Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

A Short Interlude

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There’s just so much of you.

“Don’t use me as filler.”

What?

“I heard what you said to Josh.”

How?

“Don’t worry about it. I am, you know: a Grateful goddamned Dead. I’m not the chimp act that gets trotted out between sets.”

Mr. Jiggs?

“Yeah. Good guy, Jiggs. Still alive.”

He did that show with you 40 years ago. How is that possible?

“Medical miracle. Well, actually, a veterinary miracle. We still keep in touch.”

Yeah?

“Billy adopted him.”

Adopted?

“‘Kidnapped’ would be the more correct word, I suppose. ‘Stole,’ maybe. He sat in for Drums a couple of times.”

How’d that go?

“Poorly. Y’see, Mickey–”

Dosed Mr. Jiggs.

“–dosed Mr. Jiggs, and it turns out chimps don’t handle acid nearly as well as horses do.”

Mickey should stop giving animals LSD.

“Leopard can’t change its spots.”

“Unless, you know: Mickey gives it enough acid.”

There ya go.

14 Comments

  1. ChadB

    Definitely Just for Men. Those little sideburns are GREY. Those wool socks will be bunched up in the toe of his shoes before long.

    • tim lexvold

      Not so sure, lots of men go grey in the temple area before the rest of the coif.

      • tim lexvold

        plus why not Just for Men the sideburns if you are doing the rest of the mop…Clyde Frazier and Keith Hernandez recommend the same.

        yes, I am a Bobby apologist.

    • tim lexvold

      Agreed about the wool socks though.

  2. Tor Haxson

    On a related note, a deadhead befriended Noam Chimsky.

    KoKo was just in the news, lives in Mountain View, someone famous visited him.

  3. Spencer

    What is that blue thing beside the red cup?

    • Spencer

      What the heck is the furry thing creeping out of Bobby’s right elbow?

      • Luther Von Baconson

        Tribble

    • Luther Von Baconson

      it is one of those Personal Motorized Fans, Dead obsession with silly gadgetry, like Jerry’s smokeless ashtray. white bit is the rotating blades. too small for an Air Horn.

    • Tor Haxson

      The blue thing is a little disposable flashlight that you could get at convenience stores around that time.

      • Tor Haxson

        ..

        • Luther Von Baconson

          good get

        • Spencer

          Nailed it!

        • Thoughts On The Dead

          Those things were the absolute worst. Weak yellow light for ten minutes.

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