Oops -- left off the lover after "animal."
"Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files" by Kinky Friedman Simon & Schuster 208 pages $24.95
This "book" is a compilation of celebrity interviews, celebrity name dropping, editorializing (see the chapter on Mark Twain) and -- oh! Stories about the celebs' pets. Alive or dead (Churchill, Joseph Heller, Richard Pryor, Hank Williams) doesn't seem to matter to the Kinkstah (his name for himself.)
Not surprisingly many musicians are included - Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Brain Wilson, Emmylou Harris to name only a few. And, come to think of it, I believe some of the above are dead, too.
Each chapter is short - average 2 1/2 pages each making it a perfect bathroom book. "Bathroom book" in my lexicon is NOT an insult! It's a book you can pick up andput back down with no sense of "What's going to happen next?"
Friedman has a great sense of humor -- naming his band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys while deep in the heart of Texas -- that takes a special kind of... er, nerve.
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