By far the funniest thing I've read in the Chronicle in a long time - far better than Mark Morford - is Dan Fost's review of Lou Reed's show at the Web 2.0 Summit. Just on the face of it, Lou Reed at Web 2.0 is wrong, wrong, wrong.

This intuitive truth was made manifest when the geeks and suits in attendance kept talking through the beginning of his set. Spake Lou:

You got 20 minutes. You wanna talk through it, you can talk through it. I can turn the sound louder and really hurt you. Frank, turn it up.

Enter Tim O'Reilly to save the day.

O'Reilly, who was said to have the flu and who generally looked exhausted roaming the Sheraton Palace halls, started dancing feverishly through the audience. A woman joined him. And gradually, people got out of their seats and pushed toward the stage.

Lou was obviously impressed with the reaction. How else to explain this heartfelt bit of stage chat?

He had been introduced by AOL Chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller, who said Reed had connected him with his Kung Fu teacher. Miller called Reed "my senior Kung Fu brother."

Now he said to the crowd (which was, by the way, typically tech in its preponderance of men; Six Apart's Mena Trott guessed the male:female ratio to be 20:1) - "Just let me know, I'm here to serve. It's the moment I've been living for my whole life. I was on St. Mark's Place and I thought, someday there'll be a cyberspace, and an Internet, and I'll be introduced by my Kung Fu brother Jon Miller.

Oh, Marc Canter makes an appearance, too - in typical fashion.