Tex - friend of yours?

[Chicago Jake]

Leslie Cochran, Austin's icon of weird, dies
Self-styled, free spirit left mark on capital city

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Albert Leslie Cochran, the thong-wearing street person who became the living embodiment of the city's "Keep Austin Weird" slogan, died Thursday morning after more than two years of declining health.

He was 60.

Cochran had been hospitalized since Feb. 16 and in hospice care for the past week. Friends said he had never fully recovered from a head injury from the fall he suffered in October 2009.

"Leslie lived outside the box," said friend Christine Ann, a South Austin merchant. "He exemplified that, but also spoke ... passionately that we not take ourselves too seriously. And Leslie, of course, never did."

www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/austin/leslie-austins-icon-of-weird-dies

[Ardbeg... innit]

I might have taken her out on a date in my youth... either that or I paid $300 for an hour of sex... cant remember which.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

At 3AM in the hot tub at Hedo, that beard could *easily* appear to be something else altogether.

[Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III]

Nice tits!

[Tex]

I have spoken with Leslie and he was a pice of work. RIP.

[New Mama]

Wondering if he went to his maker in that tiara.

[Tex]

Leslie was the town character and that's saying a lot in Austin. When high school kids from the sticks would visit Austin, likely the first or second question their friends asked when they got home was if they saw Leslie.

Leslie was mugged two or three years ago and took a nasty blow to the head. Seton, the big Catholic hospital here, took him in and gave him the best of care for months, but he was never the same. Leslie could be a pesky bastard, but he was well liked.