'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers

Kinky Friedman

Harper Collins, Sep 28, 2004 - Humor - 194 pages

Kinky Friedman is back with 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out, and gets it on with all manner of egos. In this collection of twisted takes on life, the Kinkster gives us funny, irreverent, and insightful looks at outsized personalities, from people he's known -- Bill Clinton and George W. to Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, not to mention Joseph Heller and Don Imus -- to people he's known in spirit -- Moses, Jesus, Jack Ruby, and Hank Williams. With his meditations on subjects ranging from sleeping at the White House to marriage, his pets, fishing in Borneo, country music, cigars, and the tribulations of possessing talent, Kinky doesn't deny us the "flashes of brilliance and laugh-out-loud observations"* that are present in all his other work.

Hilarious and irreverent, and passionately twisted, 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out reads as if it were written by a slightly ill modern-day Mark Twain.

*Rocky Mountain News (Denver)

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• A Personal Odyssey: 27
• A Movie Treatment: 41
• Hail to the Kinkster: 63
• The Houseguest: 69
• Mad Cowboy Disease: 81
• A Cowboys Elegy for Irv Rubin: 95
• The Four Horsemen of the Antipodes: 105
• Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa: 129
• Dont Forget: 155
• Wild Man from Borneo: 165
• The Navigator: 189

About the author

Kinky Friedman is the author of twelve novels, including Blast from the Past, Road Kill, The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover, God Bless, John Wayne, Armadillos & Old Lace; and Elvis, Jesus and Coca Cola. He lives in a little green trailer in a little green valley deep in the heart of Texas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers
• Author: Kinky Friedman
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2004
• ISBN: 0060539755, 9780060539757
• Length: 194 pages
• Subjects: Humor / Form / Essays; Humor / General; Humor / Topic / Men, Women & Relationships; Humor / Topic / Politics