#peter cavanaugh

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Peter O'Brien as Peter Cavanaugh in The Bill - Episode 216 (2/2)

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[billysjoel]

THE GOOD WIFE 4x21 A More Perfect Union

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We write x reader and x OC stories/oneshots, so don't be afraid to give your character a name, unless you prefer it being the reader!

We typically write the reader as a female, but if you prefer gender neutral, let us know!

We generally write for male people/characters as well.

We write:

Fluff

Angst

Hurt/Comfort

Comfort

We do not write smut!

Feel free to send any request for one-shots/imagines, or if you have an idea for a mini-series, don't be afraid to suggest that as well.

If you request, there is no 100% guarantee that it'll be written, but we will definitely try our best to fulfill everyone's requests!

When something is requested, we will try to get to it as quickly as possible, but we are both full time students and play sports, so please bear with us!

We write for a lot of things, but here is the list if you want to go through it all! If you don't see a specific person/show or anything on the list, still feel free to request it. We might have accidentally left it out, but if not, we can still attempt to write that person for you!

You can submit requests by clicking the link at the bottom of this post or the link at the top of the blog, both will take you to a form to submit your request!

FULL LIST OF WHAT WE WRITE FOR:

Shows/movies:

13 Reasons Why

Clay Jensen

Justin Foley

911 (Lonestar and the original)

Eddie Diaz

Evan Buckley

Judd Ryder

Owen Strand

Paul Strickland

TK Strand

Wyatt Harris

American Horror Story

Jimmy Darling

Kit Walker

Kyle Spencer

Michael Langdon

Tate Langdon

Xavier Plympton

Attack On Titan

Armin Arlert

Jean Kirstein

Big Time Rush

Carlos

James

Kendall

Logan

Breaking Bad

Jesse Pinkman

Cobra Kai

Eli Moskowitz (Hawk)

Johnny Lawrence

Miguel Diaz

Robby Keene

Criminal Minds

Aaron Hotchner

Derek Morgan

Spencer Reid

Game of Thrones

Bronn

Jaime Lannister

Jon Snow

Robb Stark

Goosebumps

James Etten

Lucas Parker

Gossip Girl

Chuck Bass

Eric Van Der Woodsen

Nate Archibald

Grey’s Anatomy

George O’Malley

Mark Sloan

IT

Bill Denbrough

Eddie Kaspbrak

Richie Tozier

Jujustu Kaisen

Megumi Fushiguro

Satoru Gojo

Toge Inumaki

Yuji Itadori

Lab Rats

Chase Davenport

Malcolm In The Middle

Francis Wilkerson

Reese Wilkerson

Malcolm Wilkerson

Marvel

Bucky Barnes

Deadpool

Druig

Loki Laufeyson

Peter Parker (Tom’s or Andrew’s)

Steve Rogers

Thor 

Wolverine

My Babysitter’s a Vampire

Benny Weir

Ethan Morgan

My Hero Academia

Denki Kaminari

Eijiro Kirishima

Hitoshi Shinsou

Izuku Midoriya

Katsuki Bakugo

Keigo Takami

Shota Aizawa

Shoto Todoroki

Takami Amajiki

NCIS (LA and the original)

Anthony DiNozzo

Eric Beale

G. Callen

Jimmy Palmer

Marty Deeks

Timothy McGee

Nerve

Tommy Mancuso

New Girl

Coach

Nick Miller

Schmidt

Winston Bishop

Now You See Me

Jack Wilder

Outerbanks

JJ Maybank

John B.

Pope

Rafe Cameron

Topper

Percy Jackson

Percy

Pretty Little Liars

Caleb Rivers

Holden Strauss

Jason DiLaurentis

Mike Montgomery

Noel Kahn

Toby Cavanaugh

Shadowhunters

Alec Lightwood

Jace Herondale

Simon Lewis

Shameless

Ian Gallagher

Kevin Ball

Lip Gallagher

Smallville

Clark Kent

Lex Luthor

Stranger Things

Dustin Henderson

Steve Harrington

Supernatural

Castiel

Dean Winchester

Jack Kline

Sam Winchester

T@GGED

Ash Franklin

Brandon Darrow

Trevor Askill

Teen Wolf

Derek Hale

Isaac Lahey

Scott McCall

Stiles Stilinski

Titans

Dick Grayson (Nightwing)

Gar Logan (Beast Boy)

Jason Todd (Red Hood)

The 100

Bellamy Blake

Jasper Jordan

Monty Green

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Ambrose Spellman

Harvey Kinkle

Nicholas Scratch

The Hunger Games

Finnick Odair

Peeta Mellark

The Maze Runner

Minho

Newt

Thomas

The Middle

Axl Heck

Sean Donahue

The OC

Luke Ward

Ryan Atwood

Seth Cohen

The Originals

Elijah Mikaelson

Klaus Mikaelson

Kol Mikaelson

The Outsiders

Darry Curtis

Dallas Winston

Sodapop Curtis

The Rookie

John Nolan

Tim Bradford

The Umbrella Academy

Five Hargreeves

The Vampire Diaries

Damon Salvatore

Jeremy Gilbert

Kai Parker

Stefan Salvatore

The Walking Dead

Carl Grimes

Daryl Dixon

Glenn Rhee

Negan Smith

Rick Grimes

True Blood

Eric Northman

Jason Stackhouse

Sam Merlotte

Twilight

Emmett Cullen

Jasper Hale

Paul Lahote

Seth Clearwater

Wizards of Waverly Place

Justin Russo

Real people:

