Lou Reed Loves Totonno's

Reaching in to the Slice mailbag, we've got ...

Hey, Adam!
I was a royal escort at Saturday's Mermaid Parade on Coney Island, where the king and queen were Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson (omg!). Lou didn't get as into the costumed spirit as some of us—I was a BP pirate, complete with oil-slicked bird on my shoulder—but he WAS wearing a Totonno's hat, and that's pretty damn Coney of him.

Attached is a pic of me with Lou and Laurie, doing my best "arrrrrrrrrrrr" (but instead freaking out in a total fangirl moment). And if you look here, in the first shot in this slideshow he graciously doffs his Totonno's cap to the crowd.

Happy solstice, Leah T.

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