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traykar · 2 years

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Last shot of the latest Nixonverse video

#nixonverse #monument #monument mythos #alex kansas #mr manticore #nixon is god #spoilers #last son of alcatraz #d-day knight #queen of the lunarians #ed dwight #crescent king

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gusgrissom · 2 years

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Great photo of USAF test pilot and the first Black astronaut candidate Ed Dwight, circa 1962

#ed dwight #black history #1960s #ron mcnair’s brother shared this photo ❤️

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dougielombax · 10 months

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I’m no good at photoshop so can somebody please make an edit of Ed Dwight in an astronaut’s uniform.

Ideally in black & white.

(And then promptly send it to my tumblr)

Please.

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #Ed Dwight #mister manticore #the monument mythos #the nixonverse #analog horror #photoshop #request #astronaut #alternate history

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gwydionmisha · 2 years

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#Ed Dwight #Racism #NASA

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purns · 25 days

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My dad has worked with this sculptor, Ed Dwight, on a few projects over the years, and they’ve become pretty good friends. I knew there was more to his story, but had never heard it like this:

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#ed dwight #sculptor #astronaut #Vimeo

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weirdozjunkary · 1 year

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There is no prophecy.

There is only me.

#art #fanart #monument mythos #the nixonverse #the crescent king #the horned serpent #analog horror #digital horror #mister manticore #the Ed Dwight paradox

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pleuredansmoncoeur · 5 months

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The Office (2005)

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itsrainningjwight · 6 months

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In the Limo

#the office #rainn wilson #dwight schrute #michael scott #steve carell #oscar martinez #oscar nunez #andy bernard #ed helms

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sangwoochos · 3 months

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THE OFFICE 6x01: GOSSIP.

#tvedit #televisiongifs #tvgifs #tvandfilm #theofficeedit #the office #michael scott #dwight schrute #andy bernard #jim halpert #steve carell #rainn wilson #ed helms #john krasinski #tv.#the office.#mg.

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rabbitcruiser · 2 months

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Elvis Presley ended his 2-year hitch in US Army on March 5, 1960.

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neverscreens · 2 months

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— THE OFFICE, S07E01.

Like or reblog if it was useful, every interaction shows us that we should keep making screencaps for y'all ♡

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fortunaegloria · 1 year

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#in honor of the coming of age of the show #the office #the office us #michael scott #dwight schrute #jim halpert #pam beesly #ryan howard #andy bernard #steve carell #rainn wilson #john krasinski #jenna fischer #b.j. novak #ed helms #only actors and main characters tagged due to tag limit 😉

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dougielombax · 1 year

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Ed Dwight should’ve been an astronaut!

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #vent post #political crap #apparently #Ed Dwight #history #black history matters #mister manticore #the monument mythos #the nixonverse #analog horror

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weirdlittleberry · 1 year

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Parkour! Parkour!

(Extended cold open - Superfan episode)

#the office #ed helms #rainn wilson #steve carell #andy bernard #dwight schrute #Michael scott #parkour

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kchasm · 11 months

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Ryu Number Chart Update: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is the fourth game in the Call of Juarez series, all but unrelated to the first two installments and thankfully unrelated to the third (let's us not talk about the third). This game features Silas Greaves, an aging gunman and bounty hunter in 1910 Abiline, Kansas who's got some recollections to regale a handful of saloongoers about, the majority of which have to do with wandering the Wild West and putting lead in people who perhaps deserve to have a bit more lead in them. Mind, Greaves isn't exactly what you'd call a Reliable Narrator... but he's not an Unreliable Narrator, either.

Gunslinger plays with the story-in-a-story narrative in a few pretty neat ways. As the player character stalks through a brightly lit swamp, one Greaves' listeners notes that the weather must have been nice, to which Greaves responds that no, it was foggy—and the environment immediately becomes so. Paths open up for the player character to follow as Greaves mentions them. More than once, Greaves gets distracted, causing the story (i.e. gameplay) he's narrating to change, or, on one occasion, spin into worrying surreality. The best example, I think, is when one of the characters sat at the saloon says he knows how the tale goes, providing narration and scenario for the player to shoot through FPSly, only for Greaves to tell him that that's not how it went at all; this is how it went—and then you play through that.

