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Article: Streetcar: Momus
- Article from:
- New Orleans Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Feb 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Whenever there were double sevens in the year, Momus' parade seemed to create quite a stir.
In 1877 the theme of Momus' march was "Hades, A Dream of Momus." The floats poked fun at the era of Reconstruction which then was in its waning days. The carpetbaggers were not amused. Gov. Francis Nicholls, fearing the parade might disrupt the uneasy peace with those in Washington, sent a telegram with an apology to the state's envoy at the capital. Momus, imp that he was, had created political trouble. There would be no more satires in parades again, at least not for another century.
In 1977 Momus celebrated the centennial of the Hades parade by reintroducing satire, only the joke was partially on ...
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... ... close to the wonderful weirdness that is Momus, Britain's most bizarre export. Adopting ... except it's all about people who wrote Momus, paid him $1,000 and asked him to write ... money burning a hole in their CD players. Momus has already shown great skill at melding ...
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