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Chapter 1

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==Title==
"Inherent Vice" has a number of meanings. See [[Inherent Vice Title]]. The phrase appears on pg. 351.

==Cover==
The cover illustration is by Maui artist Darshan Zenith (see his [http://www.darshanzenith.com/ Official site]). The piece is called "Eternal Summer," and subtitled, "A 'Retired' Caddy Hearse Greets Daybreak at a Beach Surf Shop." Prints of the painting can be purchased [http://www.cruiserart.com/1959_hawaiian-surf-surfer-surfing-art.htm here]. The 1959 Cadillac Hearse is parked in front of the "Endless Summer Surf Shop" (namechecking the Beach Boys Greatest Hits collection and Bruce Brown's 1966 surfing documentary!).

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

==Book jacket description==
Pynchon himself wrote the copy to the book jacket description of ''Against the Day'' (text [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_description here]). It is possible that Pynchon did the same for ''Inherent Vice''.

==Epigraph==

'''Under the paving-stones, the beach!''' 
"Sous les pavés, la plage" - slogan dating from the 1968 Paris student riots. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France Wikipedia] Literally, it refers to the paving stones thrown at the police. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated previous novels to friends and family: ''Mason & Dixon'' ("For Melanie, and for Jackson"), ''Vineland'' ("For my mother and father"), and ''Gravity's Rainbow'' ("For Richard Fariña").

==Page 1==
'''Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971

'''Shasta''' 
Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink) Wikipedia]. Note that Pynchon has named characters after soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in ''Mason & Dixon''.

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window there'd never been much point in putting curtains over and listened to the thumping of the surf from down the hill. Some nights, when the wind was right, you could hear the surf all over town.''' 

Like [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], and http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/''Gravity's Rainbow''], here a Pynchon book begins with light coming through a window. Also like ''Vineland'', the sentence structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo ''Vineland'': "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof." In both cases, it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance on [[Chapter_2#Page_36|page 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''Hancock Park''' 
Just south of Hollywood, and one of the most desirable locations in Los Angeles. Hancock Park was developed by the Hancock family and is named after developer-philanthropist G. Allan Hancock, with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea, home of the famous tar pits. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California Wikipedia]

'''Can't Buy Me Love''' 
This well-known Beatles hit has a curious connection with two other Beatles tunes touched on in ''The Crying of Lot 49''. 

''She Loves You'' is cited outright and there is the parody title ''I Want to Kiss Your Feet'' in reference to ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==Page 4==
'''Evelle Younger''' 
Evelle Jansen Younger, District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971, Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_Younger Wikipedia]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==Page 6==
'''Gordita Beach''' 
This fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"] Pynchon's fictionalized Manhattan Beach where he lived in 1967-1971—/CW/ at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=217+33rd+Street.+Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=u956SsSRK4TysgPAr4DvCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1 217 33rd Street]—while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] And in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], Gordita Beach is where Zoyd Wheeler lived "shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California" (on Jan 3, 1967):

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])
*Pynchon owned a '65 Corvair. the car was so light that one he did a wheelie on the freeway for which the cure was putting a 50 pound bag of cement in the truck which was in the front of this rear wheel drive car-CW?
The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well.

*MAD Magazine-style substitution pun in the name, Gordita Beach: from the Manhattan, an open-faced hot sandwich made with meat and gravy, to the Gordita, a thick tortilla stuffed with meat stew.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==Page 7==
'''2001: A Space Odyssey''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) This 1968 film] by Stanley Kubrick is also mentioned in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 chapter 14] of ''Vineland''. It includes a computer named HAL that gains consciousness and kills the ship's crew members. Talking computers also show up on pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California Channel Islands] are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.

[http://www.webreference.com/graphics/column41/2.html Channel View] is an image manipulation option in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop Adobe Photoshop], whereby a raster graphic is split into its constituent RGB or CMYK color values (or channels) to allow for individual, fine adjustments to the distribution of any of the graphic's 3 (or 4) basic colors. Channels and channel masks are also useful for creating composite images and transparency effects in Photoshop.

==Page 9==
'''Freak Power''' 
Hunter S. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for mayor and sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1969 and 1970. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen Wikipedia] Unsure if "freak power" was a term Thompson coined?

