RIP Lou Reed

LR with his wife Laurie, one of the coolest chicks ever and their dog!

OK so I lied. I saw several posts on Facebook that Lou Reed had died. I had to come out of blog-hiding for a brief moment and post my condolences to America and the world.

Vince and I loved Lou Reed. We saw him a zillion times - in concert, crashing Bowie's concerts, in conversation at the Tribeca Film Festival when Julian Schnabel's rockumentary of LR's concert of Berlin debuted there, in the audience at a Laurie Anderson performance, on the streets of New York, etc, etc ....
 

our Lou Reed

Lou Reed was one of the four coolest dudes who ever walked the earth. We loved him so much in fact that we named one of our dogs after him. (Our other dog is named Serge Gainsbourg after another cool dude, and if we had a third dog he would have been named Dean Martin. We could not name a dog after Jesus.)

Thank goodness our Lou Reed is still at the kennel in Joburg awaiting our return to Africa. At least he will be shielded from the news until we can break it to him gently. He loved LR too.

Rest in Peace, Lou Reed!