#ed dolan

[roguesnezblog]

What's the current state of all your oc's?

Hope everyone is doing alright <3

I can say I have already updated the situation of Amadi and Weedle. This post explains their situation a bit Demetrius and Percy have just been a long mission with the Velen Empire about dealing with Dryads. Currently they are resting because Demetrius allergies exploded his face during that mission he's very tired.

Judas Ornel and Tordek are just exploring their relationship after a long adventure (A DND one that ended) And taking some time off. Judas recently lost his memory due to really bad traumatic event and is slowly rebuilding his memory to be well again with Ornels help.

Wrathmos has been with his child and Vulphi. Vix learned to walk and he's glad to have seen these milestones of her life with no distractions, but yesterday he met up with Groves, his lover, just to chat to her about his feelings.

Ed is vibing as always, just casually living his life away from the drama in the woods.

Dolan is with him mostly, helping him live and now and again popping out to talk to his boyfriend Orchid.

Svet is svet, and getting annoyed with many people sulking due to his last mission being tricked by a wizard to enter a magic library for little reason.

And the others are vibing too.

Theres a lot of spesifics going on, and a lot of things that have happened, but I feel no need to get into detail here, I have a lot of oc's and explaining whats happened to ALL of them would take too long, so I recocmmend asking questions about a spesific oc if you want more details.

[gonerogueartuk]

Group chibi pic of my boys

[reality-detective]

Hollywood Entertainers Accused of Human Trafficking: 👇

Dwayne The Rock Johnson (Actor)

P. Diddy (Rapper)

Madonna (Actress/Singer)

Tyler Perry (Actor/Producer)

Kirk Franklin (Singer/Director)

The Dream (Singer)

Sean Kingston (Singer)

David Ryan (Actor)

DJ Tim Westwood (Music DJ)

Vince McMahon

Harvey Weinstein (Movie Producer)

Peter Nygard (Fashion Mogul)

R. Kelly (Singer)

King Swuice (Rapper)

Dawud Sami (Rapper)

Nathan Chasing Horse (Actor)

Allison Mack (Actress)

Robert De Niro

Jay-Z (Rapper)

LeBron James (Basketball Player)

Ashton Kutcher (Actor)

Ed Buck (Actor)

Zara Phythian (Actress)

Oprah Winfrey (TV Host)

Kat Torres (Media Influencers)

Derek Wise (Rapper)

Nathan Chasing Horse (Actor)

Mark Salling (Actor)

Danny Masterson (Actor)

Plácido Domingo (Singer)

Bishop T.D. Jakes (Pastor)

Jimmie Allen (Musician)

James Dolan (Executive)

Russell Simmons (Producer)

Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid (Music Manager)

Etc... 🤔

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

05/16/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Cast & Crew Sightings: David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Leslie Jones; Con O'Neill; Trends; National Forest Service; Watch Party Reminders; Fan Spotlights; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Tonight's Taika

== David Jenkins ==

As you probably heard, Chaos Dad was really out and about today. He did some polite menacing (regarding Zaslav) Src: Djenkins Twitter

And checked in and sent some love for this artwork of him on Ed's Arm. MerJenks! Great work Lucia! (@ citrussyndicate)

Source: David Jenkin's Twitter

= Rhys Darby =

Rhys and Rosie several days back at the Bag Pipers Ball <3

Source: Heidi Miller's Instagram

== Taika Waititi ==

Taika out and about with some colleagues at Chateau Marmont!

Source: NevakRogers Instagram

Taika and Rita attending Netflix is a Joke Fest

Source: RitaOraHun Instagram

== Leslie Jones ==

Leslie Fucking Jones out on The View!

Source: Leslie Jones Instagram

= Con O'Neill =

Quick sighting of Con!

Source: Nick Hayes Instagram

== National Forest Service ==

Many of you probably remember this post from the National Park Service a while back regarding moonglow, well, our friends at the NPS are back at it again with the Rosie Maple Moth! Which one of you is the sneaky NPS social person, hm? Thank you @ adotzimm!

Source: @ adotzimm's Instagram

== Trends ==

Thank you @ NeverLeftPod for catching these trends!

Source: Never Left Podcast on Twitter

== Watch Party Reminders ==

Series Finale of Wrecked today over on the RDF Server.

Wrecked S3 WP May 13-May 17 - 3:30pm PT / 6:30pm ET / 11:30pm BST! If you need access feel free to dm me here at @gentlebeardsbarngrill or @aspirantabby42 on twitter.

= OFMD Season 1 Watch Party =

Next week May 20-26, RDF will be starting up a rewatch of OFMD season 1 with two episodes a day. Time: 3:30pm PT / 6:30pm ET / 11:30pm BST! If you need access feel free to dm me here at @gentlebeardsbarngrill or @aspirantabby42 on twitter.

== Fan Spotlight ==

= Cast Cards =

Today's cast card is Geoff Dolan, otherwise known as the priest to whom Ed said "I'm the fucking devil". Thanks @melvisik!

