#gerry the chick

[montereybayaquarium]

🐧Feathered news bulletin: Penguin chick update🐧

 We have some exciting updates to share about our juvenile African penguin that hatched late last November. We recently found out the sex of Gerry the chick. Results are back — she’s female! 

She was named after Gerry Low-Sabado, an educator, community preservationist, and friend of the Aquarium. 

We were honored to host Gerry Low-Sabado’s family for their visit with our penguin chick. We’re so excited to watch Gerry the penguin grow up, and we bray hooray on this World Penguin Day!

Curious what it takes to raise African penguins at the Aquarium? Waddle on over to raising penguin chicks at the Aquarium!

Want to learn more about Gerry Low-Sabado? Find out more here.

[jazzdailyblog]

Eddie Gómez: The Art of the Double Bass and a Legacy of Versatility in Jazz

Introduction: Eddie Gómez, one of the most revered double bass players in modern jazz, has spent over six decades shaping the sound and direction of the genre. Known for his virtuosic technique, profound musical sensitivity, and adaptability across a wide range of styles, Gómez has collaborated with some of the most iconic figures in jazz, including Bill Evans and Chick Corea. His career, while…

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

Is Gerri Roman’s Waitress?

[agentmika]

STONE COLD GERRI

[starlitvases]

It's time I confess that when I started listening to The Magnus Archives, I thought Gerry was a chick up until the near end of season 3 and that Gerard was a completely different person

[allamericansbitch]

Hi everyone! Here’s the newest addition to my Creator Shoutout Series (september 24 - october 7)! Due to my hiatus, this list will include the past 2 weeks. To track this series or look at previous shoutouts, please check out the tag on my blog *creatorshoutouts. Have a great week everyone!

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[spacefinch]

Side characters in the MSB show

(This includes any characters besides Ms. Frizzle, her eight students, and Liz. Characters are listed in order of their first appearance.)

Janet Perlstein (Arnold's cousin)

Dr. Tennelli

Ralphie's grandfather (mentioned only)

Bella the Bullfrog

Log-away Larry

Dr. Cornelia C. Contralto II

Mr. Ramon (Carlos's father)

Mr. Seedplot

Mr. Cud (mentioned only; his class did a project on cows)

R.U. Humerus

Dr. Carmina Skeledon

Mrs. Franklin (Keesha's grandmother)

Mr. Terese (Phoebe's father)

Mr. and Mrs. Pearlstein (Arnold's parents)

Mr. and Mrs. Hudson (Dorothy Ann's parents)

Mr. and Mrs. Wright (Tim's parents)

Tiffany

Mr. Junkett

Mikey Ramon (Carlos's younger brother)

Evan Hudson (D.A.'s younger sister)

Harry Herp

Gerry Poveri

Tim's grandfather (mentioned only)

Mr. Drone

Harry Arm

General Aranius

General Where-Are-You (mentioned only)

William Li (Wanda's younger brother)

"Arizona" Joan (Arnold's great aunt)

Ralphie's uncle Ed (mentioned only)

Mr. Ruhle

Garth Sinew

Inspector 47/Inspector 22

Ashley Walker-Club-Dupree

Murph (full name: Katrina Eloise Murphy)

Molly Cule

Giblets (Mr. Ruhle's pet rooster)

Arnold Jr. (a Rhode Island Red chick)

Dr. Shelby

Mert the Mussel

Ms. River (mentioned only; her students made the water project in Goes on Air)

Mr. Popple (Town hall chairman in Gets Swamped)

Jasper C. Grit

Horace Cope

Flora Whiff

Mr. Ampere (an electrician. Not a secret admirer.)

Mr. McClean

Notes:

Mr. Ramon first appears in "In the Haunted House," but does not have a speaking role until "Going Batty."

Similarly, Mrs. Hudson first appears in "Going Batty" but does not have a speaking role until "Out of This World."

D.A.'s father, both of Tim's parents, and Evan all appear in the show, but never have speaking lines.

Dr. Tennelli is the first parent to be introduced in the show.

