Regarding Momus

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I just like how he was gone for months and showed up the moment someone mentioned his essay and I want to see if it will work again!

Maria, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

he's like an effete candyman!

Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

u r mean!

gabe, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Being a sort of psychick daemon or decantable incantatory energy sprite, I am contractually obliged (in a contract signed in blood with a goblin) to appear when invoked. The method I prefer, though, is having my lamp rubbed.

Momus, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Success! Mwahahahahaha! yay.

Maria, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I thought it was you had to say the name trice to gain service usrfructus

mike hanle y, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

He's like a jolly Candyman.

Nicole, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Works for me. He'd make a great Willy Wonka.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

momis he wants to shag me the tender pervy ponce. E sed he woz gonna put a candle on me head and books on me feet or somefink. Sez Im gonna cut a figure. Well I tell you wot Im gonna bleedin' cut HIS figure with my Stanley Tucci knife if 'e ever comes in my boozer, the bleedin' woolly wooftah!

mind you that bird on the ladder paintin' the ceiling in Wandsworth Town that woz me guv i still ad me Charlie Georg perm from the good old seventies when Sharon and me woz OH SHARON YOU KLOOZY PSCHOOZE WHY YOU AVE TO LEAVE ME FOR THAT WALLY EH?

Chingford Tor Ascender, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Now then my erstwhile stalwart comrade, my staunch ally, kindly refrain if you will from dragging my fair name into debate under question as is improbable beyond boundaries of biology set by generic tumerics namely that I should abscond with admittedly rather nice lady called nomenclature Sharon very nice indeed if you like that sort of thing but were that Clapham omnibus I would be on that bound for Ealing well Acton really in geographical reality still Waitrose very close mark you ergo Ealing in situ.

but Sharon could not have been my biological biographical feat young sir

as am former Navy man

Wally Klemmer, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Momus!

Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Momus!!

Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Momus!!!

Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Keep trying.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

YOU DIDNT DO IT WITH SINCERETY

Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I DID

Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Bah!"

mike hanle y, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

momus momus momus

Graham, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...
Momus, you have been making me laugh a lot lately. Well done.

AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the main reason Momus is so popular is that it's fun to say his name. MMMMOOOOOMMMMMUUUUUSSSSS.

St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm currently holding a book called Shadows in Bronze, and in the Dramatis Personae list at the front, it has the following to say:

Momus: A 'slave overseer' (another spy)

It also says this later on:

Ned: A rather surprised donkey.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

ned is voiced by Eddie Murphy?

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I KNEW IT

VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

hell, you know things are fucked up when Momus is a voice of reason on some of the more recent threads.

Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
I belive the correct American English pronounciation is "mu-moose".

adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I have changed my name to Morgus:

http://www.imomus.com/morgus.jpeg

Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I notice that 'Momie' hasn't caught on yet.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

separated at birth?

http://www.imomus.com/morgus.jpeg

vs.

http://www.thegreatcornholio.com/images/cornholio/corn4.gif

Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Separated at birth?

Momus:

http://www.imomus.com/morgus.jpeg

Captain Feathersword:

http://www.thewiggles.com.au/store/motifs/finals/cf.gif

the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Momusian Morgasboard vs all aboard the good ship Feathersword.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link


Separated at birth?

Momus:

http://www.imomus.com/morgus.jpeg


Bruce Spence (Australian actor):

http://ampimages.homestead.com/files/bruce_spence_mini.gif

the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Morgus = Momus + Fog FX + Very Virile Viking

ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link

he actually reminds me more of hugo weaving than bruce spence

http://ent.tom.com/img/assets/200403/040316112305qunxing6.jpg

gem (trisk), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah yes. Anyway, it's a given, Momus, that your face is morphologically suited to Australian film and theatre, should you ever consider a career change.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Being a sort of psychick daemon or decantable incantatory energy sprite, I am contractually obliged (in a contract signed in blood with a goblin) to appear when invoked.

oddly, this is true. I mentioned Momus once on a rival internet forum, and next thing there he was.

I wonder will it work if I say Momus' name outloud?

DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Blimey, here he is!

DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Only if you look in the mirror and say it 3 times.

Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll come back to Momus, here.

the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

What I was going to say about him was something that I was thinking last night:

The geezer, Momus, has almost never acknowledged my posts; I have not always acknowledged his. But on one occasion he did: on the T.S. Eliot thread, I think, when engagingly he was defending TSE - and he typed, out of the blue, a parody of TSE addressed to me, a marvellous squib about, I think, fire engines. (Or am I projecting that image on to him?) It demonstrated wit, erudition, intelligence and charm. I should be sure not to forget that post, when I think about the geezer Momus.

the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

That geezer happens to know Eliot BACKWARDS, as it happens. One Eliot quote per LP minimum.

suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

what's the point of knowing Eliot backwards, when we live FORWARDS?

DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I e-mailed Momus once to see if he fancied a pint, but it turned out his address was not a real one (and anyway he was in a different continent at the time).

has anyone else ever tried and failed to meet Momus?

DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

He's like the Godot you don't have to wait for.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

HA!

suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...
http://www.rubenimichi.com/munecos_web/momus_peq.jpg

Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that a tiny voodoo doll?

Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that a hot water bottle holder?

I WANT A MOMUS HOT WATER BOTTLE HOLDER!

Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Awww...it's a lil' baby Momus!

j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Does he have something wrong with his eye or is the patch an aesthetic thing?

Charles Dexter (Holey), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

(xpost0

la belle dame sans serif (c sharp major), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link

It's like L'Etranger only with more punching women in the face.

