Chapter 17
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when WYNY switched formats overnight from country to classic disco
Some anachronist joshing from Pynchon here, perhaps an old WYNY country fan, as per Wiki on July 5, 2012 WYNY changed their format from country to adult contemporary. See WIKI.
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what Jodi Della Femina might call shortcuts
Or advertisements of the route, i.e. street signs? Jerry Della Femina (born 1936 in Brooklyn) is an American advertising executive and restaurateur. Starting from a poor Italian background in Brooklyn, he eventually became chairman of Della Femina Travisano & Partners, an agency which he founded with Ron Travisano in the 1960s. Over the next two decades they grew the company into a major advertising house that was billing $250 million per year, and had 300 employees and offices in both New York and Los Angeles. Della Femina is known for his larger than life personality and colorful language and was referred to as a "'Madman' of Madison Avenue". In 1970, he wrote a book about the advertising industry, humorously titled, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War. It became a cult bestseller, described by The Guardian as "one of the defining books about advertising", and eventually inspired the television series Mad Men. Jodi is his son. From WIKI.
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some Meat Loaf reference
Bat Out of Hell?
Page 188
schadenfreudefest
The enjoyment, and making it a festive occasion, of others's failures and misfortunes.
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Cheatin side of town, as the Eagles like to say
Here are some lyrics from the song "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles: "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town." See the WIKI.
where a man can kick out the jambs
A play on "Kick Out the Jams," an album and song by the band MC5. And Pynchon has used this before, see Vineland pg. 191.
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phonetic letters including Whisky, Tango, and Foxtrot
a.k.a., WTF or What The Fuck
But we later learn what they stand for. See Page 261.
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