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June 16, 2004

First Joey

Now Johnny:

The guitarist with pioneering punk rock band the Ramones is fighting a losing battle with cancer in a Los Angeles hospital, Rolling Stone magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday.

The Rock and Roll Lifestyle claims another. Or not.

"Johnny's been a champ in confronting this, but at this point I think the chances are slim," Marky Ramone said in the report. "John never smoked cigarettes, he wasn't a heavy drinker and he was always into his health. It just proves when cancer seeks a body to penetrate, it doesn't matter how healthy you are or how unhealthy you are. It just seeps in and there's nothing you can do."

Tons of WWR thoughts of goodness being directed Johnny's way. This will probably prove about as effective as intercessionary prayer or perhaps rubbing my dog's buttocks with olive oil and sage leaves while chanting various six-syllable words backwards. So, let's just leave it at being hopeful that modern medicine will work a (fully explainable, because that's science, you see) "miracle."