obituaries
"When you get big, you become a joke," Kinky Friedman told an interviewer in 1974. "I started as a joke, and that's a pretty good way to start." This was near the beginning of Friedman's career arc from enfant terrible to beloved old crank, and he was playing the punk-kid part beautifully, dropping one caustic aside after another—from "I don't really view hippies as people" to "I hate intellectuals, and I am one." The interviewer, Jan Reid, put the highlights in The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, his great book about the Austin music scene of the '70s, where Kinky came off as a witty wiseass...
Reason
Chicago (AFP) - A few days after Barry Kreiter's death, his obituary appeared online containing two signs of the times -- a link to watch his service online and an appeal to mourners over their choice of president in the US election.Kreiter, a commercial property inspector in Chicago, died unexpectedly of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, at the age of 63 on October 25, so his obituary wasn't planned in advance.But his daughter Rachel said it was a perfect reflection of a keen Democratic supporter who worked the phones for Joe Biden's campaign in his spare time and door-knocked for local Con...
AFP
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