It's the sort of project only Thomas Pynchon can inspire – the author whose devoted fans hold an annual Pynchon in Public day, have created a huge playlist of songs mentioned in Inherent Vice and extensively, obsessively annotated his books. Thanks to Penguin Press for alerting us to a venture that seems well worth publicising: one blogger's plan to drink "everything mentioned however peripherally in every Pynchon book and jabber... a bit about what it's like".

The appropriately named Drunk Pynchon blogger is not doing it all at once. The project began in May, and there's been "Chivas Regal scotch", as mentioned in V. ("I'm tempted to say that a screaming comes across the tongue ... But no screaming comes. It's just beautifully smooth and syrupy. Tastes warm and a bit spicy. A little banana-ey? Smells terrific too").

There's been Tequila Sunrise, courtesy of Bleeding Edge ("Benny Profane and the Whole Sick Crew in V are way drunker than Bleeding Edge's Maxine Tarnow, but they're always just drinking "beer" or "wine". Bleeding Edge gets nice and specific. Mamajuana? Fernet-Branca? A King Kong, a Soju Wallbanger? Irresistible."). There's been Pilsner, thanks to Gravity's Rainbow, because, in Pynchon's words, "Slothrop spends his days in Bad Karma 'drinking Pilsener Urquell in the cafe by the lake in the Pavilion Park. He was a stranger, half the time drunk, silly beer-drunk, and he hardly spoke their language'."

The King Kong – "Crown Royal plus banana liqueur", according to the author – sounds foul, but our blogger deems the bar in which Vyrva, Justin and Lucas drink them "very King Kongey – mixing the bright and syrupy with the dark, rich, and old-school".

The Drunk Pynchon blogger has a list of the drinks Pynchon mentions, sorted book by book. I'm looking forward to the "suspicious punch" of Vineland , and its "99¢ margaritas out of a hose".

Anyway: cheers to Drunk Pynchon. It's a little early for a drink yet, but I'm definitely feeling hungry. A Wind in the Willows themed lunch – "cold-tongue-cold-ham-cold-beef-pickled-onions-salad-french-bread-cress-and-widge-spotted-meat-ginger-beer-lemonade" – is definitely in order here.