Our Big Bear Family
An evening pause: Given freedom it is amazing what humans decide to do.
Hat tip Cotour.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
A Brief History of Toilet Paper
An evening pause: Sometimes it is worthwhile to know the history of even the most absurd things, as that history can be very enlightening.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Eric Clapton – Layla
An evening pause: Performed live 2014.
Hat tip Cotour.
World’s First Air Hijacking
An evening pause: This isn’t what the title suggests. It occurred during World War II, which is why it seems appropriate today, on V-E Day (Victory in Europe).
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Rose Royce – Love don’t live here anymore
An evening pause: Sad but beautiful.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Tony Bennett – Fly Me to the Moon
An evening pause: Performed live when Bennett was 85, c2001.
Hat tip Cotour.
Tommy James & the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion
An evening pause: Ah, the naive hopes and fantasies of the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Taiwan timelapse
An evening pause: I would dub this “Clouds over Taiwan.”
Hat tip Cotour.
The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See
An evening pause: Performed live September 10, 1973.
Hat tip Roland.
April Yang – Tank Drum music
An evening pause: Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
An evening pause: Performed live on the Johnny Cash television show, c1969.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
A Trip Through New York City in 1911
An evening pause: I’ve posted similar early 1900 film footage for Paris and San Francisco. My one reservation about this restoration is the adding of color. They don’t over do it, but adds an element of inaccuracy to the footage.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, noted some of the same things I did with the previous examples.
What strikes me is how well dressed everyone was, how there was no trash on the streets (despite no obvious public trash cans), no graffiti, no road rage despite the complete lack of traffic control, and the air quality looked significantly worse than today. Other than cleaner air I’m not so sure we can call today a big improvement.
I personally am not sure the air quality was worse either. Watch, and get a sense of what America was once like.
Clickspring – Ancient Tool Technology: The First Hardened Steel
An evening pause: Most of us know that steel in some variety is made by adding carbon to the iron. This video shows how it was done in ancient times.
Hat tip Cotour.
Wartime Radio Revue – Bei Mir Bist Du Shein
An evening pause: A modern rendition of the classic Andrews Sisters wartime hit.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Ashley Campbell – Remembering
An evening pause: On Glen Campbell’s birthday, I think it appropriate to post Ashley Campbell singing a song written for her father in his declining years.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Claire Crosby – Can’t Help Falling In Love
An evening pause: A wonderful cover of one of Elvis Presley’s most beautiful songs. From the comments: “Elvis Presley looking down from heaven with tears in his eyes and his hand on his heart.”
Hat tip Tom Biggar, who wrote, “This is why we need to fight for our freedom – for them.”
I personally pray that she will be free, and that we will have the guts to make sure that happens.
The Knack – My Sharona
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Chop with Chris – Hand Carved Wooden Bowl In C Major
An evening pause: Forty hours of work compressed into two minutes.
Hat tip Cotour.
Pat Metheny – So May It Secretly Begin
An evening pause: Hat tip Rex Ridenoure of Ecliptic Enterprises.