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Momus fails because, we assume, a 'Torture' committee of its bluebloods gets Carnival 1985 commenced with together and makes up jokes about a chilly clime and ended with a New Orleans and New Orleanians. balmy, overcast Mardi Gras­ Well, there are tons of funny warm enough for t-shirts but not people in New Orleans but not one quite sunny enough for those of them is a member of the krewe­ dapper citizens known as Indians, joining, ball-going class. Those in who spend months affixing plastic doubt should attend one of the jewels and sequins to their suits. "social" balls at Municipal Without a blazing sun, these local Auditorium. We've been to Sioux lack half their glory. funerals that were more jolly. We've said it before and we see Momus' 1985 theme was "Our no reason not to repeat our plan: Own Language,'' a rather rich Carnival should be held in July. source considering previous Most people have no idea that endeavors by Robert Tallant, John Carnival has anything to do with Kennedy Toole and Bunny Lent (what right-minded modern Matthews. However, the god of person would ever give up mockery seemed fairly wimpy in something in these greedy times?), .his choice of jokes-depicting our the Church or the Pope. How silly seven city councilmen as po-boys it is that in other sections of this (too true to be funny) and World's nation, the one-minute silent non­ Fair chief executive Petr Spurney denominational school prayer is a trapped in a gondola with the subject of great debate and breast­ legend "Suemore D' Affaire" (too beating. Here in New Orleahs, we mild to be funny). celebrate a full-blown Roman Catholic holiday with more than a little cooperation from our municipal government. Along the parade routes, Lutheran congre­ gations sell hot dogs, Episcopalians retail German beer and devotees of Krishna dispense · fake "summonses," which "order"· the startled recipient to appear at a Krishna ceremony. The young lady who tried to present us with such a document nearly got punched in the nose. Next time, we The K.rewe of Hermes, founded by won't think twice about it. men of the tourist industry, In Rio, Carnival is celebrated at introduced neon lights to Carnival the same time as it is in New floats in 1938 and its parade is the Orleans but because Brazil is on last procession to feature a team of the opposite side of the equator, mules pulling the king's float. Brazil's Carnival is a summertime aefore the advent of tractors, all affair. Thusly, it's hot and cele­ floats were pulled by mules and the brants lack both inhibitions and sight of mules encased in white clothes. Tnebunda (as the well­ ~;,obes not unlike those worn by the shaped behind is known) is an Klan is awesome. Bravo to Hermes object of national pride, as is the for keeping the tradition alive! Brazilian's inalienable right to Hermes' 1985 theme was "All fornication in the streets. For One and One For All," In New Orleans, the height of depicting the tale of the Three "nastiness" is some poor coed Musketeers as it rolled through the from Alabama, drunk for the first city on Friday night. On Sunday time in her life (on Hurricanes or morning, the same floats (designed the like), discretely flashing her bra by the Barth Brothers) were used for the benefit of other drunk by the Krewe of Thoth, who called students. Oooh! They go wild over their parade "Classic Tales of Fact stuff like that on Bourbon Street! and Fiction.'' The Thothians What passes for decadence and tossed vibrant yellow plastic cups sordidness beyond the call of duty decorated with vikings, Egyptians in New Orleans is a young and of course, the Three insurance salesman or native hair­ Musketeers. And then there was dresser costuming as a woman (or the peculiar truck disguised as a at least the kind of "woman" seen portable jail, festooned with the in Las Vegas chorus lines). Next heads of the Jacksons and Sheriff year, they'll probably be A.I.D.S. Foti. Aboard the truck was what fatalities so these boys literally and looked like real prisoners (mostly liberally adopt the motto of the black) and real whores (mostly Knights of Momus-Dum white). One's first assumption was Vivimus, Vivamus- "While we that these celebrants were being let live, let us live!" out of their cells for reasons of Momus, which traditionally good behavior or perhaps asJjying parades along the Uptown route examples of what happens to bad on the Thursday evening preceding little boys and girls. Quite Mardi Gras, utilizes satirical mysterious, to say the least. themes for its parades. Momus Endymion, parading through on Saturday night with wouldn't be too happy about that. us Newton as its monarch, Zulu, parading first thing on simply too much. Too slow. Mardi Gras morning (although not • ts strung-out. We watched the as early as it once did), is JOUt comprised of mostly blacks in :ms. four or five floats, then drove and watched the rest on TV. blackface and an ever-increasing the TV commentators, amount of whites in blackface. We one Pat >Uettlhom•, kept pointing OUt almost caught a pair of official we­ Jazz from his high school who es black Zulu bikini panties but then ~ in floats. Since we know the Afro-American who was has been out of high taunting the crowd with the panties well over a decade and traded both the panties and an guys on the floats were official black-and-white Zulu masks, we found this umbrella to a white woman for a lnnd of reportage pretty mere can of Budweiser. IICfedible. As for Mardi Gras music, it was ohn We skipped Bacchus for the Madonna and the Jacksons. ame reason we've never been to During the Pegasus parade, we Disneyland. We were shocked heard three high school bands in a *n every newscaster in town row playing three different Rferred to Bacchus as the arrangements of "Torture." It was JAZZ FEST IS UPON US ..