It's just before 8pm on a Saturday night in January, and Richard "Kinky" Friedman is nervous. So he says, although you wouldn't guess it just by looking at him. Waiting in the green room of San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium for his five minutes of stage time, Friedman looks much the same as he does, say, hanging out on a sun-burnished afternoon at his family's Echo Hill Ranch, south of Kerrville, in the stunning, rolling Hill Country.
Friedman's campaign will be covered in a reality-TV series, "Go Kinky," the pilots for which debut on CMT this weekend. Funny, there's no mention of it on the splash page of the CMT website.
(By the way, this is the first of five Friday posts today. I'm trying to make up for some blog slacking of late.)