A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: We’ve had two bee swarms at my house in Tucson in the past decade. With the first we made the terrible mistake of taking the advice of an exterminator who destroyed it. The second time we knew better and simply waited 24 hours for them to move on.
The bee remover here removes them, but wisely without harming them. And he does it in a manner that will both surprise you and make you cringe.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: The future, or maybe sadly, already the present.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: Stay with it for what is made to appear as an impromptu addition of an audience member dancing. She steals the show.
It might be improvised, but if it was, it happened repeatedly, at different places, sometimes with a girl that looks identical to this one. I suspect they pre-planned it each time, but no matter, it works quite well this time, for sure.
Hat tip Cotour.
A evening pause: Fun stuff, but the dance choreography does make me think I’m watching an exercise video.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: Performed live in 2000.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
An evening pause: While figuring out why this works is really complicated, the simplicity of the technique and engineering is superb, and illustrates again why the U.S. did so well against Germany.
And yes, that is the voice of Mel Blanc.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: This guy might not be the greatest guitar player or singer, but stay with it, the song and words I think make up for any lack in playing.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: From one of television’s best comedy shows. Note the number of people from this show who became very big movie stars.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Performed live in 2003.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: It seems there is a fourth story plot available to writers (see yesterday’s evening pause).
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
An evening pause: There is an old saying that all story plots can be summed into one of the following three categories: Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, and Man vs Himself.
Vonnegut gives us a far better summary.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: A 1948 cartoon, made at the start of the Cold War. It uncannily predicts quite accurately what is happening now, in America, because the Boomer generation and those who followed poo-pooed its lessons. They knew better!
I post it on Memorial Day because I wish to remember what once was.
Hat tip Lazarus Long.
An evening pause: Nice way to finish the week.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: Let’s go for a ride!
Hat tip Tom Biggar, who notes that this is “Europe´s longest Mountain Coaster with a track length of 2.8 km (1.73 miles) and an elevation difference of 640 meters (2,100 feet). It also has forty steep curves reaching a maximum speed of 42 kmh (26 mph).
An evening pause: A very well known piece of music from one of the most popular composers of the post-World War II era that you’ve probably never heard of, Leroy Anderson.
Any New Yorker who grew up in the 1960s will immediately recognize it as the theme music used for CBS’s afternoon and late night movie presentations, where they would squeeze two hour movies into 90 minutes slots that were really only about 60 minutes after commercials. (My first impressions as a child of many of Hollywood’s great movies was noticeably distorted because of this.)
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Performed live 2016.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: I would say that the rules have changed a bit.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
