I've been researching the article a bit (and by the way, I've decided to go ahead and stick your name in as it turns out these go online, so that should end up being at least a top twenty Google return for "lou reese") and talking to this gay guy about Oak Lawn, and it occurs to me that when Deep Ellum gets its anchors down next year to the point where people will start walking the sidewalks again, you should start, if not an outright gay bar, at least a club/restaurant that would appeal to the gay sensibility. Not sure if you've been to Oak Lawn lately but it's still the same crap and frankly not worthy of the city's better gays, which is why more of them are hanging around that West Village area lately. I bet that if you were to start up a gay-oriented venue of that sort and make sure to supervise the implementation (aesthetics, music) rather than leave it to these podunk club designer schmucks, you could break off a huge portion of the gay market (particularly since I can promote any such thing both covertly and directly). Seriously, Oak Lawn is just shit, and a lot of the gays are just waiting to jump ship. Probably wouldn't be as profitable as other things you're doing but might make a great centerpiece of any major Deep Ellum venture you end up undertaking in the next couple of years; I think you ran a club on Greenville way back in the day, didn't you?

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
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