If You Lived Here You'd Be SB'd By Now (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link

sorry if I was intellectually dishonest, I just find people's willingness to gloss over this kind of irritating and symptomatic of the weird free pass people seem to give this guy just for being a bit interesting

my feeling is that Momus' own account of the above is probably uh a little self-serving but I probably shouldn't prolong this argument

EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link

the weird free pass people seem to give this guy just for being a bit interesting

how is Dom btw?

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link

karaoke obsessed, last I saw

Don't recall ever giving Dom a free pass, but hey, at least he only made jokes about hitting women, right?

EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link

I think he at least attempted - and often failed spectacularly - to be intellectually honest in his discussions

Like in Big Brother when someone's a complete cunt but still somehow gets kudos for at least being themselves and keeping it real

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Can I just posit a theory that the hitting never happened?

That he had some sort of urge to do it, thinking about it and what the reaction of both people might be?

Mark G, Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link

^^ pretty much what happened to peter sutcliffe.

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link

I never took much notice of the geezer (Momus that is, not Sutcliffe), maybe he was just on different threads than me and maybe he'd done all his most irritating work before I showed up

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link

xpost maybe, but without actually doing it?

Mark G, Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link

I'll at least give Momus that it takes a very peculiar sort of asshat to be this controversial this long after leaving the board.

╓abies, Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh there's few others who could manage that too

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link

the weird free pass

I just don't consider it my job to be handing out or witholding passes on a messageboard.

I mean, if I had to sit up and take notice and give the cold shoulder to everyone here who seems like they'd be a bit creepy in their private lives then uh...

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah tbh a large part of this is to do with me having heard the other party's account of the above; probably not really fair for me to get into arguments with people who are just going by the guy's annoying internet posts

EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, 28 May 2009 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Have yall heard "the Vaudevillian" off his Joemus record? It's fucking awesome!

Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link

momus was before my time here but one of the coolest old threads i've ever read was this one: Momus, judges

i am rubber, t u.r.koglu (k3vin k.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link

And I'm not even going to get into the stupidity and extremely dubious racial shit behind the mindset that equates 'fancying Japanese girls' with 'fetishes'.

this was a great thread all in itself

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:08 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i remember this but can't remember what it was called. link?

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link

its just a movie dum dum

homosexual II, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link

"i'm not a bitch, i'm just honest"

blair underwood: "man up" (omar little), Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't recall any of Momus' anti-working class screeds - anyone got any examples?

― Wrinkles, I'll See You On the Other Side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:59 PM (Yesterday)

does anyone? i'm bored

harbl, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link

"birthday Grinch"

I want to know what this is bcz it sounds awesome.

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link

The Birthday Grinch

don't fear the freeper (suzy), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link

The Carrey grinch was his grinch image of choice :O

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link

he was a bit of a prick on the syd barrett RIP thread and I can't believe his post about what he enjoys doing with japanese women hasn't reappeared here it was hall of fame o_O

but he did defend metal box and the flowers of romance to the end so he wasn't all bad

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Wait, you mean something other than the gansha one upthread?

if, Thursday, 28 May 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, defending a canonical rock record does kinda redeem all the other shit.

xp

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link

what can I say he was an edgy dude

If you go to the ICA in London, you notice that Japanese girls sometimes seem to be the only people there. I am, in human form, the ICA. I am sustained, like that venerable London arts institution, by the patronage and kindness of these hyper- cultuivated people. I also enjoy fucking them.

-- Momus, Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link

People actually enjoy getting outraged by Momus' steez, don't they?

f1f0 (Pashmina), Friday, 29 May 2009 07:12 (fourteen years ago) link

proof of a true artist

autogucci cru (deej), Friday, 29 May 2009 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Sege Gainsbourg

Mark G, Friday, 29 May 2009 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm not sure whether I think his acknowledging and theorising of his inherent sexism is better or worse than the many posters who are misogynistic without acknowledging it, or even realising it. I think it's probably worse. [...]

― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

earns u a sarcastic slowburner gif!

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 29 May 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link

(xpost and I was so careful about spelling Gainsbourg right!)

Mark G, Friday, 29 May 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

People actually enjoy getting outraged by Momus' steez, don't they?

― f1f0 (Pashmina), Friday, May 29, 2009 3:12 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

c'mon on, now you're just asking for the nude photos

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link

with helpful arrows to point out momus' steez

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...
two years pass...

Momiss?

The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link

when that marie calloway shit went down i was sort of relieved that momus that dude's like 55 and was still mentioned as having gotten sucked off by her or something. forget the details. do your thing dawg.

dylannn, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link

wait what

The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link

Calloway " I wanna be rich" C/D ???????????

The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link

no, bipolar livejournal author marie calloway

dylannn, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link

a delicate flower trod underfoot by the opprsive male hairy sag??

The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link

i never really got the ilx-hating on momus. and i say that as someone who is largely ignorant of his music, etc output

tracer way otm in this thread and also suzy

dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link

I think it was love/hate

The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link

scott's '09 thread revive story is so good, though. instant momus gonna getchoo

dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

ne'r shall we soon forget
the geoduck that met us yet
when nude he photographed his parts
and shared them with the bloggin arts

The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

xposts def "love to hate" at least. ilx needs more "bad boys" or else it will die the way hair metal did in the nineties and posts will only be revived at strip mall venues in suburban va and downstate ny

dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

threads that is. late-period ilx. coming soon to an internet cafe in east fishkill

dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

just flagged your post. why? image bombing before five on a weekday. have fun in ilx heaven

dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link


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