5 Seconds of Summer members (all)

Ateez members (all)

Cody Fern

Jamie Muscato

Sam and Colby

Stray Kids members (all)

The Boyz (all)

Tomorrow x Together members (all)

Request form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdf15DK07JIGzKMNPC2FrEgP7ces4KfIxTngYcNwvmusaXxGA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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𝜗𝜚- Character's I write for

Outer Banks: jj maybank, rafe cameron, john b routledge

The Vampire Diaries: damon salvatore, stefan salvatore, klaus mikaelson, kai parker, kol mikaelson, elijah mikaelson, jeremy gilbert, enzo st john

Pretty Little Liars: toby cavanaugh, caleb rivers, Jason dilaurentis

Glee: santana lopez & sam evans

Once Upon A Time: killian jones & peter pan

Brooklyn Nine Nine: jake peralta

Gossip Girl: chuck bass & nate archibald (for now)

Riverdale: archie andrews & jughead jones

The Office: luke cooper & jim halpert

Stranger Things: steve harrington & billy hargrove

Cobra Kai: miguel diaz, robbie keene & hawk aka: eli horowitz

The X Files: fox mulder

American Horror Story: tate langdon, kit walker, kyle spencer

Pen15: dustin long, brandt

Outnumbered: jake

Marvel: loki laufeyson, steve rogers, bucky barnes, peter parker

DC: bruce wayne, clark kent, dick grayson, joker

Hunger Games: finnick odair & peter malarky, ps. I haven't done cornelius bc I haven't watched the new movie :)

Harry Potter: ron weasley, draco malfoy, blaise zabini, mattheo riddle, tom riddle, lorenzo berkshire, theodore nott, lucian bole, james potter, sirius black, remus lupin, regulus black

Note: Let me know if you want any poly, my requests will be open by tomorrow. You can request whatever you want but it has to be x reader. I don't mind writing anything but be careful with warnings. I hope you have a great day!! mwah :) ps. tell me if you want fluff, smut or angst. I don't know how to do smut that well but I will try!

cba to do tags

still did it ...

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Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned.

Jeremy Lewin, one of the DOGE employees tasked with dismantling USAID, who has also played a role in DOGE’s incursions into the National Institutes of Health and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is listed as making just over $167,000 annually, WIRED has confirmed. Lewin is assigned to the Office of the Administrator within the General Services Administration.

Kyle Schutt, a software engineer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is listed as drawing a salary of $195,200 through GSA, where he is assigned to the Office of the Deputy Administrator. That is the maximum amount that any “General Schedule” federal employee can make annually, including bonuses. “You cannot be offered more under any circumstances,” the GSA compensation and benefits website reads.

Nate Cavanaugh, a 28-year-old tech entrepreneur who has taken a visible internal role interviewing GSA employees as part of DOGE’s work at the agency, is listed as being paid just over $120,500 per year. According to DOGE’s official website, the average GSA employee makes $128,565 and has worked at the agency for 13 years.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” WIRED previously reported that the DOGE recruitment effort relied in part on a team of engineers associated with Peter Thiel and was carried out on platforms like Discord.

Since Trump took office in January, DOGE has overseen aggressive layoffs within the GSA, including the recent elimination of 18F, the agency’s unit dedicated to technology efficiency. It also developed a plan to sell off more than 500 government buildings.

Although Musk has described DOGE as “maximum transparent,” it has not made its spending or salary ranges publicly available. Funding for DOGE had grown to around $40 million as of February 20, according to a recent ProPublica report. The White House did not respond to questions about the salary ranges for DOGE employees or how the budget is allocated to pay them.

Some DOGE team members, including Musk, are designated as “Special Government Employees,” an advisory role limited to a 130-day work period. These positions can be paid or unpaid; SGEs drawing salaries above a certain grade have to file financial disclosure forms, but the volunteer workers do not. This type of employee is not beholden to the same rules as typical federal workers; they are allowed to keep drawing outside salaries and in some cases do not need to disclose conflicts of interest. Other prominent SGE staffers associated with DOGE include top aide Katie Miller, who continued her prior public relations work through the transition and more than a month into the current administration. Her firm’s clients had included Apple and a Saudi-funded golf league, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Other prominent DOGE staffers appear to be unpaid volunteers. Edward Coristine, Ethan Shaotran, Luke Farritor, Derek Geissler, and Nicole Hollander draw no salary through their assignments at the General Services Administration. (It is not currently known whether they are drawing salaries elsewhere within the government.) The agency now openly discusses the idea of compensation on its recruitment page, which describes “full-time, salaried positions for software engineers, InfoSec engineers, and other technology professionals.”

In an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News last month, Musk claimed that "the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year and instead of earning a small fraction of that as federal employees." In Silicon Valley, the median salary for a software engineer hovers around $184,000, with workers a decade into their careers earning over $220,000, according to Glassdoor.

DOGE honcho Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of over $350 billion. Although Musk does not draw a salary for his work with DOGE, his business ventures often enjoy government support. The Washington Post recently reported that his companies have received more than $38 billion in government funding over the past two decades.

