Tag: Oedipa

• Tequila Sour

  

  Not long after Oedipa first spots that muted posthorn in the bathroom of the Scope, she finds herself out with Metzger and the Paranoids for a day at the among the earth-moving machines and “total absence of trees” of the still under construction Fangoso Lagoons. It’s a perfect picnic spot: The Paranoid element piled out […]

  mjhorn

  April 23, 2019

  Cocktail/mixed, Slow Learner, The Crying of Lot 49

  Meatball Mulligan, Metzger, Oedipa, Tequila

• Whisky Sours

  

  8 May is universally recognised and celebrated as Pynchon in Public day. Parades fill the streets from Venice Beach to Vheissu; confetti pours from airships over all the world’s great capitals. In celebration of this grand holiday, I gathered some compadres to join Oedipa Maas and me for a whisky sour. Boilermaker House whipped us up a […]

  mjhorn

  May 8, 2016

  Cocktail/mixed, The Crying of Lot 49

  Bars/Places, Mucho, Oedipa, Pynchon in Public, Sour

• Champagne Cocktails

  

  With all the drinking in Pynchon, you’d think there’d be a few more recognisable bars dotting his fictional landscapes. But the only one that really jumps out to me is The Scope, which we find out on the way to LA, near the Yoyodyne factory in The Crying of Lot 49. From chapter three: The Scope […]

  mjhorn

  May 3, 2015

  Cocktail/mixed, The Crying of Lot 49

  Bars/Places, Black Pearl, Blanton’s, Bourbon, Champagne, Guiness, Metzger, Mike Fallopian, Oedipa, Prosecco

• Beaujolais

  Through some sort of internet miracle, this blog has had more hits today than in its previous six weeks of life combined. Like ten times more. So tonight I’m celebrating–and welcoming new readers!–with a bottle of Beaujolais. Swing by my house and I’ll pour you a glass.  This drop makes its appearance near the beginning of The […]

  mjhorn

  June 23, 2014

  The Crying of Lot 49, Wine

  beaujolais, France, Metzger, Oedipa