'''SAG''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild The Screen Actors Guild]

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

'''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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk YouTube]

==Page 10==
'''Godzilla''' 
Pynchon apparently wrote a letter to his editor, Cork Smith, in the 1960s saying that he was working on two books: one on Mason & Dixon, and one loosely inspired by Godzilla. See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 3]] & [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_142 Vineland, page 142]. wa

it was recounted by the author to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. the sentence was something like "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was once downtown Tokyo and as he looked down at the giant footprint he explained to the insurance adjusters in his Japanese accent'clearly reptilian." [This anecdote is spurious at best. Is there a source for this? Any evidence?]

the name Godzilla was the nick name of a grip at Toho Studios in Toyko as he was strong enough to carry around lots of studio lighting and light stands.

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only said it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==Page 12==
'''wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that.''' 
This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his works: "not X, exactly, but Y..." For instance, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''He stumbled up the hill to Wavos and had breakfast with the hard-core surfers who were always there.''' 
Huevos [pronounced, in Southern Californian American English, Wave-ohs] Rancheros: fried eggs served on corn tortillas with salsa, a popular dish with surfers, dopers, and other beach people in the sixties and seventies.

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''Frederick's of Hollywood''' 
Famous retailer of lingerie, started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. The original flagship store was a landmark on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick's_of_Hollywood Wikipedia]

==Page 14==
'''a rendering of a giant bloodshot eyeball''' 
The logo for LSD Investigations might be a parody of the logo for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency Pinkerton National Detective Agency], a famous and long-running agency started in the nineteenth century. Their logo is an eyeball with the phrase "We Never Sleep." See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_never_sleep.jpg here]. This agency's activities play an important role in Pynchon's previous novel, ''Against the Day''.

Famed Poster artist and surfer dude Rick Griffin also made a finely detailed rendering of a bloodshot, flying eyeball in [http://www.olsenart.com/FILLMORE/BG%20105.gif this] famous poster for a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Fillmore in 1968.

There also may be an allusion here to the most famous "giant eyeball" in 20th-century American literature, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''. The eye-doctor Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's giant billboard ad for his practice features a pair of eyes and glasses looking over a wasteland near a highway on the way to New York City. In FSF's words, "his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

'''psychedelic favorites green & magenta''' 
A Pynchon leitmotif, the color combo of the faux-neon font of Inherent Vice's cover, also cited in Gravity's Rainbow & Vineland.

'''karmic adjustment''' 
Karmic imbalance is an important theme in ''Vineland''. See [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_173 pg. 173], for example.

'''Sledge Poteet''' 
Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from [[Vineland]]. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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Chapter 1

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:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

==Title==
"Inherent Vice" has a number of meanings. See [[Inherent Vice Title]]. The phrase appears on pg. 351.

==Cover==
The cover illustration is by Maui artist Darshan Zenith (see his [http://www.darshanzenith.com/ Official site]). The piece is called "Eternal Summer," and subtitled, "A 'Retired' Caddy Hearse Greets Daybreak at a Beach Surf Shop." Prints of the painting can be purchased [http://www.cruiserart.com/1959_hawaiian-surf-surfer-surfing-art.htm here]. The 1959 Cadillac Hearse is parked in front of the "Endless Summer Surf Shop" (namechecking the Beach Boys Greatest Hits collection and Bruce Brown's 1966 surfing documentary!).

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

==Book jacket description==
Pynchon himself wrote the copy to the book jacket description of ''Against the Day'' (text [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_description here]). It is possible that Pynchon did the same for ''Inherent Vice''.

==Epigraph==

'''Under the paving-stones, the beach!''' 
"Sous les pavés, la plage" - slogan dating from the 1968 Paris student riots. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France Wikipedia] Literally, it refers to the paving stones thrown at the police. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated previous novels to friends and family: ''Mason & Dixon'' ("For Melanie, and for Jackson"), ''Vineland'' ("For my mother and father"), and ''Gravity's Rainbow'' ("For Richard Fariña").

==Page 1==
'''Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971

'''Shasta''' 
Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink) Wikipedia]. Note that Pynchon has named characters after soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in ''Mason & Dixon''.

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window there'd never been much point in putting curtains over and listened to the thumping of the surf from down the hill. Some nights, when the wind was right, you could hear the surf all over town.''' 

