Monty Python – Mafia
An evening pause: The first half captures perfectly the determination, courage, and willingness to fight for freedom of most of my baby boom generation. The second half for some reason reminds me of the IRS.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Rick Wakeman – keyboard solo
An evening pause: Thanks to Danae again for this.
I am still looking for Evening Pause suggestions. I found late last year that I could no longer keep it up by myself. If you have something you think would be worth posting, make a comment here and I will email you. Don’t post the link, let me check it out first and then schedule it.
Art Garfunkel – All I know
An evening pause: Recorded live on Ellis Island, New York, 1996. Your heart will break at 3:18 when you see the image.
Mark Knopfler – Wild Theme
An evening pause: Hat tip to Danae for sending me this.
As I mentioned yesterday, I am open to suggestions for future Evening Pauses. Music, engineering, wild nature, comedy, anything with a spark of magic that will brighten our day will be gladly viewed and posted.
John Prine and Iris DeMent – In Spite of Ourselves
An evening pause: Thanks to Keith for sending me this video. Note that I am open to any recommendations of good videos for posting as an Evening Pause, including music, engineering, comedy, anything quirky or interesting with a spark of originality.
Let me add that if you have something you want to recommend, don’t post the link in the comment. Just say in your comment that you want to recommend something and I will email you direct. I want to view and schedule these posts rather than have them appear in the comments first.
A laptop/tablet case designed to let you use either while standing and walking.
An evening pause: I think this is clever, a laptop/tablet case designed to let you use either, even while standing.
Why good people should be armed.
An evening pause: Why good people should be armed.
The video is a little long, but she says it so well and honestly — while getting her facts right — that I think it is worth watching, to the end.
The sound of pi
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Theme from ‘Shaft’
An evening pause: Comedians have told me that you will always get a laugh if you play “opposites.”
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
A Christmas prank.
A homeless dog rescued
“Nothing is written.”
Anthill art
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
The sling shot man
The future?
Senator Cruz’s speech today in trying to get the Senator to pass the House bill funding the government but defunding Obamacare.
An evening pause: Senator Cruz’s (R-Texas) speech today in trying to get the Senate to pass the House continuing resolution funding the government but defunding Obamacare. His speech begins at 6:25, after Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) rejected that bill.
I think it worthwhile for everyone to watch this speech, as Cruz makes it very clear that the only people willing to shut the government down are the Democrats. Moreover, Reid’s rejection establishes unequivocally the fact that the Democrats are once again endorsing Obamacare, despite its now very obvious disastrous problems.
Help Kickstart World War III
An evening pause: I think this video captures the thoughtfulness and objectivity of the Obama voter and today’s progressive left better than anything else I have seen or read.
Pigs in Space
An evening pause: This particular Muppet sketch is especially apropos considering the title of the op-ed that I have written that will appear tomorrow, Wednesday, August 14, in the Wall Street Journal.
Update: As it turns out, the Journal changed my original title, which was “Pigs in Space”, to “No Liftoff for These Space Flights of Fancy”. I liked my title better, but no matter.
How to have fun
Amazing Mick
An evening pause: There’s been too much bad news. Here’s something to reaffirm my belief that there is goodness in the world.
Iris Dement – Our Town
Emma Lazarus – The New Colossus
An evening pause: There are many intellectual fools these days who love to denigrate the United States and its history. These words, however, tell its true story, honestly and simply. Woe to us if we forget it.
Hugh Laurie’s song for America
An evening pause: The British take on America and many American pop songs about our fair country.
I say, they still haven’t gotten over their defeat at Yorktown.
Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
Manaical 4 Trombone Quartet – Carry on wayward son
An evening pause: Hat tip to commenter Frank for this gem.
Matthew Curtis – Loch Lomond
Richard Harvey – Concerto Antico, movement 3
An evening pause: The third movement of Richard Harvey’s Concerto Antico, guitar played by John Williams.
I think that few who listen will only listen once.
Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
John Wayne in The Longest Day
An evening pause: As this is June 6, the anniversary of D-Day in World War II, let’s watch John Wayne show us how Americans once did it. From the 1962 film, The Longest Day.