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Billy’s Back, And There’s Gonna Be Trouble

“Thoughts on my Ass!”

Hey, Billy.

“Summer!”

You look happy.

“Course. Looking at the kid.”

Oh, that’s nice. You two have developed a friendship.

“Nah, fuck that. Every time I see him, I get an enormous check.”

Right.

“And usually a tugger. Not from him, but once from him. Didn’t like it. Kid’s got some paws on him. Made my drumstick look like a chopstick.”

I’m so glad tour has started.

“Here’s some advice: if you wanna think your cock is huge, get a midget to stroke you off.”

Can we talk about anything else?

“We’ve talked about money and skank. What else is there?”

Music?

“Hold on.”

THUMP-THWACK

“Okay. What?”

What was that?

“We’re in the middle of a song.”

I don’t get it.

“Tempos are so slow that I only have to hit my drums, like, once every 20 seconds.”

Ah.

“Sometimes I run down to the casino between beats and make a bet or two.”

What game do you play?

“No game. The bet is how long I can wander around with my dick out before security tosses me.”

Do you win?

“Of course. Everyone has to look at my dick. That’s a solid victory.”

Nice to have you back, Billy.

“Yeah, I’m the shit.”

The Return Of Josh Meyers

Ah, Christ.

“Heeeey, buddy.”

Summer kinda snuck up on me. Thought I had at least another Mayer-free month.

“Nah. I’m in the house. Summer of Douche!”

Fuck.

“You have no idea how many celebrity friends I’m gonna take selfies with, and the ridiculous interviews I’m gonna do, and OH MY GOD am I gonna Snapchat the fuck out of this tour. Got my outfits lined up. You and me, buddy.”

CELL PHONE NOISE

“I hate you.”

Yeah, yeah.

“John Mayer here.”

“I got celebrity friend, too, Hot Dog Dick.”

“Fuck.”

“Obama.”

“That is not President Obama.”

“You no recognize because he wear sunglasses. Is Obama.”

“I don’t want to go through another summer of this, and quite frankly I don’t think the readers want to, either.”

“Why you not in Jewish propaganda?”

“What?”

“Movie. Very long. Band plays song for hours and do drugs and die. You in band. Why you not in Jewish movie?”

“I think you’re talking about Long Strange Trip, and I also think I’m just going to ignore this entire line of inquiry.”

“Was good movie for Jewish movie.”

“Please stop.”

“Hot Dog Dick getting wrinkles in forehead.”

“I could pass for 36.”

“Oh, nooooo. White people show age. Is like white car. See dirt faster.”

“I’m gonna hang up on you.”

“Is okay. I got Obama now.”

“Not Obama.”

“We have all summer.”

“Motherfucker.”

DIAL TONE NOISE EVEN THOUGH PHONES NO LONGER DO THAT

“What did I ever do to you?”

Besides the video with the pandas?

“Besides that.”

I’ll think of something. We got all summer, pretty boy.

“Fuuuuuuck.”

Jealous Again

“Looky there, man. Little Josh suckin’ off the Dead nipple some more.”

Chris Robinson?

“Heeeey, brother.”

Don’t call me brother. I know how you treat your brother.

“It’s just shit, man. Legacy acts playing their old hits. Just sad, man.”

Sure. What are you doing this week?

“Playing a show from ’77 with Phil.”

Uh-huh.

“Where’s his beard?”

Who?

“Josh.”

Don’t call him that. Only me and Bobby and everybody else gets to call him that.

“Still: where’s his beard?”

I don’t think he has a girlfriend at the moment.

“You think this is what Jerry would have wanted?”

He’s dead. He doesn’t get a vote, except maybe in Chicago.

“Whatever, man. Just sad Play your own songs!”

You’re very hard to handle, Chris Robinson.

“You suck, too.”

Nice of you to stop by. Call first next time.

Ain’t Nobody In The Bed But You

What?

“Hello. I’m Paul Stanley, and this is my bedroom.”

Okay.

“How about I play you an acoustic version of Tears Are Fallin’?”

Nuh-uh.

“Kick off your shoes, and come on up. Lotta room.”

No, thank you.

“Have you eaten?”

What the fuck are you doing here?

“Carved out some quality time for you.”

Why?

“We’ve grown apart. Come up on the bed.”