“It does seem worth understanding what these employees are being paid,” says Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the University of Michigan. “Especially if they are being paid significantly more than technologists who have been fired, given that many of the DOGE staff have less relevant experience.”

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Jeremy Lewin, one of the DOGE employees tasked with dismantling USAID, who has also played a role in DOGE’s incursions into the National Institutes of Health and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is listed as making just over $167,000 annually, WIRED has confirmed. Lewin is assigned to the Office of the Administrator within the General Services Administration.

Kyle Schutt, a software engineer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is listed as drawing a salary of $195,200 through GSA, where he is assigned to the Office of the Deputy Administrator. That is the maximum amount that any “General Schedule” federal employee can make annually, including bonuses. “You cannot be offered more under any circumstances,” the GSA compensation and benefits website reads.

Nate Cavanaugh, a 28-year-old tech entrepreneur who has taken a visible internal role interviewing GSA employees as part of DOGE’s work at the agency, is listed as being paid just over $120,500 per year. According to DOGE’s official website, the average GSA employee makes $128,565 and has worked at the agency for 13 years.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” WIRED previously reported that the DOGE recruitment effort relied in part on a team of engineers associated with Peter Thiel and was carried out on platforms like Discord.

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Characters I Write For

Please message me with any ideas/requests! I need ideas(short fics or series)

Mostly write for fem!readers. I can write fluff, angst, smut, etc. If I’m not comfortable with something I can let you know

Character/Actor List

Favorite Characters/Actors To Write For

Draco Malfoy, Weasley twins

Jesse Pinkman

Paul Dano characters

Josh Hutcherson characters

Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel

Damon Salvatore, Silas, Klaus Mikaelson, Kol Mikaelson

Rodrick Heffley

Bellamy Blake

Ezra Fitz(should probably make it clear I don’t condone)

Ian Duncan(Community)

Charlie(It’s Always Sunny)

Luke Castellan, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase

Finnick Odair

Tommy Shelby

Killian Hook

Paul Dano

Klitz(The Girl Next Door)

Dwayne Hoover(Little Miss Sunshine)

Edward Nashton(The Batman)

Calvin Weir-Fields(Ruby Sparks)

Brian Wilcox(Fast Food Nation)

Joby Taylor(For Ellen)

Nick Flynn(Being Flynn)

Josh Hutcherson

Peeta Mellark(The Hunger Games)

Mike Schmidt(FNAF)

Josh Futturman(Future Man)

Devon Bostick

Rodrick Heffley(Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Jasper Jordan(The 100)

Cillian Murphy

Tommy Shelby(Peaky Blinders)

Dr. Jonathan Crane(The Dark Knight)

Neil(Watching the Detectives)

Christian Bale

Patrick Bateman(American Psycho)

Bruce Wayne(The Dark Knight)

Breaking Bad

Jesse Pinkman

Jane Margolis

Saul Goodman

Harry Potter(Golden Trio Era)

Harry Potter

Ron Weasley

Hermione Granger

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Ginny Weasley

Luna Lovegood

Neville Longbottom

Draco Malfoy

Pansy Parkinson

Blaise Zabini

Theodore Nott

Daphne Greengrass

Adrian Pucey

Terence Higgs

Harry Potter(Marauders Era)

James Potter

Remus Lupin

Sirius Black

Lily Potter

Severus Snape

Regulus Black

Lucius Malfoy

Narcissa Malfoy

Bellatrix Lestrange

Arthur Weasley

Harry Potter(Fantastic Beasts Era)

