Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Miniatur Wunderland – largest model railway in the world
Bugs Bunny – Racketeer Rabbit
Festive Mechanized Holiday Cat Accessories
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
GetOut
The Cowsills – Hair
Walking through the new American Amundsen Scott South Pole station
An evening pause: In honor of the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen’s arrival at the South Pole on this date, 1911, lets take a tour through the recently completed new Amundsen Scott South Pole station.
At one point right after walking through the cafeteria the cameraman points the camera out a window where you can see several flagpoles. That is where the actual South Pole is located. The camera than looks out a second window at a partly buried dome, which is the old station, no longer in use.
This video astonishes at what humans can accomplish in the most hostile environments.
Mark “Indy” Kochte – West Virginia Nights 2011
An evening pause: Time lapse photography by Mark “Indy” Kochte. At one point the time-lapse sequence shows Seneca Rocks near the end of the day, with the lights of the climbers visible as they rappel off the mountain.
Quadriga Consort – Carolan’s Cup / The Two William Davises
Paul McCartney and Wings – Band on the Run
An evening pause: The official music video by Wings. To me, the video clearly makes this Paul McCartney’s farewell song to the Beatles.
Lily at trailside
Panning for gold on the streets of New York
Sons of the Pioneers – Tumbling Tumble Weeds
Casablanca – “I bet they are asleep in New York. I bet they’re asleep all over America.”
An evening pause: On the anniversary of the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor: “I bet they are asleep in New York. I bet they’re asleep all over America.” From Casablanca (1942).
Will it blend? – cyalume sticks
Harve Presnell – They Call The Wind Maria
Teddy Bear the porcupine
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile
Martha Raye – No Time At All
An evening pause: Martha Raye sings “No Time at All” from the Broadway musical, Pippin.
There’s one thing to be sure of, mate.
There’s nothing to be sure of.
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
“Can we go again?”
The 1960s space race: The US orbits its first living animal, Enos the chimpanzee
An evening pause: Fifty years ago today the United States succeeded for the first time in placing a living animal in orbit, four years after the Soviet’s launched the dog Laika into space. On November 29, 1961 NASA orbited a chimpanzee named Enos as a dress rehearsal for John Glenn’s orbital flight, then scheduled for early in 1962. See this article for some details about Enos difficult flight.
Since the flights of Gagarin, Titov, Shepard, and Grissom earlier in 1961, the 1960s space race had seemed in abeyance as NASA geared up for its first orbital manned mission, while the Soviets were typically silent about their plans. Yet, for those like myself who were alive at that time, the suspense never abated. What would happen next? Could the U.S. beat the Russians to the Moon? Only time would tell.
Michael Crawford – The Music of the Night
Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton – Can’t Find My Way Home
An evening pause: This is how I feel right now, after more than a month of searching for a new home in Tucson.
David Lanz and Paul Speer – Behind the waterfall/Desert rain medley
An evening pause: David Lanz and Paul Speer performing live at the National Auditorium, Mexico City, 1993, with Neal Speer (drums) and Janet Foos (keyboards.
Einstein explains E=mc²
George Winston – Thanksgiving
This time the turkey wins
The Kennedy assassination
An evening pause: On this date, forty-eight years ago, I was ten years old, home sick with a cold instead of at school. As I watched a silly afternoon rerun of a 1950s comedy sitcom (I don’t even remember what show it was) and sipped chicken soup (of course), the show was interrupted with the news of Kennedy’s assassination.
For each generation, there is often a single moment that defines their future. For the baby boomer generation, it probably was this moment more than any other.