If you want to be kinder to the environment, you may consider washing your clothes by hand every once in a while.
However, not using the washing machine for washing clothes could be time consuming and hard, so there are other alternatives, such as the hand laundry machine. These machines provide the same effect like the electric washing machines but use less water and no electricity. With minimal physical effort, you can reduce the chores on laundry day and save some money, too! On top of that, the hand laundry machines are way less expensive than the electric ones.
Jawad Ahmed, a laundry merchant at The Home Depot explains that “Using a portable washing machine doesn’t have to mean compromising.” Speaking to The Spruse, he added that “With just a smaller load capacity, a compact washer can penetrate deep into fabrics to eliminate dirt and odors, saving you water and energy with the same outstanding cleaning performance as a regular-sized washer.”
When a person starts taking driving lessons for the first time, it may seem like an overwhelming and nerve-wracking experience, as they are suddenly tasked with mastering multiple skills at once, such as steering, braking, accelerating, and observing the road, all while maintaining awareness of their surroundings.
However, what most new drivers find hardest of all is the act of parking.
Well, the parking can indeed be a challenging task, unless you’ve done it plenty of times over the years and are an experienced driver.
Some of the challenges drivers come across when it comes to parking their vehicle are the narrow parking spots, busy parking lots, poor visibility due to weather conditions, blind spots, or the lack of parking sensors, and other distractions.
Reverse parking, a common driving practice that involves positioning a vehicle into a parking spot by reversing into, is considered tough by many, and that is the reason why many people avoid it and urge others to do the same.
For one, this form of parking requires plenty of practice, and is also time consuming. If the vehicle has significant blind spots, backing into a space can be more challenging and demand additional care.
Of course, there are also advantages that go with backing into parking spaces.
If your vehicle is parked in reverse, it would be much easier to drive when exiting because you will have better visibility of the oncoming traffic. Having the rear of the car accessible can make it more convenient to load and unload items from the trunk.
Backing into a space lowers the chances of hitting objects or other vehicles because you have a clearer view of their surroundings when entering the space.
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Psychologists believe that your favorite color has a lot to do with your personality.
The color you love may show what your strengths and weaknesses are, as well as what your relationship with other people is.
If you have a favorite color, read the text below and learn more about what it says about you and your emotions.
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If your favorite color is purple you are someone who relies on your intuition. Trusting in it has proven to be the right thing to do on many occasions so you simple listen to it.
You are a person with a great heart who tends to offer help to those in need. At the same time, you are a perfectionist who longs for emotional stability. An incredible observes who won’t let anything slip through your fingers.
Others see you as a visionary who possesses the ability to attract people with their bursting charisma.
You are unique in everything you do and never care about fitting in because your creative spirit encourages you to do things your own way.
Black may not be the the most captivating color, but it represents confidence and purpose thus those who consider it their favorite color are leaders and want to have control over their life.
Your nature is independent, strong, and sophisticated. You tend to keep your life private and only let those who you really trust to get a glance at your privacy. Further, you are able to share your point of view with conviction and authority and have self-control to a level that you are sometimes perceived as intimidating.
You are above average, polite, well-spoken, and conventional.
You are someone with plenty of drive and determination. You are never afraid to take risks and be in charge.
Having red as your favorite color means you are passionate, outgoing, assertive, and prone to impulsive actions. You have a fiery demeanor and will stop at nothing to fulfill your goals. Sometimes, the lovers of red are perceived as hot-headed and someone who have a short fuse, but overall, they are positive, loving people.
You are compassionate and sympathetic, and those who know you know they will always have a shoulder they can cry on. You have a generous heart and often put other people’s need before your own. Your caring and encouraging demeanor nurtures your longtime friendships with those around you.
The saying about looking at life through pink-glasses sums up your perspective about your surrounding and the people in your life.
The lovers of pink wear their heart on their sleeve and are delicate and sensitive human beings.
Lovers of the white color are considered well-organized, independent, and logical.
