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Category: Against The Day

By mjhorn Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

Watered pink wine

Perhaps after a weekend of global celebration following the Americans’ step back toward sanity, I’m not the only one who could use some gentle Monday hair of the dog? My … Continue reading Watered pink wine

Categories: Against The Day, Gravity's Rainbow, WineTags: Dally Rideout, Frank Traverse, Säure Bummer, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

Imported German Beer

On page 986 of Against the Day, Frank Traverse has just recently put his engineering skills to use rigging a train with an imperial fuckton of dynamite and now finds … Continue reading Imported German Beer

Categories: Against The Day, BeerTags: Frank Traverse, Günther von Quassel, Germany, Mexico
By mjhorn Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020

Imported Danish Aquavit

Happy Pynchon in Public Private Day all! Did you declaim a paragraph of Gravity’s Rainbow from your rooftop? Put a copy of V in the window? Change your zoom background … Continue reading Imported Danish Aquavit

Categories: Against The Day, Other spiritsTags: Denmark, Vormance
By mjhorn Posted on January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Pouilly-Fuissé

My sister described this Louis Jadot 2015 Pouilly-Fuissé as tasting of peach followed by buttery toasted pastry. Her palate must have developed some since last year’s bottle of Graves, where … Continue reading Pouilly-Fuissé

Categories: Against The Day, WineTags: Chums of Chance, France, Pugnax
By mjhorn Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

Opium Beer

I sit drinking this opium beer on my roof, and Australia’s current apocalyptic choke of bushfires has certainly leant the scene an opium den-esque smokiness. But that might be as … Continue reading Opium Beer

Categories: Against The Day, BeerTags: Drugs, Neville, Nigel
By mjhorn Posted on December 25, 2019January 9, 2020

Pommery (Merry Christmas!)

Merry Christmas, Pynchondom! I hope you’re enjoying it with good friends and family and that your relatives’ paranoid conspiracy theories are at least entertaining. Here, we’ve pulled a festive bottle … Continue reading Pommery (Merry Christmas!)

Categories: Against The Day, WineTags: Champagne, Christmas, Foley Walker, France, Scarsdale Vibe
By mjhorn Posted on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019

Some vermouth concoction

Often here, I’ll pluck a drink from a page of Pynchon based primarily on my ignorance of it. Tommy boy has introduced me to a vast array of new favourites … Continue reading Some vermouth concoction

Categories: Against The Day, Cocktail/mixed, Slow LearnerTags: Absinthe, Italy, Kit, Kombucha
By mjhorn Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019

Cognac

Cognac first appears in Pynchon crated up on the Swinemünde dock, among the cargo Gerhardt von Göll / Der Springer is shipping upriver. Springer’s cargo also features “six chorus girls, … Continue reading Cognac

Categories: Against The Day, Gravity's Rainbow, Other spiritsTags: Dally Rideout, Der Sringer, France, Policarpe
By mjhorn Posted on February 10, 2019February 10, 2019

Graves

It is February and a little late for new year’s resolutions, but I will nevertheless assert that I’m hoping to pick up the pace around here this year. When I … Continue reading Graves

Categories: Against The Day, WineTags: Chums of Chance, France, Pugnax
By mjhorn Posted on December 6, 2018December 25, 2018

Arak

Somewhere deep in the vast and mapless territories of Against the Day, Lindsay Noseworth of the Chums of Chance finds himself riding atop a camel through a “nook” of New … Continue reading Arak

Categories: Against The Day, Other spiritsTags: Chums of Chance, Middle East
By mjhorn Posted on August 8, 2018

Nebbiolo

Right near the end of Against the Day, we witness Dally and Kit reunite with Reef and Yashmeen in Turin. There’s a little wife-with-ex-lover tension, but the whole thing basically seems … Continue reading Nebbiolo

Categories: Against The Day, WineTags: Dally Rideout, Italy, Kit, Reef Traverse, Yashmeen Halfcourt
By mjhorn Posted on May 13, 2018July 9, 2018

The Macallan

I first cracked open Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet and got stuck into the Chivas Regal four years ago today. That seems like a good excuse for more whisky. The Macallan graces the … Continue reading The Macallan

Categories: Against The Day, Bleeding Edge, Whisk(e)yTags: Grand Cohen, Lew Basnight, Maxine, Renfrew and Werfner, Scotland

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