Like [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], and http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/''Gravity's Rainbow''], here a Pynchon book begins with light coming through a window. Also like ''Vineland'', the sentence structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo ''Vineland'': "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof." In both cases, it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance on [[Chapter_2#Page_36|page 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''Hancock Park''' 
Just south of Hollywood, and one of the most desirable locations in Los Angeles. Hancock Park was developed by the Hancock family and is named after developer-philanthropist G. Allan Hancock, with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea, home of the famous tar pits. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California Wikipedia]

'''Can't Buy Me Love''' 
This well-known Beatles hit has a curious connection with two other Beatles tunes touched on in ''The Crying of Lot 49''. 

''She Loves You'' is cited outright and there is the parody title ''I Want to Kiss Your Feet'' in reference to ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==Page 4==
'''Evelle Younger''' 
Evelle Jansen Younger, District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971, Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_Younger Wikipedia]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==Page 6==
'''Gordita Beach''' 
This fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"] Pynchon's fictionalized Manhattan Beach where he lived in 1967-1971—/CW/ at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=217+33rd+Street.+Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=u956SsSRK4TysgPAr4DvCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1 217 33rd Street]—while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] And in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], Gordita Beach is where Zoyd Wheeler lived "shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California" (on Jan 3, 1967):

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])
*Pynchon owned a '65 Corvair. the car was so light that one he did a wheelie on the freeway for which the cure was putting a 50 pound bag of cement in the truck which was in the front of this rear wheel drive car-CW?
The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well.

*MAD Magazine-style substitution pun in the name, Gordita Beach: from the Manhattan, an open-faced hot sandwich made with meat and gravy, to the Gordita, a thick tortilla stuffed with meat stew.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==Page 7==
'''2001: A Space Odyssey''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) This 1968 film] by Stanley Kubrick is also mentioned in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 chapter 14] of ''Vineland''. It includes a computer named HAL that gains consciousness and kills the ship's crew members. Talking computers also show up on pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California Channel Islands] are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.

==Page 9==
'''Freak Power''' 
Hunter S. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for mayor and sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1969 and 1970. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen Wikipedia] Unsure if "freak power" was a term Thompson coined?

'''SAG''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild The Screen Actors Guild]

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

'''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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk YouTube]

==Page 10==
'''Godzilla''' 
Pynchon apparently wrote a letter to his editor, Cork Smith, in the 1960s saying that he was working on two books: one on Mason & Dixon, and one loosely inspired by Godzilla. See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 3]] & [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_142 Vineland, page 142]. wa

it was recounted by the author to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. the sentence was something like "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was once downtown Tokyo and as he looked down at the giant footprint he explained to the insurance adjusters in his Japanese accent'clearly reptilian." [This anecdote is spurious at best. Is there a source for this? Any evidence?]

the name Godzilla was the nick name of a grip at Toho Studios in Toyko as he was strong enough to carry around lots of studio lighting and light stands.

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only said it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==Page 12==
'''wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that.''' 
This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his works: "not X, exactly, but Y..." For instance, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''He stumbled up the hill to Wavos and had breakfast with the hard-core surfers who were always there.''' 
Huevos [pronounced, in Southern Californian American English, Wave-ohs] Rancheros: fried eggs served on corn tortillas with salsa, a popular dish with surfers, dopers, and other beach people in the sixties and seventies.

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''Frederick's of Hollywood''' 
Famous retailer of lingerie, started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. The original flagship store was a landmark on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick's_of_Hollywood Wikipedia]

==Page 14==
'''a rendering of a giant bloodshot eyeball''' 
The logo for LSD Investigations might be a parody of the logo for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency Pinkerton National Detective Agency], a famous and long-running agency started in the nineteenth century. Their logo is an eyeball with the phrase "We Never Sleep." See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_never_sleep.jpg here]. This agency's activities play an important role in Pynchon's previous novel, ''Against the Day''.

Famed Poster artist and surfer dude Rick Griffin also made a finely detailed rendering of a bloodshot, flying eyeball in [http://www.olsenart.com/FILLMORE/BG%20105.gif this] famous poster for a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Fillmore in 1968.

There also may be an allusion here to the most famous "giant eyeball" in 20th-century American literature, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''. The eye-doctor Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's giant billboard ad for his practice features a pair of eyes and glasses looking over a wasteland near a highway on the way to New York City. In FSF's words, "his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

'''psychedelic favorites green & magenta''' 
A Pynchon leitmotif, the color combo of the faux-neon font of Inherent Vice's cover, also cited in Gravity's Rainbow & Vineland.

