Kyoto Grump Radio

[imomus]

He's in Kyoto dressed in a funny eyepatch and hat, but he's not laughing. In fact he's grumping about everything. And you lucky, lucky people can listen for an hour!

Why didn't a single British person take a bath for five hundred years? Why can't you pay in cafes with used underwear? Why does blue light make girls more beautiful? What's wrong with pointing your toes at the Buddha? Why has Oscar Niemeyer got a bit boring? What'll happen if Bush gets in for another term? And where should Momus send this tape, Al Jazeera or LiveJournal?

Kyoto Grump Radio (27.59 MB mono mp3 file, 60 minutes)

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W is for Warmonger

[xyzedd.livejournal.com]

Borrowing from certain philosophers we admire, Momus once sang, "Nobody is good/Nobody is evil." Nevertheless, Bush is definitely not "just another American president." He makes Nixon seem downright benign and even Reagan sound somewhat reasonable. (Believe me, I am regretfully old enough to remember them both.) For a person who claims to not be "interested in America," the earlier poster seems to be expending quite a lot of energy thinking about it. The fact remains, since America is now famously the "world's sole remaining superpower," we must all be interested and act on behalf of the lesser of any evils--or else suffer the consequences.

I write this as an American who is profoundly embarrassed for our country whenever I even think of "W" and who knows that even though Democrats aren't yet different enough from Republicans, even small differences today count for enormous changes in the future. If Bush is elected again (so to speak), I will consider this the beginning of the new Dark Ages which we've been teetering on the precipice of for the last four years.

By the way, I haven't even listened to Momus's latest radio piece yet. But last week I did some more disorienteering of my own and disappeared into the wilderness while I finally listened to the "Osaka hour." I was amused to discover, upon rechecking that entry, that the "rubber tears" the bartender was wearing and which Momus found so fetching were actually "rabbit ears." So much for British and Australian accents to confuse a dumb American, but I still think rubber tears are more original.