https://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=GreatquuxThomas Pynchon Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-07-22T08:28:28ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_28&diff=1338Chapter 282013-10-05T15:27:32Z<p>Greatquux: /* Page 310 */</p>
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'''It's a warm evening'''<br/><br />
Sept. 8th (according to the invitation Maxine received last chapter)<br />
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'''''Matrix''-era Ray Bans'''<br /><br />
Reference breaks the usual, though not ironclad, pattern of giving a film's release date when mentioned. Perhaps because the theme of the party going on is "1999" and since the film came out that year Pynchon doesn't feel the need to spell it out. Anyone have a grasp on the logic behind sometimes giving release dates and sometimes not? Is there always a good reason for when the date isn't given? <br />
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Also, "era" is a bit of an odd word choice considering nothing else in that list of nineties "instant nostalgia" items gets qualified with a time of creation and/or when popular indicator word or phrase. Why not simply something like "Matrix glasses"?<br />
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According to this [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-04/features/0305040269_1_matrix-glasses-morpheus page] the glasses for the film were made by Blinde Design and they did not produce them for commercial release until a few years after the first Matrix film came out. This [http://www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk/film-and-tv/t/the-matrix.aspx site] says Ray-Ban makes similar glasses, though not when they started producing them.<br />
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'''pre-crash fantasy years'''<br/><br />
This line (and this whole paragraph in general) may be about Y2K and the financial crash, but it's really about 9/11. No?<br />
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'''Blink-182, Echo and the Bunnymen, Barenaked Ladies, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony'''<br /><br />
Strange list, of course, but Echo seems a little out of place since they pre-date the other bands by at least a decade and their "hits" were in the 1980s. Great band name, by the way, Echo and the Bunnymen. Seems like the sort of name Pynchon would find interesting. Joylessly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%26_the_Bunnymen WIKI] informs us that the name means practically nothing and, according a band member, the name was haphazardly chosen out of a list of names, all "just as stupid as the rest."<br />
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'''I think he's in some creepy retro-pissing contest with Josh Harris. Remember that millennium-eve party at pseudo? Went on for months?'''<br/><br />
I was hoping this would be referenced in BE. This is depicted wonderfully in Ondi Timoner's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary "We Live In Public." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY Here is a trailer]. [http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/ Here is the official website].<br />
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'''Paradise Garage'''<br /><br />
Another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage] reference, to go along with those in chapters 14, 15, and 23. This last one goes into much greater detail as to what dancing at the Garage meant to Maxine.<br />
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'''THE EH? TEAM'''<br/><br />
A play on the title of a popular 80s TV show ''The A Team''<br />
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'''about as fat as Ally McBeal'''<br/><br />
Calista Flockhart played the title character on the TV show ''Ally McBeal'' (1997-2002). She was very skinny. <br />
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'''poutine'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine WIKI] tells us this is originally a French Canadian food item made of french fries, brown gravy and cheese curd, now found all over Canada and some places in the northern United States.<br />
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'''CD tilde home''' <br /><br />
The command to change back to your home directory in Unix(es).<br />
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'''server farms'''<br /><br />
Seems worth noting a passage in the novel where Pynchon talks about things we find on the cover of BE. See a [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bleeding_Edge_cover_analysis discussion] on the cover.<br />
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'''as Ace Ventura sez'''<br/><br />
Jim Carrey played the whacky character Ace Ventura in two movies (1994 and 1995). His signature catch phrase was "allllll righty then."<br />
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'''Kum & Go'''<br/><br />
A chain of convenience stores popular in the Midwest. Hard to believe Pynchon didn't make up that name! <br />
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'''Floyd's Knobs, Indiana'''<br/><br />
A real city with a Pynchonesque name. <br />
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'''Rachel . . . Green'''<br/><br />
Rachel Green is the character played by Jennifer Aniston on the TV show ''Friends''. She had an on-again, off-again love affair with Ross. <br />
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'''ha ha only serious''' <br/><br />
A phrase from "nerd"-ier circles and mentioned in the Jargon File [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html here]<br />
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'''As Labor Day approaches'''<br/><br />
which, in 2001, was on Sept. 3rd<br />
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