Jeff (Karoub, maybe….doesn’t really matter) and Micah Huang are enjoying some Mocha Hazelnut Lattes and swinging to the sweet sounds of Al-Jo James and her songs about the plight of some crap or other. None of this matters. What’s important is that Ming the Merciless is at the Coffee Cantina but due to the weirdness of the mystery object he’s holding, his purpose here is subject to speculation, which is what we do best around here.
So what is Ming holding there? Is he waiting tables there and taking orders? The disinterested couple will have a Venti quad shot, 1 pump Vanilla, 2 sugar in the raw, soy, non-fat, extra dry cappuccino and a quadruple espressinoso super grande light blueberries and cream half-soy full city roast nonfat half-caf organic caramel vanilla iced double-shot macchiato black tea chai foamed shaken sugar-free cinnamon eggnog dolce peppermint gingerbread pumpkin spice latte thrice blended extra hot with three ice cubes hold the whipped cream, one sweet’n low, and one nutrasweet.
Or is Ming just another patron half listening to Al-Jo singing about coalminers while he surfs of the world’s stupiest smart phone?
Or is Ming a poet who works exclusively with magnetic poetry and limits himself to the same eight words?








Maybe the boys can form a band with Al-Jo and be as successful as The Wiggles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiggles
Comment by exmiscellanea — April 24, 2011 @ 9:56 am
I think I found the Milford fight song! And it’s suitable for the miserable folk stylings of Al-Jo: “Mudlark’s Lament” by Joe Bones.
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/7344779
She’d have to smoke about ten cartons of cigarettes and drink a few quarts of rotgut first, of course. And possibly gargle some hot asphalt.
Comment by John S. Walters — April 24, 2011 @ 10:04 am
John S.– Umm, so if he comes to Milford Margie Ducey will write the cover story with the headlines:
“Joe Bones at the Coffee Cunt”
Comment by semperfi4evr — April 24, 2011 @ 12:44 pm
Tarzana Nights!
Comment by Dieclambakedie — April 24, 2011 @ 1:27 pm
I can’t respond to #3– Don has already told me to ease up. I’m not sure I could anyway.
Now this is Milford, and now and then Whigrub does make a gesture in the direction of connecting twin moon Milford to the outside world. Could Ming simply be fooling with an iPad? I admit it doesn’t look much like one, but again, this is Milford.
Comment by vaganova — April 24, 2011 @ 2:11 pm
A working class Mudlark is something to be. HRONK!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — April 24, 2011 @ 3:15 pm
Ease up, Dieclambakedie!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — April 24, 2011 @ 3:16 pm
Does Micah’s face remind anyone else of Gunk from “Curtis”?
Comment by dale — April 24, 2011 @ 8:42 pm
Does Al-Jo have Del Preston as her roadie? “So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o’clock in the morning, looking for 1,000 brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn’t go on stage that night…”
Ming is searching for intelligent humans. Yeah, it’s a long search.
You know, Ned, this is a nice blog.
Comment by Dood — April 25, 2011 @ 6:25 am
I thought young Micah Huang and possibly Jeff Karoub, but who can really be sure, were the Soggy Bottom Boys.
Comment by Dood — April 25, 2011 @ 6:32 am
Maybe Ming is one of Hobart’s many minions.
Comment by Dood — April 25, 2011 @ 6:33 am
Ming, still using the Newton MessagePad… it matches his pager, you know.
Comment by billytheskink — April 25, 2011 @ 7:10 am
That thing is *hysterical*. I demand immediate enshrinement into the Pantheon of Mysterious Objects!!!
Comment by Ian — April 25, 2011 @ 9:35 am
Oh, wait, it’s already there. Whoohoo!
Comment by Ian — April 25, 2011 @ 9:37 am
We might have to downgrade Ming from Merciless to Technologically Clueless.
Comment by Dood — April 25, 2011 @ 10:08 am
Pardon me, Ming, I’ll have what Gil usually has, which is a Caffe Mocha Vodka Valium Latte. If I have to listen to AlPo, then make it a double. Thanks.
Comment by Regina — April 25, 2011 @ 6:38 pm
hey why hasnt hobart and the other guy stepped out to the coffee cunt for some nice java and some great folk backyard tire fire covers to ease up
Comment by mr120zcan — April 25, 2011 @ 7:12 pm
Ease up, Regina!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — April 26, 2011 @ 12:08 am