Pynchon Party

[Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling]

I't s easy to remember Pynch's Birthday: it's the day before Cinco de Mayo
(mmm... Mayo).

This thing is getting some traction in the county of my birth,
Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me):

Celebrate Pynchon's 71st birthday in Red Hook with Moxie, BBQ, and ...
By Lindsay Beyerstein
Thomas Pynchon birthday bash. Mark your calendars for the literary
event of the season: Thomas Pynchon turns 71 and Freebird Books and
greater Red Hook won't let him forget it. Join us for a backyard
barbeque and fax-a-thon celebrating ...
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2008/05/celebrate-pynch.html

Civic Calendar
BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
Freebird BBQ and Fax-a-Pynchon party: Celebrate the springtime, the
completion of Columbia Street roadwork and Thomas Pynchon's birthday.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/18/31_18_civic_calendar.html

Sorry that I won't be there to raise a glass'o spiked Moxie in my home
(Willlam[sburgh Bridge]) Burrough,
b-but as long as you're in Brooklyn:
http://www.freenyc.net/archives/2008/05/attack_of_the_f.php

Henry Mu
http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm
(KCUF is down until this evening [and perhaps it won't be up until Monday
:-( ])

On 4/27/08, Tony Antoniadis <tony.antoniadis at gmail.com> wrote:
> For all you tri-staters:
>
>
> This Sunday (May 4) come celebrate springtime on the Brooklyn waterfront,
the completion of Columbia Street, and the first signs of the Greenway bike
path connecting Greenpoint with Red Hook.
>
>
> Oh, and we will be toasting that doyen of the delirious novel, that
lovable recluse and buck-toothed prophet of paranoia, Thomas Pynchon.  He
turns 71 later in the week, and who are we to deny him a party?
>
> We'll dine on foodstuffs famously vomited by Gravity's Rainbow's Tyrone
Slothrop: burgers, homefries, chef's salad with French dressing, Moxie,
after-dinner mints, Clark bars, salted peanuts, and "the cherry from some
Radcliffe girl's old-fashioned."  Guests will be allowed to send him
greetings via the outmoded technology of a fax machine.
>
> Whether you can recite Mason and Dixon from memory or only know Pynchon as
a recurring guest on the Simpsons, stop by on Sunday!  The festivities begin
at 3 pm.
>
> Freebird Books
> 123 Columbia Street (between Kane and Degraw streets)
> Brooklyn, NY 11231
> 718-643-8484
> http://www.freebirdbooks.com/directions.html
> Hours: Thurs-Fridays 6-10 pm; Sat-Sun 10 am-10 pm
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