You want it, we got it
Mopatop has got it
Everything to make your dreams come true
Mopatop Shop Theme Song
(Singers Mak Wilson / Victoria Willing / Composer Ed Welch)
“I was only there to explain the soju queen and whiskey king are guzzlers who need to have a close eye kept on them. A sniff of alcohol especially 소주 (soju) and they become rabid creatures ready to kill for a drop.”
Dixie tail between his legs was apologetically trying to justify his appearance as a witness for JC at the SALT III talks. My obsession looked at him sternly, yet at the same time with kernels of kitty love.
“I am fully aware of their addiction my furry friend, they are my reason for living after all. You trust me don’t you.”
“Of course, my snow white queen,”
“So, you must realise it would have caused me great distress if Mother Jihyo had allowed you to give testimony. Before you know it you would be spilling the beans about Dunder’s less than wholesome light fingers past and Bora’s magpie tendencies. Before you take on anything which may cause distress to me or my loves in the future please consult me first.”
“I’m sorry sweet Jihyo; please forgive me.”
“You are forgiven my furry friend.”
Dixie’s apologising toook place as we walked down the strange tunnel which miss 만신 (Manshin) had magicked up. The tunnel was long with smoth gray walls and roof, it resembled an elongated oblong. Light not to bright or dark shone from where we could not say. Dixie was quickly in a happier mood, Jihyo having forgiven him for his SALT III aberration. We suddenly stopped, noticing on the tunnel roof painted golden words, “Corridor of Heroes and Heroines.” As we walked on it quickly became clear we were indeed walking through a “Corridor of Heroes and Heroines” The tunnel walls were covered in portraits and photographs of proletarian leaders, along with 인천 유나이티드 (Incheon United) and San Lorenzo greats. We passed Lenin, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky, Philby, Fidel, Lumumba, Kim II Sung, Rosa Luxemburg, Dolores Ibárruri, Mr Zedong. There was Juan Carlos Lorenzo (El Toto) and a magnificent photo of Edgardo Bauza (El Patón) on the pitch with the team after El Ciclón’s famous 2014 Libertadores triumph. We spent some time in front of the Libertadores photo in competition, scanning the crowd to see who could spot Pope Francis, who at the time was just the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in the cheering crowd. My obsession spotted him knuckle dusters shining as bright as his smile seconds before Dixie. We stood and bowed in front of a photo of 조성환 (Jo Sung-hwan) who took the Mariners to the dizzy heights of fourth in 2022, their highest ever K League finish, qualifying Incheon for the Asian Champions League. My angels regale me almost daily about how Incheon beat Yokohama F Marinos home and away in the group stage. They also constantly remind me Incheon will win the Asian Champions League one day, and well before Everton ever win another trophy. Which to be fair is the truth.
As we continued our journey the light in the tunnel started to change every few minutes. First blue, then yellow, green, pink, orange. My obsession was lit up like a multi coloured fire fly. Seeing Jihyo bathed in a myriad colours, jet black hair now grown to shoulder length bathed in the colours of the rainbow, sleek neck, voluptuous lips I longed to kiss forever, aquiline nose, pool of love eyes, her chest and breasts colourful mountains. I could not help but wonder at this woman I loved more than anything.
More, more, more, more, every day (And more, every day) Ahhh
More, more, more, more, every day ((And more, every day)
All I want to do is just squeeze you tight and keep on lovin’ you
More, more, more, more, every day ((And more, every day)
Eta James : Loving You Everyday
My mind wondered back to a day spent with my obsession in Sefton Park. We heard the front door bang shut, “Miss Won” had left the flat, I looked around for my wallet in vain, Jihyo just smiled.
“I’m afraid our darling has taken your bank card for a walk juicy pear.”
I just groaned. What could we do?
“Come on let’s go for a walk as well, we can’t do anything until our money machine love comes home.”
A new fifty inch TV, 30 bottles of 소주 soju and a Play Station Two disc of the classic “Crash Bash” was the damage that day. For “Miss Won” very parsimonious. I did not argue about the 소주 (soju) and “Crash Bash,” the all time greatest Crash Bandicoot game. The £949 for the LG 50 Inch Smart 4K TV was another matter altogether! She had the old Play Station Two console set up and was happily in “Crash Bash Land,” in glorious fifty inch, five empty소주 (soju) bottles next to her, when we returned.
“Come on Juicy Pear I’ve got the other controller here waiting for you.”
