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Category: Cocktail/mixed

By mjhorn Posted on May 8, 2016May 8, 2016

Whisky Sours

8 May is universally recognised and celebrated as Pynchon in Public day. Parades fill the streets from Venice Beach to Vheissu; confetti pours from airships over all the world’s great capitals. In … Continue reading Whisky Sours

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, The Crying of Lot 49Tags: Bars/Places, Mucho, Oedipa, Pynchon in Public, Sour
By mjhorn Posted on April 10, 2016April 10, 2016

Gin Marshmallows

I hope everyone is digging the new season of the Pynchon in Public podcast. After three seasons pissing around with minor works, they’ve finally bit the bullet (or, I suppose, the … Continue reading Gin Marshmallows

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Gravity's RainbowTags: Candy, Gin, Marshmallow, Mrs Quoad, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on November 8, 2015November 8, 2015

Vodka with Milk, Vegetable Soup, and Watermelon Juice

…so quoth a commenter when the Guardian books first introduced our frivolous little endeavour to the world. And I know of course one shouldn’t read the comments and less still feed the trolls, but I … Continue reading Vodka with Milk, Vegetable Soup, and Watermelon Juice

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, VTags: Dewey Gland, Paola Hod, Pig Bodine, Podcast, Profane, Pynchon in Public
By mjhorn Posted on June 4, 2015June 4, 2015

Old Fashioned

I’ve recently embarked with the Chums of Chance aboard the good ship Inconvenience—and man, (isn’t this supposed to be some kinda kid’s book?) the air in here sure is alcoholic. My Against the … Continue reading Old Fashioned

Categories: Beer, Cocktail/mixed, Gravity's Rainbow, Whisk(e)yTags: Bourbon, Chums of Chance, Moon Dog, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on May 3, 2015May 3, 2015

Champagne Cocktails

With all the drinking in Pynchon, you’d think there’d be a few more recognisable bars dotting his fictional landscapes. But the only one that really jumps out to me is The … Continue reading Champagne Cocktails

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, The Crying of Lot 49Tags: Bars/Places, Black Pearl, Blanton's, Bourbon, Champagne, Guiness, Metzger, Mike Fallopian, Oedipa, Prosecco
By mjhorn Posted on March 15, 2015March 15, 2015

Tequila Zombie

I’m maybe 50% of my way through a tequila zombie as I begin this post, and I must confess to feeling a little woozy. These past months of drinking along with … Continue reading Tequila Zombie

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Inherent ViceTags: Brandy, Doc Sportello, Rum, Sauncho, Tequila, Vodka
By mjhorn Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015

Singapore Sling

We Australian Pynchonites have been waiting patiently and less patiently for Inherent Vice to reach our shores. It did finally appear in Melbourne in a moonlight preview last week, but I was already seeing … Continue reading Singapore Sling

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Inherent Vice, VinelandTags: Bars/Places, Cookie, Doc Sportello, Lourdes, Minoru, Motella, Takeshi
By mjhorn Posted on February 1, 2015February 1, 2015

Quimporto

It’s been a while… so I’m back with a bit of a weird one. Weird enough even to be called weird in Gravity’s Rainbow, which let’s face it is itself pretty weird. Page … Continue reading Quimporto

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Gravity's RainbowTags: Bovril, Clive Mossmoon, Port, Sir Marcus Scammony
By mjhorn Posted on November 20, 2014November 20, 2014

A gigantic pitcherful of margaritas

When I reread Inherent Vice a month or so ago, the first pages had me worried. It wasn’t the writing–I slipped into the Lebowski haze more happily and with even more laughter … Continue reading A gigantic pitcherful of margaritas

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Inherent ViceTags: Cointreau, Doc Sportello, Jose Cuervo, Luz, Riggs Warbling, Sloane Wolfmann
By mjhorn Posted on October 25, 2014November 5, 2014

Tom Collins

Well Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet has entered its sixth month of life, and two Pynchon books remain undrunk from: Slow Learner and Against the Day. The latter I haven’t even read yet (looking … Continue reading Tom Collins

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Slow LearnerTags: Buttercup, Levine, The Small Rain, Tom Collins
By mjhorn Posted on August 26, 2014October 25, 2014

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 … Continue reading Papa Doble (and a giveaway!)

Categories: Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixedTags: Bars/Places, Giveaway, Hemingway, March Kelleher, Maxine, New Gold Mountain
By mjhorn Posted on July 12, 2014July 12, 2014

Inexpensive (airborne) vodka

Of all the bars in Pynchon, Kahuna Airlines’ airborne tiki bar must be one of the most colourful: Each 747 in the Kahuna Airlines fleet had been gutted and refitted as a … Continue reading Inexpensive (airborne) vodka

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, VinelandTags: Fiji, Pynchon, tiki bar, Vodka, Zoyd

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