Source: @Melvisik's Twitter

= OFMD Colouring Pages =

Thank you @patchworkpiratebear for these new pages! I am going to be sketching.... quite a few things in there.

== MerMay ==

== SpencerDoesArt ==

Our crewmate @ spencerdoesartt on Instagram was kind enough to let me share some of their MerMay Posts-- they've got some pretty cool stuff over there for MerMay, feel free to check the out!

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= Snejpowa =

This one really struck me today @snejpowa, it's really gorgeous.

Source: SnejPowa's Tumblr

== Love Notes ==

I really wish I had words today Crew. I feel a lot of the tension going on as I'm sure you do too. Things are tough right now, but even within close knit groups we run into struggles sometimes, it gives us a chance to grow.

I hope we all can take the time to regroup and do what we need to for ourselves to feel safe again, and maybe one day everyone will feel more comfortable again, or maybe not. Whatever happens, do what you need to do crew, take care of yourself. If you need to chat let me know. Somewhat related today is @ thelatestkate's new picture with the cute baby otter. Hope you have a good start to the weekend Crew. Sending love.

Source: TheLatestKat's Tumblr

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

Gifs Courtesy of @agaywithcoffee and @aplaceofgreatersafety

[kwebtv]

John Allen Amos Jr. (December 27, 1939 – August 21, 2024) Television and film actor. He was best known for his role as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries Roots and for portraying James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good Times. Amos' other television work includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a recurring role as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace on The West Wing, and the role of Washington, DC Mayor Ethan Baker in the series The District. Amos has appeared on Broadway and in numerous films in his five-decade career.

Amos was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and an NAACP Image Award.

Amos became well known in his first major TV role, playing Gordy Howard, the weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, from 1970 until 1973. Upon the death of Betty White, Amos and Joyce Bulifant (who played Marie Slaughter) became the last surviving semi-regular cast members of that show (not counting child actors). In 1971, he appeared with Anson Williams in a commercial for McDonald's.

In 1980, he starred in the television film Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story. Amos played an Archie Bunker-style character in the 1994 sitcom 704 Hauser, a modern spin-off of All in the Family, but it was canceled after only five episodes (in the series he played a different character than he did in the All in the Family spin-off Maude). He also portrayed Captain Dolan on the TV show Hunter from 1984 to 1985. He co-starred in the CBS police drama The District. Amos was a frequent guest on The West Wing, portraying Admiral Percy Fitzwallace, who serves as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for most of the show. He played Buzz Washington in the ABC series Men in Trees. Amos co-starred with Anthony Anderson in the short-lived TV series All About the Andersons in 2003.

In 2010, Amos also appeared as recurring character Ed on Two and a Half Men, and in 2016 as another recurring character, also (coincidentally) named Ed, on the Netflix sitcom The Ranch. He has guest-starred in a number of other television shows, including Police Story, The A-Team, The Cosby Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, In the House, Martin as Sgt. Hamilton Strawn (Tommy's father), Touched by an Angel, Psych, Sanford and Son, My Name Is Earl, Lie to Me, and Murder, She Wrote. (Wikipedia)

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[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 35, 2024

Functional diversity of dopamine axons in prefrontal cortex during classical conditioning. Abe, K., Kambe, Y., Majima, K., Hu, Z., Ohtake, M., Momennezhad, A., … Sato, T. (2024). eLife, 12, e91136.3.

The pupil dilation response as an indicator of visual cue uncertainty and auditory outcome surprise. Becker, J., Viertler, M., Korn, C. W., & Blank, H. (2024). European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(10), 2686–2701.

Visual statistical learning in preverbal infants at a higher likelihood of autism and its association with later social communication skills. Bettoni, R., Cantiani, C., Riboldi, E. M., Molteni, M., Bulf, H., & Riva, V. (2024). PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0300274.

Computational reconstruction of mental representations using human behavior. Caplette, L., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 4183.

Spiking activity in the visual thalamus is coupled to pupil dynamics across temporal scales. Crombie, D., Spacek, M. A., Leibold, C., & Busse, L. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(5), e3002614.

Role of dopamine neurons in familiarity. Fleury, S., Kolaric, R., Espera, J., Ha, Q., Tomaio, J., Gether, U., … Mingote, S. (2024). European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(10), 2522–2534.

Infralimbic activity during REM sleep facilitates fear extinction memory. Hong, J., Choi, K., Fuccillo, M. V., Chung, S., & Weber, F. (2024). Current Biology, 34(10), 2247-2255.e5.

Information-based TMS to mid-lateral prefrontal cortex disrupts action goals during emotional processing. Lapate, R. C., Heckner, M. K., Phan, A. T., Tambini, A., & D’Esposito, M. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 4294.

Jointly looking to the past and the future in visual working memory. Liu, B., Alexopoulou, Z.-S., & van Ede, F. (2024). eLife, 12, e90874.3.