You are reserved in nature, but have high expectations of yourself and those around you. You never overstep boundaries and the need for mental clarity guides your actions and the way you see life. When you are faced with disappointment, you don’t always deal well, but your ability to show control over your life and the things that happen to you make for your true feelings.
You love being accepted and being part of the group. Your social life is of great importance to you and you are a huge lover of social gatherings and being around people.
You are fun to be around and live in the moment.
As a lover of orange, you are a problem-solver who loves to inspire people and make them feel good by channeling your positive energy to those around you.
You don’t shy away from challenges but you can also be irresponsible at times.
Overall, the lovers of orange are considered warm, friendly, and inviting.
The blue color is mostly associated with the water and the sky, and as such, it evokes feelings of relaxation and tranquility and those individuals who gravitate toward such feelings are considered empathetic, honest, reliable, and problem solvers.
If the blue color attracts you, that means you are mindful and heart-led. At the same time, you are more spiritual and you possess artistic aptitude.
You generally have conservative convictions and tend to retreat to peaceful environments in stressful times. You nurture your relationships with others and highly value your close group of family and friends.
When you are faced with chaotic situations, you keep yourself grounded and keep order. Being a fan of fair-play, you are a respected individual and considered trustworthy, friendly, and engaging.
Moral, reputable, and sensitive, the lovers of green are mostly led by emotions. These people are perceived as loyal and supportive, which is why they make great friends.
You are a lively, down-to-earth person who strives for harmony and someone who loves to feel accepted.
Green is typically associated with health and balance and those who love it as a color are highly intelligent and perfectionists.
You have a very special and unique connection to nature and love being outdoors, and at the same time, you strive for balance and avoid chaos at all cost.
You have a great knack for seeing the big picture and understanding multiple perspectives and points of view. Others admire your clarity and your ability to see the big picture.
Green is the color associated with prosperity and financial success.
Grey is often associated with calmness, reliability, and practicality. It can also indicate a tendency to avoid extremes, opting instead for moderation and thoughtfulness.
Those loving the grey color the most opt for minimalism and value depth and nuance over flashy or bold choices.
People drawn to grey may have a calm and composed demeanor, preferring to stay grounded rather than be swayed by intense emotions, appreciating stability and consistency and avoiding the chaos of extremes in favor of a more balanced approach to life.
With their wives away, Mario Garcia and his son-in-law, Nivardo De La Torre, decided to spend some time scouting fishing spots in Indiana. What they looked forward to was a day of fun, but they ended up saving a man’s life when they stumbled upon his wrecked vehicle beneath an Interstate 94 bridge in the city of Portage. At first, they were convinced the man was dead because of the severity of his injuries, but they soon realized he was still alive despite the mangled wreckage.
Authorities believe the man, who was later identified as 27-year-old Matthew R. Reum, lost control of his vehicle while traveling westbound on Interstate 94, causing the car to veer off the road, miss a guardrail, and go airborne before landing in the creek.
The vehicle rolled over multiple times and ended up hidden from the interstate, which likely played a role in the delay of his rescue.
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Reum, who was disoriented and unable to recall how long he had been trapped, was airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Rescuers from local fire departments faced significant challenges reaching the crash site due to its remote location along Salt Creek, which is surrounded by moving water and requires a hike to access.
“His vehicle missed that guardrail, so he’s driving on the grass shoulder before he goes airborne,” Sgt. Glen Fifield, a spokesperson for the Indiana State Police, said. “His vehicle goes down into the creek, where he rolls several times. It rolled underneath the bridge.”
“You could barely tell what it was,” Garcia said. “It was mangled completely.”
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By the time Garcia and Delatorre found him, Reum “had almost lost all hope because nobody was there,” Garcia said the driver told him.
“He was alive and he was very happy to see us,” Garcia added. “I’ve never seen relief like that.”
The mild weather, with temperatures reaching the high 50s, helped make the discovery possible and probably contributed to Reum’s survival.
“Quite frankly, it’s a miracle that he’s alive in this weather. We’ve been lucky enough during this Christmas season – our temperatures, as you know, are above normal,” Fifield said. “So that was working in this individual’s favor.”
