Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Ray Lynch – Celestial Soda Pop
Mary Black – A song for Ireland
An evening pause:
Dreaming in the night
I saw a land where no man had to fight.
Waking in your dawn
I saw you crying in the morning light
Lying where falcons fly
And twist and turn in your fair blue sky.
Living on your western shore,
Saw some sunsets, asked for more.
I stood by your Atlantic sea
And I sang a song for Ireland.
Dolores Keane singing Caledonia
An engineer’s guide to cat yodeling
New Texas Giant roller-coaster
Cockpit view of 747 takeoff
An evening pause: Note how long it takes for the 747 to get off the ground. The plane is big and heavy.
Joe Hisaishi Live – Summer ( from Kikujiro )
Flying over Mars
Deep well inspection
An evening pause: Let’s take a strange journey, down 275 feet deep into a well. No sound, but fascinating nonetheless.
Ray Stevens – Obama budget plan
Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall
Milk changing color – cool science experiment
SDO – March 30, 2010 Solar Eruption
An evening pause: As it appears these events are likely going to become less and less likely, let’s enjoy them while we can.
Note that the height of this eruption was almost twenty times the diameter of the Earth.
Loretta Lynn and the Muppets – One’s on the way
Luckiest people alive
Windows XP error music
Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting
An evening pause: A scene from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcasters School”, originally broadcast February 22, 1975. One of behindtheblack’s regular readers was reminded of this episode by my press conference experience on Wednesday.
Balancing act
Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead
When galaxies collide
An evening pause: a beautiful simulation of galaxy collision. Hat tip: Sky and Telescope.
D-Day
Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs
An evening pause: Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs, from a 1972 television performance.
What an astronaut’s camera sees
An evening pause: More here.
Monty Python: Defending yourself against a banana
Cinderella – Julie Andrews singing “Impossible”
An evening pause: , The song “Impossible,” sung by Julie Andrews and Edie Adams, from the live 1957 television production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
For the world is filled with zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And won’t believe what sensible people say
And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things keep happening every day.
Reverend Jim’s driving test from Taxi
Dancing Telescopes
Battleground (1949)
An evening pause: On Memorial Day, one short scene from the William Wellman film, Battleground (1949), to remind us why sometimes it is necessary to fight a war.