Newt Scamander

Queenie Goldstein

Leta Lestrange

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson

Annabeth Chase

Luke Castellan

Thalia Grace

Jason Grace

+ Gods

Criminal Minds

Spencer Reid

Aaron Hotchner

Emily Prentiss

Derek Morgan

JJ

Penelope Garcia

David Rossi

Elle Greenaway

Cat Adams

Megan Kane

Supernatural

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

John Winchester

Mary Winchester

Castiel

Charlie Bradbury

Rowena McLeod

Adam Milligan

Lucifer

Ruby

Jessica Moore

Gabriel

Benny Lafitte

Bela Talbot

Jo Harvelle

Ellen Harvelle

Superstore

Jonah Simms

Amy Sosa

Marcus White

Garrett McNeill

Dina Fox

Cheyenne Lee

Bo Thompson

Gilmore Girls

Lorelai Gilmore

Christopher Hayden

Luke Danes

Logan Huntzberger

Jess Mariano

The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark

Katniss Everdeen

Gale Hawthorn

Finnick Odair

Johanna Mason

Haymitch Abernathy

Pretty Little Liars

Aria Montgomery

Spencer Hastings

Emily Fields

Hannah Marin

Mona Vanderwaal

Alison Di Laurentis

Jason Di Laurentis

Ezra Fitz

Toby Cavanaugh

Jenna Marshall

Caleb Rivers

The Vampire Diaries

Damon Salvatore

Stefan Salvatore

Katherine Pierce

Elena Gilbert

Jeremy Gilbert

Bonnie Bennett

Caroline Forbes

The Originals

Klaus Mikaelson

Elijah Mikaelson

Kol Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Freya Mikaelson

Hayley Marshall

Marcel Gerard

Davina Claire

Twilight

Edward Cullen

Bella Swan

Alice Cullen

Jasper Hale

Rosalie Hale

Emmett Cullen

Victoria

The 100

Bellamy Blake

Octavia Blake

Jasper Jordan

Shameless

Fiona Gallagher

Lip Gallagher

Carl Gallagher

Frank Gallagher

Mandy Milkovich

Kevin Ball

Veronica Fisher

The Bear

Carmy Berzatto

Sydney Adamu

Richie Jerimovich

Suicide Squad

Harley Quinn

Rick Flag

Blackguard

Once Upon A Time

Emma Swan

Regina Mills

Killian Jones

Rumplestiltskin

Robin Hood

Ruby

Hades

Community

Jeff Winger

Abed Nadir

Annie Edison

Troy Barnes

Ian Duncan

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Charlie Kelly

Dennis Reynolds

Dee Reynolds

Mac

Cricket

House MD

Greg House

Robert Chase

James Wilson

Lisa Cuddy

Parks and Recreation

Ben Wyatt

April Ludgate

Andy Dwyer

MCU, Marvel

Steve Rogers

Tony Stark

Natasha Romanoff

Bruce Banner

Wanda Maximoff

Loki Laufeyson

Peter Parker(Holland, Garfield, Maguire)

Gamora

Peter Quill

Scott Lang

Steven Strange

Jessica Jones

Wade Wilson

DC CW

Oliver Queen

Barry Allen

Felicity Smoak

Laurel Lance

Sara Lance

Malcom Merlyn

John Constantine

Leonard Snart

Ray Palmer

Caitlyn Snow

Julian Albert

Rip Hunter

10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona

Cameron James

New Girl

Jess Day

Nick Miller

Schmidt

Other Characters

Charlie Kelmeckis(Perks Of Being A Wallflower)

Jesse Eisenberg Characters

Dr. Who(10th Doctor)

Will Probably Add More

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Hunter College is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Last year, students from Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work circulated a letter calling for Silberman to “rescind its support for anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic statements issued by Hunter College and CUNY leadership” and demanding the school endorse the Not On Our Dime! campaign as well as the BDS movement. More recently, the CUNY Palestine solidarity encampment that was located on the City College of NY (CCNY) campus was violently raided at the beginning of this month.

Students at the Silberman School of Social Work graduation ceremony turn their back in protest to Dean Mary Cavanaugh as she takes the podium. They briefly chant *Free Palestine* as people applaud the Dean's words, but mainly stand silent.

-- Peter Hambrecht, 30 May 2024 12:39pm EDT

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PawPant's Voice Actor

(Rabbidbot "Toyco" White-Rabbit - She cannot talking about not voice anymore but She can Hissing like a Snake)

Rabbidmini - Voice of Amber Hood on Stun Bunny (Nicktoon: Attack of the Toybots)

Attilio Von Chupacabra - Voice of David Kaufman on Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom)

Carly Von Chupacabra - Voice of Katie Crown on Izzy (Total DramaRama)

Donnie Von Chupacabra - Voice of Andy Berman on Dib Membrane (Invader Zim)

Jose Von Chupacabra - Voice of Dan Castellaneta on Grampa Simpson (The Simpsons)

Minnie Monarch-Butterfly - Voice of Tara Strong on Princess Unikitty (Unikitty)

Wallace Yellow-Crested Cockatoo - Voice of Steven Kelly on Byron (Brawl Stars)

Robert Fusibot - Voice of Michaela Dietz on Amethyst (Steven Universe)

Andrea Satyr - Voice of Barbara Dunkelman on Nerris (Camp Camp)

Eva "Ninety-One" Xoloitzcuintli - Voice of Kate Micucci on Dr. Fox (Unikitty)

Mackie Computer - Voice of Carlos Alazraqui on Walden (Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!)

King Balor Boitatá - Voice of Paul Greenberg on Manjimutt (Yo-Kai Watch)

Zella La-Llorona - Voice of Megan Cavanaugh on Nissa (Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius)

Mahavir Great White-Shark - Voice of John Stephen Goodman on Baloo (The Jungle Book 2)

Cosmo Vintage Toy-Robot - Voice of Lindsay Jones on Space Kid (Camp Camp)

Kenia Russian Blue - Voice of Marissa Lenti on Nita (Brawl Stars)

Winona Unicorn - Voice of Kimiko Glenn on Izzy (My Little Pony: A New Generation)

Mr. Dicky Water Python - Voice of Rowan Atkinson on Zazu (The Lion King)

Rasputin "Raz" Mountain Zebra - Voice of Kai Skrotzki on Chester (Brawl Stars)

Izzy Jerboa - Voice of Katie Snyder on Colette (Brawl Stars)

Bella Firefighter - Voice of Cristina Vee Valenzuela on Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)

Opal Petalmen - Voice of Maggie Roswell on Mona Simpson (The Simpsons)

Monday Poodle - Voice of Nicki Rapp on Lili Zanotto (Psychonants 2)

Eis "Eastern" Traffic Light - Voice of Howard Ryshpan on Geppetto (Pinocchio 3000)

Winter Polar Bear - Voice of Rachael MacFarlane on Hayley Smith (American Dad!)

