d r i n k s t e r: KINKSTER COMES TO DRINKSTER TOWN

“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”

DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)

24 November 2013

KINKSTER COMES TO DRINKSTER TOWN

“Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.” Failed Texas gubernatorial candidate, animal rights activist, pulp fiction writer and rhythm guitarist from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour, Richard "Kinky" Friedman is riding through DRINKSTER territory in the next few days. Here he is on his Springtime For Kinky tour of the very deep south in 2011, in Melbourne with his security division and somebody's dog. Kinky brings his Bi-Polar tour to The Gov in Adelaide this Tuesday night. Unfortunately, he feels so comfortable this far south that the security division (Van Dyke Parks) has been eased out of this tour budget.

2 comments:

via collins said...: Come back Van Dyke!

Enjoy the show Whitey, and thanks for the really, really superb writing in this absurdly productive year you have had.

It's costing me a packet between Roger and the Castagna gangs, but I'll be a better person for it - won't I?; November 25, 2013 at 12:55 PM
DRINKSTER said...: You will. It has been a big word year, come to think of it. The Kinkster arrives in an hour or so. We shall carouse, so stay indoors.; November 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM

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"After enough years newspapermen begin to pall on other newspapermen; they begin to take their good qualities for granted and wince at their shortcomings, of which the most common are a vanity that sometimes borders on the thespian and a sort of perpetual mental adolescence that I think stems from starting a fresh story every day or every week or month and never having time to get to the bottom of anything. They forget that newspapermen as a class have a yearning for truth as involuntary as a hophead’s addiction to junk. The question of whether the junkie really loves hop is academic; he can’t get along without it. A newspaperman may write a lie to hold his job, but he won’t believe it, and the necessity outrages him so that he craves truth all the more thereafter. A few newspapermen lie to get on in the world, but it outrages them, too, and I have never known a dishonest journalist who wasn’t patently an unhappy bastard."

A.J. Liebling,

war correspondent,

New Yorker,

Algiers,

January 1942.

“Ale, especially that made from barley, clogs the sinews, causes headache and congestion of the head, yet it overstimulates the action of the kidneys, and, when drunk to excess, lowers the temperature. That, however, which is brewed from wheat, and is flavoured with mint and parsley, is judged better for everybody. Still, in the case of persons exposed to the sun’s heat, in feverish conditions and sultry weather, its use is inadvisable.”

From The Science Of Dining – A Medieval Treatise on the Hygiene of the Table and the Laws of Health, translated from the Latin by Arthur S. Way D. Lit, MacMillan, 1936. Previous translation The Schoolmaster, 1583. Original text from Mohammed ibn Zakariya al Razi, Arabic medical writer (865-925AD).

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24 November 2013

KINKSTER COMES TO DRINKSTER TOWN

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