast From The Past''
9	* ''Music/{{Elvis\|Presley}}, UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and Coca-Cola''
10	* ''Frequent Flyer''
11	* ''God Bless Creator/JohnWayne''
12	* ''Greenwich Killing Time''
13	* ''The Love Song Of J. Edgar Hoover''
14	* ''Musical Chairs''
15	* ''Roadkill''
16	* ''Spanking Watson''
17	* ''When the Cat's Away''
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20	!!Tropes:
21	* AnswerSong: "Asshole From El Paso" to Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Muskogee".
22	%%* BigApplesauce
23	* DualMeaningChorus:
24	** In the song "We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You," the narrator is denied entrance to a cafe with the title words, as he looks like a Communist and a Jew.
25	*** In the next verse, the rabbi at the synagogue tells him that because he doesn't have a ticket and tie, "We reserve the right to refuse services to you."
26	*** The next verse takes a more serious anti-war tone as the narrator wishes he could refuse military service to U.S. troops in South Asia.
27	*** Finally, the narrator fears that when he tries to get into heaven, he'll be told, "Our quota's filled for this year / On singing Texas Jews, / We reserve the right to refuse service to you."
28	** The same goes for "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore", which starts off with an anti-semite accosting Kinky in a bar with the title phrase, and ends with Kinky punching him out with the words
29	--->They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore\
30	We don't turn the other cheek like we done before\
31	You could hear that honky holler as he hit the hardwood floor\
32	Lord, they ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore!
33	** Pretty much every line of "Ride 'Em Jewboy" counts. The song is ostensibly framed as a cowboy song in the manner of "Git Along Little Dogies", but it's dense with references to Judaism and in particular UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust ("six million miles", "smoke from camps a-risin' ", "on your sleeve you wore the yeller star").
34	%%* {{Eagleland}}: A frequent subject/target of his music.
35	%%* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Friedman smokes cigars. Often.
36	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: His backing band, The Texas Jewboys.
37	%%* IrishmanAndAJew: Kinky and [=McGovern=]
38	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore" has Kinky's "redneck nerd" antagonist list all the people he's prejudiced against, starting with magnate Aristotle Onassis and circling through a long line of slurs before ending with Kinky himself. Kinky knocks him out with the words
39	-->''If there's one thing I can't abide, it's an ethnocentric racist\
40	Now you take back that shit you said 'bout [[PainfulRhyme Aristitle Onassis]]!''
41	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ratso. He’s rude, crude, cheap and garish, and his personal hygiene is questionable at best. But despite everything, he sticks by Kinky’s side, even at great risk to life and limb. For example, [[spoiler: in ‘’When the Cat’s Away’’, he nursed Kinky back to health after he (Kinky) is shot with a tranquilizer dart, and barely survived a shootout between rival Colombian cocaine families. However, later on he saved Kinky’s life by sacrificing his beloved coonskin cap. He didn’t even ask for it back.]]
42	%%* MisogynySong: "Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed"
43	* OurProductSucks: Friedman's campaign slogans for his 2006 campaign for Texas governor included "Why The Hell Not?" and "How Hard Could It Be?"
44	* RefugeInAudacity:
45	** In the mid-90s, he was invited to the White House and handed a Cuban cigar to UsefulNotes/BillClinton right in front of a bunch of reporters with the words "Don't think of it as supporting their economy, think of it as burning their crops."
46	** “The Ballad Of Charles Joseph Whitman” is a bouncy, comedy country song about a ''mass shooting''.
47	* ThirdPersonPerson: Friedman is known for referring to himself in the third person, though it's tongue-in-cheek on his part.
48	* UnclePennybags: One of Kinky Friedman's friends in his novels is a "decamillionaire" who's happy to help him if he needs a flight to UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} or something.

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