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By mjhorn Posted on September 3, 2019

Irish Whiskey and Water

When we last met here, you were humouring my rambling on at unprecedented length and pretentiousness about fermented horse milk. Let’s maybe settle back down with something a little simpler. … Continue reading Irish Whiskey and Water

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, Whisk(e)yTags: Ireland, Slothrop
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
By mjhorn Posted on May 8, 2017May 30, 2017

Aged Bourbon

Tommy Boy turns eighty today, and while I won’t say that counts as officially old, it is a pretty creditable age. No doubt he’s got another book coming together, as vivid … Continue reading Aged Bourbon

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, Whisk(e)yTags: USA, Zhlubb
By mjhorn Posted on February 16, 2016February 23, 2016

Rye Whiskey

Rye shows up in both Gravity’s Rainbow and Vineland. In a weird coincidence, the paragraphs in the two books that mention the stuff both also mention Superman. Here they are. Gravity’s Rainbow (p. 752): Superman … Continue reading Rye Whiskey

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Whisk(e)yTags: Chandler, DL, Frenesi, Superman, USA
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 15, 2015

Suntory Scotch

Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet turned one year old on Wednesday. We started out drinking Chivas Regal with Winsome in V. A year later, it’s a very happy birthday sipping Suntory Hibiki 12 … Continue reading Suntory Scotch

Categories: Vineland, Whisk(e)yTags: DL, Japan, Takeshi
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
By mjhorn Posted on May 13, 2014May 15, 2015

Chivas Regal

We’re in the second section of Chapter five (in which Stencil goes west with an alligator) of V., and Winsome’s sitting on his “grotesque” espresso machine smoking something referred to as “string.”  The … Continue reading Chivas Regal

Categories: V, Vineland, Whisk(e)yTags: Chivas Regal, Pynchon, Scotland, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tobacco

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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
@zordrac and I have commenced what will no doubt be our sparkling rafting careers on what I'm told is a bloody tall waterfall
Alley Care Bear has claimed a victim

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