Smarter Every Day – Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics
An evening pause: The talent here deserved an Oscar.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World – Then & Now
An evening pause: A fun look at the outdoor locations shot for the 1963 movie, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World and how they look today. It is actually surprising how little change has occurred at so many of these places.
Hat tip Wayne Devette.
Marcin Patrzalek – Asturias
A late evening pause: Got behind and forgot to schedule things for tonight. Here is an evening pause, hat tip Mike Nelson, of a truly wiz of a guitarist.
Blind Melon – No Rain
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne Devette.
Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
MeTrónomoS – One Small Step
An evening pause: For this anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon, a short musical piece, with images, that nicely encapsulates that 1960s space effort. If you are passionate about the human effort to become a space-faring civilization and you don’t know who and what mission each clip portrays, you need to find out.
Louie Schwartzberg – The beauty of pollination
An evening pause: Hat tip to beekeeper Phill Oltmann.
Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You
An evening pause: Performed live 1975.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Marcel Remy – 94 years old and back on the summit
An evening pause: I like his words near the end: “Anytime something can happen to you. Sometimes you just put this thought aside and have fun.”
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Jerry Jeff Walker – Mr Bojangles
An evening pause: Sung live by the writer.
Hat tip Roland.
In-flight camera analysis of Soyuz launch abort in October 2018
An evening pause: For the geeks who read Behind the Black. Nothing here is new, but the in-flight footage of the first stage as it failed during this manned Soyuz launch on October 11, 2018 is still fun to watch, and it gives us another taste of the continuing quality control problems in Russia’s aerospace industry.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
As always, I am open to suggestions for my evening pauses. If you’ve sent me stuff in the past, you know the drill. If not and you want to suggest something, post a comment here, without mentioning your suggestion, and I will contact you with the guidelines.
Robert John – Sad Eyes
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Cagney & Hope – Dance routine
An evening pause: From the 1955 film, The Seven Little Foys, with Bob Hope playing Eddie Foy, and James Cagney reprising the role of George M. Cohen, first played by him in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
Hat tip Thomas Keener.
Roxana Küwen – 5 balls hands and feet
An evening pause: Some unusual juggling.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason – The Swan
An evening pause: Hat tip Ruth Beaty.
Gomberg Seltzer Works – Brooklyn’s Last Seltzer Men
An evening pause: Ah how I miss the taste of a real egg cream, using both real seltzer and Fox’s U-Bet syrup. Nothing beats it.
Hat tip Cotour.
Thomas Jefferson — The meaning of the Declaration of Independence
An evening pause: Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, in which lovers of freedom and individual rights celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, where by this nation committed itself forever to providing its citizens “the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Those words were written by Thomas Jefferson. In tonight’s evening pause, Steve Edenbo as Thomas Jefferson recites Jefferson’s thoughts on the meaning of his own words, taken from a letter he wrote just prior to the 50th anniversary of that signing in 1826, and mere weeks from his death.
May true Americans never stop honoring these words, and that man.
Aurora – Animal
An evening pause: Beautiful and haunting, but listen closely to these lyrics and you will hear our dark future singing.
Hat tip Lee Stevenson.
Korman & Conway – Undercover cops
An evening pause: From the Carol Burnett Show.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Kicks
An evening pause: Performed live in 2011.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.