Self-organization of modular activity in immature cortical networks. Mulholland, H. N., Kaschube, M., & Smith, G. B. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 4145.

Grouping in working memory guides chunk formation in long-term memory: Evidence from the Hebb effect. Musfeld, P., Dutli, J., Oberauer, K., & Bartsch, L. M. (2024). Cognition, 248, 105795.

Peripheral preprocessing in Drosophila facilitates odor classification. Puri, P., Wu, S.-T., Su, C.-Y., & Aljadeff, J. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(21), e2316799121.

Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information. Russek, E. M., Moran, R., Liu, Y., Dolan, R. J., & Huys, Q. J. M. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 4269.

Ventral tegmental area dopamine projections to the hippocampus trigger long-term potentiation and contextual learning. Sayegh, F. J. P., Mouledous, L., Macri, C., Pi Macedo, J., Lejards, C., Rampon, C., … Dahan, L. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 4100.

The expression of decision and learning variables in movement patterns related to decision actions. Selbing, I., & Skewes, J. (2024). Experimental Brain Research, 242(6), 1311–1325.

The differential impact of active learning on children’s memory. Stanciu, O., Jones, A., Metzner, N., Fandakova, Y., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). Developmental Psychology, 60(5), 904–915.

Predictions and errors are distinctly represented across V1 layers. Thomas, E. R., Haarsma, J., Nicholson, J., Yon, D., Kok, P., & Press, C. (2024). Current Biology, 34(10), 2265-2271.e4.

Graded decisions in the human brain. Xie, T., Adamek, M., Cho, H., Adamo, M. A., Ritaccio, A. L., Willie, J. T., … Kubanek, J. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 4308.

Visual boundary cues suffice to anchor place and grid cells in virtual reality. Yang, X., Cacucci, F., Burgess, N., Wills, T. J., & Chen, G. (2024). Current Biology, 34(10), 2256-2264.e3.

The tuning of tuning: How adaptation influences single cell information transfer. Zeldenrust, F., Calcini, N., Yan, X., Bijlsma, A., & Celikel, T. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(5), e1012043.

[felicitysmoaksx]

For Rheese (maybe for the amnesia fic, if you can); i’m tired. beyond tired… i am exhausted from the endless fighting

Day 5 of the Advent Writing Challenge!

“I’m sorry, okay? Goodwin said the board added another three presentations on the hybrid OR. After I leave L.A. I’m headed to New Amsterdam in New York.” Connor’s voice echoed loudly through Sarah’s airpods and she cringed, jabbing her thumb down on the volume button on her phone. Shaking her head even though he couldn’t see her, she sighed heavily. “It’s not your fault.” 

He was just missing her birthday on Monday...But Sarah knew that wasn’t his fault. Her birthday had never been that big of a deal to her before her friendship with Connor or marriage with Connor anyway. It was just another day before and it would just be another day again. 

“You still sound upset.” Connor pointed out as she made her way across the parking lot to the blue Porsche. She was quiet as she opened the door to the car and chunked her bag to the passenger seat. Then she told him, “I’m tired. Beyond tired of fighting, not fighting about this.” Because their angry words weren’t directed at each other, but at the situation that couldn’t be helped. Sarah shrugged. “So I’ll get over it. But you should know I’m not angry with you. I’m angry with the situation. My husband is ‘not just the Dolan Rhodes heir. He’s also one of Chicago Med’s leading lights.’” 

 She parroted the quote that People Magazine used when the did a spread on the hybrid OR, and since it was Connor’s initial idea, he was the one that got do all the press and presentations for it. “Which you know I’m so proud of. But I’d like my husband back sometime before Christmas.” 

“I know that. But I still hate that you’re upset.” Now his voice filled the car as her phone synced to it, after it was started. “Which car do you have today?” 

“Your Porsche,” Sarah told him and he automatically corrected, “Our Porsche,”

Sarah rolled eyes, Connor was always doing that. But it was his Porsche. He bought it before they were friends, let alone married. 

"Last few days of summer. Figure might as well drive it before the whether gets bad,” Sarah told him as she checked behind her before backing out of her spot. An unfamiliar noise had her glancing down at the radio. “Was that your stomach?” 

“Yeah, I haven’t ate dinner yet. I was about to go grab some before you called. Speaking of, have you ate yet?” 

“I had a big and late lunch because of a back up in the ED. Not really hungry.” Sarah told her husband, who hummed. “Go get dinner. I’ll facetime you when I’m home.” 

“I’m going to call that fancy cupcake place you like. The one that puts the gelato inside of the cake and have it left with Lenny at the door. You can pick it up and we can watch one of those anime movies you’re so fond of while we eat.” 

“Love you, babe.” Sarah said with a smile because even with 2,016 miles between them, her husband was still fussing over her.

“Love you too. You have a preference on flavor or do you want me to surprise you?” 

