Tag: entertainment
Black Friday madness
An evening pause: I know some people enjoy this, but this is not how I want to spend my day after Thanksgiving!
Johnny Cash sings a Thanksgiving Prayer
George Winston – Thanksgiving
Judy Garland on television – Somewhere over the rainbow
Office shooting range
An evening pause: It seems to me that building an office shooting range seems exactly the right thing to encourage every red-blooded American to do.
Winter overnight hike
Simon’s cat, lunch break
Johnny Carson Lie Detector Politician
Paul Zerdin ventriloquist
Oklahoma-Many a new day
An evening pause: “Many a New Day” from Oklahoma (1955). It is the dance choreography here that is surprising and original.
People are awesome
Workout at the gym
Driscoll Middle School trick play
Cable subscribers flee to internet
More technology disruption! Cable companies are losing subscribers, and it appears they are shifting their video viewing to the internet. Key quote:
Consumers who use the Internet to get their movies and TV shows bypass not just the cable companies, but the cable networks that produce the content. The move could have the same disruptive effect on the TV and movie industries as digital downloads have had on music.
More technology disruption! Cable companies are losing subscribers, and it appears they are shifting their video viewing to the internet. Key quote:
Consumers who use the Internet to get their movies and TV shows bypass not just the cable companies, but the cable networks that produce the content. The move could have the same disruptive effect on the TV and movie industries as digital downloads have had on music.
The Great Dictator
An evening pause: Charlie Chaplin, making glorious fun of Hitler and all egomanical dictators, in The Great Dictator (1940).
Baikonur allows its first feature film
The Baikonur space port: a movie set.
The Baikonur space port: a movie set.
California Dreamin’
An evening pause: Since I am out in California, giving a lecture to the Orange County section of the AIAA, I figure this song might be appropriate.
Destroy Earth from home
Just Jesse
The Haunting
An evening pause: From the film, The Haunting (1963), based on the story by Shirley Jackson. Stay for the closing scene in this clip.
Spirited Away
An evening pause: As it is the Halloween weekend, how about an appropriate clip from Hayao Miyazaki’s surreal masterpiece, Spirited Away (2001).
Brother, can you spare a dime?
An evening pause: In honor of the anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash, Bing Crosby singing “Brother, can you spare a dime?”
Charlie the Unicorn
John Denver: Annie’s song
Nowhere Man
An evening pause: From Yellow Submarine (1968). Some trivia: the dialogue was spoken by actors, not the Beatles.