State police said, “The will to survive this crash was nothing short of extraordinary as it was also determined that Mr. Reum was able to drink rain water for hydration in order to survive for such a long period of time while being exposed to the elements.”
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Making the decision to move places, especially to another country, isn’t an easy one, especially if you are a member of the British royalty and all eyes are on you.
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they were stepping down from their royal duties, it came as a shock to many. The public was eager to see what their next move would be and how the rest of the royals would react to the decision that placed the family under the spotlight more than ever in recent years.
Eventually, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex settled in sunny California. They started several business ventures, including deals with Netflix and Spotify worth millions, Harry’s book Spare, which caused a lot of stir and burned some bridges with his family along the way, and most recently, Meghan’s brand American Riviera Orchid.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – OCTOBER 02: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend a Creative Industries and Business Reception on October 02, 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Since they moved to the States, the lives of the Sussexes have been different compared to the lives they had in Britain.
Their initial motive for the drastic change to leave Harry’s homeland was to avoid the scrutiny from the media, and that’s one thing they have achieved since they are not followed by paparazzi as they once were. Meghan was also able to give birth to her second child, daughter Lilibet, in private, without having to follow royal traditions and protocols which come with the act of giving birth to a royal baby.
Harry and Meghan have tried to make their way into Hollywood’s celebrity society, according to people close to the couple, but that didn’t go as smoothly as planned allegedly.
Hollywood insider, broadcaster, comedian, and actor Tim Dillon said on the “They Come and Go” episode of his podcast, The Tim Dillon Show, last summer, as per the Daily Mail, “I know people in LA that know them, and all they want to do is hang out with celebrities. I was at a celebrity party the other night talking to somebody about this, and they go, ‘These people are just… it’s constant with them.’”
He then added: “She was texting the person I was with there – and, ‘no, you can’t come’. I shouldn’t have even been there. But the point is they just won’t stop, these two. They are just like moths to the flame trying to hang out… They’re like low-grade reality stars that are trying to attach to anything.”
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This wasn’t the first form of criticism from Dillon about the Sussexes. Back in September 2021, he tweeted: “Harry and Meghan are such a gift to this country. Thank GOD for them. They make everything OK. Just because they’re here. They’re helping people by being on NETFLIX! This was such a happenstance thing, not at all a plan they had. I love when good things just happen. There IS hope!”
Allegedly, text messages Meghan had sent to some of her friends showed she was practically begging them to hang out. “She is trying to get places. It’s sad. A lot of it isn’t working, and they are rolling their eyes to me, and they’re going LOL, and we are all having a good laugh about this because they’re just a bunch of goons, and no one cares,” Dillon said, and then added: “Now listen, at the end of the day, I respect the hustle, I get what she’s trying to do, I get what they are trying to do, but it didn’t work, right? A lot of people at this party were like, ‘Hey man, you know, we text her back, we tried to be nice, she’s the Duchess, but we’ve had enough, we’ve had enough of her.”
DUBBO, AUSTRALIA – OCTOBER 17: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visit a local farming family, the Woodleys, on October 17, 2018 in Dubbo, Australia. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on their official 16-day Autumn tour visiting cities in Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand. (Photo by Chris Jackson – Pool/Getty Images)
Following the news that Meghan is set to launch a new podcast with Lemonada Media, which has been pushed back to next year, an insider spoke of her as of a “greedy” person.
“She wants everything all at once, and it’s backfiring on her again. She’s become a total joke and is overplaying her hand,” the insider stated, as reported by the NY Post. “That clearly didn’t go down well with Lemonada. They surely expected to be Meghan’s priority project, but she must have decided she had bigger fish to fry with Netflix. Almost everything they’ve tried has ended in disaster.”
Another person close to the couple told In Touch that the Duchess has now lost all respect among Hollywood A-list stars.
“Hollywood is glam and glitz on the outside, but the real stars have worked hard for their success — and you get the impression hard work isn’t really Meghan’s thing,” the source said. “Now, after all her failures, those A-listers — and the royals — are laughing at her!”