“Surprise me,” 

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Like you, I also have a foot fetish. Who are the type 10 daddies to whom you would kill to give a foot massage?

Brendan Gleeson Jack McGee Jon Tester Ed Asner Mike Strain Joel McKinnon Miller Tim Hooper Colin Baker Timothy M. Dolan John Hagee

[pathetic-gamer]

extremely true tags from deep in the notes. I was dying to know more about this whole thing, so I looked it up and the whole saga is wild.

The guy in this clip, Sean Dolan, went to a school board meeting to say they weren't doing enough to prevent student bullying. He was brushed off by the superintendent, Lance Hindt, so a man named Greg who had gone to Jr High with Hindt showed up at another meeting to accuse Hindt of being a bully himself, including mocking him for his last name ('Gay') and physically assaulting him in a bathroom, which almost caused his suicide. Hindt laughed after he finished speaking at this meeting, which went viral and led to even more people to come forward to corroborate the claims, including one saying he had witnessed the specific bathroom incident, and others ‐ including a former classmate and now judge in Alabama - saying he had been a known vicious bully. There were even court documents surfaced from a lawsuit in which he was as a young adult accused of having beaten a man into a coma. (that case unrelated to the classmate-turned-judge)

All of this was, of course, followed by months of parents and students petitioning for Hindt to be fired, and others petitioning for him to NOT be fired. There were even teachers who held rallies in support of him. (Based on op eds, open letters, and old facebooks posts, it seems that a fair amount of this was actually in part spillover caused by the harassment used on both sides, including a fear of retaliation from both vocal opponents of the school district - like Sean and his friends/followers/allies - and the district itself.) Regardless, the school board backed Hindt and refused to do anything.

Sean then brought forth the plagiarism accusations, which must have been the final nail in the coffin. The school board obviously still took Hindt's side, but Hindt resigned, and the school board gave him a massive payout AND agreed to pay for a defamation lawsuit. (That part is especially wild - remember this is coming from taxpayer dollars, the same taxpayers who had forced him to resign. The state cut the district's budget the next year as a consequence of this gross misuse of funds. Worth noting that there was never any lawsuit filed, as far as i can tell.)

The University of Houston didnt do anything about the accusations until the actual national association of scholars officially demanded they investigate and revoke his doctorate - the University won't say whether they actually revoked the degree bc of privacy laws, but they did take down his dissertation, which they pretty much only do in cases of some kind of fraud.

so anyway, wild stuff.

[ulkaralakbarova]

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted ’64 Chevy. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Otto Maddox: Emilio Estevez Bud: Harry Dean Stanton Miller: Tracey Walter Leila: Olivia Barash Lite: Sy Richardson Agent Rogersz: Susan Barnes J. Frank Parnell: Fox Harris Oly: Tom Finnegan Lagarto: Del Zamora Napo: Eddie Velez Kevin: Zander Schloss Debbi: Jennifer Balgobin Duke: Dick Rude Archie: Miguel Sandoval Marlene: Vonetta McGee Plettschner: Richard Foronjy Reverend Larry: Bruce White Ms. Magruder: Sue Kiel Mrs. Parks: Helen Martin Repo Wife #2: Angelique Pettyjohn Harry Pace: Con Covert Agent B: Biff Yeager Agent E: Ed Pansullo Miner: Jon St. Elwood Sheriff: David Chung U.F.O. Lady: Cynthia Szigeti Otto Dad: Jonathon Hugger Peason: Dale Reynolds Nurse: Dolores DeLuce Mr. Humphries’ Security Guard: Luis Contreras Carwash Attendant: Alex Cox Rabbi: Michael Nesmith Agent S: Steve Mattson Agent T: Thomas Boyd Mr. Humphries: Charles Hopkins Delilah: Kelitta Kelly Motorcycle Cop: Varnum Honey English Dustbin Lady: Dorothy Bartlett Otto Mom: Sharon Gregg Pakman: Jac McAnelly Additional Blond Agent: Jimmy Buffett Additional Blond Agent: Shep Wickham Additional Blond Agent: Gregg Taylor Additional Blond Agent: Jon Fondy Additional Blond Agent: Keith Miley Additional Blond Agent: Michael Bennett Additional Blond Agent: Brad Jamieson Repo Wife #1: Janet Chan Repo Wife #3: Logan Carter Repo Wife #4: Laura Sorrenson First Repo Victim: George Sawaya Repo Victim’s Wife: Connie Ponce Soda Jerk: Bob Ellis Tow Truck Driver: Quentin Gutierrez Liquor Store Clerk #1: Richard Furukawa Liquor Store Clerk #2: ‘Earthquake’ Hesson Nightclub Band Member (as The Circle Jerks): Keith Morris Nightclub Band Member (as The Circle Jerks): Greg Hetson Nightclub Band Member (as The Circle Jerks): Chuck Biscuits Nightclub Band Member (as The Circle Jerks): Earl Liberty Scooter Guys Member (as The Untouchables): Clyde Grimes Scooter Guys Member (as The Untouchables): Chuck Askerneese Scooter Guys Member (as The Untouchables): Kevin Long Scooter Guys Member (as The Untouchables): Jerry Miller Scooter Guys Member (as The Untouchables): Rob Lampron Scooter Guys Member (as The Untouchables): Josh Harris Scooter Guys Member (as The Untouchables): Herman Askerneese Laundry Person: Kim Williams Laundry Person: Michele Person Doctor: Wally Cronin Nurse: Monona Wali Bouncer: Cosmo Mata Club Owner: Rodney Bingenheimer Tennis Player: Jorge Martínez Tennis Player: Melanie Schloss Tennis Player: Nancy Richardson Film Crew: Writer: Alex Cox Producer: Peter McCarthy Executive Producer: Michael Nesmith Producer: Jonathan Wacks Director of Photography: Robby Müller Editor: Dennis Dolan Set Decoration: Cheryl Cutler Original Music Composer: Steven Hufsteter Original Music Composer: Tito Larriva Production Design: Lynda Burbank Art Direction: J. Rae Fox Script Supervisor: Sharron Reynolds-Enriquez Script Supervisor: Brenda Weisman Music Supervisor: Kathy Nelson Stunt Coordinator: Eddie Hice Costume Design: Theda DeRamus Associate Producer: Gerald T. Olson Casting: Victoria Thomas Makeup Artist: Sharon Francis Production Manager: Allen Alsobrook First Assistant Director: Betsy Magruder Second Assistant Director: Rip Murray Construction Coordinator: Douglas Dick Property Master: Douglas Fox Leadman: John Lafia Property Master: Ron Seigel Special Effects: Roger George Songs: Iggy Pop Special Effects: Robbie Knott Stunts: Danny Costa Stunt Double: Thomas Boyd Stunts: Rick Barker Stunts: Fred Scheiwiller Stunts: Rick Seaman Stunts: Michael Sinclair Walter Stunts: Harry Wowchuk Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Richard Beggs Assistant Sound Editor: Christopher Flick Sound Editor: Donald Flick Foley Artist: Kim Fowler Supervising Sound Editor: Warren Hamilton Jr. ADR Editor: Bonnie Koehler Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Minkler Production Sound Mixer: Steve Nelson Foley Artist: John Post Sound Recordist: Philip Rogers Gaffe...