Jihyo and I sat under a tree in Sefton Park, the sun’s rays flickered through the branches like sparkling ripples of water. My loves head lay on my chest, her heart beat throbbing through my body, my very soul as I stroked her silky hair and her eyes sleepily closed. What had I done to deserve to be loved by such wonderous beauty and the saviour of the world.
“The world has a shrivelled heart; I come to save it from ossifying completely. But I was lost a soul who needed sustenance, the sustenance of love. I could only go forward with the aid of love. My mood swung from courage to despair.”
気分はいつも 上がったり 下がったり
My mood is always rising and falling
気分はいつも 上がったり 下がったり
My mood is always rising and falling
カネコアヤノ Ayano Kaneko : 気分 Kibun
“It is you and Bora who saved me juicy pear, just as I must now save the world and your crap football team. I love you both more than anything. Eternity can pass I will still love you both. You are the ones that give me strength, the courage to save the world. But I will give it all up for you both, my eternal soul mates.”
I was stunned that day in the park at such a confession. My eyes stung, my tears flowed. I asked my obsession through my stinging river,
“When will the world end?” “When will her mission to save the lost souls of the planet end?” “Can the toffees ever be saved?” ” Will it be thousands of years from now?”
How could I last, waiting for her sweets lips, crushed century after century in purgatory, waiting, constantly waiting. It would be better I never existed, just star dust floating endlessly in space. I did not have the strength to wait for all eternity.
いつそう言うの
I think you will never say
いつそう言おうか
I think I will never say
別の, 別の, 別の, 別の
Another
言葉
Word
きのこ帝国 Kinoko Teikoku : 別の, 言葉 Another Word
Jihyo kissed me softly and whispered,
“Wherever you are you will not be alone juicy pear.. Eternity has no hold on our triangle of love. We will reach out to each other through the mists of time. Dark days may hang over our waiting. Years, centuries may pass but that day will come. Eternity is ours, your’s mine and Bora’s. We will have our story book ending my love and waltz across universes in each others arms forever.”
Waltz across Texas with you in my arms
Waltz across Texas with you
Like a storybook ending, I’m lost in your charms
And I could waltz across Texas with you
Ernest Tubb : Waltz Across Texas
My tears flowed none stop, this woman the one I adore was my meaning to live. The memory of that day flowed through my mind like an endless stream as I saw my obsession bathed in the array of colourful tunnel lights.
“Oh love sick peabrain is day dreaming again.”
Sometimes Dixie can be nearly as cutting as Bora. I was about to reply when all of a sudden we came to a small shop; runic symbols etched into its wooden frame like some alien language. the spaceship at the docks really should decorate itself whith such symbols. A sign hung over the shop door.
만신 (Manshin’s)
Finding a shop of any description in an underground tunnel is to say the least not an everyday occurrence, a bit off putting. We entered the shop; a smell of incense immediatley hit us, overpowering, burning the back of our throats. The shops timber ceiling was so low you could practically touch it on tip toes. Broomsticks and wands hung from the ceiling like magic lanterns. A green frog sat on a large wooden desk in the middle of this strange place. The little creature had shining orange eyes and wore a tiny black cape and pointed wizard hat covered both covered in runic symbols, a tiny pipe was in its mouth.
“Greetings dear wanderes, I take it you are two thirds of the ménage à trois and this ball of fur is the one called Dixie, a member of the anti “Moyesiah”, “Mao Historian”, “TFG” coalition. I have been expecting you, I hope you enjoyed walking through the corridor of “heroes and heroines.”
said the frog croakily.
“And you are?”
asked Jihyo
“Croakthroat’s the name.”
“Greeting to you Mr Croakthroat. Yes we did enjoy the corridor of “heroes and heroines,” especially the mighty Mariners part. Dunder’s here, better known as juicy pear or you may know him as peabrain wants to know why there are no pictures of his pathetic football team.”
“Standards Mr Dunder’s, standards,”
It took a full five minutes for my obsession, Dixie and Mr Croackthroat to stop laughing at that remark.
“Are you the proprietor of this establishment?”
asked Jihyo after their merriment had ended. Mr Croakthroat shook his head.
“Dear me no. That is the one who speaks little. I believe you have met her. Hence the mystical items in store. Miss 만신 (Manshin) bought out Mr Mopatop. He has been sent off to the Bahamas for a holiday and a period of reflection after foolishly selling the“Mao Historian” a sentence from 최진영 (Choi Jin Young’s) novel 굶주림 (Hunger)”
“믿음은 부조리를 파악하는 열쇠이다
mid-eum-eun bujolileul paaghaneun yeolsoeida.
