You are hereUpdate: Leslie's NOT ok, though he did bike from Florida to Texas a decade and a half back...
Update: Leslie's NOT ok, though he did bike from Florida to Texas a decade and a half back...
Update 2.0: I just heard from someone else that knows an ER doctor, and they're saying that Leslie suffered a stroke and is in a vegetative state. Damn, that sucks. I'm hoping for the best, but it sounds pretty dire.
Update: Sounds like Leslie's ok, as he's been out at ACL doing his thing all weekend:
At ACL, Leslie commented on my girlfriends breasts with "Niiiiiice."
Which is more believable? Leslie partying like a rockstar at ACL, or Leslie riding his bike from Florida to Austin?
Thanks for setting the record straight Mike.
Derek, our favorite cycling rock and roller, JUST sent me the following blurb about Leslie Cochran, EVERYBODY'S favorite local cross-dresser possibly being injured while riding from Florida to Texas:
I just saw this on the chat at myfoxaustin live page:
"RJW: I got a call this morning from a social worker that Leslie Cochran was critically injured in a fall sustaining a head injury,last night and may not make it,my wife and I have known Leslie for over 15 years and he has kept in touch off and on since he left Melbourne Fl on his bicycle heading for Texas
He will be missed..."haven't found anything else about it. derek
Now I'm not sure if this was bicycle related, but apparently Leslie was riding from Florida to Texas via bicycle, and he sustained a head injury in a fall. As the source of this information is the local Faux News chatroom (I can only imagine what that must be like), I really hope it's completely spurious and Leslie is happily pedalling his way towards the Lone Star State. Keep your fingers crossed and if you hear anything else about this, please let me know.
that Leslie has died... it's already on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cochran
... trust Wikipedia when it says something like that and no other sources do. It may be true ... or it may just be a rumor that somebody put there.
And it looks like it's not even there anymore.
Time will tell.
Though I must admit ... the secrecy is very strange, how everything is all hush-hush, and it's taking a long time for the news to get out. It took a long time for people to confirm that he was there, so perhaps it'll take a long time to confirm any changes in his condition.
This makes it sounds like the fall happened here in Austin. It'll be sad, not being able to have a leslie sighting around town.
If he goes, I propose a memorial ride.
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/Leslie_collapses_near_taxi
we are just as The New Yorker said!!
I saw him last night and he was fine. This must have happnrd today?!
Jessica
bike nerd fo' life, yo