VLVL2(3): What I'm Really Here About

[Dave Monroe]

   "'What I'm really here about,' Hector had been
explaining, 'is the matter of drugs.'
   "'Thank God!' screamed Van Meter, 'it's been weeks,
we thought we'd never score again! oh, yes, it's a
miracle--' Zoyd kicking him frantically--'who sent
you, are you that dude that knows Leon?'
   "The federale showed his teeth, amused.  'Subject
you refer to is temporarily in custody, though sure to
be back before very long in his accustomed spot
beneath the Gordita Pier.'
   "'Aaaaaa ...,' went Van Meter." (VL, Ch. 3, pp.
23-24)


p. 23 "What I'm really here about..."    This is an
old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for
weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the
door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper
says, "Thank God! We're all out!" It's right up there
with the one where the cop says, "Your papers,
please!" and the head whips out his Zig-Zags.

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter3.htm

And again with the teleplay direction, "Zoyd kicking
him frantically" ...


"The federale showed his teeth"

http://www.ssp.df.gob.mx/htmls/home.html

http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/leyinfo/pdf/49.pdf

Porfirio Diaz led a military revolt that placed him in
power in 1876. He ruled Mexico for 34 years-his period
of rule is known today as El Porfiriato. The people
who stood behind Diaz against the revolutionaries
during the Mexican Revolution were called Federales. 

http://www.co.el-paso.tx.us/mural/ipix/detail46_mexican.html

In the state of Chihuahua rural workers and ranchers,
led by Francisco Villa, engaged the national army
(federales). Haciendas and ranches were seized and the
lands distributed. By 1914, the most powerful military
forces were Villistas. But they did not have a
political or economic program.

http://www.unm.edu/~nvaldes/350/Mexagrarian.htm

Francisco "Pancho" Villa (1877 - 1923)

http://www.sp.utexas.edu/jrn/cwp/pvg/info.htm

http://www.mexicanamericans.com/PanchoVilla.htm

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/jcummings/jcpanchovilla.html

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/VV/fvi6.html

The story of Thomas Pynchon's initial disappearance
has been told so often that it has passed into legend.
The year was 1963; the place was Mexico City. Time
magazine dispatched a photographer to bring back an
image of the 26-year-old author of a promising first
novel called "V." The problem was, Pynchon didn't want
his picture snapped -- he reportedly felt his buck
teeth made him look like Bugs Bunny. So he climbed
aboard a bus and vanished into the hills, where his
furtive manner and wildly overgrown mustache led the
locals to dub him "Pancho Villa." 

http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/10media.html

According to his friend Jules Siegel, when Pynchon
lived in Mexico in the sixties, "The Mexicans laughed
at his mustache and called him Pancho Villa." There's
a hoary old joke whose punchline goes, "Did I know
Pancho Villa? Hombre, we had lunch together!" Mine
goes, "Did I know Thomas Pynchon? Man, we smoked dope
together!" Except it's no joke; it really happened.

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm

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