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When it comes to Harry and how he spends his time in the States when he’s not with his family not much is known. He has been spotted playing polo with some friends, but those who know him are convinced he missed his army and college friends dearly, royal author Tom Quinn writes.
The thing is they don’t visit him in the States and Harry has no permanent place to stay in Britain ever since he and Meghan were evicted from Frogmore Castle.
Back in the day, while they were still living in Britain, Harry and Meghan renovated the royal estate to the tune of around $3 million. Later, when they stepped down from their royal duties, they agreed to return the money to the taxpayers.
Following the numerous accusations against the royals in Spare, King Charles decided to evict his son and daughter-in-law from the royal estate and let his brother, Prince Andrew, use it as his home. The Sussexes weren’t at all happy about this decision.
“Harry and Meghan have until early summer to vacate,” a source told Omar Scobie, reporting for Yahoo, at the time. “Initially, they were given just weeks, but now they have at least until after the coronation.
“It all feels very final and like a cruel punishment,” a friend of Harry and Meghan’s added. “It’s like [the family] wants to cut them out of the picture for good.”
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“For King Charles, forcing (Prince) Andrew to move to Frogmore solves several problems at once – it sends a message to Harry that, as a private citizen and no longer a working royal, he will never be allowed back to Frogmore,” Quinn told the Mirror.
“It sends [a] message to Andrew that having disgraced himself, he can no longer expect to live in the grand style. And, finally, it means that a suitably grand residence can be made ready for the royals who really matter – William and Kate. Charles is determined that Royal Lodge is the only residence on the royal estate at Windsor that is big enough and regal enough for his heir.”
Having said this, Harry is now looking for a permanent “home” in the UK.
“As time goes by, Harry misses some aspects of his old life in the UK. Inevitably, the honeymoon period where everything in the States is new and exciting is coming to an end and Harry is looking back at the past through rose-tinted spectacles,” Quinn claimed.
The royal author added: “He misses his Old Etonian and army friends, many of whom have not visited as they don’t get on with Meghan. Harry is determined to find his own permanent home in the UK, which is partly why he’s continuing his legal action to get the British taxpayer to pay for his security.”
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According to royal expert Jennie Bond, Meghan Markle is unsettled by the fact that Harry is dwelling on what might have been instead of focusing on the present.
“If Meghan is encouraging Harry to leave the past behind and move on, then I think it is a healthy move. They have made their decision, left the working royal family and left the UK,” Bond said.
“He says he now regards the USA as home — at least for the time being,” the expert continued. “Brooding on the perceived injustices of the past and re-living old quarrels is a waste of a life, and I think Meghan sees that.”
According to the expert, it is easier for the Duchess to look forward to the future and not turn behind because her history with the royals isn’t as long and as strong as that of her husband.
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“It’s easy for her to look forward…ensconced as she is in a country and lifestyle she is so used to and clearly loves. But Harry has said he wants to be reunited with his family…so he is obviously going to think about what has happened and how they have come to this state of affairs,” Bond said.
“And that’s probably quite frustrating for Meghan…who seems to be at ease with estrangement from her own family. I don’t think Harry spends ‘all’ his time looking back….but the Harry I knew as a young boy was someone who enjoyed fooling around with his family and having fun with them.”
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Growing up, Prince William and Prince Harry were extremely close. Besides being brothers, they were also friends, and the same goes for Harry and Kate Middleton.
However, this relationship and the strong bond no one ever believed could be broken was affected after Harry tied the knot with former Suits actress Meghan Markle.
It isn’t a secret that Meghan and Kate didn’t get along, at least according to the media and various reports.
“Meghan would agree with the assessment that the duchesses were not the best of friends,” authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand claim in their book Finding Freedom. “Their relationship hadn’t progressed much since [Markle] was Harry’s girlfriend.”
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According to them, Kate wasn’t welcoming and didn’t take Meghan under her wing as most people expected. Out of everyone in the family, she knew best what it was like to be getting inside the Firm as a ‘newcomer.’
