Jules Siegel's Playboy Article

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> I suspect the following line might be a big part of Jules [or "Tom's"]
> problem. . .
>
> ". . . Pynchon came bouncing into our room with a pound of excellent grass,
> the kind they called ice pack, and a chunk of violent hash. He was wearing a
> black-velvet cape. There was a mysterious undertone to his enthusiasm . . ."
>
> It is also a central clue concerning "Count Drugula":
>
>        Psychedelicized far ahead of his time, Mucho Maas, originally a
>        disk jockey, had decided around 1967, after a divorce
>        remarkable even in that more innocent time for its geniality, to
>        go into record producing. The business was growing
>        unpredictable, and his takeoff was abrupt—soon, styling himself
>        Count Drugula, Mucho was showing up at Indolent, down in the
>        back-street Hollywood flats south of Sunset and east of Vine, in
>        a chauffeured Bentley, wearing joke-store fangs and a black
>        velvet cape from Z & Z, scattering hits of high-quality acid
>        among the fans young and old who gathered daily for his
>        arrival. "Count, Count! Lay some dope on us!" they'd cry....

Thanks!