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At Least He Isn't Throwing The Stick

mickey terrible shirt“Who thinks I look like a schmuck? You? You do? Okay, that’s one. Only one person–oh, you do? And you? All those folks over there? And…you know what? Why don’t we do it this way: whoever doesn’t think I look like a schmuck, raise your hands.

…

“I’m not seeing a lot of hands.”

Mickey?

“Where are all the hands? Oh, hey. No one likes my shirt.”

It’s a bit much.

“How so?”

Well, you don’t need to put tie-dye and the peace symbol. It’s redundant; each implies the other.

…

“I just wanted to take everyone to the gun show.”

You did, Mickey. And now, just like at the actual gun show, things are sad and scary.

Good Eye, Bad Shirt

TotD must admit to a prejudice, Enthusiasts.

Just the one?

I do occasionally take you for granted, lump you in with the proletariat, make you clasp a swishy tail ‘twixt your nethers and ride you round the room like a pretty pony.

Please get to the point. Or any point, really. Just stop being weird at the people you’re trying to compliment.

Commentator and useless Scrabble rack WWWTFJWWD tosses over the transom a pic that I believe has appeared here before, appended with some sort of quip about T-Shirt Tuesday, probably.

billy mickey matchingshirts

But: WWTJDWDWJ has applied a true Enthusiast’s eye to this pic and asked a question that comes so often to the true Enthusiast’s lips: Mickey, what the fuck are you wearing?

Did someone draw that? Was it Taro? It wasn’t an adult. Did Billy get his shirt inside the show, but you wanted to save a couple bucks, so you got yours from a guy selling them out of a shopping cart in the parking lot?

Mickey’s shirt looks like someone described Billy’s shirt over the phone. And that’s not a skeleton with a crown of roses. It’s ol’ Bonebeard the Pirate King. The background isn’t even solid blue, just some scribbling that clearly ended with someone saying “Eh, blue enough.”

And the collar’s all fucked up.

The shame is: his hair game is on fleek.

Tall Glass Of Milk, Short Glass Of Mick

Jerry Garcia 70th Birthday Celebration at AT&T Park in San Francisco on August 1, 2012

“So, Bobby mentioned something about you and him and milking, but he didn’t get into specifics.”

“Bobby’s a big picture thinker.”

“Milking.”

“Right, Mick.”

“You go to a farm? Bobby lives on a mountain.”

“Huh? What?”

“Nothing to milk on a mountain.”

“Plenty to milk on a mountain.”

“Such as?”

“I dunno. Mountain goats. Mountain lions. Mountain Girl.”

“None of those things lives on Mt. Tamalpais. Plus, I dare you to try milking two of those things.”

“It was just some guys milking, Mick. Having fun and milking.”

“What?”

“You know: let’s milk! And everyone’s there, or just the two of you, and it just kinda happens and then there’s milking.”

“Bill, I need you to tell me in plain language what you think ‘milking’ means.”

…

“Did you rape Bobby?”

“I should text him and see if we’re cool.”

Mickey Tried

29e8b906-b887-3c42-b050-2d469335e852“Coach Wooden taught me everything I know about milking. It begins with properly lacing up your boots, because otherwise you were gonna get poo on your foot. Doesn’t matter what you’re milking: it’s just interlaced with poo.”

“He’s talking about that coach of his again.”

“Joan, you’re here because you’re Mickey’s plus one: don’t talk shit about our friends.”

ps For as bad as Joan Baez sucks (really bad,) she is one fine-looking old lady. If Mickey didn’t follow her into the bathroom while dropping his pants, I’m disappointed in him. (Billy might have, but he does that all that time.)

Billy Pilgrim

 

bb6c38bf-71e6-3f29-9d65-9bb4091b1357“Ah, fuck, Bill: think. Think. Shouldn’t have eaten that second handful of shrooms.

“No. NO. Fuck that fuckin’ noise, Billy: you’re Billy. You’re Uncle fucking Billy, Billy the K, Billy the Drummer, the dickpunchingest sonuva bitch ever lived and: okay, you’re in front of a room full of people in a brand-new tie with…someone…next to you wearing sunglasses indoors and pontificating about the Berber people and their castanets, but you’ve been in worse spots.

“Remember ‘Nam? The dying boys and the smell of the napalm and all the screams? And then you left the airport.

“It was during the hiatus and you had mouths to feed and when Bob Hope needed a drummer for his USO bullshit, you took the gig. The heat would have killed a lesser man, with fewer Hawaiian shirts.

“You soldiered on. Remember the sketches? Bob would dress up like a hippie and everyone would boo and then you would miss your cue because you were stuffing heroin into corpses getting shipped home.

“You soldiered on.

“And you can make it through this, Bill. When whatshisface finally shuts up, just be polite and thank everyone. Tell ’em you’re honored and get the fuck off the stage and figure out what’s going on.

“He’s wrapping it up. Here ya go, buddy. Don’t let me down.”

…

“Okay, Bill. Why did you feel the need to mention the Jews running show business?”

Where The Meet Hits The Street

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“Bob?”

“Sure, Bruce?”

“Did you invite all these people to join the Dead?”

“Sure did, Bruce.”

“And did you bring Vince here with the Time Sheath technology?”

“Uh-huh.”

“And Phil is where?”

“It’s raining, and he didn’t want to get the Ferrari wet. I’m sure one of these folks plays bass.”

…

“Bruce?”

“Yeah, Bob?”

“Um…you know about Time Sheath technology?”

“Dude, the first week I was in the band, you shanghaied me back to the 20’s to double-team Amelia Earhart.”

“Now I remember. She was a fun gal.”

“Yeah.”

…

“Does Billy look like a founding father?”

“Yes, he does.”

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