Stop this, Paul Stanley.

“Such a big bed. Room for all sorts of things.”

I don’t understand what’s happening.

“I’ve joined Dead & Company.”

You haven’t.

“Sure. Me and Robby–”

Bobby.

“–were talking and we decided that our fanbases overlap so much that it’s a no-brainer.”

Your fanbases do not overlap.

“What about you?”

I’m an outlier.

“Come lie on the bed.”

This is odd.

“It’s happening.”

Which part? Where you join the Dead or where you molest me?

“Both.”

Neither.

“Half has already come true. Josh is here.”

What?

Is that still your bedroom?

“I have a very fancy bedroom.”

Wow. Is that Kevin Bacon?

“I have very fancy friends.”

Wow. John?

“Yeah? Oh, hey.”

What happened to Barbra?

“Cheating on her.”

Sure. Is Paul Stanley in Dead & Company?”

“Yeah.”

Did you set this all up just to be in a storyline?

“I really felt like you didn’t give my album enough attention.”

DIAL TONE NOISE EVEN THOUGH NO ONE WAS ON THE PHONE

“Hello?

“Yo?”

“I didn’t know he could leave.”

A Panda All Seasons

Are you still doing this?

“I heard you got my song in your head.”

Not talking to you, John.

“I hate this site.”

I am nicer to you than any other site on the internet that’s not a John Mayer fan page.

“Yeah, okay.”

Now, shh. Hey, Brent.

“Hey, man. How’m I doing?”

Good?

“Yeah?”

You are dancing just like a panda. Hey, did you see that your daughter made her debut performance the other night?

“Of course I saw. I was there.”

Dammit, Brent.

“No one noticed me. I was in a Gruff the Crime Dog costume.”

Yeah, no one noticed you.

“What else could I do?”

Shave your beard. Literally no one on the planet would recognize you without your beard.

“I can’t.”

It’ll grow back.

“No, I can’t. There’s nothing under there. The entire lower half of my face is made of beard. It would be like sweeping a dirt floor.”

How would you know you were done?

“Exactly.”

What about a fake beard over your beard?

“That’s just silly.”

Right. Whereas wearing mascot costumes is serious business.

“In the Furry community it is.”

Don’t talk to me about that nonsense.

“You’re a bigot.”

Fine.

“Y’know, us Osaphiles get enough bullshit, and I won’t take it.”

Osaphile?

“Fur-lover.”

Don’t bring Greek into your perversions.

“Hey, fuck you, man!”

Where you going?

“I’m going to ruin a stranger’s day!”

Don’t do that, Brent.

 

Why did you do that, Brent?

“I don’t get any respect at all around here!”

That’s not true, buddy.

“You treat me like a joke!”

I do not.

“YOU MAKE ME SO MAD!”

Let it out, buddy.

Still Feel Like Your Keyboardist

What are you doing?

“Oh, hey. This is the video for my new single Still Feel Like–”

Not you.

“What?”

I’m not talking to you.

“Who are you talking to, then?’

Brent!

“Hey, buddy.”

I am NOT kidding any more. I’m taking that damn Time Sheath away from all of you.

“No one knows it’s me!”

Not the point. I’m not judging you for being a Furry, man, but do it in the 80’s. Stop wandering around the 21st century in mascot costumes.

“There are no Furries in the 80’s except for the Phillie Phanatic and the San Diego Chicken, and neither of them are talking to me.”

Why not?

“I fuck too hard.”

Oh, God, that was the worst sentence I’ve ever heard.

“Well, I didn’t want to lie. Hey, man. You think John likes me?”

I think he shouldn’t know you.

“It’s just that the other panda has been here a while, and I don’t know if I’m fitting in.”

You need to work on this self-esteem thing, buddy. You’re a great panda.

“Thanks, man. You wanna hear a song?”

No. But that doesn’t mean you’re not a great panda.

“So, John likes what I’m doing?”

Have you talked to him?

“Yeah. I said ‘Hi,’ and then he told me how he flies in his lettuce from Romania. For, like, a half-hour.”

He does that.

 

(With thanks to Cascadia’s champion, Mr. Completely, for recognizing Brent.)

An Alternative Notion For John Mayer

Dear John,

Hi. How are you? I’m fine. I went to a baseball game the other day. Do you like baseball? Further pleasantries.

