Tag: Hicks McTaggart
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Gaglioppo
One thing I appreciate looking again at Shadow Ticket is how much of the young Pynchon is still visible. Of course, sixty-plus years after V., his slow-learning path has taken him worlds beyond that first postmodern doorstep. He wields a relaxed mastery these days. But plenty of little signatures of his style have stuck around…
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Canadian IPA
As an unreformed craft beer nerd, I have sometimes wished Mr Pynchon would slip a few more specialty brews in among the Burgundian vintages and unlikely cocktails. Not that we don’t get thrown a few bones; one beery highlight I recall fondly was the lambic from Against the Day, and I’ve made the most of…
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French 75
Has there even been a better season to be a Pynhead? (May need to workshop that one a little more sorry…) Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a Vinelandish cherry on top of the Shadow Ticket sundae. And what a cherry it is! If it weren’t for certain other pressing responsibilities, I might…
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Sidecar
Shadow Ticket is with us! I hope you’ve had a chance to enjoy some time in the company of Hicks McTaggart, April Randazzo, Zoltán von Kiss, Glow Tripworth de Vasta, and the rest of our cast of characters Milwaukeean, Hungarian, and otherwise. Isn’t it a delight being back amongst all those beautiful Pynchonian names? Between…
Tom Pynchon's Liquor Cabinet 