#catch 22

[zanephillips]

CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT Catch-22 (2019) 1.03

#christopher abbott #catch-22 #catch 22 #tvedit #serie #actor #men #menedit #yossarian #mancandykings #mensource #dailymenedit #usermichi #gifs #mine #*

[texaschainsawmascara]

Christopher Abbott, Interview Magazine

#christopher abbott #interview #interview magazine #photo shoot #photoshoot #photography #editorial #kraven the hunter #poor things #black bear #on the count of three #sanctuary #possessor #catch 22 #the world to come #piercing #sweet virginia #james white #a most violent year #it comes at night

[movietonight]

Method and Madness

Catch-22 // M*A*S*H // Hamlet // The Physicists

#mash #m*a*s*h #catch-22 #catch 22 #hamlet #the physicists #Dürrenmatt #there are a lot more scenes I could have added but I wanted to keep it concise

[oldshowbiz]

Banned in Cleveland.

#censorship #joseph heller #Catch 22 #kurt vonnegut

[heart0fclay]

Lewis Pullman in Catch-22 (2019)

Character: Major Major

#lewis pullman #major major #catch 22

[wellntruly]

If you read the novel Catch-22 (1961), about U.S. Army pilots & sundry stationed on a Greek island during World War II, you will encounter this off-hand description during the period where Yossarian is hiding in the field hospital:

At which you will either pause worryingly, or you’re normal.

I am not normal, because I have watched the television show M*A*S*H (1972-1983), about U.S. Army medical staff in a mobile surgical unit during the Korean War, and which features a character called Hawkeye Pierce, who frequently looks like this:

Now this bathrobe, iconic simply, appears red to the observer. However, deep into the run there is a line in which Hawkeye refers to it as "purple"—great consternation. But film cameras and light waves being what they are (capricious, devilish), it could very well be maroon in life. It could very well be maroon. It’s what I assumed after that comment. But what I'd never asked was, what is it made out of? Is that corduroy, could it be corduroy, could this be—

Oh noooooooo!

Why is Hawkeye the only one who is wearing the robe of patients from the last war, I ask you! Is it for the METAPHOR. To make me YELL. Did the costume department make it for him, or did they just already have one on hand in the WWII storage? Wait it wasn't real was it? Where is it, where is this robe!

Well babe, it’s in the Smithsonian:

A) of all, fucking fantastic, could not be a place I more want Alan Alda’s bathrobe as Hawkeye Pierce to be than the National Museum of American History. B) well well well well well, what do we have here:

[sic]

So looking THAT up brings you nothing that makes any sense, even trying to correct for spelling. But not to fear: historical re-enactors are here.

On the website of the “WW2 US Medical Research Centre,” an absolutely delightful combination of words and spelling brought to you by two European history buffs, and that’s Europeans who are obsessed with history, specifically American medical units in the 1940s, there’s a page for pajamas, and why look who’s here:

OH ho oh HO!

“Progressive Coat & Apron Mfg. Co.” is so similarly bizarre that I would be very willing to bet that something like idk, the imperfect process of digitizing thousands of records for a website catalog, could have absolutely resulted in “Agressive Coat and Manufacturing Company.” Which would mean yeah, yeah yeah: vintage World War II, slash Korea, just five years later. It was authentic, what they gave Alda to wear, along with his dog tags.

Just Hawkeye though still, which is what's odd.

BUT HANG ON.

Heeeeey now!

So I was recently reminded that in the pilot episode, but the pilot episode only, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John McIntyre also has the regulation corduroy MD/USA bathrobe! In fact, he actually has what would appear to become Hawkeye’s—observe the location of the embroidery. Pocket, like Hawkeye’s in every robe appearance after this first episode, the robe that ends up in the Smithsonian Museum. Whereas the one with the embroidery on the chest that's hanging above Hawkeye's cot here, a common variant that shows up when you’re searching around on military history websites, after this appearance I believe is seen just once more on a visiting colonel later in the first season, then quietly vanishes. Alda ends up in Trapper's, and stays in it for keeps, while Rogers gets, of all things, a cheery goldenrod terry number.

But like, why. Why just Hawkeye in the WWII surplus robe. Both Doyle and Watson have avenues here that I like to think about. For the Doylist side, I suspect it was a decision of like, this is simply too matchy. It’s 1972, our TV screens are small, we gotta take any chance we can get to distinguish these tall white men constantly wearing the same of two monochrome outfits.

In fact, I actually wonder if there was a world where Trapper might have stayed in the maroon and Hawkeye could have ended up in Henry’s robe.

The light blue & white striped bathrobe McLean Stevenson wore as Henry Blake was sold at auction in 2018, and the item description contains the curious detail of it having a handwritten tag inside reading “Hawkeye.” Well heeeyy again.

And here’s another curious detail:

There was a blue & white striped Army-issue robe as well

Now Henry’s is clearly NOT vintage WWII, lacking the pocket embroidery, being terry cloth, and also of course: pastel. But it’s INTERESTING, isn’t it? They had to have been GOING for that look, with that same unusual collar shape and that multi-stripe patterning.

(Also, for real 'what the hell even IS this color' fun, this militaria collectors purveyor has one of the maroon versions too, with photos you can page though and laugh as it flips between looking clearly purple and clearly red in every other photograph. Cameras!!!)

Anyway now we turn to the Watsonian explanation, which seems to run like this: the men at the 4077 were just casually passing their robes around to each other. It's about the intimacy in the face of war, etc. I can see bathrobes going missing when they bug out, getting stolen from the laundry by Klinger and scrapped for parts, being handed off to a poor cold Korean kid who needs it more, and then they need to get to the showers and one of them is like hey, just take mine, and then it’s his now. And eventually most of them end up in warmer-looking civilian robes than the Army holdovers that were being distributed early on, but Hawkeye, he just hung on to Trapper's.