(So yeah, this technically means that all of the stages are Greaves' recollections and tales, which means they're technically not happening during the game's narrative which is wholly set at the saloon—if they ever happened at all, is another issue—but seeing as no significant amount of gameplay occurs outside of his narrative, and at least some of the stuff Really Did Happen—including various non-Greaves bits throughout the game—I'm going to call on the Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. precedent here and count it while circumnavigating the best I can in the future around using this game for characters that only appeared in Greaves' recollections. If you have any objections, these objections are completely fair and valid and you can stop reading this post now.)

(Hey, you're still here! Aces.)

One element that differentiates Gunslinger from previous entries in the series is the number of historical Wild West figures who show up in Greaves' tales. As the game notes, it wasn't unusual for dime novels to turn real-life gunhandlers into celebrities and folkheroes, if it wasn't those slingers doing the selling themselves—and Greaves, for all the low regard he's got for those novels, is selling a heck of a story. The very first stage, in fact, involves his brief and ill-fated team-up with Billy the Kid.

And yes, all the Big Names get intro screens like this. It's awesome.

Caveat: Henry Plummer's appearance in Greaves' story is especially suspect, on account of that it places him in after 1882, about a score of years after the real-life Plummer was given an awfully tawdry corded necklace and instructed to hang around. Too anachronistic to count, then?

Maybe. I dunno if it changes anything, but (and this is completely baseless speculation, so don't you dare copy-paste me like I'm some voice of expertise) to me, it almost feels like a mistake from outside the game. A point for this hypothesis: There's a character from the saloon who's prone to interjection whenever he thinks Greaves' story has gotten a little too far off reality, and while he does pipe up during the Plummer matter, all he says is that Greaves got the location wrong, which you'd think would barely qualify as peccadillo next to the whole time thing.

But no, everyone's perfectly fine with the time thing, which suggests that it isn't an error—not within the game, at least. Ever read Umney's Last Case? It's a short story. Stephen King.

... But hey, maybe Greaves really is just making the entire Plummer business up, and that specifically is the reason it's chronologically out of whack. It's more than implied at the end of the game that Greaves has—at least at one point during the whole game—stretched some truth, somewhere, but the where and when and how much and how important go cheerily unanswered.

Also, Plummer has an appearance on-screen during a not-directly-related-to-Greaves bit where they explain who he is For The Benefit Of The Player, which means it doesn't matter whether Greaves is making anything up or not, which means this whole multiparagraph massacre was for the benefit of nothing.

I waste your time! I waste all of your time!

Anyway, Ryu Numbers:

Wait, sorry, Dwight D. Eisenhower? Like the American president Dwight D. Eisenhower? Mr. I-Like-Ike?

Yeah, there's a reason the framing device bits happen in Abilene, Kansas, of all places. Eisenhower—born 1890—grew up there, before going to West Point in 1911. Before the Wild West era finally sunset, Wild Bill Hickok himself, in the early 1870's, served as marshal of the city. Tradition states that the Abilene of that time was a town of wickedness and criminality, which Hickok did his utmost to restore to lawfulness almost singlehandedly in the face of repeated attempts at assassination. And yes, there was a shootout in the Old West style, with the grievances petty but the consequences violent and lethal.

The truth, of course, is a lot more complicated (and a lot more interesting—see Robert Dykstra's 1961 paper in American Studies, "Wild Bill Hickok in Abilene"), but it wouldn't be wrong to say that Eisenhower grew up with the specter of the Old West hanging around.