'''karmic adjustment''' 
Karmic imbalance is an important theme in ''Vineland''. See [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_173 pg. 173], for example.

'''Sledge Poteet''' 
Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from [[Vineland]]. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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==Title==
"Inherent Vice" has a number of meanings. See [[Inherent Vice Title]]. The phrase appears on pg. 351.

==Cover==
The cover illustration is by Maui artist Darshan Zenith (see his [http://www.darshanzenith.com/ Official site]). The piece is called "Eternal Summer," and subtitled, "A 'Retired' Caddy Hearse Greets Daybreak at a Beach Surf Shop." Prints of the painting can be purchased [http://www.cruiserart.com/1959_hawaiian-surf-surfer-surfing-art.htm here]. The 1959 Cadillac Hearse is parked in front of the "Endless Summer Surf Shop" (namechecking the Beach Boys Greatest Hits collection and Bruce Brown's 1966 surfing documentary!).

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

==Book jacket description==
Pynchon himself wrote the copy to the book jacket description of ''Against the Day'' (text [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_description here]). It is possible that Pynchon did the same for ''Inherent Vice''.

==Epigraph==

'''Under the paving-stones, the beach!''' 
"Sous les pavés, la plage" - slogan dating from the 1968 Paris student riots. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France Wikipedia] Literally, it refers to the paving stones thrown at the police. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated previous novels to friends and family: ''Mason & Dixon'' ("For Melanie, and for Jackson"), ''Vineland'' ("For my mother and father"), and ''Gravity's Rainbow'' ("For Richard Fariña").

==Page 1==
'''Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971

'''Shasta''' 
Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink) Wikipedia]. Note that Pynchon has named characters after soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in ''Mason & Dixon''.

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window there'd never been much point in putting curtains over and listened to the thumping of the surf from down the hill. Some nights, when the wind was right, you could hear the surf all over town.''' 

Like [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], and http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/''Gravity's Rainbow''], here a Pynchon book begins with light coming through a window. Also like ''Vineland'', the sentence structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo ''Vineland'': "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof." In both cases, it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance on [[Chapter_2#Page_36|page 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''Hancock Park''' 
Just south of Hollywood, and one of the most desirable locations in Los Angeles. Hancock Park was developed by the Hancock family and is named after developer-philanthropist G. Allan Hancock, with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea, home of the famous tar pits. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California Wikipedia]

'''Can't Buy Me Love''' 
This well-known Beatles hit has a curious connection with two other Beatles tunes touched on in ''The Crying of Lot 49''. 

''She Loves You'' is cited outright and there is the parody title ''I Want to Kiss Your Feet'' in reference to ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==Page 4==
'''Evelle Younger''' 
Evelle Jansen Younger, District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971, Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_Younger Wikipedia]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==Page 6==
'''Gordita Beach''' 
This fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"] Pynchon's fictionalized Manhattan Beach where he lived in 1967-1971—/CW/ at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=217+33rd+Street.+Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=u956SsSRK4TysgPAr4DvCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1 217 33rd Street]—while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] And in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], Gordita Beach is where Zoyd Wheeler lived "shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California" (on Jan 3, 1967):

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])
*Pynchon owned a '65 Corvair. the car was so light that one he did a wheelie on the freeway for which the cure was putting a 50 pound bag of cement in the truck which was in the front of this rear wheel drive car-CW?
The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well.

*MAD Magazine-style substitution in the name, Gordita Beach: from the Manhattan, an open-faced hot sandwich made with meat and gravy, to the Gordita, a thick tortilla stuffed with meat stew.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==Page 7==
'''2001: A Space Odyssey''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) This 1968 film] by Stanley Kubrick is also mentioned in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 chapter 14] of ''Vineland''. It includes a computer named HAL that gains consciousness and kills the ship's crew members. Talking computers also show up on pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California Channel Islands] are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.

==Page 9==
'''Freak Power''' 
Hunter S. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for mayor and sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1969 and 1970. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen Wikipedia] Unsure if "freak power" was a term Thompson coined?