Modem Sliverback Gorilla - Voice of Scott McCord on Owen (Total Drama)

Edward Pixie - Voice of Audrey Wasilewski on Tuck (My Life as a Teenage Robot)

Peter Pileated Woodpecker - Voice of Sonja Ball on Pinocchio (Pinocchio 3000)

Dexter Harpie - Voice of Jill Talley on I.Q. (Wacky Races 2017)

Cayden Jack In The Box - Voice of James Arnold Taylor on Wooldoor Jebediah Sockbat (Drawn Together)

Gravestone Black Flying Fox - Voice of Ed Mace on Mortis (Brawl Stars)

Blu Milk Snake - Voice of Kat Cressida on Dee Dee (Dexter's Laboratory)

Shay Ghoul - Voice of Steve Carell on Hammy (Over the Hedge)

Gina Green-Boost - Voice of Elsie Lovelock on Uzi (Murder Drones)

Stitches - Voice of Zane VanWicklin on Arnold Shortman (Hey Arnold!)

Corbin Black Panther - Voice of Jason Lee on Bones (Monster House)

Valentina Bilby - Voice of Wendy Schaal on Francine Smith (American Dad!)

Snow-White Polish Rabbit - Voice of Bella Ramsey on Hilda (Hilda the Series)

Hurricane Kirin -

[forensicated]

Peter O'Brien as Peter Cavanaugh on The Bill - Episode 216 (1/2)

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[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

HERB ELLIS, LA GUITARE SWING À SON MEILLEUR

"If you're not swinging, he's going to make you swing."

- Les Paul

Né le 4 août 1921 à Farmersville, près de Dallas, au Texas, Mitchell Herbert Ellis était le fils du cultivateur de coton Clifford Ellis et de Martha Kennedy. Ellis avait commencé à se passionner pour la guitare électrique après avoir entendu le musicien country George Barnes à la radio.

Après avoir commencé à jouer de l’harmonica  et du banjo, Ellis avait adopté la guitare à l’âge de huit ou neuf ans. Son frère aîné jouait également de la guitare.

Après s’être inscrit à une majeure en musique au North Texas State College en 1939, Ellis avait commencé à être influencé par le prodige de la guitare électrique Charlie Christian. Ellis avait également été influencé par Django Reinhardt. Parmi les camarades de classe d’Ellis à North Texas State College à l’époque, on retrouvait le saxophoniste et arrangeur Jimmy Giuffre (avec qui il avait partagé une chambre), le compositeur et trompettiste Gene Roland et le contrebassiste Harry Babasin. Ellis avait étudié la contrebasse à l’université, car il n’existait pas encore de programme de guitare à l’époque. Faute d’argent, Ellis avait dû abandonner ses études au collège en 1941.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

Après avoir quitté le collège en 1941, Ellis était parti en tournée durant six mois avec un groupe de l’Université du Kansas. Ellis s’était par la suite installé à Kansas City, au Missouri, afin de perfectionner son style. Rejeté par l’armée en raison d’un souffle au coeur, Ellis s’était joint au big band de Charlie Fisk. Il s’était aussi produit dans différents clubs, collaborant notamment avec Charlie Parker (celui-ci n’avait pas encore découvert le bebop à l’époque).

En 1943, Ellis s’était joint au groupe Glen Gray and the Casa Lorna Orchestra. C’est dans le cadre de sa collaboration avec le groupe qu’Ellis avait rencontré le pianiste Lou Carter avec qui il s’était joint en 1944 à l’orchestre de Jimmy Dorsey. Le contrebassiste et violoniste Johnny Frigo avait rejoint Ellis et Carter un peu plus tard. C’est avec le groupe de Dorsey qu’Ellis avait enregistré ses premiers solos.

Ellis était demeuré avec l’orchestre de Dorsey jusqu’en 1947. Dans le cadre de sa collaboration avec le groupe, Ellis avait fait de nombreux enregistrements et tournées et s’était produit dans les salles de danse et les cinémas.

C’est alors que s’était produit un tournant capital qui avait changé la carrière d’Ellis à jamais. À l’époque, le groupe de Dorsey avait un trou de six semaines dans son calendrier. John Frigo, qui avait déjà quitté le groupe à ce moment-là, connaissait le propriétaire du Peter Stuyvesant Hotel à Buffalo. Ellis, Frigo et Carter avaient alors formé un trio appelé les Soft Winds. Largement inspiré du trio de Nat King Cole, le groupe avait joué à l’Hôtel durant six mois. Le son du groupe était souvent comparé à un groupe très populaire à l’époque, le  Page Cavanaugh Trio. Même si es Soft Winds avaient poursuivi leurs activités jusqu’en 1953, ils n’avaient jamais remporté le succès auxquels ils auraient pu s’attendre. "We played six nights a week and practiced five days a week", avait commenté Carter. Commentant le travail du groupe, Ellis avait expliqué au cours d’une entrevue qu’il avait accordée en 1993: “We didn’t hear things in terms of having a drummer, but it worked well.”

Un des spectateurs assidus des concerts du trio était le pianiste Oscar Peterson. Ce dernier se produisait habituellement à l’hôtel les dimanches soirs. Lorsque Frigo avait quitté le groupe, Peterson avait approché Ellis, car il se cherchait un guitariste pour remplacer Barney Kessel. Décrivant la réaction de Peterson lorsqu’il l’avait entendu jouer avec le trio, Ellis avait précisé: “He liked it. So he and I went out later that night and jammed at some place in Buffalo. I didn’t see him again until 1953 when [guitarist] Barney Kessel left his group. That’s when he called me for the job.”