[roguesnezblog]

Your character has been cheated on by their SO - What would their reaction be!? (Give us all of them pls 💖)

Just gonna write this one out mostly because doing art of all of my oc's rn would be a slog. Amadi: Would not give a shit at all outwardly, inwardly would plan their death and downfall.

Weedle: He has cheated on his original wife before, if he was cheated on he would just think it's karma.

Ed: He would be completely devestated. Depressed. Traumatised. The whole works.

Dolan: He would be bitter for sure, but he would be playfully antagonistic, pretending he doesn't care when his spite prooves otherwise.

Judas: He would be mostly confused, he would blame himself a lot for the reason why. Like he wasn't good enough.

Ornel: Would give the silent treatment. For months and leave.

Svet: Would be extremely dramatic, yelling spitting fighting would most likely slap and punch them. Cry a fucking lot.

Demetrius/Percy: These two would never cheat on each other. So I won't even entertain this possiblity.

Wrathmos: Would honestly laugh.

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Further updates on this radio show, I’ve done several posts on it now and have realized I should maybe have done as reblogs to keep them all together, but also that would take up even more space and no one needs that. Also, the fact that I’m so confident absolutely no one reads the ones makes me less bothered about making an even cursory effort to make them readable when I first post them, but sometimes I read back old posts and catch errors and fix them, and if I’ve reblogged from a post then I can’t fix errors in it and that bothers me. So I’m not going to make a nice chain that’ll be easy to follow if I ever want to go back to these later, I’m just going to write a post that follows on from the things I said in previous posts about this show, despite it not being attached to those previous posts for context.

This one isn’t as long or involved as the previous few posts, I mainly wanted to say I’ve finished their Mark Dolan episode and fucking hell, that was good. That was so good. I do not, to be clear, mean an episode with Mark Dolan in it. I don’t know much about Mark Dolan, I know he used to be a comedian who was probably fine and now he’s one of those guys who’s a dick about masks, I don’t feel the need to know a lot about him, but to be clear, one of the best things Peacock & Gamble have done was not something that featured that guy who’s a dick about masks now. It was something that did not feature him, and continued to not feature him for three entire hours, and it just kept getting better.

Basically, on April 1, 2014, they covered Mark Dolan’s show, and I guess because it was April Fool’s Day, they decided to pretend he just hadn’t shown up or contacted anyone and they got asked to sit in as an emergency stopgap. And they kept it up for so long. I kept expecting them to drop it, or start getting so ridiculous that they’re no longer maintaining that the story is true, or even let that joke fade once they run out of things to say about it and just move on. But nope. Three hours. They jumped around to other topics at times, but never left the Mark Dolan thing alone for more than ten minutes. And they never ran out of ways to make it funny. That was a genuinely impressive piece of improv or whatever, that they could take this concept and run with it so far.

