John and Jennifer weren’t introduced by Sheryl Crow, have supposedly been seeing each other for weeks
In case you were wondering how John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston hooked up, it wasn’t through mutual friend Sheryl Crow as a lot of us were speculating. People Magazine reports in their print edition that they met at the pre-Oscar party of CAA agent Brian Lourd and were “first introduced… by a staffer at the talent agency, where both are clients.”

People also quotes a source as saying “They’ve been seeing each other for weeks now. It’s very real.”

Jennifer e-mailed John an invitation to join her in Miami
And US Weekly claims to have the inside information on how their Miami jaunt was set up. Aniston is said to have sent a sweet e-mail to Mayer telling him to come meet her for a few days r&r. US claims that they’ve been e-mailing for a while, but maintains that the weekend in Miami was their first real hookup.

Jennifer Aniston invited her e-mail buddy John Mayer to Miami, where she’s been shooting Marley & Me. “She told him it was beautiful down there,” says a friend of the rock star, “and she had a few days off from filming, so the time was right.”

So on April 23, the pair - who a source says have been e-mailing since a chance encounter six months ago - took their cyberflirting to person-to-person passion…

The two are said to have spent five days together in Miami, including a grocery shopping trip that had them looking surprisingly domestic as Mayer packed bags into their car. They are even said to have had a couples’ massage on Saturday at their suite at the Conrad Miami, where they moved after first staying in Aniston’s suite at the Mandarin Oriental. Aniston is said to have arranged for the massage.

Of course a lot of people are skeptical if their relationship is even real. MSat wrote an article in which she said she didn’t believe it “for a millisecond”

To me it looks like they are together and that they just threw caution to the wind and had a great romantic weekend. As for whether it will last, I would guess that it depends on how patient Aniston is and if Mayer can keep his libido in check. According to a source quoted in In Touch, Mayer predictably did most of the talking on their intimate lunch date. You can imagine that would get old fast, but Mayer also has a reputation as a player and he might skip out before he can become truly annoying.

Maybe I’ve been doing this too long- but I don’t believe for a millisecond that the so-called romance between singer/amateur douchebag John Mayer and actress/professional victim Jennifer Aniston is the real deal. Maybe it’s because it came completely out of nowhere, while both of them were linked to at least one other person, and the usually private Aniston is suddenly being photographed with Mayer all over the frickin’ place. It’s so completely out of character for a woman who doesn’t even walk to her car after leaving a restaurant with friends without her bag in front of her face to hide from the paps. Anyway, everyone is talking about this “relationship,” so, mission accomplished, guys.

Although they’ve kept their relationship quiet, In Touch has learned that John Mayer is crazy about Jennifer Aniston. He flew to Miami on April 23 and checked into the Four Seasons hotel, but insiders say that he spent virtually no time there during his visit — opting instead to hang out in the $3,000-a-night presidential suite at the Mandarin Oriental, where Jen has been staying while shooting the movie Marley & Me. And the two were inseparable over the long weekend. When asked how he was doing, after spending four days with his new love, John smiled. “My weekend was good,” he told In Touch exclusively.

[From In Touch]

After a long weekend of lounging and laughing in Miami, Jennifer Aniston stayed behind to film her movie while John Mayer returned to New York.

“They already miss each other,” says a source close to Mayer.

Adds another source, also close to the singer: “It’s very real. They’ve been seeing each other for a few weeks now.”

Aniston, 39, and Mayer, 30, were first seen together publicly last Friday when they had an intimate lunch at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in the Miami Design District. Later in the day, the two were seen at Casa Tua on South Beach.

Aniston remained in Florida to shoot Marley & Me with Owen Wilson, hanging around a hotel with her gal pals. Mayer went home to New York, hitting the club Butter with buddy Josh Groban on Monday, then joining a friend for a meal at Il Mulina on Tuesday.

[From People]

Ooh - he told In Touch exclusively that his weekend was good — it MUST be love! Whatever. Sorry, People; not buying it. John has a proven history of putting his skeezy moves on young, ditzy starlets- what could he possibly have to offer a strong, smart, more famous woman like Aniston? Even in those supposedly hot photos of them on the beach, she looks incredibly bored. I see zero chemistry. Here’s my theory: Jen and John (ugh, that sounds way too cute) are working on a project together - maybe his next crappy music video or something. I think the “sources” in the article were actually referring to Mayer and Josh Groban missing each other. Because that makes more sense to me. Also, Josh Groban’s music sucks even more than John Mayer’s.

