Waltzing Matilda scene from On the Beach
An evening pause: What do you do when you know that you only have a few more weeks to live? From On the Beach (1959), one of the greatest end-of-the-world films ever made.
Tag: entertainment
Deep Space 9 – The Quickening
An evening pause: Deep Space 9, “The Quickening.” The entire population of a planet has a disease that kills all, horribly, but only after many years. No one believes a cure is possible, except Julian Bashir.
Hunting as Jeff Foxworthy sees it
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Meteor compilation
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Paul Simon – American Tune
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We came on a ship they called the Mayflower
We came on a ship that sailed the moon
We came in the age’s most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune.
Animator vs Animation
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Hang gliding in upstate New York
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Shooting scene from To Kill a Mockingbird
An evening pause: As it is Wednesday and I am at the gun range, competing in bullseye pistol competitions, let’s look at some Hollywood shooting action.
Karan Casey – Ballad of accounting
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Superman – The Mad Scientist
An evening pause: The first Max Fleischer Superman cartoon, The Mad Scientist (1941), from a time when Americans believed that all things were possible, and that our nation stood for the best of those possibilities. When evil men try to destroy skyscrapers and kill innocent people, you don’t stand idly by, you fight them, and stop them.
Leslie Nielsen Dead at 84
Leslie Nielsen Dead at 84. R.I.P.
Speech from Scent of a Woman
An evening pause: One of Al Pacino’s best performance.
Mumford & sons
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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
An evening pause: Johnny Cash from an episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
George Winston – Thanksgiving
An evening pause: George Winston, playing “Thanksgiving.”
Judy Garland on television – Somewhere over the rainbow
An evening pause: Judy Garland, from a 1955 live television performance, singing the show finale.
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
An evening pause: With the approach of winter, let’s do an overnight trip in the snow!
Simon’s cat, lunch break
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