Jules Siegel's Playboy Article

[Robin Landseadel]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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!

Sure!

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