Tag: Rum
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Crocodile
Exciting times! Shadow Ticket galleys are appearing in a few smiled-upon hands, and the rest of us only have forty-something days to wait before it’s in our preterite mitts too. In the meantime, PTA’s Vineland riff One Battle After Another is out in a month. Wildly for me, if less crucially for the rest of…
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Santiago Rum
So we have a cover! In the unlikely event that this is news to you, please find the USA (left) and UK/Aus (right) covers for Thomas Pynchon’s forthcoming novel Shadow Ticket attached below. Do you like them? I think I prefer the UK cover overall, although the diagonal text in the US version sets up…
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Mamajuana
Mamajuana at last! More than a decade in the uncorking, but its fumes were in the air right from the beginning of this Drunk Pynchon goose chase. Bleeding Edge was the original inspiration here, with the hollows in its DeepArcher crawlers’ webs sheltering obscure booze of various tantalising species, eminently googleable although often not so…
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151 and Pineapple Juice
Last week, we made burgers. Hailing as I do from the great state of Queensland, it was imperative I get a slice of tinned pineapple in there. Later in the week, another few slices made their way on top of a curry. Both applications were thoroughly delicious. (We will avoid the fraught question of pizza.)…
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Tequila Zombie
I’m maybe 50% of my way through a tequila zombie as I begin this post, and I must confess to feeling a little woozy. These past months of drinking along with Tyrone and Maxine and Jeremiah and Katje and Benny should have warmed up my liver a bit, but this one does ratchet the alcohol up…
Tom Pynchon's Liquor Cabinet 