And as a side effect, still looks like he's been injured in World War II.

#thank you for going with me on this journey #and thank you in particular: to Joseph Heller #really froze me in place at that line buddy #M*A*S*H #M*A*S*H hours #Catch 22 #Joseph Heller #WWII

[thelatecaptainpierce]

catch 22 by joseph heller // mash (o.r.)

#mash #mashedit #catch 22 #mash 22 is BACK baby #shout out to tumblr user marley--manson for helping me out

[spocks-evil-godmother]

Why don't we talk about Yossarian more? He is like the most Tumblr user literary character of all time. He finds fun little ways (faking an illness) to get out of doing his job. He makes blackout posts using the outgoing letters of other soldiers. He hates war but finds everyone he knows oddly compelling. He has a weird homosocial thing going on with a chaplain. He likes hornyposting on main but still finds sex complicated. He's haunted by the horrors, even.

#like come ON #catch-22 #catch 22 #joseph heller #yossarian #mitch pitch #no one can tell me that any other character from books is more tumblr #sure your blorbo is emo but is 80% of their dialogue genu-ine shitposting? #that's what i THOUGHT

[theygotlost]

fancy some chocolate covered cotton balls?

#catch 22 #john yossarian #milo minderbinder #mine #men always naked......

[doesthislooklikepeacetoyou]

#mash #m*a*s*h #hawkeye pierce #margaret houlihan #bj hunnicutt #mash meta #life time #catch 22 #cut me open and burn out the insides why don’t you

[theabigailthorn]

Hey, the next episode of Philosophy Tube is about the NHS, and uses the way they treat trans people in Britain as a case study. It’s double length, it’s got some frankly amazing looks in it, I hired a props master to make some WWII-era maps and charts, and in terms of the number of hours that went into it, this is the biggest episode of the show yet. 

PATREON. DOT. COM. SLASH. PHILOSOPHY TUBE.

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Tally ho!

#Philosophy Tube #Philosophy Fukin CHUUUUBBBE #catch 22

[mushroommans-cache]

Where my Catch-22 sufferers at

#catch 22 #john yossarian #yossarian #yossarian catch 22 #yossarian lives #Joseph heller #catch 22 art #please someone talk to me about this book

[builtbybrokenbells]

Catch-22: a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.

Even if you knew every word to exist in every language known to man, you would still be certain that there was no better way to describe your relationship with Sam Kiszka.

Pairing: Sam Kiszka x f!reader

Word Count: TBD

Warnings: SMUT 18+ (full list of warnings within each chapter), drinking, smoking, swearing, angst, fluff, sorry if i miss any!

DISCLAIMER: I do not know Greta Van Fleet or any of the members personally. This is all fiction and I will never claim otherwise. I attempt to keep all of my work 100% original, so please do not steal or take credit for my writing. As of right now, I aim to get chapters out on weekends, but it is not guaranteed as I do have a full time job and other responsibilities to attend to. Please be patient and kind to me. Do not mind any grammatical errors or spelling mistakes, as I am the sole writer/editor for my blog and do miss things sometimes.

ON HOLD 🤍

part one | teaser

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part three | teaser

part four | teaser

part five

part six | teaser

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[clairebearsparkles]

The homophobic vase and Catch 22

So in my senior year of high school I had to pick a book from a list and read it, and I chose the book Catch 22. Now I'm going to be honest I only read the first 70 pages or so so I don't know the whole thing, but I did learn what a catch 22 is if someone were to reference something being a catch 22.

So, in mag 38 when the vase creature took the book, I started wondering why the reference to Catch 22 specifically, and I figured it out. The way the vase affects memories creates a catch 22.

In the book the way it is explained that I felt made sense to me was this: The setting of the book is the military, and within the book they make it clear there's a distinct notion that if you want to be in the military you must be insane because it sucks. The only way to leave the army is by proving insanity, but by asking to leave you are proving you are sane because sane people would ask to leave, since we already said the insane would want to stay. It's a catch 22, a situation with no escape because it has two conflicting conditions.

The vase takes an item the main owner knew existed, but once the item is missing anyone else other than him does not remember it existing. So it puts into question the existence of the object in the first place, you have a memory of it so it must have existed, but you can no longer find it and anyone you ask about it says it doesn't exist anymore, so it couldn't have existed despite you remembering it existed.

The vase stealing a copy of Catch 22 is a catch 22.

#I've thought about this ever since I've heard the episode #in my mind I've nicknamed the vase creature Yossarian because of this #tma #the magnus archives #mag 38 #tma lost and found #homophobic vase #catch 22 #tma analysis #the magnus pod #the magnus institute #text post #random thoughts

[quotespile]

What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

#literature #quotes #Joseph Heller #Catch 22 #quote #books #lit

[lalaloobzy]

We need to go back to dealing with our trauma like early-mid 20th century male authors that fought in WWI or WWII

(by writing an epic novel hiding the trauma behind metaphors/fantasy/absurdism and characters that are a little insane)

#tag with the author/book that YOU thought of first #jrr tolkien #joseph heller #kurt vonnegut #william wharton #lord of the rings #the hobbit #the silmarillion #catch-22 #catch 22 #c22 #yossarian #slaughterhouse five #billy pilgrim #birdy #books stuff #ww1 #ww2 #wwi #wwii #war trauma #authors