... Which feels wrong, doesn't it? Talking about the Wild West and Eisenhower in anything like the same era. But the American Civil War only ended in 1865 (which means we haven't even gotten a bicentennialsworth of not-enslaving-not-imprisoned-people, incidentally), which is where a whole lot of the Wild West's big names owe their production (gotta take out that trauma somewhere). And then Manifest Destiny and genocide (all the genocide) and the Homestead Acts, and paved roads and the automobile (and in the opening cutscene, Silas Greaves' horse panics when the car nearly runs them over), and then it's World War I and an uncountable number of fresh-faced American boys are going to Europe to die face-down in the mud.

That's 1917. That's only just over fifty years.

Horse ebooks was right. Everything happens so much.

(For future reference, the characters who you can almost definitely count as showing up even if Greaves is pulling the maximum amount of bunk are Billy the Kid, Curly Bill Brocius, Johnny Ringo, Old Man Clanton, Henry Plummer—anachronism or otherwise—John Wesley Hardin, Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton, Emmett Dalton, Bill Powers—or however you'd prefer to spell him—Dick Broadwell—Bob, Grat, and those last two appear in Ben's recollection of the Dalton Gang, their bodies laid out in reference to an actual photograph that was taken—Jim Reed—that portion of Greaves' story is confirmed true—Jesse James, Frank James, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower.)

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 2 years

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Angela Well, I loved the ending of this episode. I think I rewatched it, I don't know, three or four times. It made me happy. It made my heart happy. And Darryl is playing Macy Gray's I Try on the piano and Andy is just belting it out. And you have this montage of all this group of people and where they're at in life and dealing with whatever it is they're dealing. But your singing. Ed, in that moment, as Andy is like, it's like your halftime at the Super Bowl, man. You're just like, everything, your whole body is into it. And it made me so happy. I just love that moment.

Jenna Randy told us that the original song for the end was My Heart Will Go On. The Titanic Song?

Ed Helms That rings a bell. Yeah.

Ed Helms Priceless. Do you guys, I'm curious, like, we made so many Office episodes, and it's really funny to me the way fans understand the episodes as these like, very tight, coherent stories, whereas I find that from our perspective as the actors, in looking at these stories from from a production standpoint, it takes us a week to shoot a half hour episode, and then we go right into the next week of another episode. And when you look back on it, it's just kind of this wash of work, right? And I don't- for me, it's very hard to kind of remember the specifics of episodes and the specifics of like what was in what episode. And I mean, you guys have been really kind of studying them so it is probably more front of mind for you. But. But I, I am, I'm, I found this going back and watching this episode, like, it did trigger a lot of memories, but it also was a little frustrating kind of realizing that- what I don't remember. And there are certain scenes, I don't know if you have this experience watching episodes of The Office.

Angela All the time, Ed.

Ed Helms Where you're like, I don't remember shooting that. I don't remember- I don't even remember that day or what was going on. And sometimes it's because you have some crazy thing going on in your life or but more often I think it's just because you just don't remember every day at work. And I got a little heartsick kind of watching. There were some some parts of this episode where I was like, Oh boy, I wish I remembered like... Just, you know, that that that scene where we're all around the piano together. It's one of those rare scenes where almost everybody is, like, in a clump and it's with positive energy, right? Usually it's usually it's like, you know, a meeting in the in the conference room.

Angela Conference room, yeah.

Ed Helms And it's all crazy. But like to have a moment where where everyone's kind of in a good place and happy. It just I remember watching that and thinking like, this is this is so special. Like, I love these people. I love these human beings. And it made me a little bit heartsick for the things I don't remember.

Jenna You're literally- your character has the line at the end where you say-

Angela In the finale.

Ed Helms Right.

Jenna You wish that you knew you were in the good times when you were in 'em. Like, that's literally what you're saying.

Ed Helms So true. Yeah,.

Jenna But I get it.

Angela It is true, though, because you work every day, and some days stand out and some days don't. It doesn't matter what your job is. And acting is no different. But sometimes I don't know the show the way people know it, when they can just sit down and watch it all the way through.

+Bonus

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