Tag: Foley Walker

• Merry Christmas! (Prosecco)

  

  Amidst the festive chaos, I am cracking a bottle of Prosecco and making everyone tolerate me taking pictures of it atop a paperback of a Pynchon tome. It’s tradition! (See e.g. Pommery, Perrier Jouët, Piesporter, Pink Champagne) (Apparently, without ever consciously deciding to do so, I have curated a strictly P-initial sparkling canon. P for presents?…

  mjhorn

  December 22, 2025

  Against The Day, Wine

  Christmas, Chums of Chance, Foley Walker, Italy, Prince Spongiatosta, Scarsdale Vibe

• 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 of Pommery Champagne from Against the Day to celebrate. The company is more sinister there — Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe drink some after Vibe…

  mjhorn

  December 25, 2019

  Against The Day, Wine

  Champagne, Christmas, Foley Walker, France, Scarsdale Vibe

• Italian Beer

  

  On page 724 of Against the Day, we find sinister (likely orange-faced tiny-handed) plutocrat Scarsdale Vibe touring northern Italy with his faithful manservant Foley Walker hunting bargains in Renaissance art. The hunt involves regular humiliation for Foley, not a day going by that he doesn’t “find himself carrying out some chore better left to a performing monkey.” Page…

  mjhorn

  April 23, 2017

  Against The Day, Beer

  Foley Walker, Italy, Scarsdale Vibe