I am so sorry say this, but yes this one time you are not right my dearest and wisest Madame... Kathy is not a leech. She a very very kind and wonderful woman, with plenty of accomplishments of her own. I have even seen her with Daniel and it's obvious, she fluffs him too.

I was surprised at the first sentence of that article. Damn! What a way to start... it's definitely not the most well written or sensitive piece.

Kathy and Daniel were rumored to be an item back in their respective Austin hey days, mid to late 1980's or so. For certain, Kathy knew Daniel pretty well.

I never discussed this relationship with Daniel, however. One, I didn't know Kathy other than having seen her band, and two, it was not my business.

Daniel had a big crush on my girl friend at the time, who was a clerk at the record store that first started selling his tapes. That is how I knew him. So I did not discuss his personal life with him whenever I saw him, because I did not want to embarass him as the guy who stole the girl he had a crush on.

I mostly just remember him cracking lots of jokes and talking about music and the Beatles.

Kathy was in a band of her own, Glass Eye, a band I admired at the time. Now she occasionally writes for the Austin Chron and I don't know what else.

The Chron is not known for quality writing. There are some exceptions, but by and large it seems to exercise no editorial quality control. And zero fact checking.

Take anything you read in it with a huge dose of salt.

As for Kathy, I don't know her personally but I have never heard anyone speak poorly of her.