Ellis avait fait partie du trio de Peterson de 1953 à 1958. Avec le contrebassiste Ray Brown, le trio était devenu le groupe le plus enregistré de l’époque. Comme Scott Yanow l’écrivait dans le All-Music Guide to Jazz, le groupe était éventuellement devenu un des plus grands trios avec piano de tous les temps. Yanow avait ajouté: ‘’It was never so much a matter of Peterson having two other musicians accompany him as it was that they could meet the pianist as near- equals and consistently inspire him. And unlike most trios, O.P.'s had many arranged sections that constantly needed rehearsals and were often quite dazzling." Ironiquement, comme seul musicien blanc du groupe, Ellis avait été placé dans une position plutôt délicate à une époque où le racisme était encore dominant.

Grâce à leur grande complicité, les trois membres du trio s’inspiraient constamment l’un l’autre, contribuant ainsi à garder leur musique toujours aussi fraîche et entraînante. Ellis avait déclaré au sujet de cette période:

"It was probably the highlight of my career to play with those guys--they're the best on their respective instruments. We had a lot of really difficult arrangements. Oscar wrote really hard for us. We'd have to memorize everything. Oscar's a mental giant, you know, and he never forgot anything. He'd give me stuff to play and I'd say, 'I can't play this, Oscar.' He'd say, 'Yes, you can; I know how much you can play.' I'd go practice and, sure enough, he'd be right every time."

En plus de leurs enregistrements en studio et en concert, le trio de Peterson avait également servi de section rythmique maison pour les disques Verve de Norman Granz, notamment dans le cadre de collaborations avec des saxophonistes comme Ben Webster et Stan Getz, et des trompettistes comme Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, et Harry ‘’Sweets’’ Edison. Même si Ellis était membre à part entière de la section rythmique dans le cadre de ces enregistrements, il ne jouait pas en solo sur toutes les pièces. Avec le batteur, Buddy Rich, Ellis avait aussi participé à un album en duo mettant en vedette Ella Fitzgerald et Louis Armstrong.

Le trio avait également servi de noyau aux tournées de Jazz at the Philarmonic qui se produisaient régulièrement aux États-Unis et en Europe. Lassé de faire des tournées, Ellis avait quitté le trio de Peterson en novembre 1958. Peterson étant convaincu qu’il ne trouverait aucun guitariste capable d’arriver à la cheville d’Ellis, il l’avait remplacé par un batteur, Ed Thigpen. Lorsque le trio de Peterson s’était réuni plusieurs années plus tard, l’atmosphère était devenue beaucoup plus détendue. Comme l’avait souligné le fils d’Ellis, Mitch, “That time was very special to all of them. He and Ray roomed together; they were really best friends. When they got back together in the ‘80s it was a lot more fun, a lot more relaxed.”

Après avoir quitté le trio de Peterson, Ellis était parti en tournée avec la chanteuse Ella Fitzgerald de 1957 à 1960. Il avait aussi brièvement accompagné la chanteuse Julie London. Également actrice, London avait remporté un grand succès avec la chanson "Cry Me A River."

Ellis, qui en avait assez de la vie de musicien de tournée, avait par la suite amorcé une longue carrière comme musicien de studio pour la télévision et le cinéma. Parmi les émissions de télévision auxquelles Ellis avaient participé, on remarquait les talk shows de Steve Allen, de Regis Philbin, de Danny Kaye, de Red Skelton, de Joey Bishop, de Della Reese et de Merv Griffin. Dans un article publié dans le magazine Down Beat, le critique Leonard Feather avait commenté: "Philbin had the most jazz-oriented house group..., Terry Gibbs'. In fact it was composed entirely of jazz musicians, [including] guitarist Ellis, the only holdover from the Allen show and still one of the great swingers of any decade." Dans le cadre de l’émission d’Allen, Ellis était membre du Donn Trenner Orchestra aux côtés de virtuoses comme le joueur de trombone Frank Rosolino.

Ellis a aussi joué sur plusieurs musiques de films au cours de la même décennie. À la fin des années 1960, Ellis avait éventuellement abandonné le travail de musicien de studio pour mieux se concentrer sur sa carrière musicale.

Dans les années 1970, Ellis avait fait équipe avec des guitaristes de jazz dominants, d’abord en duo avec Joe Pass et Barney Kessel, puis en trio. Le trio d’Ellis avec Barney Kessel et Charlie Byrd avait éventuellement donné naissance au groupe Great Guitars, dont avait également fait partie plus tard le guitariste Tal Farlow. Continuant d’enregistrer et de se produire en concert régulièrement, Ellis avait d’abord enregistré le premier d’une série de trois albums pour les disques Concord. Par la suite, Ellis avait fait équipe avec les guitaristes Freddie Green, un des piliers de l’orchestre de Count Basie, et Laurindo Almeida, un ancien membre de l’orchestre de Stan Kenton. Au cours de cette période, Ellis avait également enregistré avec le contrebassiste Ray Brown, les saxophonistes Jimmy Giuffre et Coleman Hawkins et le violoniste Stuff Smith. Ellis avait aussi rendu hommage à son idole Charlie Christian sur un album intitulé "Hello, Charlie Christian." Ellis avait également enregistré des manuels d’instruction sur vidéo.