“Meghan was disappointed that she and Kate hadn’t bonded over the position they shared, but she wasn’t losing sleep over it,” Durand and Scobie wrote, adding that “Meghan would far rather have had Kate check in on her during the most difficult times with the press.”
Kate and Harry have been another story. Just how close the two were speaks the fact that he had a special nickname for her.
Ok Magazinewrote how the prince called his sister-in-law “Cath.”
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During an interview with BBC Radio 1, the host asked Kate: “Is this a thing just in the family?” referring to what Harry calls her. “Yeah, I’m not sure,” the Duchess answered. “I’m not that familiar with it I have to say, but I’ll answer to most things to be honest.”
Kate Middleton and Prince Harry first met in 2003 at Highgrove. The Duke of Sussex was around when his brother, Prince William, invited Kate Middleton to meet his father at Prince Charles’s family house.
“I actually went bright red when I met [him] and scuttled off feeling very shy about meeting [him],” Kate admitted, adding, “William wasn’t there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn’t there from Fresher’s Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other, but we did become very close friends from quite early on.”
According to royal author Christopher Andersen, when Harry and Kate first met and she looked away for a moment, he said, “Oh my God, she is gorgeous!”
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Truth is that Prince Harry and Kate Middleton got along from the start. A University friend of Prince William and Kate, Jules Knight, said: ”Kate and Harry got on like they’d known each other forever.” She added that two shared a playful bond. “They were always full of fun when they were together. They were joking around all the time – always trying to find ways to make each other laugh,” Knight said.
During their younger days, when William and Kate took some time off and he reportedly dated other women, among which Becca Craig whom he met during a trip to Kenya. However, it was Harry as well as Prince Charles who insisted William not to give Becca any false expectations and get together with Kate.
Having said that, despite the feuds and the rocky relationship between William and Harry, Kate wishes the two brothers make amends.
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According to royal expert and author Christopher Andersen, Kate could be a pivotal figure in facilitating a reconciliation between Prince Harry and Prince William.
One major hurdle that could stand in the Princess of Wales’ way is her own husband.
“Kate was close to Harry, true,” Christopher Andersen shared with Fox. “They had a special bond. They shared the same goofy sense of humor and laughed at the same jokes. Harry often said Kate was the sister he never had. Of course, Kate would like nothing better than to have the brothers kiss and make up. It would be one less cloud hanging over the royal family’s head.”
He continued: “But above all else, Kate is loyal to her husband. She understands completely why William is still fuming. Kate is not about to pressure William while he has so much on his plate, notably her cancer and the king’s cancer battle as well.”
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Although it’s been almost four years since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex left Britain, rumors surrounding the reasons behind that decision that affected their relationship with the rest of the members of the Firm remain hot topic.
One of the reasons, and probably the biggest one, was their desire to run away from the British press and the pressure the media had placed on Meghan. Prince Harry wanted to avoid his darling wife being under constant scrutiny by the media as his late mother was. According to him, he didn’t want the history to repeat itself. However, contrary to their wish to stay out of the spotlight, both Harry and Meghan enjoyed the media exposure in the States, giving interviews, publishing a book, and even taking on tours that resemble official royal engagements.
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Hurry’s all-tell memoir Spare has revealed a lot about the British royalty. One of the most explosive claims revealed in it, whose title allegedly comes from Harry’s “spare” role as the second son of the King or the fact that he has been “spared” from his family, is the heated argument between the brothers over Meghan Markle.
According to Harry, his brother reportedly labeled Meghan “difficult,” “rude,” and “abrasive.”
Harry explained how William went to Nottingham Cottage, then Harry and Meghan’s home on Kensington Palace grounds in London, in order to discuss “‘the whole rolling catastrophe’ of their relationship and struggles with the press.”
However, the conversation turned into a heated argument.
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When they announced what was referred to as Megxit, things between Harry and Meghan and the rest of the royals turned heated. But now it seems that the decision to departure from Harry’s family wasn’t an easy one.