I wrote my last post when I was about halfway through the episode and said it was very good, I think the second half was even better and I just had to come back here and say so. Best episode they’ve done so far, of their FUBAR Radio run. And the amazing thing is that I think they did it just one day after what was probably their roughest episode – episode 6, the first one after Ray Peacock had lost an award to Ed Gamble and completely fell apart.

I was thinking of the post I wrote yesterday, in which I said I thought there were ways in which this show wasn’t as good as their previous stuff, and those ways were largely related to Ray Peacock having a mental health breakdown and Ed Gamble struggling to keep the show in check in the face of that, and I sort of felt bad about how I might have worded that, like I think it’s a problem that Ian Boldsworth, as an actual person, had mental health problems that made him less funny.

If it sounded like I said that, I certainly didn’t mean to. Because 1) obviously human life is more important than making funny media, someone in that situation deserves support and not to be criticized if their professional output dips, and 2) he didn’t get less funny, his professional output did not dip in that way, so if it came across like I said that then I said it wrong. Ray Peacock’s been hilarious on all of these. I think Ed Gamble’s been a bit less funny (up until episode 7, Where’s Mark Dolan?), and their relationship – the aspects of their dynamic that make the double act more than the sum of its parts – had definitely suffered. But those latter two things did, I assume, suffer at the hands of Ray Peacock having a breakdown. One for obvious reasons, and one because I get the impression Ed Gamble was leaning too hard into the “straight man” role in response to Ray Peacock losing control.

There was a lot going on in those six episodes. Lots of things that lots of people could have done differently to make the episodes better. Sure, Ray Peacock could have had fewer mental health issues and might have kept it together and driven the show a little better. But also, Ed Gamble could have fucking relaxed once in a while and played along with more of the silly stuff. An horrible porn star could have gone on fewer misogynistic rants. The producers could have not told the compulsively impulsive man in the middle of a breakdown that Lucy Porter was nextdoor. Steve Bennett could have not pitted an emotionally volatile comedian against his double act partner. But of all the issues, “Ray Peacock could have been funnier” wasn’t really one of them, because he was, all the way along.

Anyway. The point is that things go so, so much better in episode 7, when they did the Mark Dolan thing. I don’t know how it happened, except to guess that maybe the structure of a clearly defined fiction made it a little easier for them to both fit back into their old personas.

There was this running thing from the first episode where Ray talks over all the songs and Ed chastises him for it, which was funny for a while but at some point got tiresome, and I kept thinking this would be much funnier if Ed would just join him. During the Mark Dolan episode was the first time Ed started singing along with a song of his own accord, and I actually muttered at my phone, “God, thank you! Just have some fun once in a while.” I know you’re sort of responsible for making sure your co-host doesn’t jump out a window or something, but singing along to a song on the radio is a completely acceptable level of unprofessional, the kind you guys have built your whole act on, you don’t need to shut that down too.

I realize Ed shutting that stuff down in previous episodes was an “in character” thing, the “straight man” role being a well-established comedy trope because it creates tension between the two people, and up to a point, tension is funny. But by now, I think there is more than enough genuine tension between those two guys to take them far past the point where tension stops making things funnier (and I have quite a high tolerance for tension, I often find it very funny when comedy situations get uncomfortable and hit genuinely sensitive areas – but there is a line even for me, and we are well past it), so there’s no need to keep injecting artificial tension via double act roles. Just sing the fucking Meatloaf song with him, Ed.

Having said that, they fit together so well in that Mark Dolan episode. I tried, at times, to guess which bits had been specifically pre-planned and which bits they came up with spontaneously, but I couldn’t tell, and that’s the effect they’re so good at creating. They were all good. They got this one listener caller who pretended to be in a zoo and they made something amazingly funny out of that. They kept finding ways to escalate it, without breaking the conceit completely, any time I thought they must have run out of road. And they both sounded like they were having a good time throughout. Constantly making each other laugh really hard, in a way that sounded really natural, and was one of the delightful things about their older work that had sort of been missing in 2014. And the few times they brought up the genuine, serious tension between them, they managed to make it sound like a joke! Well done!