Ellis avait également continué de se produire dans les festivals. Dans les années 1970, Ellis avait été en vedette dans un épisode de la série ‘’Sanford and Son’’ dans lequel il avait accompagné le chanteur Fred Sanford. Ellis avait également donné des cours de guitare au dessinateur Gary Larson. En échange, Larson avait réalisé l’illustration de la pochette de l’album ‘’Doggin’ Around’’ qu’Ellis avait enregistré avec le conrebassite Red Mitchell en 1988.

Ellis jouait avec des guitares Gibson depuis trente-sept ans lorsque la compagnie Gibson avait lancé une guitare à son nom, la Gibson Herb Ellis Model, aussi connue sous le nom d’ES165.

En 1982, Ellis avait formé le groupe Triple Threat avec Monty Alexander et Ray Brown.

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Ellis, qui adorait se produire en public, réunissait souvent certains de ses amis dans le cadre de certains événements spéciaux. Lors d’une croisière de jazz tenue en novembre 1995, Ellis avait réuni son ancien groupe Soft Winds. Cette fois, John Frigo avait joué exclusivement du violon. Keter Betts était à la contrebasse et Lou Carter au piano. Commentant l’événement, le pianiste Lou Carter avait déclaré: "None of us had played together for forty years, We got up on the bandstand of the Norway without any rehearsal and swung our butts off!" À la fin des années 1940, le groupe avait remporté un certain succès avec deux pièces qu’il avait reprises lors de la croisière: I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out!" et "Detour Ahead." Cette dernière pièce, qui était devenue un standard du jazz, avait été reprise par de grands noms du jazz comme Billie Holiday, Bill Evans et Jane Monheit.

En 1998, le JVC jazz festival de New York avait commémoré la carrière d’Ellis dans le cadre de la présentation d’une série de concerts-hommage.

Ellis a été intronisé au sein du Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame en 1994. Le 15 novembre 1997, l’University of North Texas College of Music avait décerné à Ellis un doctorat honorifique en musique. Ellis a aussi remporté un prix Grammy pour sa participation à l’album "The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note" en 1990. Admirateur de longue date de la guitariste de jazz Emily Remler, Ellis avait d’ailleurs participé à un album à sa mémoire.

Ellis avait enregistré plusieurs albums comme leader au cours de sa carrière, dont ‘’Nothing But the Blues’’, qui avait été enregistré en 1957 avec Roy Eldridge et Stan Getz, et qui est considéré comme un des meilleurs de sa carrière. Même si plusieurs des premiers albums d’Ellis sont aujourd’hui épuisés, ses disques ‘’Ellis in Wonderland’’ (1956), ‘’Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre’’ (1959) et ‘’Thank You, Charlie Christian’’ (1960) sont considérés comme des modèles d’enregistrements pour de petites formations avec guitare.

Au cours de sa carrière, Ellis avait collaboré avec de grands noms du jazz comme Joe Pass (son successeur avec le trio d’Oscar Peterson), les saxophonistes Art Pepper, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Giuffre et Stan Getz, le guitariste brésilien Laurindo Almeida, les trompettistes Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong et Harry ‘’Sweets’’ Edison, le violoniste Stuff Smith, la chanteuse Ella Fitzgerald, les pianistes Monty Alexander et George Duke et le batteur Buddy Rich.

Lors d’un test à l’aveugle réalisé en 1992 pour le magazine Down Beat, le guitariste Les Paul avait commenté un album d’Ellis avec Joe Pass en ces termes: "You get Joe Pass all by himself and he can pretty well stun ya....And the same thing with Herb Ellis. If you're not swinging, he's gonna make you swing. Of that whole bunch of guys who play hollow-body guitar on the front pickup, I think Herb Ellis has got the most drive." Ellis avait particulièrement apprécié de collaborer avec Pass. Comme l’avait expliqué le fils d’Ellis, Mitch: “It meant a great deal to him . . . they formed this real connection.”

Ellis était particulièrement reconnu pour l’emploi d’une technique qu’il avait probablement apprise du guitariste Ray Crawford, et qui lui permettait de frapper ses cordes un peu à la manière d’un instrument de percussion.

Herb Ellis est décédé le 28 mars 2010 à sa résidence de Los Angeles des suites de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Il était âgé de quatre-vingt-huit ans. Ont survécu à Ellis son épouse Patti Gahagan (qu’il avait épousée en 1957), son fils Mitch, sa fille Kari et trois petits-enfants.

Faisant le bilan de l’évolution du jazz, Ellis avait commenté en 1996: “There have been changes in jazz and new styles come along. I play straight ahead, what you might call mainstream, jazz. That’s what I played when I started and that’s what I still play. I wish everyone else good luck and God bless, but I’ve found mine and I’m going to stick with it.”

Dans son ouvrage intitulé The Jazz Guitarists, Stan Britt avait salué ainsi la contribution d’Ellis au monde du jazz: "Throughout all his musical ventures-- on-record or otherwise--Ellis evidences the kind of strong consistency and lasting commitment that has made him something of a legend amongst guitarists."