“Faith is the key to grasping absurdity.”
“Precisely great saviour and he is at the spaceship as we speak in front of an admiring pineapple throng. The toffee hordes grasping the pretend faith of his absurd pronouncements.”
“These are dark and deadly times Mr Croakthroat.”
“In deed they are, indeed they are. Mr Peabrain please take look around the shop while I show this beautiful lady a video of the “Mao Historian” giving an interview to a BBC Merseyside reporter. Kissing his arse is only half of it. It would send you and definitely miss “I’m always right” if she were here over the edge, so best leave it to miss Jihyo to listen to the nonsense.”
Jihyo gave me a peck on the cheek,
“Please do as Mr Croakthroat says my sweet, I won’t be long, we need to take down the CEO clown and his brainwashing of the not very clever toffee supporters. Have a perusal while I’m gone”
I nodded realishing the warmth on my cheek. Mr Croakthroat took my love to the back of the shop to listen to the interview while Dixie and I had a mooch. Wands cloaks, lanterns abounded. Magic spell books covered a book case, while a tray of green and yellow sparkling rings seemed too good to ignore. A set each for my angels just somehow fell into my short’s pockets. Dixie curled up in the middle of a pentagon etched into a table and went to sleep. Cats really are the kings and queens of having a snooze no matter where they are. I sat reading a magic book about how to cast the runes and pass on a parchment to bring forth a demon from hell. I was looking for a spell to magic up a three person IKEA Kingsize bed, but had no luck on that score which was very depressing. My love came back to the shop half an hour later looking pale.
“It is worse than we feared Juicy Pear. The Mao Historian has come out from the rock he lives under at Finch Farm to give an astonishing “Everything is rosy” piece of garbage for the blue sheep hoards to swallow. An interview with a client journalist at BBC Radio Merseyside. You know the said journalist, they have done plenty of sycophantic interviews before with the ginger dinosaur and exceptionally crawling ones with the football fraud zipped jumper. Add to the annals the latest piece of propaganda masquerading as an interview and “communication” with the worst CEO in the Premier League.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p53nc0
“A few gentle questions to allow this no mark to bluster on about progress, challenging for Europe, blah, blah, blah. Never once does the journalist challenge the “Mao Historian”on any of the rubbish he spouts, so what is the actual point of the interview? it is truly embarrassing. Yet the podcasters and social media “know it all’s” fall for this crap. They say “What a great interview” “Good to have communication” They are laughable in their brainlessness.”
“The “Maoist” starts off claiming the club is in a really good place, the work done in the transfer market this summer to date has strengthened the squad and a right back will round it off.”
“We’re not behind where we thought we would be. It’s always our objective to get our business done early but the challenge is to get the absolute best players we can in the position.”
“Of course, he came out with the utter piece of crap he likes to spout none stop, the classic,”
“Most business is done near the end of windows.”
“Talk about flying against reality! Oh, by the way Angus most business is not done near the end of the window. Have a lookat how much has been done before the last week of this window you cloth head. Too much watching yellow tie day for you it seems!.”
“The toffees squad is no better than last season, incomings so far, two players who were at the club last season, Hayden Hackney and Brenan Johnstone in a straight swap with Dwight McNeil. Most absurdly of all a thirty two year old, slow, declining and signed injured defensive midfielder the club wasted seven million pounds on. Yet blues think Mr Norgaard is a stroke of genius. The lack of football acumen which most Evertonians have never ceases to surprise me. “Leader,” “Experience,” you know the drill they fool themselves into believing. Dear me, more like declining bang average aging footballer who offers nothing.”
“The clown and the ridiculous bureaucracy Leadership Committee had Everton as the 8th highest Premier League net spenders last year with a minus 83.25 million euros”
“As things stand this window with five days left to its close Everton are eighth highest net spenders again with a minus £62.91 million spent.“
https://www.football365.com/news/premier-league-transfer-net-spend-table-for-26-27-season
“They will proabably spend more before the window closes. The CEO blabs on about operating differently, making the club more sustainable, yet since him and the ridiculous bureaucracy turned up at Finch Farm Everton have a net spend of minus £146 million to build a mid table at best squad. Sort of flies in the face of your sustainability mantra Angus dear boy. No challenge from the interviewer on his claim the squad is in a better place, or the rather large minus net spend. But that’s what you expect from a piece of propaganda. Just except it blues as good news.”
