Ming Ni - Revision

I tried to write about the word "Hideki Okajima" but I wasn't pleased with the results. Maybe some other time. Bad luck - I erased the blog entry and Papelbon lost the save. Feh. It's tied and I hope we can get it back. Oakland is a weird place. They have a great Chinatown, with big supermarkets on 9th Street or whichever one it is. My impression of the town is of walking around at lunchtime; I was looking to see the corporate area and to get a passport photo. It's a pretty nice place to work, like Sacramento or the Avenue of the Americas in NY.

A lot of megaCalifornia energy has shifted place, w/JaMarcus Russell arriving in town and Randy Moss leaving for here. The Okies are stoked.....Pap and JaM are both Louisiana men,

It is said that baseball is an ephemeral game.

The Minnesota Twins are on the Sox' schedule for next weekend. In the interests of ephemerality, the word Minnesota is sort of interesting. The added hue increases the ephemerality while providing some competition for Minnesota's storied color:

明 MING As in Ming vase (pictured, from H-Mart), Ming the merciless, the Ming Dynasty, which occurred in the 1300s to 1600s. Ming is the sun and the moon, the moon has legs because it travels astronomically in the sky compared to the sun, as far as this word is concerned. Sorry to be giving astrophysics pointers....Sheryl Crow sings about the sun and the moon - another Louisianan in the mix here.

尼 NI is the person who leaves their home in the village to travel to a Buddhist mountain to become a monk. Or to make some jam with the Franciscans. Or to write a Concordance of Shakespeare. Or, a concordance of Anime characters in the pages of the Wikipedia. It looks like a baby asking for some juice, underneath a coonskin cap. Picture growing up in a "Tumbledown shack in Bigfoot County, it snowed so hard the roof caved in..." etc, from the Grateful Dead.

苏/蘇 SU Is a good word, if you like various forms of imagery. It's got the older version and the newer version. The old one on the left may or may not look like someone on their hands and knees; the one on the right is the fish radical on its left w/ a thong radical on its right. There is a similar word w/ a fish and a sheep, indicating perhaps a sheepish groom and a salacious wife. This indicates a salacious wife waving a thong around. In my day women hit men w/their pocketbooks, not their thongs. More imagery, the barbells indicate that these women aren't going to be building any guns to try out for the soccer team or the golf team. Bricks are heavy, thongs are not heavy.

达 DA It's the word "big" inside the ripped shopping bag, like an 8-liter container of generic restaurant mayonnaise from the Price Club.

双 SHUANG The twins, this word is used in the great Korean oil exploration and distribution company Ssangyong; Koreans pronounce it "ssang".

城 CHANG The city. The complete name of the team is the "Minnesota Twin Cities".

It seems to me that some thong-swinging Phemale Phish is looking for a twin in the form of a young man on his way to the monastery. Perhaps he will stop in the city to quench his thirst before continuing on. It's all on the up and up; MING, especially, is a word with good reputation. This is a charming Asian/American love story going on here; it's not a sordid tale! Still, the young man might be surprised to be detoured by a thong swingin' woman looking for a long-term relationship. No druggies or fatties. RU N2 the Replacements?

I have seen and heard some amazing stuff regarding thong-swingin' females coming out of the state of Minnesota, namely the two bands "Boss Hog" and "The Cows". Well, I associate Boss Hog with The Cows, so to me, the fan, it is as though they are from Minnesota. They and more like it are on Amphetamine Reptile, a featured label at eMusic. And may I add, if anyone ever wants to get disabused of charming powerful females, these two bands are strong like the NFL, carrying on the MLB-levels of energy the SUB HUM ANS put into their recorded work.

It's funny how if one is more or less literate about names like "Ming Ni Su Da", then the loads and layers of punk rock are both necessary and superflous, if you can dig my zen.

"Min" is also a syllable used in the official name "PRC"; "Zhong Guo Ren Min Gong He Guo"; the "Ren Min" are "the People".

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Continuing on with the schedule, we have:

Toronto, or "Many/Porticullis logic/Many" - 多伦多 - sounds like fun if you're a blue jay.

Baltimore, which features the happy guy radical: 巴

and 4 at Detroit, "Low/Special/Law".

Minneapolis, Toronto, Baltimore and Detroit - in ZH, it seems like a road to perdition. As TSOL sings on "Road to Gold" on their "Change Today?"

Well I don't know but I've been told the street to heaven is made of gold; I don't know and time will tell, but I think this road is the same to hell. Cadillac woman won't show no way, You've got love by night and money by day; don't ask why or where I've been; when the lights go round in this world of sin.

For some reason it seems to me that the TSOL guys grew up with the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels.