Hey, Jeff Chimenti. Whatcha doing?
“Sitting peacefully with my hair.”
It’s lovely.
“It is.”
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“Dammit, not you.”
–Chimenti. Whatcha doing?
“I told you I don’t like participating in your little skits.”
Aw, man. I’m such a fan.
“Yeah, maybe, but: who cares? This is weird. You’re weird. I don’t wanna time travel and I don’t wanna go on adventures and I don’t wanna talk to friggin’ demons or whatever.”
Abandoned Gods.
“I said ‘whatever.’ I just wanna smoke doobies and play with my organ.”
…
“You’re a child.”
…
“Stop laughing.”
The Dead or What’s Left of ‘Em have hit Colorado, where marijuana is legal. If I were Colorado, I would be fighting as hard as possible to keep marijuana illegal everywhere else so I could be the Vegas of doobies. Instead of casinos and drinks, there would be comfortable chairs and plentiful appetizers and jam bands every night.
Assorted notes:
You’re wearing Dead shirts now, too, Jeff Chimenti?
“Oh, c’mon. I told you I don’t want to be part of this.”
Jeff Chimenti, you need to show everyone your power.
“Is that one of your weird euphemisms?”
No.
“Really?”
A little, maybe.
“Please stop involving me in your nonsense.”
John Mayer is taking too many solos and you are not taking enough.
…
Can you not say anything out loud, but you totally agree?
…
Oh my God: is Irving Azoff in the room? If Irving Azoff is in the room and you’re not free to speak, but you know you should ripping shit up and showing the East Coast the awesome power of a fully operational Jeff Chimenti, then continue to have majestic hair the color of a magical suit of armor.
…
I KNEW IT.
“May I go?”
You may.
Mickey just posted this a few hours ago, and if you view it alongside the other ads for Dead & Company, one thing is clear: Jeff Chimenti and Oteil have been pan-and-scanned out of the publicity. Oteil is now officially Ernie Hudson in the television version of Ghostbusters: you can hear the black guy, but you can’t see him.
“I’m in Time-Out.”
Well, you wanted to be Al Capone.
“Al Capone? I was smoking a joint in a Toyota!”
Don’t rationalize your anti-social ways.
“I’m not a criminal.”
What about the counterfeiting?
…
“Okay, that’s a crime, yeah.”
They take that one real serious, too.
“A government that sees any humor in faking its currency is not a government for very long.”
True dat, Jeff Chimenti.
…
Can you get out of there?
“No.”
Why don’t you crawl under the piano?
“Mickey put his duffel bag full of raccoons there.”
Oh, I haven’t seen those critters in a while. How are they?
“Rabid, vicious, smart, strong, and many.”
Yeah, that’s them.
Really?
“FATHER, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?”
Over-dramatic at best.
“I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!”
That has nothing to do with anything.
“I just like that movie so much. Flawed, but illuminating.”
Why are you screaming to the heavens?
“I’m just so upset!”
About what?
“About what!? The criminality! The besmirchment of the Chimenti name! The fucking marihuana, man. It was all you could talk about yesterday.”
…
Yesterday.
“Fuck you, jack.”
Oh, go shoot up your pot.
“Oh, hey, Jeff. Didn’t see you there.”
“We’ve been talking for ten minutes, Bobby.”
“We’re gonna agree to disagree. Also, we have to let you go.”
“Okay…what?”
“It’s just bad timing, man. You could’ve gotten away with it when we were Furthur or The Dead or any other of those last times we toured. But now we’re Dead & Company.”
“Which means?”
“If you’re gonna call yourself ‘& Company’ then you have to act professional, don’t you?”
“Bobby, stop this.”
…
“How the hell do you get arrested for weed in 2015?”
“I can’t help it if I’m lucky.”
“Sure. Anyway, I’m sorry, pal: we cleared out your office and threw all your stuff away.”
“But…”
“Don’t make this harder than it is. Also: do you know any piano players? We just lost ours.”
“Aw, man. How’d you get here? It’s 1996.”
Everything happens simultaneously.
“Right. I guess.”
You look like a Mexican woman.
“I have a goatee.”
I stand by my statement.
“Did you chase me back to the Clinton years just to make fun of me?”
No, no: I’ve decided this Ray Spain is a bad influence on you and that’s gonna be it for that relationship, okay?
“Jay Lane.”
Whatever.
“I’ve known the guy forever.”
Billy’s known he has herpes forever. Doesn’t make it right.
“Jay’s a good guy. You wanna meet him.”
Yeah, I’ll give him a piece of my mind. Where is he?
“He’s in the yellow shirt.”
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