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To Richard Young, the creator and webmaster of mystupidmouth.com, the longest running JM fan-centric message board,

Happy Birthday, my friend. Allow me to both embarrass you and explain to the public at large as to why you're the topic of this blog.


In about the year 2000, (that's the past, you know,) Richard Young started a web site called mystupidmouth.com. He designed it to be a forum for fans to discuss all the goings on of a young upstart named John Mayer. (That's a fancy third-person way of saying ME.) Users could share pictures, links, concert reviews, musical esoterica, and anything JM related. It began as a way for Richard to spread the word about my music and allow other burgeoning listeners to communicate with one another.

Then something interesting happened; People started to know who I was as a function of common knowledge. In fact, as time went on, this knowledge became increasingly more common, sometimes dispensed by way of mass media, day-glo headlined supermarket checkout line messaging. Did Richard Young decide that his work was done?

Nope. Richard Young kept mystupidmouth.com going, all the while stressing the focus of the music over the lifestyle pieces. He still does to this day. I can't fathom why someone with as much energy and enthusiasm as Richard would continue to moderate his message board, but I think it has something to do with faith; ultimate faith that the 30 year old semi-household name he first saw as a lanky 22 year old nobody in an Atlanta folk club still has a story to tell.

So when Richard e-mailed me the bar he'd be at celebrating his 28th birthday, I had to drop by.

And Richard - when you wake up tomorrow morning and take a look at this picture of us and wish to yourself there was a better representation of how you really appear,

now you know what it feels like.

Cheers,

JM





POSTED BY JOHN MAYER AT 12:59 AM FROM NY/NY