IVIV (1) Show Business Yearnings

[Dave Monroe]

   "Like many L.A. cops, Bigfooot, named for his entry method of
choice, harbored show business yearnings ..." {IV, Ch. 1, p. 9)

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf


"off-network channels"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_frequency#Television
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/


"Character parts"

"comical Mexicans on The Flying Nun"

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327602/

"assistant psychopaths on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Parfrey


"SAG dues"

http://www.sag.org/content/paying-dues


"Zody's parking lot"

Zody's, also known as Hartfield-Zodys, was a chain of discount retail
stores that operated in the United States from 1969 to 1986. The chain
operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and
Michigan....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zody's

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_v25/ai_4173375/

An anagram for Zoyd, one of the main characters in Vineland.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_9


"Chinese red, chartreuse, and indigo"

Cf. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_flag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_colours

And note as well ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:African_America_Flag.svg

ver·mil·ion also ver·mil·lion
n.
1. A bright red mercuric sulfide used as a pigment.
2. A vivid red to reddish orange. Also called Chinese red, cinnabar.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/vermilion

"China red" is another name for the pigment vermilion, which is the
traditional red pigment of Chinese art. Chinese name chops are printed
with a red cinnabar paste, and vermilion (or cinnabar) is the pigment
used in Chinese red lacquer. Cinnabar also has significance in Taoist
culture, and was regarded as the color of life and eternity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion#China_red

Why Do Chinese Like Red and Green?

http://igoresha.virtualave.net/OmniResearch/articles/chinesecolors.html


Cal Worthington

http://www.calworthington.com/

Calvin Coolidge "Cal" Worthington (born November 27, 1920 in Shidler,
Oklahoma) is a well-known car dealer throughout the West Coast of the
United States. He is best known for his unique radio and television
advertisements for the Worthington Dealership Group. He was usually
joined by "his dog Spot", except that "Spot" was never a dog. Often,
Spot was either a tiger, a seal, an elephant or a bear....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Worthington

If Used-Car dealer Cal Worthington didn't exist, someone would have to
invent him. Famous for his TV ads throughout California and his dog
"Spot" [usually an exotic animal] the many parodies of Cal never
exceed his own bizarre ads.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_9

Welcome to My Dog Spot, the world wide home of the world's most
beloved autodealer and his faithful companion. For decades, Cal
Worthington has been the true "King of All Media" with his
unforgettable live television appearances from his first Southern
California car lot to his late-night banter with Johnny Carson. And
who could ever forget that jingle..."Go See Cal, Go See Cal, Go See
Cal!"

http://www.mydogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk

Vs. ...

"For a couple years he'd been a used car salesman and so hyperaware of
what that profession had come to mean that working hours were
exquisite torture to him.  Mucho shaved his upper lip every morning
three times with, three times against the grain to remove any remotest
breath of a moustache, new blades he drew blood invariably but kept at
it; bought all natural-shoulder suits, then went to a tailor to have
the lapels made yet more abnormally narrow, on his hair used only
water, combing it like Jack Lemmon to throw them further off.  The
sight of sawdust, even pencil shavings, made him wince, his own kind
being known to use it for hushing sick transmissions, and though he
dieted he could still not as Oedipa did use honey to sweeten his
coffee for like all things viscous it distressed him, recalling too
poignantly what is often mixed with motor oil to ooze dishonest into
gaps between piston and cylinder wall." (Lot 49, p. 4)


"'Freak Power!'"

In 1970, fresh from covering the assassinations, police riots and
related disappointments of the 1968 presidential campaign, Thompson
waded into the fight himself as a "pro-hippie, anti-development"
candidate for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, which included the
ski town of Aspen. Thompson wanted to win in order to save what was
still a rural, live-and-let-live county from the influx of Hollywood
stars, corporate hoteliers and the rest of the elite entourage that
would make it the nation's premier ski resort. But he also wanted to
teach a lesson about politics that would have meaning far beyond
Colorado.

Thompson ran on what he and his backers dubbed the "Freak Power"
ticket, declaring in an advertisement in the Aspen Times that, "(In)
1970 Amerika a lot of people are beginning to understand that to be a
freak is an honorable way to go. This is the real point: that we are
not really freaks at all - not in the literal sense -- but the twisted
realities of the world we are trying to live in have somehow combined
to make us feel like freaks. We argue, we protest, we petition -- but
nothing changes. So now, with the rest of the nation erupting in a
firestorm of bombings and political killings, a handful of "freaks"
are running a final, perhaps atavistic experiment with the idea of
forcing change by voting..."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/2214

The Battle of Aspen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen

Freak Power in the Rockies

http://www.owlfarmblog.com/blog/2007/05/kitchen_debate.html


"old W.C. Fields and Betts Davis movies"

"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."  --W.C. Fields

But why Bette Davis?  Help!  Thanks!


"'We'll be chums'"

??  Help!  Thanks again!