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By mjhorn Posted on May 30, 2020

A six-pack of Coors

Shall we add writing tasting notes for an American macro lager to the accruing ridiculousnesses of this blog? You already know it’s a cold crisp refreshing uncomplicated thing. Does anyone … Continue reading A six-pack of Coors

Categories: Beer, Inherent ViceTags: Doc Sportello, Shasta, USA
By mjhorn Posted on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019

A huge can of Australian beer

That most significant international day of celebration has rolled around again — happy Pynchon in Public Day all. This drinking is happening on PIP Day Eve on my relatively unpublic … Continue reading A huge can of Australian beer

Categories: Beer, Inherent ViceTags: Australia, St Flip
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 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 7, 2014October 7, 2014

Cachaça with beer chasers

Well I really lived up to that ‘Drunk Pynchon’ moniker on this one. Cachaça, it turns out, goes down easy and goes down fast and then may or may not come right … Continue reading Cachaça with beer chasers

Categories: Beer, Gravity's Rainbow, Inherent Vice, Other spiritsTags: Brazil, Coy Harlingen, Doc Sportello, Mountain Goat, Sagatiba
By mjhorn Posted on June 14, 2014August 21, 2014

Boilermaker

Whiskey and Alement hides its vast whisky stores and careful beer selection behind a curtained door in a dead pocket of the Melbourne CBD. It’s a Pynchonesque place, in its … Continue reading Boilermaker

Categories: Beer, Inherent Vice, V, Whisk(e)yTags: Bars/Places, boilermaker, Brooklyn Brewery, Bunnahabhain, Doc Sportello, Pynchon, Roony, Sauncho, Scotland, USA

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Reading highlights from a year inside
Some belated 2019 favourites - Saunders maybe most of all, and Garner a big highlight. Also massively recommend Underland for moving, thoughtful writing about our relationship to the planet
Selling local honey and horse milk by the roadside in Jeti-Oguz, Kyrgyzstan.
I'm off to follow in the footsteps of Dzapyq Qulan and chase that Kirghiz Light...
Kakadu and the Territory are beautiful moving magical places and these branches are the only evidence I'm going to offer
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