'''SAG''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild The Screen Actors Guild]

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

'''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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk YouTube]

==Page 10==
'''Godzilla''' 
Pynchon apparently wrote a letter to his editor, Cork Smith, in the 1960s saying that he was working on two books: one on Mason & Dixon, and one loosely inspired by Godzilla. See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 3]] & [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_142 Vineland, page 142]. wa

it was recounted by the author to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. the sentence was something like "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was once downtown Tokyo and as he looked down at the giant footprint he explained to the insurance adjusters in his Japanese accent'clearly reptilian." [This anecdote is spurious at best. Is there a source for this? Any evidence?]

the name Godzilla was the nick name of a grip at Toho Studios in Toyko as he was strong enough to carry around lots of studio lighting and light stands.

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only said it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==Page 12==
'''wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that.''' 
This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his works: "not X, exactly, but Y..." For instance, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''He stumbled up the hill to Wavos and had breakfast with the hard-core surfers who were always there.''' 
Huevos [pronounced, in Southern Californian American English, Wave-ohs] Rancheros: fried eggs served on corn tortillas with salsa, a popular dish with surfers, dopers, and other beach people in the sixties and seventies.

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''Frederick's of Hollywood''' 
Famous retailer of lingerie, started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. The original flagship store was a landmark on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick's_of_Hollywood Wikipedia]

==Page 14==
'''a rendering of a giant bloodshot eyeball''' 
The logo for LSD Investigations might be a parody of the logo for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency Pinkerton National Detective Agency], a famous and long-running agency started in the nineteenth century. Their logo is an eyeball with the phrase "We Never Sleep." See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_never_sleep.jpg here]. This agency's activities play an important role in Pynchon's previous novel, ''Against the Day''.

Famed Poster artist and surfer dude Rick Griffin also made a finely detailed rendering of a bloodshot, flying eyeball in [http://www.olsenart.com/FILLMORE/BG%20105.gif this] famous poster for a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Fillmore in 1968.

There also may be an allusion here to the most famous "giant eyeball" in 20th-century American literature, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''. The eye-doctor Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's giant billboard ad for his practice features a pair of eyes and glasses looking over a wasteland near a highway on the way to New York City. In FSF's words, "his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

'''psychedelic favorites green & magenta''' 
A Pynchon leitmotif, the color combo of the faux-neon font of Inherent Vice's cover, also cited in Gravity's Rainbow & Vineland.

'''karmic adjustment''' 
Karmic imbalance is an important theme in ''Vineland''. See [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_173 pg. 173], for example.

'''Sledge Poteet''' 
Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from [[Vineland]]. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

==Title==
"Inherent Vice" has a number of meanings. See [[Inherent Vice Title]]. The phrase appears on pg. 351.

==Cover==
The cover illustration is by Maui artist Darshan Zenith (see his [http://www.darshanzenith.com/ Official site]). The piece is called "Eternal Summer," and subtitled, "A 'Retired' Caddy Hearse Greets Daybreak at a Beach Surf Shop." Prints of the painting can be purchased [http://www.cruiserart.com/1959_hawaiian-surf-surfer-surfing-art.htm here]. The 1959 Cadillac Hearse is parked in front of the "Endless Summer Surf Shop" (namechecking the Beach Boys Greatest Hits collection and Bruce Brown's 1966 surfing documentary!).

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

==Book jacket description==
Pynchon himself wrote the copy to the book jacket description of ''Against the Day'' (text [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_description here]). It is possible that Pynchon did the same for ''Inherent Vice''.

==Epigraph==

'''Under the paving-stones, the beach!''' 
"Sous les pavés, la plage" - slogan dating from the 1968 Paris student riots. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France Wikipedia] Literally, it refers to the paving stones thrown at the police. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated previous novels to friends and family: ''Mason & Dixon'' ("For Melanie, and for Jackson"), ''Vineland'' ("For my mother and father"), and ''Gravity's Rainbow'' ("For Richard Fariña").

==Page 1==
'''Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971

'''Shasta''' 
Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink) Wikipedia]. Note that Pynchon has named characters after soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in ''Mason & Dixon''.

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window there'd never been much point in putting curtains over and listened to the thumping of the surf from down the hill. Some nights, when the wind was right, you could hear the surf all over town.''' 