John, I noticed you did an interview with the New York Times recently with the writer Joe Coscarelli; do you think it went well? I can never tell with these things, and I certainly can’t discern intent from the excerpts he posted the next day of quotes cherry-picked to make you look like an asshole. On the other hand, you are like a goddamned cherry farm, John Mayer. Everywhere you look, there are cherries of various ridiculousness.

I’m the only one who’s gonna tell you the truth, John: you’re never getting another fair shake from a reporter, at least not one who works for a respectable organization. Every single longform, glossy-paged article about you for the rest of your career will be: A, rehashing of past dumb shit you’ve said; B, them letting you ramble on in hopes that you’ll say new dumb shit.

And you’re gonna say dumb shit:

What the fuck is wrong with you? Stop talking about “exclusive dating apps” to writers from Brooklyn, because it makes them hate you. “Coscarelli.” Probably an anarchist, and you’re whipping your gold-plated dick out at him and then you wonder why the Times ran a hit piece on you.

WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS? You’re talking to a reporter. He probably has to sell his own blood to afford drinks, and you’re bragging about how much you spend on Japanese trousers. AND WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NEED JAPANESE TROUSERS, JACKASS? Something so wrong with you, man.

Here is my offer:

I notice that you will be appearing in South Florida this summer. (Summer is the best time to visit. If you don’t visit in the summer, then it’s not 102 degrees with swarms of flying cockroaches dive bombing you.) I will come to your concert and teach you how to behave during interviews; I will train up a Rock Star. These services will be free, but I have many demands.

  • Tickets. (Obviously.)
  • Parking. (Also obviously.)
  • Full and unfettered access to catering.
  • Merch yoinking privileges.
  • You will be called Josh.
  • I don’t know if you do any Dead songs in your solo shows, but if you do Playing in the Band, I must be allowed to perform the Donna Wail.

I await your reply. In the meantime, speak with no members of the media except Gans or Lambert.

Sincerely,
Thoughts on the Dead

John’s Advertising Love (Not For Free)

Instead of calling them personally and giving me the money, John Mayer took out a full-page ad in Billboard the other day to thank the Grateful Dead. It was a sweet gesture, even though the colon after the first two lines technically makes this a business letter. As you know, TotD has eyes everywhere and the Haight Street Irregulars have sent me the first draft of the ad, which was much more verbose.

I share it with you now:

To the band who touched me in so many ways, including ways specifically forbidden by the contract,
and for their music that I solo over

Congratulations on the 50th anniversary of your debut album, which I have not listened to. Is it the one with an ugly cover where you sound like a crappy surf band? Yeah, I have not listened to that one.

Bobby, your leadership and friendship have meant so much to me. We have rocked baseball stadiums together, and attended your family functions together for some reason. I’ll always remember that show in Denver when, in the middle of China>Rider, you walked over to me and said, “Tell me the bass player’s name again.” Such good memories.

Billy, I know you do not read Billboard, so I have also run this ad in Juggs. You have taught me so much about life and music. And, of course, skank. As a Grammy-winning musician, I thought I knew the ins-and-outs of road strange, but you became my sensei of the sensual. You also stopped Mickey from hurling his drumsticks at my head that time.

Mickey, you only hurled your drumsticks at my head one time. Thank you for that.

The other guys. Wow, I don’t know the protocol on including the other guys. Big ups to Jerry Garcia, I guess. Phil, thanks for not talking shit about Dead & Company to Relix. Makes things easier. Looking at you, dead keyboardists.

Here’s to 50 more years, even though that would require massive medical, technological, and societal changes to actually happen.

Forever Grateful,
John Mayer (Josh Meyers)

Dessert

Is there doobie in that cookie?

“Well, uh, we’re in California. There’s doobie in everything now.”

“Shampoo.”

Amazing.

“I saw something, you know, just amazing at the Erotiquarium the other day.”

The Erotiquarium?

“They sell goldfish and dildos.”

Sure.

“Edible underwear edibles.”

I can’t even begin to comprehend what that is.

“Like regular edible underwear, but infused with pure THC extract. It’s a better idea than you think.”

How so?

“Well, you know: you eat the underwear, get high, and then you get hungry again and you eat what’s under the underwear. Works out pretty well for everyone involved.”

Ew.