“The day before the “Mao Historians” nonsenses the “Moyesiah” in an interview with Sky disagreed with his statement about the squad, claiming more incomings were needed.“
“Whose running the ship Angus? You or the “Moyesiah? As if that matters as you are both, along with the rest of the pompously named Leadership Committee all out of your depth. None of you should be in a million miles of Everton Football Club.”
“The CEO pontificates on the right back situation. Confident a right back will be brought in before the end of the window. I think we all know that one may well turn up.“
“I don’t think we’re in a bad position on that. The options we thought we had available are still available to us. I don’t think they’re going to be there for our first game against Crystal Palace, which was the objective, but I think the idea is we have the very best player for that position come the end of the window.”
“Although the Moyesiah in his pre Crystal Palace press conference did not seem so certain”
“Challenged on the right back situation by the interviewer? You must be joking. The CEO is never asked why when the right back position has been a problem for the last three to four years the next step in humanities evolution committee, which this idiot sits on had not identified right backs to go for as soon as the summer transfer window opened. Targets one, two and three. In reality there were no targets, hence the scatter gun approach and link after link to one bang average right back after another. He is given the soft pathetic follow up by the interviewer.
“What is it in football which makes transfers drag on”
“A nice silly question for him to give excuses why no right back has been sourced to date. Money, agents, selling club may need replacement first. He really does treat supporters like school children who don’t understand the way football works. How patronising can you get. Journalist just listens then moves on. Nice one Angus.”
“The Luton Town fraud waxes lyrical about the pathetic recruitment structure at Everton. We can watch players and leagues from every continent through our recruitment team and data analysts. Yeah I bet. He is never questioned why Everton are never linked to young players in Asia, South and North America, Africa. Why it is only Europe and increasingly the UK. How come you can scout the globe from our flat Juicy Pear, while Everton can’t get beyond Nothern Europe and the Championship? I weep at some of the players you scout every transfer window which are there for the taking.”
“The “Taylor Swift” love in between the CEO and interviewer is sickening. Nothing more needs to be said. Just hope the treatment table does not return to Finch Farm.”
“He says the owners are ambitious and viewed not making it into Europe a failure. If true this shows how clueless TFG are. The toffees were never good enough to make Europe, the end of season collapse was inevitable, something the coalition had been saying throughout the season. He goes on talking about TFG,”
“Appropriate pressure this summer to make sure we have everything in place to go to the next stage and, whilst they don’t speak publicly, what I can say is 90% of my conversations with them are not about revenue generation and ownership structures… they are about how do we win more football matches; they have bought Everton to win football matches.”
“Complete, to use the immortal “clueless Frank” phrase bolloxs. The club is nothing but an investment vehical to make money for TFG. Every single thing TFG have done since buying the club from the football cancer proves that. Season ticket increases, Season ticket plus, UniqueSseats, Golf, Tony Belt Buckle, new kit after new kit. The clown pontificates about commercial growth blah blah, and has the cheek to say tthe season ticket rises were competitive and affordable. Come and have a word with Juicy Pear Angus, he can tell you about affordable! Challenged on this, not from the interviewer. Asking hard question is beyond the pale. How about asking him about the disgrace known as Unique Seat Radio Merseyside.”
“The interview is nothing but an “everything is rosy “ piece of garbage with a client journalist, a justification for TFG’s continuing turning Everton into a Disney Land Theme Park. “
“Have faith clueless blue throng. Everything is still fine ladies and gentlemen.”
もう少し頑張ればいいことあるかも
If I try just a little harder, maybe something good will happen
いいことあるかも
Maybe something good will happen
カネコアヤノ Ayano Kaneko : “まだ問題ない / It’s Still Fine
“The blue masses, the acolytes and propogandists at the Echo actually believe the Luton Town fraud and his nonsense. When Everton are mid table by the end of the season maybe they will finally realise the “Moyesiah”, The Mao Historian” and the “Leadership Committee” are not fit for purpose. Maybe they will realise TFG are in it just to make money on their investment before selling up one day with their pockets bulging.”
“The stark truth.”
“The squad is a midtable outfit at best, yet the buffoon of a CEO is allowed to get away with his “much more to be done” but “we are doing well” nonsense. Hard questions, communication, great interview, the masses say. It really is depressing. Most blues will believe any sort of rubbish put in front of them. Jesus I would rather know nothing at all than what the vast majority of Evertonians swallow as progress.”