Like [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], and http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/''Gravity's Rainbow''], here a Pynchon book begins with light coming through a window. Also like ''Vineland'', the sentence structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo ''Vineland'': "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof." In both cases, it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance on [[Chapter_2#Page_36|page 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''Hancock Park''' 
Just south of Hollywood, and one of the most desirable locations in Los Angeles. Hancock Park was developed by the Hancock family and is named after developer-philanthropist G. Allan Hancock, with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea, home of the famous tar pits. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California Wikipedia]

'''Can't Buy Me Love''' 
This well-known Beatles hit has a curious connection with two other Beatles tunes touched on in ''The Crying of Lot 49''. 

''She Loves You'' is cited outright and there is the parody title ''I Want to Kiss Your Feet'' in reference to ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==Page 4==
'''Evelle Younger''' 
Evelle Jansen Younger, District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971, Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_Younger Wikipedia]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==Page 6==
'''Gordita Beach''' 
This fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"] Pynchon's fictionalized Manhattan Beach where he lived in 1967-1971—/CW/ at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=217+33rd+Street.+Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=u956SsSRK4TysgPAr4DvCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1 217 33rd Street]—while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] And in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], Gordita Beach is where Zoyd Wheeler lived "shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California" (on Jan 3, 1967):

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])
*Pynchon owned a '65 Corvair. the car was so light that one he did a wheelie on the freeway for which the cure was putting a 50 pound bag of cement in the truck which was in the front of this rear wheel drive car-CW?
The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well.

*MAD Magazine-style substitution in the name, Gordita Beach: from the Manhattan, an open-faced hot sandwich made with meat and gravy to the Gordita, a thick tortilla stuffed with meat stew.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==Page 7==
'''2001: A Space Odyssey''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) This 1968 film] by Stanley Kubrick is also mentioned in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 chapter 14] of ''Vineland''. It includes a computer named HAL that gains consciousness and kills the ship's crew members. Talking computers also show up on pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California Channel Islands] are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.

==Page 9==
'''Freak Power''' 
Hunter S. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for mayor and sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1969 and 1970. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen Wikipedia] Unsure if "freak power" was a term Thompson coined?

'''SAG''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild The Screen Actors Guild]

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

'''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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk YouTube]

==Page 10==
'''Godzilla''' 
Pynchon apparently wrote a letter to his editor, Cork Smith, in the 1960s saying that he was working on two books: one on Mason & Dixon, and one loosely inspired by Godzilla. See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 3]] & [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_142 Vineland, page 142]. wa

it was recounted by the author to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. the sentence was something like "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was once downtown Tokyo and as he looked down at the giant footprint he explained to the insurance adjusters in his Japanese accent'clearly reptilian." [This anecdote is spurious at best. Is there a source for this? Any evidence?]

the name Godzilla was the nick name of a grip at Toho Studios in Toyko as he was strong enough to carry around lots of studio lighting and light stands.

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only said it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==Page 12==
'''wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that.''' 
This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his works: "not X, exactly, but Y..." For instance, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''He stumbled up the hill to Wavos and had breakfast with the hard-core surfers who were always there.''' 
Huevos [pronounced, in Southern Californian American English, Wave-ohs] Rancheros: fried eggs served on corn tortillas with salsa, a popular dish with surfers, dopers, and other beach people in the sixties and seventies.

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''Frederick's of Hollywood''' 
Famous retailer of lingerie, started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. The original flagship store was a landmark on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick's_of_Hollywood Wikipedia]

==Page 14==
'''a rendering of a giant bloodshot eyeball''' 
The logo for LSD Investigations might be a parody of the logo for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency Pinkerton National Detective Agency], a famous and long-running agency started in the nineteenth century. Their logo is an eyeball with the phrase "We Never Sleep." See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_never_sleep.jpg here]. This agency's activities play an important role in Pynchon's previous novel, ''Against the Day''.

Famed Poster artist and surfer dude Rick Griffin also made a finely detailed rendering of a bloodshot, flying eyeball in [http://www.olsenart.com/FILLMORE/BG%20105.gif this] famous poster for a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Fillmore in 1968.

There also may be an allusion here to the most famous "giant eyeball" in 20th-century American literature, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''. The eye-doctor Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's giant billboard ad for his practice features a pair of eyes and glasses looking over a wasteland near a highway on the way to New York City. In FSF's words, "his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

'''psychedelic favorites green & magenta''' 
A Pynchon leitmotif, the color combo of the faux-neon font of Inherent Vice's cover, also cited in Gravity's Rainbow & Vineland.

