Hergé's Adventures of... Momus?

[imomus]

Sometimes, adventuring through exotic lands, I feel like Tintin. Sometimes I even dress like him. And sometimes, out of the blue, people send me mock Tintin covers doctored to feature me. This one is courtesy of Staffan Millqvist.

Actually, when I'm cussing through my megaphone at the Whitney, I feel a lot more like Captain Haddock, whose splendidly baroque litany of insults, curses and racial epithets can be found here.

Comments

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

you're hilarious.

[conorh.livejournal.com]

see http://conorh.livejournal.com/37155.html for a reference referring to your referral...

[scottbateman.livejournal.com]

That person following you looks very confused.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

The curses of Captain Haddock always brings me a chuckle when I read the old comic books of Tintin. But in the beginning Tintin adventured alone in Soviet (http://www.collectionneuse.com/product_info.php?products_id=30).

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

ooh, the other day in short corduroys and an orange 1970s shirt i thought myself to resemble one Indiana Jones....but I find Tintin a much more worthy fashion prototype. Have you been to the Tintin/Petit Prince/Babar store in the L.E.S? quite nice. i bought a stuffed sheep like that drawn in Le Petit Prince.
you're looking lovely. i'm looking like a Japanese school boy. at least my backpack gives that impression:


[i should tell you about the film i have in the works ;)]

[amblance.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how happy that list has made me. Ah, childhood memories.

[bopscotch.livejournal.com]

Now I feel like reading Tintin, which I've never read before in my life. It will be a good experience I think. I also need something new to read after reading "The Ambient Century" by Mark Prendergast.

[nickdoro.livejournal.com]

billions of blue blistering barnacles! you've got the pants down, but you gotta get the hair right.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

what is it that you're stepping over, curious man?

[martylog.livejournal.com]

That is very, very funny.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Some favorite selections from Samuel Johnson (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802714285/103-4221769-6202231?v=glance&n=283155):

Trubtail! Airling! Pickleherring! Laced Mutton! Grammaticaster! Whoremonger! Ronion! Pickthank! Smellfeast! Cotquean! Runnion! Witling! Hell-Kite! Hedge-born Garlickeater! Jobbernowl! Fopdoodle! Pettifogger! Whoreson!

That Whitney pic is ripe for a funny caption. I'm enjoying the blousy plus-fours with the snug jacket. Works nicely.

If you have a free night next week, let me know—I have to come into town soon.

[alisgray.livejournal.com]

That is totally adorable.

Bald-headed Budgerigar!

[(Anonymous)]

That's definitely one of my favorites of the Captain's curses. Actually, any of them that have to do with birds are good. Also, the photo portrait of you standing outside a chinatown produce-seller showcases the very clean sidewalk! Not at all like Bush or Stockton streets in San Francisco's chinatown. Are all the sidewalks that clean in Manhattan's chinatown, or is it just in front of that particular storefront?

Signed,

Someone interested in sidewalks

Winslow

[(Anonymous)]

I have no clothes, please lend me yours!

Impeach Bush

[(Anonymous)]

Burst Pipeline Causes Major Oil Spill in Alaska

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-03-15-voa70.cfm


this happened a week ago and now is being covered is SOME news sources.
why isnt this on the front page of every paper?

Re: Impeach Bush

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

Come now, I'm sure you can provide the answer to that.

[loverboy82.livejournal.com]

Billions of blue blistering barnacles!!

Thundering typhoons!!!!

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

If those were just 2/3s of a foot longer you'd look more like the Little Prince.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You know, the source of Captain Haddock's creative blasphemies is the need to evoke ultimate obscenity while remaining pure and printable. You have this nautical man who clearly swears... well, like a nautical man. But he's in a book for children. So you make his swearing so outlandish that it sounds both outrageously dirty and totally clean. These days you'd probably just have him say "Fucking fuckers!" or "Fucking hell, fuck it, you fucking cunts!"

[imomus.livejournal.com]

And while we're on Ugandan affairs, it might be the moment to mention the obscene parodies of Tintin created by Jan Bucquoy.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Mom? MOM?

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Ugandan Momus (http://nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/design/17snap.html?hp&ex=1142571600&en=f788f29b7e560530&ei=5094&partner=homepage)

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You don't even want to know what Bucquoy has him do to Snowy... I remember I was at a party in Aberdeen once, and someone started passing a Bucquoy Tintin book around the room, and each person in turn collapsed into paroxysms on the floor. And I was thinking "It can't be that funny! I won't laugh, whatever it is!" But it was, and I fell onto the floor in turn.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Spot? SPOT?

[loverboy82.livejournal.com]

haha, totally!

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

His trousers are fabulous.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm telling you, you could be a double, or stuntman, for times when the diva Tintin is out on opium.

/Staffan

Something Special

[(Anonymous)]

Stephen Duffy did all this back in the eighties of course. You'll be dueting with Sandii next.

Actually

[(Anonymous)]

that eyepatch and hair always reminded me of someone else...