I’ll be surprised if they do a better episode than that. Not because I expect the others to be bad – I think they might ride this wave and keep getting better – but because this was so good that I don’t know how someone would top it. I bet I come out of their FUBAR run saying the Mark Dolan episode was my favourite. I thought of this after listening to it, and thought of how I think, out of all the episodes of The Ray Peacock Podcast - despite tough competition because I found a lot of episodes of that podcast incredibly funny - my favourite was the Broadmoor special:

The Ray Peacock Podcast was done more "in character" than any of their other stuff, it had a really specific conceit that they planned out beforehand and then went in and played it out on the recordings. There was actual acting at times. Some of it was not very good acting. Some of the worst acting was by the guy who was (once, long ago) a successful professional actor. Though to be fair to him, he did do some very good acting in other episodes, there were times when I started thinking this sounds so real that maybe I've got it all wrong, before remembering that Raji James is a professional actor who could sound that scared even when they're just playing. Ray Peacock did quite good acting in that he was basically playing his own comedy persona, he is excellent at making you wonder what he's scripted and what he's come up with on the spot, I guess that's what acting is. And Ed Gamble laughed along with the bully like Richard Hammond in a Stewart Lee routine (to be fair to him in later years, I can understand why someone wouldn't want to be that forever). Pretty sure he was at no point acting and at all points genuinely that giddy to be there. Although he probably didn't really bite Raji on the arm that one time. Probably.

Anyway. That was the Ray Peacock Podcast. They were all playing roles, the roles were very funny, absolutely none of it would have been remotely okay if it hadn't all been planned out beforehand and faked in the moment, arguably a fair bit of it wasn't okay anyway, but it was very funny. However, my favourite episode was the one where they all came out of character, mostly, to talk shit about The Sun, a target that actually deserved the vitriol, so they didn't have to fake any of it or do any acting. I think they occasionally remembered to talk shit to Raji a bit, but mainly they just had fun with each other, got genuinely angry at a genuinely awful outside entity, stayed in their general personas but got away from the main conceit of their podcast.

So I thought, maybe that's what it is. Maybe they're funniest when they mix things up. Ray Peacock Podcast got extra funny when they broke out of their usual structure. Peacock & Gamble on FUBAR Radio got extra funny when they added a pretend central conceit and did a bit of acting, when that radio show didn't normally have that. For anyone keeping stats, the funniest one of their 2-year run of Edinburgh interviews was the time they got Romesh on and decided to have a fight instead of a podcast.

I feel like I spent too many paragraphs explaining things for such a small conclusion, that's all I had to say about that.

[charisjcarmichaelbraun]

Lunar Codex

I am privileged to share that mention of and images of my work have been included in the Lunar Codex.

The Lunar Codex is the passion project of physicist, entrepreneur, and storyteller Samuel Peralta, who alongside NASA’s Artemis Program has placed a record of contemporary creative works from “35,000 artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers, representing 234 countries, territories, and Indigenous nations, in time capsules launching from Earth to the Moon and beyond.” *

Read more about the Lunar Codex here.

My work was included in two issues of magazines that have been gathered into the the Lunar Codex using digital and analog technology:

​50 MEMORABLE PAINTERS

published by GOSS183 in 2015 Special PA (PoetsArtists) issue curated by John Seed and Didi Menendez

Featuring art from: Alexsander Betko ▪ Jeffrey Bess ▪ Charis Carmichael Braun ▪ Ali Cavanaugh ▪ Matthew Ivan Cherry ▪ Erica Elan Ciganek ▪ Ben Cressy ▪ Gabriela G. Dellosso ▪ Emanuela De Musis ▪ Shawn Fields ▪ Ron Francis ▪ Zoey Frank ▪ Patrick Earl Hammie ▪ Graham Harwood ▪ Mark Heine ▪ Erika B. Hess ▪ Jen Hitchings ▪ Milan Hrnjazovic ▪ Karen Kaapcke ▪ Michael Kozlowski ▪ Valeri Larko ▪ Brianna Lee ▪ Kim Leutwyler ▪ Shana Levenson ▪ Zachari Logan ▪ Susannah Martin ▪ Renee McGinnis ▪ Darian Rodriguez Mederos ▪ Sylvia Maier ▪ Shie Moreno ▪ Rachel Moseley ▪ Judith Peck ▪ John Philbin Dolan ▪ Serena Potter ▪ Nadine Robbins ▪ Beverly Rippel ▪ Cesar Santos ▪ Victoria Selbach ▪ Ed Smiley ▪ Kyle Staver ▪ Barry Smith ▪ Albert Leon Sultan ▪ Emily Thompson ▪ Alexandra Tyng ▪ Conor Walton ▪ Nick Ward ▪ Thomas Wharton ▪ Margaret Withers ▪ Meg Wolensky ▪ Stephen Wright

Vehicle(s) and launch dates: Peregrine / PM1 - NASA CLPS-TO2-AB / Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 1 (Jan 8-18, 2024); Polaris / GM1 - NASA CLPS-TO-20A (VIPER) / Astrobotic Griffin Mission 1 (Nov 2024).

