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'"Did you know that seven was a lucky number in Japan?"'

Uh, seven's also a lucky number in the US, and I'm pretty sure the UK too?

Hmm. So what happened to the policeman?

Quincy Jones's "On Days Like These" is from the original Italian Job

I'm surprised how Christmassy this one turned out. I pick 'em timely, I guess.

Starflowers
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=starflowers...

Joy Barlow

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055257/

A.G. Geiger

"Fans of Raymond Chandler will recognize the bookstore name from the novel "The Big Sleep". In the story, A.G. Geiger is an underworld figure whom gumshoe Phillip Marlowe tracks in his quest to protect the debutante Sternwood sisters. A.G.Geiger ran a "Fine Art Book" store as a front for pornography titles sold out of a back room."
from here: http://aggeiger.com/about/

"A girl with a blue ‘do, a banged-up bowler hat and a single set of false eyelashes hanging from her left peeper was busy cajoling the boys, flaunting a disc in her hand."

Remind you of anything? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clockwork+o...

Boo dream sequence

Also, what was the two-headed snake about?

Erewhon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

I suppose if you're playing around with comic books, you gotta stuff a woman into the refrigerator, but... *sigh*

Oh why the frick-frack would you believe him?

This is my surprised face

Gary Cooper
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gary+cooper...

“Did you notice the walls are inlaid with twelve varieties of local hardwood? Extravagant stuff. This building cost $2.3 million to build —$1.1 million over the original budget. That’s so bloody Wright.”

In real world money or in computing power?

Art Cazeneuve
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/caz...

Dunno what 7077 is in reference to

Kerberos Panzer - reference to a manga:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbero...

If the characters cared more about the dead Capes beyond the perfunctory mystery stuff, I think there'd be more pathos

"As ‘What’s New, Pussycat’ segued into ‘It’s Not Unusual’,[...]"

Okay, that's got to be a "Salt and Pepper Diner" reference, right? I'm not reading into things?

Otaku Fuchikoma

The latter half is a robot from Ghost in the Shell

‘Heidi Sladkin loves Frederick von Frankenstein’.

Two superheroes named 'Riot'

Kozy Kampus Koffee Shop

umm

“Because,” the old man said in a soft voice, barely audible, while he leaned as far across the table as he could and Jack moved closer to meet him halfway, “she’s the Aerialist.”

Well, that's a hell of a twist O_o

Wish there was a hint to how long into the future the Catastrophe happened, especially since we got an age and a fixed point of reference

Turns out 'arvo' is Australian slang for 'afternoon'. Figured it was something like that when I first encountered it, but I couldn't find a source with the word alone

Greuze's La jeune fille à l’agneau

The first hit was the following, so I'm assuming it is a fake painting:
https://bakerstreet.fandom.com/wiki/J...

"The girl stamped out her cigarette in a glaring white plastic ashtray that had on it mystical-looking mountains and the words ‘Shangri-La’ in an Asiatic-style typeface."

This is the sort of vague 'large, grey elephant' description that fills most of the book when the author doesn't rely on brand names.

"Who was it that moaned her dead spouse’s name in the middle of a particularly poignant moment?"

Stop blaming yourself, girl! Shouting out a previous partner's name during sex is common.

"Yet things she’d evidently studied, like art and accounting, also the basic act of whipping up a pasta dish off the top of her head, remained fresh and accessible."

Even if she weren't a computer program, such a difference wouldn't be out of the ordinary: the former is procedural memory; the latter, declarative memory