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"Dancing in September" (2000) was a made-for-television drama originally aired on HBO. Reggie Rock Bythewood wrote, directed, and produced the Film, which stars a stellar cast of actors. It is an excellent film with a mindful storyline from multiple characters' perspectives. If you're familiar with Spike Lee's hard-hitting film "Bamboozled," then "Dancing in September" has a similar narrative without the blackface. Bythewood also wrote Lee's film "Get on the Bus," and without coincidence, "Dancing in September" aired the same year "Bamboozled" was released. Fascinating connection.

Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood Writer: Reggie Rock Bythewood

Starring Nicole Ari Parker, Isaiah Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Malinda Williams, Royale Watkins, Jenifer Lewis, James Avery, Jay Underwood, Marcia Cross, Michael Cavanaugh, Kimberly Russell, Peter Onorati, Rashaan Nall, Chi McBride, Juanita Jennings, Brent Jennings, Mel Jackson, Anna Maria Horsford, LeVar Burton, Tichina Arnold

Storyline Struggling African-American television writer Tommy Crawford (Nicole Ari Parker) gets her sitcom picked up by the neophyte WPX network through George Washington (Isaiah Washington), an executive hired to develop shows aimed at the black market. But, as the season wears on, Tommy's original high-minded concept slowly devolves into a dumbed-down vehicle for its breakout star, ex-hustler James (Vicellous Reon Shannon), whose struggles threaten to capsize the entire project.

Available on DVD and streaming services

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The two 90s Sonic the Hedgehog series (like that wouldn’t be confusing)

[All images are owned by Sega and DIC animation. Please don’t sue or Roboticize me]

(Thanks to TheNawaf258)

One cannot understate the importance of the spiny mammal with the freakish blue spines and even more freakish speed that bust onto the scene when Sega introduced the Genesis in the early 90s. Before Sonic, a certain company whose mascot was a certain plumber ruled the home video game market. Now we had a contest!

In fact, Sonic’s popularity was so huge that in 1993 not one, but two animated series were created by DIC Animation! The first, The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, made the weekday syndicated circuit.

(Thanks to Choones The Train Driver)

The series follows Sonic (voiced by Jaleel White, who played Steve Urkel in Family Matters) and his best friend (introduced in the second Sonic game) Miles Prower (a play on “Miles per Hour”) AKA “Tails” (so nicknamed due to the fact that he has 2 tails that he can spin like a propeller, enabling him to fly) as they defend the planet Mobius from...

Dr. Robotnik and his primary cybernetic cohorts...

...Grounder (left) and Scratch.

The plots (and gags) are straight out of Looney Toons. The bad guys are complete idiots who are easily thwarted by Sonic and Tails.

This series was definitely designed with the under-10 crowd in mind. As I was easily double that in ‘93, I wasn’t overly impressed with the series. However, if you would like to watch the series, it’s available on Netflix.

If I was less than thrilled at Sonic’s impression of Bugs Bunny, what DIC produced for the Saturday morning crowd was the exact opposite!

(Thanks to 90sCartoonIntros)

Sonic the Hedgehog sets a vastly different tone than Adventures does, making it in my opinion vastly superior to its weekday version.

Jaleel White again voices Sonic (just to add to the confusion), but this time he’s one of the inner circle of a group of freedom fighting animals attempting to free Mobius from...

...Dr. Ivo Robotnik (voiced by Jim Cummings, whose voice credits are too numerous to list but is the voice of Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger too!) since the late 90s), who has transformed most of the world’s inhabitants into cyborgs enslaved to him. Alongside his robotic army, Robotnik has transformed Mobius into a dystopian hellscape. Unlike the weekday kiddie fare in which Robotnik was trying to take over Mobius, he has actually succeeded and is the evil overlord of the world! Yes, this version of Robotnik is actually menacing, as opposed to a fat, bald Yosemite Sam in the weekday version.

Assisting Sonic in his fight are...

Princess Sally Acorn (voiced by Kath Soucie, who voiced Phil and Lil in Rugrats), the leader of the Resistance and the closest thing to a love interest Saturday Morning fare could show.

Antoine Depardieu (voiced by Rob Paulsen, who voiced Yakko Warner in Animaniacs and Raphael in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series), the incompetent comic relief who speaks in a stereotypically bad French accent and more than a little jealous of the attention Sonic gets from Sally.

Bunnie Rabbot (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh, whose many voice credits include Dexter in Dexter’s Laboratory and Chuckie in Rugrats), who is full of Southern charm and sass. She also had a run-in with Robotnik somewhere in her past, which resulted in her getting bionic legs and a bionic arm.

And of course you can’t have Sonic without Tails (voiced by Bradley Pierce, who voiced Chip in the animated Beauty and the Beast and played Peter in Jumanji) since they shared a video game together.

There is a definite edge, a sense of danger, and a small bit of body horror (when you consider there are living beings trapped within some of those robotic shells) to the series. If it was made with an older audience in mind, things could’ve been taken a bit farther, but it was the early 90s and Gargoyles and X-Men were still a few years away (and Batman: the Animated Series was still a new concept)

If you would like to watch an episode, it’s available on Roku.

As always, if you would like to see a particular episode reviewed, let me know!

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1991 Lia Graf illustration, included in art and writing anthology Touch Issue #1

See the full issue here!