​POETSARTISTS #57

published by GOSS183 in September 2014 curated by Didi Menendez

Featuring:

Poets : Leila Ammar ▪ Jan Ball ▪ Nin Andrews ▪ P.H. Davis ▪ Carlton Fisher

Artists : cover photo of Bryce Ramming by Michael Auer ▪ Jorg Dubin ▪ Charis J. Carmichael Braun ▪ Alvin Richard ▪ Tristan Pigott ▪ Eric Daniel Almanza ▪ Shawn Huckins

Collaborations : Paul Beel & Grace Cavalieri ▪ Kate Lutzner & Victoria Selbach ▪ Angela Hardy & Lorraine Currelley ▪ Daniel Maidman & Nin Andrews ▪ Judith Peck & Pris Campbell ▪ Robbie Robb & Larry Lawrence ▪ Judith Peck & Robert Lee Brewer ▪ Debra Livingston & R. J. Slais ▪ James Needham & Melissa McEwen ▪ Jeff Faerber & Denise Duhamel ▪ Matt Calavecchia & Ken Taylor ▪ Debra Balchen & Laurie Kolp ▪ Cesar Conde & Duriel Harris ▪ Timothy Robert Smith & Bill Yarrow

Vehicle and launch date: Polaris / GM1 - NASA CLPS-TO-20A (VIPER) / Astrobotic Griffin Mission 1 (Nov 2024).

Incandence Corp., “The Lunar Codex: Story.” LunarCodex.com, 24 April 2024, https://www.lunarcodex.com/story

[chicagocatholicman]

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said that “when Christians worship at their best, their wandering brothers and sisters tend to come home.” Many Americans “tell us they want to believe but not belong; that they want faith but not religion; that they prefer spirituality, whatever that might mean, to communal worship,” the prelate wrote. “They seem to want God as a Father but to remain an only child; Jesus as the Good Shepherd if they’re the only lamb in the flock. They want a God by themselves, Christ without his Church. Sorry, but that isn’t how God works.” “In the Scriptures it’s clear God prefers to form a people, a community, and not simply a collection of atomized individuals,” he explained. “Faith must always be internalized, but it is always expressed, strengthened and lived out with others.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-pews-are-packed-on-easter-sunday-dolan-jesus-resurrection-nones-e2fa748d

[bigmacdaddio]

1969 with Coach Mitsopolis, John Lynch, Richie Mayo, Dave Dolan, and Ed Lazerek - shuttle HH relay team @ St. Joseph's (Metuchen)

[personal-reporter]

Custodi di arte e fede: Cattedrale di San Patrizio a New York

La cattedrale di San Patrizio è uno dei monumenti storici di New York, collocata sulla Fifth Avenue e di fronte al Rockefeller Center, ed è la chiesa più grande del Nord America. Una prima cattedrale venne costruita in Mulberry Street, ma quando nel 1853 divenne troppo piccola per tutti i devoti, si decise di edificarne una molto più grande, e l’Arcivescovo Hughes scelse che la chiesa sarebbe stata eretta nella zona di Uptown,  all’epoca troppo lontana dal centro di New York. La prima pietra dell’attuale cattedrale fu deposta nel 1858 ed oggi la chiesa è situata in Midtown, a pochi passi dagli altri monumenti di New York, incluso Central Park e Grand Central terminal. . La facciata della cattedrale di San Patrizio è caratterizzata da un rosone di 8 metri di diametro e due torri campanarie con guglie la cui altezza arriva a 101 metri dal livello della strada e ci sono 19 campane. I portali di bronzo dell’ingresso principale della cattedrale sono sulla Fifth Avenue, mentre i due ingressi laterali affacciano rispettivamente sulla 51esima strada e sulla 50esima strada. All’interno della  chiesa ci sono tre navate con volta a crociera separate da pilastri e arcate ogivali, sulla navata di sinistra e di destra si aprono varie cappelle con splendidi altari dedicati ai più importanti santi cattolici, come il reliquiario della Madonna di Czestochowa e la cappella dedicata alla prima santa statunitense, Santa Elizabeth Seton e il porto di Livorno è raffigurato in un affresco nella cappella Seton poiché fu proprio nella città toscana che la santa si convertì al cattolicesimo. L’altare maggiore della cattedrale è in marmo bianco, alla destra dell’altare si trova il Pulpito, l’altare della Madonna di Guadalupe e l’altare di Santa Teresa di Lisieux mentre a sinistra c’è una statua di San Patrizio, oltre al Battistero, l’organo e l’altare di San Giuseppe. Dietro l’abside si nota la Lady Chapel, cappella dedicata alla Vergine Maria consacrata a inizio Novecento, con la  statua della Pietà e dell’Immacolata Concezione . Sotto l’altare si trova la cripta, dove sono custodite le spoglie dell’arcivescovo John Joseph Hughes, oltre alle tombe di tutti gli arcivescovi di New York, mentre le  vetrate policrome sono opera di maestri vetrai provenienti dalla Francia, dall’Inghilterra e dalla città Boston negli Stati Uniti. Per esplorare la cattedrale di San Patrizio si può usare l’audioguida con la  voce del cardinale Timothy Dolan, l’arcivescovo di New York, che racconta tutto sulla storia e architettura dell’edificio. Read the full article