A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: Someday relatively soon, this prototype will be available for purchase, though at present it does not appear to me to be ready for prime time.. Where would you go this weekend if you had one?
Hat tip Cotour, who adds, “I bet you did not know that there is now a flying barbeque. I like mine medium rare.”
An evening pause: Performed live 2015. Stay with it. Though the opening is less appealing, it gets far better.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: From the original 1960s television show, which was actually quite funny and original (unlike the turgid 1991 movie).
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: This “music” video intentionally illustrates why I prefer live performances over most “official” music videos that show a fake visual story under the music, as if that story and the music have something to do with each other, when they never really do. This video instead shows us what the music video would sound like if you focused instead on this fake story. Quick funny at times.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette, who writes, “Great concept! What happens when you take a Music Video and de-emphasize the music & band performance, and concentrate on the story being told in the background?”
An evening pause: A science quiz I suspect most of my readers will get right. Regardless, this experiment illustrates some basic fundamentals of the scientific method: Don’t guess, make no assumptions, test by experimentation, and repeat those tests multiple times to confirm your results.
The Institute that made this video appears to be a great resource for homeschoolers.
Hat tip Cotour, who tells me he “got it correct!”
To everyone: Enjoy the Labor Day weekend!
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1975. Above these guys are musical showmen.
Hat tip Wamphyr.
An evening pause: Performed live c2016. The Peter Gunn showed aired in the late 1950s.
Hat tip Don Carrera.
An evening pause: Performed on French television in 1966. I suspect they are lip-synching to the record album, but the editing makes this hard to confirm.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: From Peer Gynt, and performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2019.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: For those old enough, you will recognize this music, as it was the theme music for the William Buckley’s show, Firing Line, from the 60s and 70s.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An evening pause: For car buffs, and anyone else who wants to take a drive this weekend.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: How about some hot dancing today? Some truly original moves that I think Fred Astaire would applaud.
Hat tip Mike Nelson. Note too that he found this on X. It is nice to give youtube some competition.
❤️🔥 Jason Colacino and Katie Boyle – Honky Tonk
Now THAT'S what I call pure elegance, charm, and undeniable heat!! 🫶🔥 pic.twitter.com/P1NHHG3rtW— Love Music (@khnh80044) April 1, 2025
An evening pause: Worth watching, though this underground telescope won’t be operational any earlier than 2032, and considering the present political situation related to government funding, it might never get finished at all.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette, who notes, “The band’s name comes from a photo of W.C. Fields in Kenneth Anger’s book Hollywood Babylon, which bore the caption ‘W.C. Fields with gin blossoms’, referring to the actor’s telangiectasia-spotted face and rhinophymic nose by the slang term for the skin condition known as rosacea.”
An evening pause: Performed on television sometime in the 1960s.
Hat tip to Diane Zimmerman.
Sorry this is late. Got distracted this week with doctors’ appointments and other silly stuff.
An evening pause: This song is from the Broadway production of Cole Porter’s Guys & Dolls, which unfortunately got cut from the movie. It is song by an older man, a kind of father figure in the play, wishing the best for a young woman co-worker.
This version is actually the best live performance I could find, and amazingly it is from Beijing in 2017.
An evening pause: I just finished reading a book of letters written by a soldier who participated in the battle of Antietam, just south of Burnside Bridge. The irony was that Burnside spent more than a day and multiple attempts to capture the bridge, when in fact his troops could have simply walked across the creek at any point, never getting their legs wet above the knee. The soldier was Captain Wolcott Pascal Marsh, and his regiment actually forded the creek further south and advanced farther than almost anyone else in Burnside’s battalion. The book: Letters to a Civil War Bride.
Like all the Civil War battle fields, Antietam is definitely worth visiting.
Hat tip Cotour.