John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston were spotted out together a third time after having apparently having lunch and dinner and spending the night together at Aniston’s hotel on Friday in South Beach, Miami. OK! Magazine reports that they were seen having dinner on Sunday, so maybe we can assume that they spent the weekend together and that those are the times they were seen out.

OK! also says that “friends” of Mayer’s are warning Aniston that he is a charmer who hits it and quits it, and that she should watch out for herself, because he has a history of making girls swoon over him and then pulling away. He is said to have been relentless in pursuing Jessica Simpson, but to have quickly grown tired of her:

But the 39-year-old actress may want to be cautious about this potential beau. Friends of the 30-year-old Grammy-winner say he has a long track record for leaving women heartbroken. “Girls fall for him hard because he’s charming,” one friend tells OK!, “but he has a reputation for crushing the girls he’s with.”

Jessica Simpson and actresses Minka Kelly and Jennifer Love Hewitt are just a few women who have been wooed by John.

“He came on so strong at first,” a pal of Jessica reveals to OK!. “He wanted to be with her every moment. When he wasn’t physically with her, he was texting her — but all of a sudden, he got bored and stopped returning her calls.”

[From OK! Magazine]

John Mayer is arguably attractive. He’s not my type, but a lot of women like the dark brooding type and he’s certainly a talented musician. What I want to know is how anyone can stand being around him for an extended period of time. He seems like such a self-absorbed talker that he would bug the shit out of even the most patient women. Still, Mayer must have something that these beautiful successful women find attractive.

In an excruciatingly long interview with Best Life Magazine, Mayer revealed that he worries about what the girl of his dreams “thinks when she reads about me in US Weekly.” Jennifer Aniston also has a whole public persona invented and perpetuated by the tabloids, and they must be able to relate to each other incredibly well on that issue. Perhaps Mayer is a better listener than you would assume, and it’s possible Aniston is willing to listen to him ad nauseum, because they have a lot in common. Maybe they’ll find some solace in each other and last as a couple. You can sort of see them working despite Mayer’s history.

Jennifer Aniston is shown in a new ad for Smartwater, thanks to Splash. John Mayer is shown at Scleroderma Research Foundation’s Cool Comedy event on 4/16/08, thanks to WENN.

Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer enjoyed a Friday late afternoon lunch date together. The meal then led to a dinner date later the same night. Translation: they hooked up.

“Jennifer Aniston had a late private lunch with musician John Mayer in a Miami restaurant that opened Friday afternoon just for them, and then the couple spent a lengthy dinner together Friday night.”

[People]

The two spent over an hour and a half eating lunch together at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in the Miami Design District. The manager, being a clever fellow, open the doors early for the couple. Like any normal lunch date they had an intimate conversation and kept close. Jen ordered a chopped chicken salad and then proceeded to eat some of Mayer’s Serrano ham sandwich. They then split a chocolate-and-peanut-butter layered dessert.

After enjoying Aniston’s company at lunch, Mayer was seen with the former “Friends” star out at dinner later that night. This time he had his arm around her after they shared another dinner date at Casa Tau on South Beach. They left around one in the morning and headed back to Aniston’s hotel holding hands.

Aww. I wonder if John Mayer made his sleeve tattoo dance for her.

John Mayer is shown at the premiere of “The Bucket List” on 12/16/07, thanks to PRPhotos. Jennifer Aniston is shown on the set of “Marley and Me” on 4/21/08, thanks to Splash News.

John Mayer has a new interview with Best Life Magazine, in which the 30 year-old singer goes on and on about his thoughts on life and fame, to the point that the author calls him a blowhard several times in the article. For as much as Mayer talks at exhaustive length and about how he’s immune to criticism while focusing on how it bothers him, there is one subject he won’t discuss - his childhood.

At first Mayer says that he thinks about the positive attributes of his future wife “all the time.” He revealed that he’s looking for a “yes” woman who won’t give him any shit or ask for much attention or understanding in return. Maybe he’s asking for a gorgeous woman who’s not a drama queen and who is mellow, but I just don’t like him and can’t help but think he wants a robot barbie.

John Mayer on his future wife

“I think about my wife all the time,” says Mayer. “I kind of obsess on it, and what I want to find is a person who can speak those kinds of magic words. I mean ‘No complaints’ is a great way to live. Also, I want a woman who doesn’t hear ‘How are you?’ as ‘I would like you to come up with something dramatic now that will allow me to sit in front of you and give you more attention than I would have if you had just said ‘No complaints.’ When I find the person I can relate to on that level and who is also a pinup and who also says ‘Can I please take pictures of your ass?’ then I am going to get married to her. That I can promise you.”

