John Mayer is back in the news in a big way. While I won’t say why I personally think we’re hearing more about John right now, I will say that I’m slightly pleased with the return of John Mayer and his general smug douchiness. I almost missed him. He’s a lot of fun to mock. For those of you who think that I and others like me just don’t get the joke, bless your hearts. I get the “joke”. I just think the Mayer himself is the bigger joke.

The first piece of Mayer news is his boys-only 32nd birthday party with Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff. Chuckle. Can you imagine what that was like? I can almost smell the stench of Axe body spray permeating throughout the club, the image is so vivid.

JOHN Mayer made his 32nd birthday a guys’ night. The singer, who’s had a string of high-profile gals, was joined by pals Jeremy Piven, “SNL” star Seth Meyers and Stephen Dorff at 1Oak. “Women kept trying to get close to John, but his buddies had him cornered and made it impossible for them to contact him,” says a spy. Mayer did, however, share his cake with model Paige Butcher, who was also celebrating her b’day at the club. Noticeably absent was Mayer’s ex, Jennifer Aniston, with whom he’s reportedly remained friends.

[From Page Six]

Uh, I hope Seth Meyers isn’t really friends with those guys. Please, please, please. Anyway, John Mayer also gave an interview to MTV recently, and of course he had to pontificate on all of the hot-button topics in the news. The conversation came around to Miley Cyrus and her recent withdrawal from Twitter. Of course, John had a lot to say about that:

If anyone could be the male counterpart to Miley Cyrus when it comes to epic tweeting, it has to be John Mayer. The dude loves to tweet. And tweet. And Tweet. But he totally understands why Miley made the decision to leave the site. And, he supports her choice, even if he wouldn’t make the same one.

“I think she’s smart enough to realize there is some interference of the brain that she doesn’t want to deal with. Artists have enough to deal with,” John told MTV News’ Tim Kash.

“She’s a child, she’s a fantastic artist — I think there’s enough mental real estate being taken up by dealing with all of that stuff. … For whatever reason, I am old enough and smart enough to tell someone to go f— themselves if they tell me to go f— myself. I think if you’re in Miley’s situation, it might take a little too much time to play goalie for your own heart and mind. So I totally get it.”

He went to say that Miley had to leave Twitter because people were using her thought for their own fodder, so it makes sense she should decide to leave.

“So nobody hates Miley Cyrus; they’re just picking up on her brand, repurposing it, to try to make a little bit of Miley cash,” he explained. “It’s damaging people’s minds. Imagine Shannon Doherty with a Twitter account, back in the ‘90210’ days. That would’ve just flat-out killed her.”

Would he do it though? “I would rather tell the world to eat my a–hole before I would delete my Twitter account,” he joked. OK then!

[From MTV]

Huh. I get that John’s trying to defend Miley and her decision and give her props for being a “fantastic artist”. And I do think it’s nice of him to get her back like that, considering her father won’t even do that. But the douchiness returns when he talks about his own feelings about Twitter. At least he’s self-aware, I guess. He never wants to quit Twitter because how else would he intellectually masturbate?