Guy Clark with Karen Matheson – Dublin Blues
An evening pause: Hat tip Kyle Kooy.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Preserving strawberries the 18th century way
An evening pause: Something different tonight, from a cooking show that focuses on historical recipes from the American Revolutionary War era. Not only is this fascinating, it gives us a peek into life before refrigeration.
Hat tip Rocco.
Practicing Landings on a Carrier in bad weather
An evening pause: Last night we had the Flight of the Foo Birds. Tonight, we look at real flight, military pilots practicing landings on an aircraft carrier when the ocean is rough and the ship is rolling. The movies always give us the impression that this is easy, when in fact it is not.
Hat tip Rocco.
Count Basie- Flight of the Foo Birds
An evening pause: A nice contrast with last night’s Beatles pause.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
It’s the Beatles
An evening pause: Broadcast on December 7, 1963 by the BBC, this excerpt from the 30 minute television show before 2,500 members of The Beatles’ Northern Area Fan Club gives us a glimpse into the craziness that heralded the Beatles arrival on the world scene. The clip includes the last third of the show.
Why do these teenage girls remind me of modern voters attending rallies for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders?
Hat tip Rocco.
Eddie Reader – Dragonfly
An evening pause: Eddi Reader is one of my favorite singers. This song mixes Celtic, English, Irish, Italian, and even some Greek folk styles.
As soon as we are here, we disappear, like a dragonfly.
Filleting a giant tuna
An evening pause: The work week begins! Here’s another interesting and different way to make a living. Hat tip Rocco.
“Have they tried SEC to Aux?”
An evening pause: From one of the best dramatic series ever produced of the 1960s space race, From the Earth to the Moon (1998), this is the Apollo 12 launch scene.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Wintergatan – Marble Machine
An evening pause: The video describing how they built this is as interesting to watch.
Hat tips to Tom Biggar and Karla Zajac.
Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
An evening pause: Performed live at Woodstock, August 17, 1969.
Hat tip Rocco.
High Diving Giraffes
An evening pause: Based on some emails I have received, I think some people have been fooled by this cool animation and actually think these are real giraffes! This just tells us that it will not be long now before real actors are no longer necessary and it will be possible to do live action films entirely with animation.
Hat tip George Petricko.
Hunting truffles in Oregon
An evening pause: Another interesting way to make a living. Hat tip Rocco.