[From Best Life Online]

Mayer revealed that he’s worried, though, that his bad reputation, twisted and embellished by the tabloids, will precede him and keep him from landing that sweet perfect woman who will never ask him to deal with any shit whatsoever:

John Mayer on not being able to land his soul mate due to the tabloids

“My fear,” he says, “is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say, ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to say hello to you,’ and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, ‘Not for me, Bub. I don’t want anything to do with you.’ And she says that because of something in my past. I mean, I know how to be a celebrity. I know how to be a guy on the street. I know how to roll with the punches. I know how to do the whole thing. And my past is actually pretty sterling. But when I think about my wife, I worry. I worry about what she thinks when she reads about me in US Weekly. It’s all vapor, nothing, ether. But I worry about it. I worry about what she thinks.”

Mayer said that his personal life is not who he dates or what he does, but that it’s “what happens in my heart and my head.” and adds that “nobody knows what’s going on in my head.” From the length and content of this interview, I would beg to differ.

Interviewer wishes Mayer would shut up
The author is not kind in his assessment of Mayer, and gives the same criticism of his overlong interview that I’ve given of his writing, calling him “a great big overstuffed load of verbiage.” Mayer admits “I’ve always been verbose,” to which the author writes “with that admission, you’d think he might slow down a little. But then off he goes again, full-steam ahead.”

John then talks about how the media circus over his relationship with Jessica Simpson gave him headaches and describes it as this horrible experience.

John talks about Jessica Simpson media circus

“Let me bring you into the mind-set now,” he says. “When you take two people who are trying to get together and relate, that’s already kind of a cluster f–k. But then, with us, there was this whole looming threat. And at a certain point, I got so many tension headaches just from magazine covers. Real tension headaches, from the mention of my name with someone else’s name and how people felt about that. Literal physiological responses where I was like, Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. I thought to myself, Are you sure you want to do this? And what I said to myself was, You know what? There are times in your life when there is nobody to confer with but yourself. And you know what? This is my life, and this is a person I want to spend more time with, and I’m not going to let that other vapor get in the way. And I’ll defend that decision till the end.” He pauses, then marches on. “I also want to say about Jessica that I don’t want to talk about her or my experience with her as a dark cloud or something tumorous or cancerous. That’s all perception. It was very comfortable and very soothing. I never went, Gee, I sure would like two or three days away from this.”

Interviewer wishes he would shut up again

It’s interesting the way he spills this last bunch of words. No one here has mentioned cancer or tumors, nothing even close. On the contrary, his time with Simpson seems to have been good for him. But up come these ugly thoughts and images, ushered forth for no apparent reason. It’s as if he doesn’t know when to put a sock in it, and you have to wonder where it comes from, that uncontrollable urge to talk, come hell or high water.

The rest of the interview is more of Mayer masturbating with words, telling us he keeps things private while exposing his every half-baked thought.

When asked about his childhood in tony Fairfield, Connecticut, he doesn’t say much, except that “I think it’s for me in my life a really good idea to close off certain parts of my past.” The author reveals that Mayer’s parents were so concerned about the way he shut out the world in favor of mastering his guitar that they brought him to two psychologists. It’s probably a good thing for Mayer’s career that they couldn’t convince him to give it up, but he could surely benefit from some therapy.

Then Mayer gets to the crux of the matter - that he was still scared of the world when he made it big and that it wasn’t until his relationship with Jessica Simpson that he really decided to get out there. He said he suffered from terrible acne up until a few years ago and that affected his self esteem. It wasn’t until he dealt with everything that went along with dating a celebrity that he realized he had it in him to be one.

Mayer on going from being afraid to talking too much to the press

“I’d been a famous touring musician who had also been a shut-in for a really long time, which was weird,” he says. “But I’d had it really, really good. I had hit song, hit song, hit song. ‘Did you hear about this kid?’ And I’m like, Look at my respect. Look how credible my artistry is. I’m really perfect. I’m really doing it. It’s aces. And you get addicted to cultivating that thing and making it perfect. I’m telling you, man, I’m not f–king with you. But it stopped being perfect the day I said to myself, Wow, my heart is involved in this. The one thing I’d never been in my life is a person without a guitar. I used to be really frightened that if I stopped, it would leave me. But I had to evolve. If I wanted to see Jessica more, I had to grow up. And that’s the day that I grew up. A lot of people say it’s the day I grew down. Too bad. It’s the day I grew up.”