“I’m gonna agree with the weirdo, Bob. Ew.”

Thanks, Phil.

“Kiss my ass.”

Can we get back to the storyline, please?

“It’s cookie time, man.”

Have you heard from John?

“He’s more than capable of handling some sorority girls.”

One of whom is your daughter.

“I’ll give him a call right now.”

Sure.

CELL PHONE NOISE

“Mayer.”

“Oh, sorry. I was looking for Josh Mey–”

“It’s me, Bob. Josh Meyers. Where are you?”

“I’m sitting right next to you, you son of a bitch.”

“JESUS! Where the fuck did you come from?”

“San Rafael.”

“No, I mean–”

“Don’t worry about that. You stay away from Lisa-Marie.”

“Your daughter’s name is Monet, Bob.”

“Her, too.”

“You’re a nice kid, Josh, but you’re just too old for her. There’s something just not right about a rock star in his very late 30’s going after teenagers.”

“Really?’

“I’m warning you, Meyers.”

“Bob, I’m not interested in any of the girls here.”

“What about that one there?”

“I’d ruin that shit.”

“You been drinking?”

“Yup. Bobby, why is this picture so shitty and we’re circled?”

“He ran out of good photos.”

“Huh.”

“Hey, where’s Putin?”

“In all likelihood, he’s headed towards Terrapin Crossroads by sea.”

“That sounds like him. I should warn Phil.”

APPLE WATCH NOISE

“Terrapin Crossroads, try the pot roast.”

“Phil?”

“Bob? Where the hell did you go?”

“You wouldn’t understand. You don’t have daughters.”

“Bob, I wrote a song about the relationship between fathers and daughters. Maybe we could play it this summer.”

“I’m already kinda pissed at you.”

“Sorry.”

“May I continue my phone call on my watch?”

“Sure.”

“Thank you. Hey, Phil.”

“Baby Levon does that to me. Whenever I get on the phone, he’s gotta talk to me.”

“Kids.”

“Kids.”

“Yeah, so, uh: Putin’s coming to your place.”

“How so?”

“By sea.”

“That sounds like him. I’ll alert the busboys.”

“Okee-doke.”

“No, wait. I see the little bastard coming out of the canal.”

“Hey! Get out of here, Putin!”

“Putin occupy. Terrapin Crossroads historically part of Russia.”

“We don’t even serve borscht!”

“You will learn to cook. Putin teach.”

“Absolutely not.”

“Putin make changes to restaurant. Install carving station.”

“Carving station? We’re not at a Bar Mitzvah in Syosset.”

“You are Bar Mitzvah in Syosset.”

“That doesn’t even make sense, jackass.”

“Under vetsuit is tuxedo.”

“No, there isn’t.”

“Putin, Vladimir Putin.”

“Seriously, man: fuck off.”

“Vhy you not book Autograph?”

“Who?”

“Autograph. Is rock band. Rock very hard.”

“Never heard of–”

“HERE AH AM T’ SAVE TH’ DAY!”

“Thank God! It’s Elvis!”

“THASS TH’ RIGHT EMOTION YER FEELIN’ THERE, OL’ BASS PLAYER FELLA. AH AM TH’ HERO O’ TH’ COMIC BOOK AN’ ALSO AH AM A SEA CAPT’N, AN’ ALSO MAH GLORIOUS HAIR IS DOIN’ SOME KINDA CRAZY WING THING. ISS A TRIP, MAN!”

“And you have a very nautical scarf.”

“GOOD EYE, BOY! YOU NEVER GONNA GUESS WHO BROUGHT IT T’ ME!”

“Charlie Hodge?”

“MAN, YER SMART.”

“Elvis, listen: it’s Trivia Night and I can’t have Putin invading my restaurant. Anything you can do?”

“Elvis America can do nothing to Putin. Putin is vinner. Elvis is los–”

thwip

“Putin should have gotten on land before taunting man vith blowdar–”

glug glug glug

BLOOP

“OKAY, AH KILLED HIM.”

“Thanks.”

“LEMME ASK YOU SOMETHING, BOY. THAT RESTAURANT O’ YER’S GOT A KITCHEN?”

“Obviously.”

“THEN YOU MAY FEED YER KING.”

“Come on in.”

“AH WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN TRIVIA NIGHT.”

“Cool.”

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