もしこれらの日々が間違いなく訪れ、そして同じように続くならば、
If these days without doubt will come, and continue just the same,
いっそのこと、何も知らないほうがいい。
I would rather not know anything at all
山崎ハルコ Harko Yamasaki : 助けて Help Me
My mind was in a state of chaos. Nothing will ever get better while the “Moyesiah,” the “Mao Historian” and the “next step in humanities evolution committee” are running the club. I staggered, swayed just managing not to collapse with the aid of Jihyo who caught me in her arms. I held my head in my hands.
“What right do I have to ask my two beloved, especially my ultimate obsession to take on the burden of endlessness. Can the toffees ever be saved?”
Mr Mopatop produced a cat box and asked Jihyo to put Dixie inside. She gently picked up the sleeping Dixie placing him inside. Mr Mopatop placed two small ear muffs into his ears.
He had a stern look on his shiny green face,
“Best not to wake him as you walk down the “Valley of Shadows.” The ear muffs will protect him if he does wake.”
He next handed a pair of ear muffs to me.
“Keep these at the ready Mr Peabrain you may need them, you will be the one targeted.”
before turning to Jihyo.
“Follow the tunnel through the “Valley of Shadows” great saviour, the door to the Spaceship awaits at the end. Go forth and denounce the “Mao Historian” Luton Town fraud and his “Taylor Swift” religion.”
I slipped the ear muffs into my shorts pocket and we said goodbye to Mr Mopatop and left 만신 (Manshin’s). I did ask our froggy friend if he have a spare IKEA Kingsize bed hanging around the shop, my last gasp hope before we left. I mean the shop prides itself on “Everything to make your dreams come true.” Alas I became downcast as did my obsession when he said he did not. He explained the evil butcher orange man’s high tariffs on trade with the People’s Republic of China was having a knock on effect. Getting the right wood, screws, nails, even allen keys was virtually impossible at the moment. He suggested having a word with “Mr Sycamore.” A good suggestion the head of the “San Lorenzo Barra Brava” was having trouble with his nefarious smuggling trade routes at the moment. “Angel number two” was still waiting for the final parts of her medieval rack to turn up.
We headed down the final part of the tunnel which Mr Mopatop had ominously called the “Valley of Shadows.” Onward to our next battle with the Luton Town fraud “Mao Historian.”
뛰어난 지휘관을 따라
Following the brilliant commander 지효 (Jihyo)
우리는 최종 승리를 거둘 것이다
We will achieve the final victory
조선인민군 공훈합창단 : Korean People’s Army State Merited Chorus.
섬광과 정의의 창, 그리고 사브르를 밝혀라 : Light the Flash, Justice’s Spear and Saber
My obsession carried Dixie, she had a feeling I needed all my single brain cell about me if I was targeted, by what we could not say. The still sleeping Dixie could well hinder me. The coloured lights of hope which had graced my love in the corridor of “Heroes and Heroines” had disappeared, replaced by a dull grey glow full of forboding. Shadows flickered across the tunnel walls like moths, while Jihyo’s and my shadows walked in front of us. I started to feel something closing in on me, what it was I could not tell, an emphemeral feeling, fleeting at first but getting stronger, taking a hold of me, tightening like a hanging noose. I noticed my obsessions shadow had disappeared. A voice,
“Dunder’s, Dunder’s come my love, join me, our consummation awaits.”
I looked around, shadows everywhere arms outstretched ready to bring me home to the kingsize bed and my obsessions shadow which stood waiting on the wall. I tried to block out the voice, I knew it was an illusion. I thought of the ear muffs in my shorts pocket, but my arms were lead weights unable to move as my mind fell further into the shadowland. I was drowing in a sea of uncertainty, falling deeper and deeper into the land of shadows. What did it matter if I crossed into the land of shadows? I could live with my obsessions shadow, making love for eternity. I could cross over, leave this material realm behind and be with my obsessions shadow forever. I reached out to the shadows whose arms like snakes reached out to pull me in.
“Take me to the other side, to the shadow of the one I love.”
いつか私たちはみんな死ぬんですよね？
Someday we’ll all die wont we?
列車が通り過ぎていく、収穫の季節だ
The train passes by, it’s the season of harvest
眠れない夜にも子猫は生まれ、青い空は続いてい。
Even on sleepless nights kittens are born and the blue sky continues
愛してます
I love you
かねこあやの Ayano Kaneko : 青 Blue
(To be continued)
TOFFEE FOR TEA 