And here’s the part that everyone is quoting today - Mayer said he still suffers from anxiety and keeps Xanax in his pocket at all times. If you got this far, congratulations. I had a hard time reading that whole damn interview and this is my job.

Mayer says he takes Xanax for anxiety

In his early twenties, however, some­thing shifted inside that private little self-created world of his. He won’t say exactly what happened, only that on one specific day, he realized that “you can create dark neighborhoods in your mind as easily as you can create rural wonderlands. And the day I realized that was one of the worst days of my life. It sent me on quite a spin. I went on a bender. An anxiety bender.” Which is why he keeps Xanax in his pocket even now: “Because there are these incidental kinds of loopholes in my brain, where the wires can cross for a second and the hard drive crashes.”

It sounds like Mayer just decided one day to let all those racing thoughts out and that’s why his blog posts and interviews come across as a stream of consciousness. He’s using the press as a therapist, and I guess it’s better than being a shut-in. Maybe he should figure out a way to get out more while not letting everyone be privy to all his conflicting thoughts about life and fame. He doesn’t seem like as much of a dick to me after reading this, he’s certainly self-absorbed and self-important, but it comes off like more of defense mechanism. He really needs to figure things out in his life. Mayer seems to be doing ok compared to a lot of celebrities, but maybe he should learn to parse what comes out of his mouth and save all the soul-searching for his therapist’s couch.

Thanks to Best Life Online for these pictures and the quoted parts of the interview.

John Mayer explained himself with a follow-up to his “leave me alone, ex lover” blog post which garnered a lot of interest. It was posted on an external site that also has Japanese-language articles, and yesterday when I skimmed it I actually thought it was a parody of what he would say if he were to write more about it - it’s that pretentious.

Mayer’s follow up is an actual blog entry and not a joke. The site where it was found, Honeyee.com, has real blogs from artists and musicians from Japan, Europe and America.

He said he was trying out a “deceptive resolution” piece for his lyrics, in which he says one thing and then contradicts it at the end. Mayer also claims to have been testing the public out to see if they could “handle his truth.” (He didn’t write that, I stole that from Britney, but that’s essentially what he said.)

Mayer wondered aloud how he would ever write meaningful lyrics about his relationship experiences when people made so much out of a little blog entry harshly telling an ex to go away:

I wouldn’t traditionally take to a blog to explain a blog, and it begs the question as to whether or not anyone who didn’t understand the first one will make any sense of its follow-up, but when it involves the possibility of hurting someone else, I’ll tuck my tail between my legs and explain my intentions. Even though it makes my teeth itch.

The blog - copied from my lyric/idea journal, is all about the P.S. - it’s a writing technique called “deceptive resolution”; you think the story is going one way, only to find that it twists around at the end, using all its momentum to swing in another direction. In this instance, the writer of the missive is saying in as many certain terms as possible that he does not want to see his ex anymore. At the end, the P.S. leaves that all too common contradiction in terms that makes love so messed up. I call it “I wish you were here so I could tell you to leave”.

This actually has some pretty far-reaching ramifications. How will I write an entire record of lyrics when one small blog passage incites so much curiosity? Can I write a song because of somebody but not about them? By way of my experiences but not as a sordid retelling of them? Because if I can’t, I need to rewrite the last line to my new song “Boning you on my helicopter”.

Doin’ The Right Thing Like Mookie,
John

[From Honeyee.com]

Mayer’s writing style really gets on my nerves. He comes across as the type of person who would corner you at a party and tell you a really long story about some minor event in his life that was of no interest to anyone else.

Mayer’s post yesterday telling his ex lover not to contact him was prefaced with “I started scribbling out lyrics and such… Don’t read too far into this on a personal level. (There are no hidden messages)… I just thought it sums up how crazy love can be.”

Even that first sentence is contradictory. Saying there are no hidden messages means we should take something at face value.

There’s a huge difference between a blog and song lyrics, and Mayer either doesn’t seem to grasp that or is trying to act like he didn’t know what he was doing by stirring up a shitstorm with that post. He’s also making a joke with the “boning you on my helicopter” reference, but it comes across as yet another dig to his unnamed ex.

