You guys remember Johnnie Jay don’t you? No?? Well lemme tell ‘ya…Johnnie’s dad was a big time attorney. His local claim to fame was presenting a case and making oral arguments before the US Supreme Court — and not very persuasively as it turns out. In fact they were totally shot to smithereens and his case went down in flames in a 9-0 unanimous decision against his client! When his missus got preggers he had his heart set on a boy he could name John after his hero John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers. But he lost that case too when out popped out a she instead of a he! And so it was that later that night, somewhere on the maternity floor of St. Mary’s hospital, John became Johnnie!
I met her at school and for some reason I started calling her Johnnie Jetson, which later morphed into JJ the Princess of duh-duh-Dunedin. But today’s she’s just good ‘ol JJ. On the left is a picture of the lovely JJ back in her pageant days. I think you’ll agree she cut quite a figure.
Through the years she’s also been known as:
Miss Congeniality Johnnie, Pinot Noir JJ, Coxswain Johnnie, and now for 2018 you can add to that list...[drumroll] ...Gone but not Forgotten Johnnie!
Apparently, she didn’t appreciate the sublime convenience of our relationship-by-reservation, or maybe it was my tagging every text message with #lockherup, or then again, maybe it was my new Zoso tat that sent her running. Whatever! I’m sure she and her new fella, Erv are oh so very happy together. (Erv. Seriously!? LOL 😂😂)
So I’m dealing with all that drama - to say nothing of the fact that now I’ve got two tickets to Mama Mia that I’ll be lucky to scalp for face value! Maybe Erv (😂) will buy them off me!
Feeling just plain low down, I packed up my trusty six string, found a bench just off Silver Spring Dr. and began to play my Martin.
I was lucky enough to have a passerby record a snippet of me playing Johnnie's favorite song...an original number I wrote: Why You No Like My Pony? Enjoy!
