An evening pause: From a performance during the 1970s the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.
Hat tip Danae. As she notes, this was when Cher “still seemed semi-normal.” Without doubt, she could sing, and act. Too bad in later years she stopped focusing on where her best talents lay.
An evening pause: Watching these three guys play together takes my breath away.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: From the September 19, 1981 Simon & Garfunkel concert in Central Park.
Hat tip Danae for suggesting the song in this troubling time.
An evening pause: The music’s good, but the visuals are the reason to watch.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: I especially like the simplicity of the music, combined with the interplay between the guitarist and the singer.
An evening pause: My only comment: This is insane!
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
An evening pause: Time for some more silliness, but in a classical form.
An evening pause: Stay with it. The last bits of dialogue are worth it.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
An evening pause: This SpaceX video taken by a camera attached to the fairing of the Falcon 9 rocket is cool not because of the video itself. Cameras on rockets have become routine, even for NASA. What is cool is that they have unveiled it using the same Johann Strauss waltz used in the move 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). It shows that SpaceX is aware of the cultural impact of what they do.
Hat tip Tom Wilson, Tom Biggar, and others.
An evening pause: I love it when the performers are clearly have fun!
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
The competition really heats up! A porno company has started a crowd-sourcing campaign to raise $3.4 million so it can shoot a porno film in space by 2016.
This project is even sillier than Mars One and a bigger publicity stunt. And I think it probably has a better chance of happening!
An evening pause: Tonight’s pause is a bit different, in that it has a newsy aspect to it, illustrating the uncertainty of knowledge that makes science so difficult. It is also incredibly entertaining and funny, almost like the 1960s TV show Candid Camera. Would you be fooled like these people were?
Hat tip Phillip Oltmann.
