What happens when you play tennis with a flaming tennis ball?
An evening pause: What happens when you soak a tennis ball in gasoline and then hit it with a racket?
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Jim Croce – I Got a Name
Handel – Harp Concerto in B flat
Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Joan Baez – Turtle Dove
Sinéad O’Connor – She moved through the Fair
Sissel – Shenandoah
King’s Island – The Beast Roller Coaster
A zip line in Haiti
Cirque Du Soleil
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling In Love
An evening pause: His live performances of this song are wonderful, but I still prefer the original movie version from Blue Hawaii (1961) for its simplicity. The film work might be uninspiring, but the clarity of the song easily makes up for this.
Idea of North – But not for me
The Dillards – The Whole World Round
An evening pause: I especially like the banjo player, as it almost appears like magic how he produces the sound from his instrument.
Henri 4
What happens when you set fire to 2,500 ping pong balls?
10 Most Common New Year’s Resolutions as Illustrated by Cats
The Byrds – Turn. Turn. Turn.
An evening pause: The words, except for the very last line (inserted by Pete Seeger), are from the book of Ecclesiastes.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Read it all, especially the King James version. It is one of the most profound and beautiful poems ever written.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Man on Fire
Neil Diamond – I Am, I Said
Julie Andrews – Auld Lang Syne
Skeeter Davis – the End of the World
An evening pause: I gotta tell ya, this song is far more believable than those Mayan calendar tales.
The Seven Samurai – Kyûzô the Swordsman
An evening pause: A short clip from one of the best films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai (1954).
A very impressive bike ride
An evening pause: This one way to get from the top to the bottom of a city, which I think is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Such Great Heights
Mnozil Brass – At the Movies
Mean Mary James – Ding Dong Day
An evening pause: From Mean Mary James, a Christmas song.
Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The Little Drummer Boy / Peace
Judy Garland – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
The twelve best solar events in 2012
An evening pause: Below is a compilation of the twelve most spectacular solar flares of 2012, in chronological order. A detailed explanation of each can be found here.
Though the Sun continues to go through the weakest sunspot maximums in more than a hundred years, we now have some very sophisticated instruments in space that are able to observe whatever happens. And the Sun is still a raging inferno of billions of hydrogen bombs, all going off at once and continuously. Even during a weak minimum it still is more powerful than we can imagine. Consider: The Earth would be nothing mores than a small dot in each of these flares.
Sinéad O’Connor – Danny Boy
An evening pause: One of the most beautiful songs ever written, sung by one of the world’s best singers.