[uchicagoscrc]

Holding space: The Archive and Blues Tradition at the University of Chicago

Performance spaces like the Checkerboard Lounge, Theresa’s, Buddy Guy’s Legends, Club DeLisa, Pepper’s Lounge, Gerri’s Palm Tavern, and the Parkway Lounge have, historically, made the City of Chicago synonymous with the Blues. They were critical neighborhood institutions that also helped to forge local community ties and pathways for global connections. However, extant narratives of the history of Chicago Blues are absent of the part that The University of Chicago has played in that formation. So much so, in 2003, journalist Celeste Garrett wrote that the University was “known more for generating Nobel Prize winners than for being a source of the Blues.” This is true. At present, in fact, there are 97 Nobel Prize winners who are or have been associated with the University. However, what is little known about the institution, as the archive reveals, is that The University of Chicago played a small, but crucial, role in fashioning a space and place for the presence and preservation of Chicago Blues history and culture.

Perchance, the University’s manifold attractions and interests and distractions, along with its perceived distance to African American history and lifeworld’s, we tend to disassociate it with such diasporic cultural attractions and productions such as Blues. Contrary to popular belief, the University, equal to the institutions listed above, held space for the blues, its traditions, and celebrated and prepared for its thriving futurity.

In the 1940s, the campus hosted its first blue’s performance. Then, in 1952, the first major concert was produced, with performances by Chick Heston, Preston Jackson, John Henly, William “King” Colax, Ernest Crawford, and Mammy Yancy, headlined by Mahalia Jackson, and sponsored by the “Student Cultural Clubs.” On campus Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters were among the most favored performers and personalities. Howlin’ Wolf first performed at UC in 1960 and at the end of the decade an advertisement in the classifieds of the Daily Maroon read, “Who the hell wants to go to Washington when Howlin’ Wolf is playing right here on campus, tomorrow nite [sic] for only $1.50 (sure beats $25).” And, in 1962, the Salisbury House hosted a dinner for Muddy Waters, engaging him on the blues, his life story, his artistry and aesthetics and philosophy. These events seemed to cement the Blue’s in the cultural landscape of the institution that no one seemed to be aware of in spite of the festivals that grew up there, including the annual Folk Festival organized by the Folk Society, the Blues and Ribs festival that came later, and the Logan Center Bluesfest and the other concerts that were promoted by Enterprise Productions, the Alumni Association, and the Inter Fraternity Council. Though concerts were put on at Mandel Hall, other spaces around campus were (or became) places for the Blues, including Bartlett Gymnasium, Ida Noyes Hall, and, much later, the Logan Center for the Arts.

The concerts were not exclusively to student or UC associates; the invites were extended to all interested in the music. Many came to the University for those performances to be baptized and delivered in the holy sonic waters of such artists like Chester Burnett, Big Bill Broonzy, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio, Jimmy Johnson, Eddy Clearwater, Corky Siegel, Lil’ Ed, and Melody Angel, Willie Dixon, Elizabeth Cotten, “Mississippi” John Hurt, Roscoe Holcomb, the Stanley Brothers, Paul Butterfield, Louis Killen, Koko Taylor, and Billy Branch, among many others. As with the blues performances scattered about the city, reverberating the blues houses near and far, the clientele that patronized the university concerts, came to lay down the quotidian, the stuff that invented the blues, what Houston Baker surmised as the “world of transience, instability, hard luck, brutalizing work, lost love, minimal security, and enduring human wit and resourcefulness in the face of disaster.”

What’s more, the University of Chicago offered to help preserve the culture of the blues in the city by keeping the Checkerboard Lounge open (that closed in 2003, but reopened in Hyde Park in 2005), while many of the other clubs that helped to place Chicago Blue’s on the map have closed. During the early negotiations of this transition, former UC Vice President for Community and Government Affairs, referring to these historical neighborhood institutions, most notably the Checkerboard, argued for this rescue plan saying, “It’s an important place in history in a city where it’s important to preserve it.” He was right.

The University of Chicago’s influence doesn’t end there: the institution has been acknowledged for its impact on the Nobel Prize winning blues instrumentalist Henry Threadgill, who learned avant-garde classical music attending performances of the Contemporary Chamber Players at the University of Chicago growing up. As well as Elvin Bishop, another Chicago native, of the Elvin Bishop Group, who also attended classes at the University of Chicago, who made the Southside and West Side digs his classroom as well. And there are others, not to mention, Paul Butterfield whose band, as Paul Eisenberg reported earlier this year, The Butterfield Blues Band was formed out of the many activities surrounding the blues festival that was organized at the University of Chicago. The band went on to become a major influence abroad spreading the Chicago-style blues abroad, furthering the legacy of the many blues artists who descended upon the city many years prior.

