Tag: Nero d’Avola

• Nero d’Avola

  Early in Bleeding Edge, Maxine pays a visit to the VC (which I’m assuming is venture capitalist) who’d supported hwgaahwgh.com (which address now conveniently directs one to the book’s wiki). The VC is Rockwell “Rocky” Slagiatt, who’s dropped his surname’s terminal vowel in order “to sound more anglo,” despite then “becoming disingenuously ethnic again” in Maxine’s […]

  mjhorn

  July 29, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Wine

  Food, Italy, Maxine, Nero d’Avola, Pynchon, Slagiatt