Good Evening………..yes evening………..it’s 11:05 pm and my wife is watching Sex and the City episodes while her and the Thingy munch on bagels and peanut butter…….at 11:05pm. So rather than watch her munch and while she watches the one that looks like a boiled spaniel try on another pair of Jimmy Poo shoes ……..I thought I would say a quick hello………………….oh God…………I hate this show. She made me watch the movie and now she is starting again on series 1.
As I write one of the “girls” has entered a New York discotheque…….. sorry ….it’s a clothes store while the blonde one is making friends with a sailor or seven.
Well, what can I tell you at this late hour?………………Well, apparently I seem to have deleted some of Monday’s blog before I sent it to Stephanie.
This is the bit that is missing
“You need only look at the number of people in lonely-hearts columns who neither drink nor smoke to know I’m right. If they did, they’d have a partner.”
These are the words of Mick Jagger today on the BBC website and Mick …………you are talking crap, mate. I don’t drink or smoke cigarettes………and if I didn’t have the beautiful Heidi by my side I am confident that if I was to apply to a Lonely Hearts Club then I would find someone………….OK………..she may be as ugly as construction workers bottom crack …………..but she would be mine ………. even if I didn’t get drunk every night.
That comment from Mick Jagger really got me mad……………..why do people think just because you don’t drink that you are as boring as a Latin lesson?
I mean……….are these rock stars an example.
Phil Lynott, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham, Jim Morrison, Marc Bolan, Eddie Cochran, Brian Epstein, Duane Allman, most of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cozy Powell, Alex Harvey, Ricky Nelson, Pete Ham and Tom Evans from Badfinger, Tim Hardin, Steely Dan’s drummer, Bon Scott from AC/DC, half of the Grateful Dead, Chas Chandler, Johnny Kidd, Rory Gallagher, James Honeyman Scott and Pete Farndon from the Pretenders, , Elvis, Patsy Cline, Brian Jones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Terry Kath from Chicago, and Sid Vicious. Even the Carpenters weren’t a safe haven.
Of the 321 well-known musicians who died prematurely in the glory days of rock ‘n roll, 40 were taken by drugs, 36 by suicide and a whopping 22 by plane or helicopter crashes. Thirty-five died in cars, 18 were murdered, nine drowned in their own vomit and five in their own swimming pools. Picking up a guitar seems to be more dangerous than wearing the red shirt in Star Trek.
Well, they may have all loved to drink Mr. Jagger and they might have been fun while they were totally smashed………but they are all dead now………..and that’s as boring as it gets.
Anyway, I have no idea where that bit went. It’s on the saved version but didn’t make it to Stephanie’s computer. Maybe a bit of Heidi’s bagel and peanut butter got stuck in the keyboard.
I’m going to bed now which is where the girls from Sex and the City seem to be spending most of their time………especially the blonde one who apparently only wears underwear to keep her ankles warm.
Goodnight
Your friends
John and Heidi and The Thingy
Filed under: Tales from the Ship
Good save, John!
Terri
John, please reply. Some time back on the blog I read about a must-do Vatican shore excursion. I have just booked the transatlantic for November 2009 and want to know if it is possible to schedule an early arrival and tour the Vatican. When I booked the cruise (with air) I was told that I would arrive and embark on the same day. This may be the only time I ever get to Rome so I want to be certain to take the tour that you recommended. Which tour is the best and how many days ahead of the cruise would we need to schedule?
As always, thanks for all you do. Shirley
I also want to let you know that on this cruise my sister will be joining me for her first cruise. That makes a total of twelve people that I have introduced to cruising since my first cruise in 2003 (this will be my 11th). My cruising circle keeps getting bigger and bigger and all of them love it just like I promised they would.
I’m glad it was Mick Jagger and not you. Wrong piece of the blog to be missing. For the first time I was mad(dissapointed) with you friend to be sincere. I been hearing that a lot lately from my friends at school who insist that I have a drink. But I’m more stubborn than they are, I don’t need a drink.
Glad to see that John, like others, I was a bit perplexed by “your” comment, and am glad to see that the impression given yesterday is the complete opposite of the truth.
I thought it was funnier when it was you!
Jeff
Excellent!! I was a tad mystified by the break in the blog. Now I know!!
Host Mach
Don’t need a drink either, as Nanni said! My HIGH is life, not alcohol, or cigarettes for that matter! Glad you clarified that statement John, a most important part of your blog missing! UGH! Linda
Actually, John, I thought you were being facetious! (Don’t know whether that’s spelled correctly.) Certainly didn’t believe you were serious.
Love your descriptions of SJP from Sex and the City. Scott makes similar comments everytime she’s on the screen in anything. I think she’s “interesting looking” and a very good actress, but can understand a guy’s point of view.
Are you getting all sad and mopey as the time to leave the ship nears? Or are you totally stoked looking forward to all the “new” stuff you’ll be doing? I’m really looking forward to hearing all about your adventures…wherever they may take you!
Your Pal, Myra
Hi John/Heidi:
What a sad list of statistics. Some of the greatest musicians of our time taken away from us much too soon.
Thanks for making sure this gets posted.
Thanks!
David
Ahhh the critical minutiae of the blog continuity …… I thought hmmmmm goody two shoes = nix rumpy-pumpy…… interesting notion but then the world population should be much much less……
Mark
Hey john,
Stevie Ray, Greatful dead, Jimi Hendrix, steley dan, Acdc, alman brothers, Steley Dan, Beatles, Led-zepplin, Yes,the who, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, BB king, Jeff Beck, Rolling stones, Tomm Petty, U2, Bruce spring steen, Queen, Kiss, The police, Dire straits, John Mayel, Blind Faith, Derek and the dominoes, Crosby still & nash, Cream, Black sabbath, Albert king, Peter Frampton, Pink Floyed, jim weider, And joe cocker are all my favorites
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John -
Please post as a reply to Shirley:
Shirley -
There is one, and only one tour to take of the Vatican – that tour is the Exclusive Tour of the Vatican.
The tour is expensive, but worth every lira you pay. After a morning touring Rome with your own guide (we had four on the tour), you are taken to the Vatican where you are met by a guide who has worked for the Vatican since the time of Pope Leo X (1513-1521), or at least it seems that way.
Your guide will take you places in the Vatican that the general tours do not go – visit the Pope’s garage and see the popemobiles. Visit the gold collection. Stand in less famous chapels.
Should you wish a recollection of the tour, visit http://musingsofjustjon.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/inside-the-vatican/ where you will find three blogs with pictures of the Vatican museum.
Take the tour and enjoy.
I now return you to the other John
Jon (spelled correctly)
Dear John:
(Please Reply):
I had written to you on Facebook about not being able any longer to post on this blog. You helped me to fix the problem. I have recently sent 4 messages on this blog thingy and have gotten as far as “it is being sent to moderation.” So far I think I’m making progress.
I do know how many subscribers you have on your blog thingy and that you can’t possibly include everyone’s missive each and every day. I would be very happy just to know that I am not dealing with some sort of computer “glitch,” and I remain . . .
Your most computer-illiterate friend -
Joko Joan