The SF Dynasty: Sweet and Sour
This blog has translations that are as good as the average Japanese T-shirt. If one is looking for a classic novel translated by an academic, one had better go to Amazon.com. Try searching for "Japanese novel".
Effectively manhandling the material at http://www.ishici.com/ to make it interesting is the goal of this exercise. The listing of Ming Dynasty poets and their work will be entitled:
The San Francisco 49ers Dynasty and the Hand of God
or "Don't leave your heart in San Francisco"
specifically referring to the DeBartolo Dynasty, or the Montana Dynasty, the Steve Young Dynasty, the Bill Walsh Dynasty, whichever it should be called. The Niners famously won at least 10 games a season, 18 seasons consecutively. (From Wikipedia: San Francisco 49ers.) Speaking of the Wikipedia, I just read on my Wiki User Page subscription to the Wikipedia Times that the Wiki is moving to the Bay Area (though the server farm will remain in Tampa).
Great job, San Francisco!
Here are a few links, by poet name:(明 朝 陈子龙 袁宏道 于谦 王世贞 李攀龙 何景明 李梦阳 高启 刘基 祝枝山 唐寅 戚继光)
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A fuller list of noted writers, lyricists, advertising people, etc of the Ming Era, with American translations that corroborate with the stated thesis of the NFC West ca 1980 - 2000:
I hope you will see that this list isn't too sweet and it isn't too sour.
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【明】 - Ming
B
边贡 America's Sweetheart Military Tribute
贝琼 Money Jade, as opposed to money in a checking account - ignorant punk money
C
陈嘉谋 Harsh Movie Love Story (1) - Anne R. Key
陈子龙 Cute Baby Dragon
曹学佺 "I hadn't noticed that I had graduated"
F
冯梦龙 Incredibly Serious Dream
冯小青 Incredibly Diminished Personal Power
G
高启 Superman Nowhere Man
H
何景明 Harsh Movie Love Story (2) - Saul of the Molemen
呼文如 I have read the entire 440,000 pages of the Windows Vista code. Have you? (some kind of job-market intimidation method)
J
季贞一 "It's the time .. of the season..for losing money"
解缙 Celestial Corruption
景翩翩 How stars are born - staring at reruns
L
李梦阳 A San Francisco Cheerleader who is hotter than the sun....
李攀龙 ....and more babies than a rabbit dragon
梁玉姬 The Book of Job? I made that happen.
林鸿 Very indignant about the lilies of the field, who toil not - How can you say you don't care? Or, "Country Swan, City Swan".
凌濛初 Abusive Cowgirl Sex Industry Worker
刘基 Like that guy from Portland who went to military prison for joining the Taliban.
李开先 Beautocracy - The hottest women have the most difficult responsibilities at work - The Scientific Look - here's a lynk: Science Direct.
李颖 Fake corruption
M
明无名氏 We are not famous people - superpopulism - Green Day populism - or differently and literally "Ming is not Ming, man" like a Lennon or Garcia quote (Ming wu ming shi) - "Do you understand, or do you oversit?"
Q
戚继光 Jail Bait Living, like high tech Sierra Nevada 'hillbillies', see 1995's "I've Got My Friends - A Boston - San Francisco Hardcore Compilation", songs by sf bands Randumbs, Hellbillies, Mutilators, etc...."Please save me from the ass-kicking junkies from outer space"
瞿佑 Overdosed on other people's happiness
齐景云 We are saving money to see Raiders of the Lost Ark 4 - Star Wars geek, George Lucas
邱道隆 I am a product of the U.S. Armed Forces Housing Program
丘梁 Army Veteran Hippie
S
沈泓 Submerged Tweety Bird
沈谦 Submerged Yosemite Sam
宋濂 Northern California Style Athletic Power - very popular
沈明臣 Submerged Female Supremacy in Marriage
孙承宗 Grandchild Worship; Winnie the Pooh worship; Mickey Mouse worship; et cetera
T
汤显祖 Soup Giant Offensive Linemen
唐寅 Sugary Sweet Hollywood Sharks
W
王过仁 Divorce is King
王媺 Ultrafeminist Moshpit
王磐 Liberal Ultrapolitics OK Corral Discussion Group
王世贞 The West Coast 4th Dimension - cf The Doors
王叔承 Getting caught not maxing
吴承恩 Having spent some time in North Bay, and kind of liking it, and having an appreciation for the ambition of it, et cetera: "What if we bought a very big Love Boat cruise ship and parked it in the Bay, and we took out all the rooms and Lido deck and all and planted a forest in the boat, wall to wall, and then set sail on a regular cruise schedule with people camping out in the forest, in the middle of the ocean?" "It could be quite rugged!" "Hey, I'm an ecotourist; or I work at Transamerica 9 to 5 M to F; or I've been writing software for 8 months; I need a nice 3-day weekend vacation!"
吴静婉 Same Love Boat, just a sex industry cruise.
汪广洋 The incredibly questionable practice of villainizing George W. Bush
文嘉 Pamphlet Joy
文征明 Pamphlet Enthusiasm; very inane propaganda
X
夏完淳 Charles Dickens era: Going out to weed fields, pick wheat and apples in the countryside, delusively deciding to live there in Strawberry Fields forever, and then of course returning to the city for the holiday season and winter; Apple Records
谢榛 Baseball as a thank-you for the football season
徐渭 Surplus Water Consumption
许仲琳 High Noon on Haight-Ashbury
熊石儿 A.F.I.
Y
于谦 Space Politics; transparent aluminum; the Lunar Constitution, the Articles of Martian Confederation
杨基 Plant Gene - men who get women into bed by practicing the virility power of plants
杨慎 Nice Plant, Stanford tree
袁宏道 Garden Male Power Road - Garden Guy - something to do with Bobcat Goldthwaite
袁凯 Flower Garden Sex Machine
Z
张煌言 I Weaseled a job being an astrologer on the 11:00 PM News
张红桥 I Weaseled Through Logging Camp
张家玉 My entire family is in jail back east
周在 Let's Mellow Out
张以宁 I weaseled sex out of Tricia Nixon
张灵 We Weaseled the Brinks Robbery
钟惺 Hollywood Star Alarm Clock
朱元璋 (After all this) We have absolutely no money
祝枝山 The (Northern) California Sex Industry has no competition
Ming means "Bright, brilliant, the combined power of the sun and the moon, love you night and day, tomorrow". Ming is used in the words Minnesota and Minneapolis. Another Ming is a very important word meaning "Fame", "Name" or "Noun" and is used in the word "Nagoya" (Japan).
Cultural references that seem ridiculous are probably just the result of too much Butthole Surfers and too much Maximum Rock n Roll. In particular, something like: "张以宁 I weaseled sex out of Tricia Nixon." Sorry. The message is that it's a ridiculous notion to be attracted to thin young Republicans.
Further reading:
Crimpshrine
Hieroglyphics
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