This dive here is but a brief one; perhaps the start of an archival project to investigate the overall impact that the University has had on the Blues community in Chicago, and, more specifically, the African American community throughout the Southside who favored the institution as their scene for blues performances and have recollections regarding it as a site of memory. Howard Reich noted in 2005 that “. . . Chicago blues are everywhere in this town – if you know how to listen.” It appears that the sonic resonances of the blues are everywhere in the University’s archives. By listening to the archive available at the University, then, where it intersects with the Blue’s scene across the city and, most notably, within the Black community, researchers might find other profound socially based reverberations and hidden histories of the blue’s, reflecting and fomenting other realities and pathways for understanding the past and present conditions of Chicago’s communities.

Literary scholar Steve Tracy reminds us that “. . . the blues provides ‘a structured but expansive place for the individual to relate to and express the community, and for artists to touch home base but still express themselves individually.” We are uniquely positioned to expand with deeper dives into the library’s digitized collections (including the Campus Publications and the Photographic Archives) and University Archives, to discover and institute pathways for transformative community building and public history projects.

Images Top to Bottom:

Audience enjoying a Blues concert, circa 1990s. Photograph by Adam Lisberg, Chicago Maroon. UChicago Photographic Archive apf7-03946.

Three young women enjoy barbecued ribs at the Blues and Ribs festival in the University of Chicago's Ida Noyes Hall, October 1997. Photograph by Melody Weinstein, Chicago Maroon. UChicago Photographic Archive apf7-05986-001.

Buddy Guy plays a concert with his band in Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago, January 24, 1992. Photograph by Richard Kornylak, Chicago Maroon. UChicago Photographic Archive apf7-03949-002.

[shoggoth-the-bitch]

Saturday Night

I'm still typing one handed because of my surgery but heck yeah, new episode! Last episode ended with Sam convincing Alice to go with him to the ruins of the Magnus Institute, so at least I know who to blame when our sarcastic queen is murdered.

Musiiiiiiic!

Uh? Oh, right, the kid's show? Didn't Abigail mentioned hosting a kid's show?

"They've got buried" that sounds... bad.

This sounds awful, actually... I can't tell if Mr. Bonzo was an brilliant idea or a nightmare.

I would say maybe this involves the Stranger but that feels almost too obvious.

Oh? Colin, I kinda missed you. My gosh, you're so mellow.

Did Colin really go to three therapists and just talk about the nonsense computer system he's dealing with? My dude, that's not gonna help.

Wait, are you actually even supposed to be here? This man's gonna do something bad, I'm thinking.

Hey, Sam and Alice. I get the vibe you two used to do B&Es urban exploration in your youth.

"Sam, there is honestly nowhere I'd rather be than here with you." Wow girlie. You are seriously into this dude. Even with the sarcasm you're adding to this statement, I genuinely believe you meant that.

"A wet hole. And not the good kind either." Oh my! Alice, behave yourself.

Bro, Sam! She was so clearly flirting with you!

Sam, buddy, what's you're deal here?

Carved floor in the atrium? What does that mean?

Oh, we're back to the clown man. And Gwen is here too.

What?! Jesus Christ! What is happening right now?

"Can he read?!" Gwen, that's seriously what you're worried about right now?

Oh boy, this chick is realizing she's made a mistake, I think.

Sam, why are you so insistent on this?

"Archi?" Maybe Archivist?

Ew, don't talk about worms...

His childhood? Wait, was the gifted kids thing was real? I thought that was just something they made up to talk to Gerry. Weird.

Okay, I'm hearing some sort of weird scuttling sound in the background. Are there bugs watching these two?

Uh? Knocking? Whispers? Breathing...

Whelp, looks like the powers that be have two new targets...

[kaoinim]

i hate fuckin gerry key magnus archives cause i see fanart and im always like damn thats a hot goth chick. nope! fuckin gerry again!

[montereybayaquarium]

Have you featheard the news? We’re thrilled to share that we have a new juvenile African penguin on exhibit!

