A Legend, for Better or Worse, Lost.
Jul. 29th, 2007 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redneckgaijinTo the outside world, he was best known as the former deputy sheriff and consumer advocate whose crusade against the Chicken Ranch in La Grange, TX inspired "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
To Houstonians, he's better known for his crusade against another form of filth- "SLIME! In the Ice Machine!"
For over thirty years he continued his consumer advocacy, balancing his crusade against restaurants that failed health inspections with honest efforts to help individuals caught in the gears of the uncaring bureaucracy. His final act: to nudge the Social Security Administration into giving a SS number to a man born in Los Angeles- an American citizen- stuck in Mexico City for years because he didn't have an SS number.
His many plastic surgeries and wigs made him look ridiculous.
His melodramatic delivery made him an eminently quotable laughingstock.
His willingness to roll with the joke and even play to his kitsch image made him lovable.
His final stand against cancer made him heroic.
Throughout his life he fought for what he thought was best for the people- sometimes working against freedom, sometimes working for it.
Marvin Zindler died today, but the slime in the ice machine lives on.
To Houstonians, he's better known for his crusade against another form of filth- "SLIME! In the Ice Machine!"
For over thirty years he continued his consumer advocacy, balancing his crusade against restaurants that failed health inspections with honest efforts to help individuals caught in the gears of the uncaring bureaucracy. His final act: to nudge the Social Security Administration into giving a SS number to a man born in Los Angeles- an American citizen- stuck in Mexico City for years because he didn't have an SS number.
His many plastic surgeries and wigs made him look ridiculous.
His melodramatic delivery made him an eminently quotable laughingstock.
His willingness to roll with the joke and even play to his kitsch image made him lovable.
His final stand against cancer made him heroic.
Throughout his life he fought for what he thought was best for the people- sometimes working against freedom, sometimes working for it.
Marvin Zindler died today, but the slime in the ice machine lives on.