Yesterday Lainey’s gossip covered Mayer’s “leave me alone” post, and she said that she thought he was doing it to f’ck with Jessica Simpson, because she’s so happy without him and he can’t stand that. He ran into her new boyfriend, quarterback Tony Romo, at that Cosmo “Fun Fearless Male” event earlier in the week and that had to have left him feeling loser-ish so he lashed out at her with “lyrics” posted to his blog.

After that “leave me alone” post got publicity, Mayer replaced his blog with “Never complain, never explain,” but then went ahead and did just that with a post somewhere else. That makes him look even weaker than he did by deleting it. It’s like, I’ll half-assed say that I didn’t mean it, that it was some artistic process I was going through, but you’re going to have to find my inadequate explanation on your own.

John Mayer doesn’t seem to realize that you can’t put something up on a blog, erase it a few hours later, and then expect it to be wiped away and forgotten. He deleted all his blog entries in mid January after defending his ex Jessica Simpson against rapid Dallas Cowboys fans, who blamed her for her boyfriend, quarterback Tony Romo’s, poor performance at a game she attended, which may have cost the Cowboys a place in the Superbowl.

Mayer said “I have never known anyone to have more pride in their home state and their upbringing in it than Jessica Simpson has in Texas…that girl loves Texas more than you know. It’s one of her most defining traits as a person. So, please don’t try and take that away from her… If I’m out of line in having written it, too bad. I can spare a Wednesday’s worth of bad press if it means sticking up for a good soul”

He couldn’t spare a day’s worth of bad press, though, because he then wiped his whole blog out and put up a message that he was “Done & Dusted & Self-Conscious & Back to Work.”

Fair enough, John Mayer, but if you’re going to get back into blogging talk about all the great collaborations you’re doing and the cool gadgets you’re buying, not the way some ex girlfriend is pissing you off by bugging you. Don’t toke and blog:

The singer, 30… wrote the following letter on his Web site, but asked fans not to “read too far into this on a personal level. (There are no hidden messages)… I just thought it sums up how crazy love can be.”

“Dear Ex Lover,

“Perhaps you didn’t understand the last time I told you to stop contacting me, so I’ll do my best to spell it out for you. I do not wish to have you in my life anymore.

“I don’t know how much more clear I can be about it. It would serve you best to move on with your life and find someone who can put up with you, because I’m done trying.

“I hope this is enough closure for you.

“Goodbye.

“P.S. If you need me, you know how to find me.”

[From US Weekly]

This news just came out on US Weekly, but already Mayer’s blog is replaced by a message that reads “‘never complain, never explain.’ - Henry Ford II”

Complaining and explaining are the whole points of a blog. The way you get through the occasional over-share or stupid observation is to just keep writing about other shit and people will forget it in a day or two. (This is my strategy obviously.)

Mayer could have also put up an update or another post or something and said he was just fucking with us and seeing how much press he would get. Now that he pulled it down, though, we know that he was really bitching about an ex who was semi-stalking him. Our bets are on Minka Kelly, the 27 year-old Friday Night Lights actress with whom he was last linked. How harsh is it to diss someone online like that? Maybe she - or someone else - was really bugging the hell out of him and he just couldn’t take it anymore. Could it have been Jessica Simpson? She was rumored to have called Nick Lachey for ages after they broke up.

Mayer is shown outside those cosmo “Fun Fearless Male” awards on 3/3/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

It was a bevy of Jessica Simpson lovers yesterday at Cipriani’s last night as Cosmopolitan magazine “honored” John Mayer as its “Fun Fearless Male of the Year.” That title always makes me giggle. Somehow the phrasing would work a lot better for women than men. While ex-Jessica Simpson lover John took home the crown (I’m 90 percent sure it’s a crown instead of a trophy or plaque), he also got to mingle with current Simpson flame Tony Romo. Ironically, ex-Simpson husband Nick Lachey was the Fun Fearless Male last year. So apparently dating Jessica Simpson means you have no fear. I’m not sure how the fun plays in there.

Cosmo bestowed its Fun Fearless Male of the Year title to Simpson’s ex, singer John Mayer, and some of his fellow honorees could have been straight from her little black book: Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current Simpson squeeze Tony Romo and Employee of the Month co-star Dane Cook, whom tabloids linked to her.

Last year, Simpson’s ex-husband, Nick Lachey, received top honors at the same ceremony. “We know the common thread,” comedian Cook said on the red carpet, acknowledging the Simpson connection. “We realize.” Simpson’s beaus, past and present, took it all in stride and were good-natured about the whole affair. Romo walked the carpet without his girlfriend, and in accepting his award, he said he had been asked whether he was, in fact, fun and fearless. “If you date Jessica Simpson, I guess you are,” he joked.

MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson couldn’t resist weighing in as he accepted his honor. “I think I might have a chance with Jessica too after today,” he joked, noting Simpson had signed on to perform at Operation MySpace, a concert being held in Kuwait for U.S. troops and streaming live on My-Space starting at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT Monday.

“I haven’t hooked up with Jessica Simpson, but I’m honored,” said rapper/actor Common when it was his turn to accept an award.

[From USA Today]

“The Office’s” John Krasinski (or as I like to call him, the future Mr. JayBird) was also a contender for the prize, and has apparently hasn’t dated Jessica Simpson according to my extensive internet research. I just happened to be on one of his fan sites… never mind, moving on. The other nominees were Animal Planet’s Dave Salmoni, “Brothers & Sisters’” Dave Annable and “Dirty Sexy Money’s” Peter Krause.

Here are Common, Dave Salmoni, John Krasinski, Dave Annable , John Mayer, Dane Cook, Peter Krause, Tom Anderson, and Tony Romo. Images thanks to PR Photos.

John Mayer rocked the neon green one-piece over the shoulder boulder holder made famous by Borat about two years ago. He was having some fun and jogging around the deck on a three day Carnival Caribbean cruise called the Mayercraft last weekend, in which guests were treated to concerts by Mayer and 15 other artists, including Martin Sexton and DJ Logic. Tickets were reasonably priced considering the venue and started at $674 for an inside cabin.

Thanks to D-Listed for the heads up on these pictures, which were found on ONTD. (One image is from the Mayercraft photo contest site.) The blogger and cruise guest who originally posted the photos has removed them from her site due to the influx of traffic. I initially thought it was some Mayer conspiracy to control the Internets, considering how he so quickly removed his blog when it received too much attention.

Here’s the video, thanks To US Weekly and Rolling Stone. More details about the cruise can be found on Rolling Stone’s website.

Online Videos by Veoh.com

You go, John Mayer, and please restart your blog and suck it up when you get some criticism. All you have to do is write something the next day, and people will move on.

John Mayer really does seem to be a good guy. I’m not sure why he gets so much bad press and has this player reputation. He was a little bit of a jerk the first time they dated, basically saying they were never together and the press was making a big deal out of nothing. But the second time they dated, he seemed decent enough. He’s certainly dated a lot of women, but he’s young and unattached and allowed. I’ve never understood why that makes people think he’s a cad. Anyway, Jessica’s been getting a lot of bad press for the way her boyfriend - Dallas Cowboy’s player Tony Romo – has been playing. Apparently it’s not so good. And apparently that’s directly attributable to him dating Jessica. I didn’t realize a girlfriend could have so much to do with a player’s game. John Mayer has come to Jess’ defense, and told everyone to lay off.

We’re having quite the bizarro week. First, we had to stand up for Jessica Simpson (not an easy thing to do), and now we have to reevaluate our opinion of John Mayer. It would be fair to say the brief John-Jessica union was not the high point in anyone’s career, ours or theirs, but that didn’t stop him from coming to the aid of his ex via a sweet blog post he addresses to Dallas and surrounding areas:

“I have never known anyone to have more pride in their home state and their upbringing in it than Jessica Simpson has in Texas…that girl loves Texas more than you know. It’s one of her most defining traits as a person. So, please don’t try and take that away from her.”

Knowing that bloggers hate him just as much as Cowboys fans hate Jess, John adds, “If I’m out of line in having written it, too bad. I can spare a Wednesday’s worth of bad press if it means sticking up for a good soul.”

[From The Hum]

Now I really like John Mayer. I don’t think it even matters if you like Jessica Simpson or think she’s good/bad for football. It says a lot about his character that he’d go out of his way to stick up for his ex, and call her a good soul. She may not be the brightest bulb around, but Jessica Simpson at least seems nice enough, and she does talk about Texas all the time, and have a great deal of pride in it. It is sort of sad that a bunch of fans and sports people are so publicly turning on her just for dating a football player. She went to a few of Romo’s games to support him and got a ton of crap for it and has since stayed away. I could see how Simpson could be a bit of a distraction, but not for anything overtly negative on her part, but simply because she’s dating Tony Romo. If that’s anyone’s issue to deal with, it’s his.