Gerry hatched on November 30 as part of AZA’s Species Survival Program for these endangered birds, and was raised by our most experienced foster parents, Walvis and Boulders. Savvy Penguin Cam viewers may have spotted Gerry on exhibit in December, but, as with all our penguin chicks, they’ve spent the last few weeks behind the scenes in “penguin school” learning how to swim. Now that they’ve lost their fluffy chick plumage and begun to socialize with adult birds behind the scenes, they’re ready to be back with the rest of the colony on exhibit!

Gerry is the genetic offspring of Amigo—who hatched at the Aquarium in 2016—and Elizabeth. Much like their father, Gerry’s personality is independent and feisty! And fun fact: This is the first time we’ve had three generations of a penguin family on exhibit!

We don’t yet know Gerry’s sex, so we’re using the gender-inclusive pronoun “they” until we determine sex via a blood test. The penguin is – for now – wearing a female name band (black with white letters), but only for identification purposes. 

The chick was named after Gerry Low-Sabado, whose ancestors were among the first Chinese settlers on the Monterey Peninsula. Gerry was passionate about sharing the history and contributions of Chinese-Americans to the region with visitors to the Aquarium and the community at large. Before her death in 2021, she contributed to our Turning the Tide summer program, where she described how her ancestors developed the squid fishery in Monterey Bay while enduring anti-Chinese sentiments.

In honor of Gerry’s dedicated work as an educator, community preservationist, and friend of the Aquarium, we made the decision to name our newest chick after her. 

Come bray hello to Gerry the next time you visit or watch them waddle their way into your heart on our Penguin Cam!

[thegetdownrebooter]

this was a crazy ass episode from start to finish

tom finally admitting to being a goldigger (as a tom hater, i won)

tomshiv biting each other at a party (unhinged)

lukas mattson making a holocaust joke on twitter

gerri almost getting fired, again! (roman please die)

karl being a cunt again (slay!)

electra king roman reenacting his fantasies with ai logan (expected but still disgusting)

kendall having a nervous breakdown on stage ( dundee +too much birthday again)

greg being an asshole ( i'm uncomfortable with one of the few black characters getting yelled at by cousin greg)

roman being an asshole to that joy chick (she should've have stabbed him)

tom "apologizing" for fucking shiv up (tom please kill yourself i beg)

kendall water motive shit again

kendall "making up" numbers ( insane)

all of them being assholes to people that work for them

kendall clearly being manic and everybody egging him on

kendall using clips from logan in his presentation ( i gasped)

most importantly it being confirmed that atn backing mencken makes them look like white supremacists. (and the rest of the world isn't here for it)

[thinkatoryprocess]

If you’re taking Roman/Willa prompts I think there’s an au where Connor married some nice hippie chick back in the day and has a couple of teenagers and Roman’s the one with all his sex hang ups who decides it’s easier to just buy a girlfriend. (I’m the same anon who record pro dom Mencken so I guess I just have this one idea I keep hurling at you). But hey if you really want to “fix” Roman I think an au with Jeryd as his dom, Willa as his public gf and either Tabitha or Gerri as his literal therapist would be the closest thing. I also want to toss out Roman Roy literary au. He wrote a best selling novel in college and is 5 years past due for his follow up novel. Tabitha is his agent. Jeryd is his favorite writer who is also a total recluse and Tabitha’s other problem client. She forces them both into this hippy dippy two week long writers retreat that has worked wonders for other writers desperately in need of inspiration.

Ha, the pro dom one! Why not give Roman a girlfriend he likes in this context, I dig. It's all coming together. I also like Willa and Mencken together as a premise, so, could draw that triangle closed.

I'm howling at the idea of those two in a writers' retreat and proving just how unfit for human interaction both of them are with literally anyone but each other. Fantastic.

[agentmika]

whoever zoomed in on kieran culkin's face when roman said "typically minxy-" thank u

[flock-of-cassowaries]

So what I’m getting from this is that Succession is just Hannibal, if Hannibal wins.

- Obviously, Shiv is Alanna, but Alanna in a more perfect word where Caroline Dhavernas got the better writing she deserved.

- Jack Crawford is, I suppose, Logan.

- Roman is, let’s face it, probably relegated to the role of spitting fun facts about bee ejaculate.

…which would imply that at some point, Jack actually had a reason to be yelling at his employees like that, because goddammit, Jimmy, why the fuck is your dick on my phone right now?!?!

- Eldest Boy can be Beverly, I guess; at least this time I won’t be sorry when she dies. Nope, wait - Beverly is definitely Tabitha; wonderful and gone from the story far too soon.

- Eldest Boy would be the Great Red Boredom, because they both have the same flat affect and utterly irritating “Please, can someone kill this man” quality. And also, Rava and Reba both deserve better.

- Connor can be Zeller, because I basically forgot he was in this.

- Justice for Willa - she finally gets to use her English degree! Writing for a crime tabloid.

- Gideon is, obviously, Jeryd Mencken.

- Chilton is fucking Hugo.

- My beloved Gerri can be Bedelia. It doesn’t quite fit, but I do think she would see through the person suit, and they’re both kind of ambiguously evil; and played by women who are becoming hotter as they age, and make my little lesbian heart go pitter-patter.

- Stewie is Molly - badass chick with inexplicable patience for that shitty man. Aim higher, babe. Aim so much higher. You’re better than this.

- Mason is Mattsson, mostly because I want to see Alexander Skarsgaard eat up the scenery in that role. (Joe Armstrong is as great in s3, but can you imagine? Dear lord. That Scandinavian giant would be having the time of his life 🍿)

- Margot is Karolina - beautiful, deadly, and talented lesbian, and the writers aren’t quite sure what to do with her.

And, finally - I was gonna say that this was a timeline where Abigail could go have the normal life she so obviously craved and deserved; but the I realized.

She’s definitely Mondale. 😢

Hannibal (2013-2015) / Succession (2018-)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.24

Beer Birthdays

Peter LaFrance (1951)

Paul Davis (1967)

Michael Simmons (1969)

Jay Wilson (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer (1896)

Jim Henson; puppeteer, entertainer (1936)

Alan P. Herbert; English writer, poet (1890)

Blind Lemon Jefferson; blues guitarist, singer (1893)

John Marshall; U.S. Supreme Court chief justice (1755)

Famous Birthdays

Barbara Allbut; pop singer (1940)

Tommy Armour; golfer (1894)

Elizabeth Blackadder; Scottish painter (1931)

John Brunner; English-Scottish author (1934)

John Carter; jazz woodwind player (1929)

Ham Fisher; cartoonist (1900)

F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer (1896)

Jack Gaughan; illustrator (1930)

"Mean" Joe Greene; Pittsburgh steelers DT (1946)

Phil Hartman; comedian (1948)

Herb Jeffries; singer (1913)

Katja Kassin; German porn star (1979)

John Kessel; author, poet, and playwright (1950)

Anastasia Knight; adult actress (1999)

Józef Krupiński; Polish poet & author (1930)

Sheila MacRae; actor, comedian (1924)

Franklin Clarence Mars; candymaker (1883)

Gerry Marsden; rock singer (1942)

Sabrine Maui; adult actress (1980)

Linda Eastman McCartney; photographer (1942)

Sheila MacRae; English-American actress, singer (1921)

John McKay; television sportscaster (1921)

John Moffatt; English actor & playwright (1922)

Stephen Mueller; painter (1947)

Eloise Mumford; actress (1986)

Yves Navarre; French author (1940)

Fats Navarro; jazz trumpeter (1923)

Bernard Nevill; English painter (1934)

Anthony Newley; actor (1931)

Njål Ølnes; Norwegian saxophonist & composer (1965)

César Pedroso; Cuban pianist & songwriter (1946)

Ben Platt; actor, singer (1993)

Grigori Potemkin; Russian politician (1739)

Jean Servais; Belgian-French actor (1910)

Robert Lewis Taylor; author (1912)

Mel Taylor; drummer (1934)

Carson Van Osten; comics creator (1945)

Nia Vardalos; Canadian-American actress (1962)

Victoria Vetri; 1968 Playmate of the Year (1944)

Horace Walpole; English writer (1717)

Megan Ward; actress (1969)

Steve Whitmire; current voice of Kermit the Frog (1959)

Chick Willis; singer & guitarist (1934)