The one about when Janis Joplin vomited in my Taxi Cab

Hi there again. It has been a long while since before, and I am sorry. It is just that I have been very not well for a little while. My body is falling apart, but my mind is as fresh as a mint julep at a picture show. Also, going to the pictures is too expensive now. It used to cost nothing, a nickel maybe. Now, going to the pictures, it costs more than I made in two years at my first job in 1874.

But in 1970, on August 14 I am thinking, I was in Port Arthur Texas, and I was driving a taxi cab there because I had run over an Irish policeman in New York City, so I had to leave there for a little while.

So I am driving this taxi-cab, and this crazy looking shiksa lady waves to me, and she gets in, and her name is Janis Joplin. She says she is scared for going to her high school reunion or something. People, she said, made fun of her. To be fully honest with you, I probably would have made fun of her too. She was crazy looking, with colored hair and glasses and so much jewelry the Queen of England would be put to shame, only it looked very cheap, and I know cheap.

But she was nervous and she threw up in my car because I think she was drunk this Janis lady. She made a great mess of my car, but she said she was sorry.

Seven years earlier, nearby in Dallas Texas, John F. Kennedy made a great mess in a car, but he did not apologize for it.

Thank you,
-Morty Horowitz