'''karmic adjustment''' 
Karmic imbalance is an important theme in ''Vineland''. See [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_173 pg. 173], for example.

'''Sledge Poteet''' 
Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from [[Vineland]]. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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==Page 20==
'''Dominguez Flood Control Channel''' 
"The Dominguez Channel extends from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Los Angeles Harbor and drains large if not all portions of the cities of Inglewood, Hawthorne, El Segundo, Gardena, Lawndale, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Carson and Los Angeles." [http://www.theriverproject.org/dominguez.html The River Project]

==Page 22==
'''"Congratulations, hippie scum" Bigfoot greeted Doc in his all-too-familiar 30-weight voice, "and welcome to a world of inconvenience."''' 
Detective Lieutenant Bigfoot Bjornsen echos Walter Sobchak from "The Big Lebowski."—"Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain."

==Page 24==
[[File:68Elcamino.jpg|thumb|150px|right|1968 Chevrolet El Camino]]
'''1968 El Camino''' 
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1959 through 1960, with production resuming in 1964 and continuing through 1987. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino Wikipedia]

==Page 26==
'''Fatso Judson''' 
Fatso Judson is the sadistic stockade sergeant played by Ernest Borgnine in "From Here To Eternity," a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.
==Page 28==
[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|100px|right|]]
'''Donald and Goofy [...] in fact he's always had to go in ''every day'' and ''shave his beak.''''' 
The cartoon being discussed here is "No Sail" from 1945. Available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImIbmRnBU8 Youtube] and the Chronological Donald Volume II DVD [http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Chronological-Donald/dp/B000ATQYU6/ Amazon].

==Page 33==
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'''Freak Brothers' dictum''' 
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

==Page 36==

'''hizaz kar''' 
Variant spelling of ''hijaz kar''. Dick Dale's famous ''Misirlou'' is in fact a Greek tune based on the scale of Makam Hijaz Kar (E-F-G#-A-B-C-D#), and is playable on a single string of a guitar. ''Misirlou'' is one of the most famous of "Surf" tunes, thanks in large part to its presence on the Beach Boys album ''Surfin' USA'' and its inclusion in the soundtrack of the film ''Pulp Fiction''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou Wikipedia]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8 Great 1963 clip of Dick Dale & the Deltones performing "Misirlou" from the 1963 movie ''A Swingin' Affair''] (Is that a young Al Franken on bass?)

'''In the kitchen hung a creeping fig''' 
This highly invasive plant is also mentioned on the first page of [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 ''Vineland''], suggesting creeps and invasions and the like which occur in both novels.

==Page 37==
'''Chantays, the Trashmen, the Halibuts''' 
Three surf bands, two famous, one an anachronism time traveling backwards from the 80's. The Chantays—famous for "Pipeline"—is presented here on the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo Lawrence Welk] show, May 18, 1963. The Immortal Trashmen gave us "Surfin' Bird" and the Halibuts were a 1980s surf-revival group.

==Page 43==
'''Scott Oof''' 
Doc's cousin and lead guitar in the surf band the Corvairs, Oof also is a character in Pynchon's 1990 novel [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], playing essentially the same character:

:After a bit, Corvairs lead guitar and vocalist Scott Oof wandered in from the kitchen to join them, leaning on the doorjamb playing with his hair. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page p.23])

'''Scott had been playing with playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them had decided to join the northward migration of those years to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte.''' 
This passage reinforces the connection between ''Inherent Vice'' and ''Vineland''. So Oof had remained in Southern California, while half the band migrated north to Vineland.

Oof's name also opens a rabbithole to the comic genius of P.G. Wodehouse. [http://www.answers.com/topic/oofy-prosser "Oofy" Prosser] is a frequent co-conspirator in the Wooster-Jeeves comedies. [http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/85323.html "Oof"] is also 20th C. British slang for moolah, pelf, wealth, geedis.

Note that many different surf music groups in many different times and places adopted '''"The Corvairs"''' as a nom-de-band.

'''The Big Valley''' 
The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965 to May 19, 1969, starring Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Valley Wikipedia] As a major-league movie star during the golden age of Noir, Barbara Stanwyck co-starred with Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson in Billy Wilder's classic: '''"Double Indemnity"'''.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film) Wikipedia]

This song from Scott Oof's band—'''"Beer"'''—is pointing to the San Joaquin Valley, which in 1970 was about the un-hippest place in the known universe.