Harry and Meghan said they had decided “after many months of reflection and internal discussions.”
“We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen,” the statement read.
The couple added that they planned to spend time both in the UK as well as North America while “continuing to honor our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages.”
“This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity,” the couple said.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – OCTOBER 02: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend a Creative Industries and Business Reception on October 02, 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Speaking of how the family received the news, Harry said they were outraged and William began “screaming and shouting” at him during the meeting with then-Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II to outline how he and Meghan were stepping down from their working roles.
“I went in with the same proposal that we’d already made publicly but once I got there I was given five options. One being all-in, no change. Five being all out. I chose option three in the meeting. Half in, half out. Have our own jobs but also work in support of the queen. But it became very clear very quickly, that goal was not up for discussion or debate,” Harry said.
Another reason for Harry and Meghan’s departure from Harry’s homeland was the speech delivered by late Queen Elizabeth in 2019.
When the Queen addressed the nation during the speech in question, there were plenty of photos of each member of the family in the background, but not Meghan’s or Harry’s. This was interpreted by many as a sign that the Sussexes weren’t considered a fundamental part of the family. At the time, the couple had already started transitioning to a non-royal life. But ‘photo-gate’, as it was dubbed in a number of tabloids, was the final nail in the coffin.
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Royal expert and author Andrew Morton wrote in his 2018 book Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, that there was yet another photograph that added to the suspicion that the royals didn’t want them near.
The photograph in question, taken in 2016, showed Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince William, and Prince George. Two years later, another photograph of the four was taken and Harry and Meghan saw it as a sign that the Royal Family was “conspiring against them.”
“The royal couple suspected that the entire institution was conspiring against them. As they saw it, the evidence was all around them. The unspoken code was straightforward: the future of the monarchy was assured, with or without Meghan and Harry,” Morton wrote, as per Express.
The decision to step down from their royal duties made the Queen sad.
“It was a source of sadness to the Queen that she got to see so little of Archie and Lilibet and that Harry and Meghan were not able to join her for a weekend at Balmoral in August when the Queen used to host a ‘sleepover’ for all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” royal expert Katie Nicholl wrote in The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown.
Hopefully, despite everything that has happened throughout the last four years, the royals would be able to make amends.
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Richard “Kinky” Friedman, the provocative and flamboyant Texas satirist, singer, humorist, columnist, and all-around provocateur, has died at the age of 79.
Known for his boundary-pushing music with his band The Texas Jewboys, his deep love for animals, and his spirited campaign for governor in 2006, Kinky Friedman left an indelible mark on Texas culture and politics.
“Kinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill surrounded by family & friends,” a post on his social media read. “Kinkster endured tremendous pain & unthinkable loss in recent years but he never lost his fighting spirit and quick wit. Kinky will live on as his books are read and his songs are sung.”
The self-proclaimed “governor of the heart of Texas,” renowned for his eccentric and unique take on country and Western music, released a series of albums starting with the influential Sold American in 1973. He toured with Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue and was notable as the “first full-blooded Jew” to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.
Originally hailing from Chicago, Friedman moved to Texas with his family during his childhood and grew up in a ranching community near Kerrville.
During his college years, he immersed himself in the folk music scene, drawing inspiration from country, blues, and Jewish cultural themes to form the band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys in the early 1970s. The band gained fame for its satirical and often provocative humor, with tracks like They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore and Asshole from El Paso known for their biting satire and social commentary.
Throughout his music career, he released a total of 18 albums, with his most recent one, Circus of Life, released in 2018.
Besides being a famous musician, Friedman also pursued a writing career. Seeing himself as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, he offered his readers journeys to New York City fictionalizing versions of himself and incorporating lyrics from his songs into his stories.
From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a regular column for Texas Monthly, which he paused during his 2006 gubernatorial run. His column was later reinstated on a bi-monthly basis, reflecting his enduring passion for storytelling and humor.
Friedman’s inspirational work in the world of music and literature will continue to live on through his songs and books. He truly was one of a kind, may he rest in peace.
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