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thank to our friend Elmer over at Modern Monarch (@edymeaday) If you guys haven't taken the time to check his show out, make sure you do, a fascinating blend of drug/medical research, serious Montauk investigations, and way more aside from that.
we've been directing people to our personal accounts (@179AAP893 & @dead_vape_maree ) but we're going to start following people back on this account just as an experiment in our numbers
These guys are sooo good!! Another amazing companion piece to She Harvey Oswald. We scratched the surface on Younger; they dredged the fuckin lake. Proud to be a part of a cluster of pods spitting fire on the buried truth of the sus 1970s.
Looks almost nothing like the one Pynchon describes, but we have a rough match for the Wyatt Earp mustache cup that Doc buys Bigfoot in Inherent Vice, these were made in the mid70s by a company called Ernesco according to an ebay listing
In what seems to be a very cryptic Pynchonian joke, in Inherent Vice, Puck Beaverton and Einar's old apartment is directly adjacent to one of LA's more notorious cruising spots, Vaseline Alley. Doc and Bigfoot are walking out of the building that's now 8275 Santa Monica Blvd.
After much head-scratching, we believe we found the source of Inherent Vice's Nixon-bucks! From the first issue of Mae Brussell's Conspiracy Newletter; note the reference to the Nixon-bucks serving as scrip in both texts.
Also worth noting that right before Squeezita's scene in Shadow Ticket, when Bruno Airmont is incestously asking his daughter on a date, the date she replies with here is actually Shirley Temple's birthday
Shadow Ticket's Squeezita Thickly's name seems to possibly derive from an odd practice of the Salt Lake City Benevolent Order of Elks where a prominent SLC businessman would be anonymously dressed in drag for the entirety of a day's Veiled Prophet-esque festivities
Shirley Temple's "Baby Berlesks" vs Squeezita Thickly in "Bigger Than Yer Stummick!" in Pynchon's Shadow Ticket vs Bianca's performance of "On the Good Ship Lollipop" in Gravity's Rainbow
In Inherent Vice, Doc's parents meet at "the World's Largest Outdoor Rummy Game" in Ripon, CA, which, of course, was real and sponsored by everyone's favorite fascist-adjacent strikebreakers, the American Legion
In Shadow Ticket, Skeet's real name is Floyd Francis *Wheeler*, & at the end of the novel, Pynchon has him run off to California with a girl named Zinnia. Zinnia+Floyd=Zoyd?? Zoyd being such an odd name, I feel like this is certainly on the table, even if we're speculating here
Striking parallels between these three passages from Shadow Ticket, Gravity's Rainbow, and Mason & Dixon: these huge, ominous semi-conscious figures of the ruin and decay of past ages literally looming over our characters