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==Page 20==
'''Dominguez Flood Control Channel''' 
"The Dominguez Channel extends from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Los Angeles Harbor and drains large if not all portions of the cities of Inglewood, Hawthorne, El Segundo, Gardena, Lawndale, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Carson and Los Angeles." [http://www.theriverproject.org/dominguez.html The River Project]

==Page 22==
'''"Congratulations, hippie scum" Bigfoot greeted Doc in his all-too-familiar 30-weight voice, "and welcome to a world of inconvenience."''' 
Detective Lieutenant Bigfoot Bjornsen echos Walter Sobchak from "The Big Lebowski."—"Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain."

==Page 24==
[[File:68Elcamino.jpg|thumb|150px|right|1968 Chevrolet El Camino]]
'''1968 El Camino''' 
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1959 through 1960, with production resuming in 1964 and continuing through 1987. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino Wikipedia]

==Page 26==
'''Fatso Judson''' 
Fatso Judson is the sadistic stockade sergeant played by Ernest Borgnine in "From Here To Eternity," a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.
==Page 28==
[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|100px|right|]]
'''Donald and Goofy [...] in fact he's always had to go in ''every day'' and ''shave his beak.''''' 
The cartoon being discussed here is "No Sail" from 1945. Available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImIbmRnBU8 Youtube] and the Chronological Donald Volume II DVD [http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Chronological-Donald/dp/B000ATQYU6/ Amazon].

==Page 33==
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'''Freak Brothers' dictum''' 
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

==Page 36==

'''hizaz kar''' 
Variant spelling of ''hijaz kar''. Dick Dale's famous ''Misirlou'' is in fact a Greek tune based on the scale of Makam Hijaz Kar (E-F-G#-A-B-C-D#), and is playable on a single string of a guitar. ''Misirlou'' is one of the most famous of "Surf" tunes, thanks in large part to its presence on the Beach Boys album ''Surfin' USA'' and its inclusion in the soundtrack of the film ''Pulp Fiction''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou Wikipedia]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8 Great 1963 clip of Dick Dale & the Deltones performing "Misirlou" from the 1963 movie ''A Swingin' Affair''] (Is that a young Al Franken on bass?)

'''In the kitchen hung a creeping fig''' 
This highly invasive plant is also mentioned on the first page of [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 ''Vineland''], suggesting creeps and invasions and the like which occur in both novels.

==Page 37==
'''Chantays, the Trashmen, the Halibuts''' 
Three surf bands, two famous, one an anachronism time traveling backwards from the 80's. The Chantays—famous for "Pipeline"—is presented here on the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo Lawrence Welk] show, May 18, 1963. The Immortal Trashmen gave us "Surfin' Bird" and the Halibuts were a 1980s surf-revival group.

==Page 43==
'''Scott Oof''' 
Doc's cousin and lead guitar in the surf band the Corvairs, Oof also is a character in Pynchon's 1990 novel [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], playing essentially the same character:

:After a bit, Corvairs lead guitar and vocalist Scott Oof wandered in from the kitchen to join them, leaning on the doorjamb playing with his hair. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page p.23])

'''Scott had been playing with playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them had decided to join the northward migration of those years to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte.''' 
This passage reinforces the connection between ''Inherent Vice'' and ''Vineland''. So Oof had remained in Southern California, while half the band migrated north to Vineland.

Oof's name also opens a rabbithole to the comic genius of P.G. Wodehouse. [http://www.answers.com/topic/oofy-prosser "Oofy" Prosser] is a frequent co-conspirator in the Wooster-Jeeves comedies. [http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/85323.html "Oof"] is also 20th C. British slang for moolah, pelf, wealth.

Note that many different surf music groups in many different times and places adopted '''"The Corvairs"''' as a nom-de-band.

'''The Big Valley''' 
The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965 to May 19, 1969, starring Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Valley Wikipedia] As a major-league movie star during the golden age of Noir, Barbara Stanwyck co-starred with Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson in Billy Wilder's classic: '''"Double Indemnity"'''.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film) Wikipedia]

This song from Scott Oof's band—'''"Beer"'''—is pointing to the San Joaquin Valley, which in 1970 was about the un-hippest place in the known universe.

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