Category: Bleeding Edge

• Papa Doble (and a giveaway!)

  

  The paperback of Bleeding Edge comes out tomorrow in the US. That’s the updated cover passing on our right. The press release from Penguin Press reminds me (as I’m sure I don’t have to remind you) that the book is “dazzling and ludicrous,” “full or verbal sass and pizzazz … totally gonzo, totally wonderful,” “a necessary novel and one…

  mjhorn

  August 26, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixed

  Bars/Places, Giveaway, Hemingway, March Kelleher, Maxine, New Gold Mountain

• Nero d’Avola

  Early in Bleeding Edge, Maxine pays a visit to the VC (which I’m assuming is venture capitalist) who’d supported hwgaahwgh.com (which address now conveniently directs one to the book’s wiki). The VC is Rockwell “Rocky” Slagiatt, who’s dropped his surname’s terminal vowel in order “to sound more anglo,” despite then “becoming disingenuously ethnic again” in Maxine’s…

  mjhorn

  July 29, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Wine

  Food, Italy, Maxine, Nero d’Avola, Pynchon, Slagiatt

• Rolling Rock

  A week or so ago, I had the unexpectedly excellent experience of visiting the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St Louis. The brewery complex was opened in 1852, and it has some terrific architecture to show for its long history, even if the beer itself is perhaps less exceptional. I was of course curious as to what Pynchonian alcoholic…

  mjhorn

  July 18, 2014

  Beer, Bleeding Edge

  Bars/Places, Driscoll, Horst, Lager, Maxine, Pynchon, Rolling Rock, USA

• King Kong

  King Kong? Pynchon helpfully explains that it’s “Crown Royal plus banana liqueur.” (Banana for the monkey, Crown for the King–a little poem in itself.) The internet helpfully elaborates that you can down your King Kong either as a shooter or over ice. Or both! Here we go: As a shot, the King Kong tastes primarily of cough medicine.…

  mjhorn

  June 20, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixed

  banana liqueur, Canada, Crown Royal, Pynchon, Shot

• Tequila Sunrise

  Bleeding Edge is the book that inspired this project. According to my (very work in progress) list, it mentions 32 different specific drinks, crushing V.’s paltry 17. Benny Profane and the Whole Sick Crew in V. are way drunker than Bleeding Edge’s Maxine Tarnow, but they’re always just drinking “beer” or “wine.” Bleeding Edge gets nice and specific. Mamajuana? Fernet-Branca? A…

  mjhorn

  May 25, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixed

  Pynchon, Tequila Sunrise