Tag: entertainment
West Point Band and Glee Club – Mansions of the Lord
A evening pause: For Memorial Day. The words:
To fallen soldiers let us sing
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord
No more bleeding, no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
Just divine embrace, eternal light
To the Mansions of the Lord.
Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
Through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Patrick Acton – Matchstick artist
Dani Wilde – Deeper than Black
Michael Moschen – The Triangle
An evening pause: Hat tip Rex Ridenoure of Ecliptic Enterprises, who adds, “Since most of us have been bouncing off walls…”
LaLa Brooks – Then He Kissed Me & Da Doo Ron Ron
Luca Stricagnoli – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Yes, Minister – The Rhodesia Solution
Peaches & Herb – Reunited
Our Big Bear Family
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
Rose Royce – Love don’t live here anymore
Tony Bennett – Fly Me to the Moon
Tommy James & the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion
Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden
Taiwan timelapse
The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See
April Yang – Tank Drum music
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
An evening pause: Performed live on the Johnny Cash television show, c1969.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
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
Disney to furlough 100K employees because of government-imposed shut downs
The beatings will continue until morale improves: Disney is stopping the salaries of hundred thousand employees this week due to the shut downs imposed upon it by our panicked government over COVID-19.
The company says it will still provide full healthcare benefits for those employees, for the moment.
Once again, the shuttering of the Disney theme parks ripples out into the entire local economy. It isn’t just these employees who are now out of work, it is the hotel, transportation, and restaurant employees whose businesses served the same tourist customers.
Will the theme park entertainment come back? Unknown, I’d say, because the fear being pounded into everyone to “social distance,” to an absurd level, might mean that tourists will no longer feel comfortable visiting such venues.
The beatings will continue until morale improves: Disney is stopping the salaries of hundred thousand employees this week due to the shut downs imposed upon it by our panicked government over COVID-19.
The company says it will still provide full healthcare benefits for those employees, for the moment.
Once again, the shuttering of the Disney theme parks ripples out into the entire local economy. It isn’t just these employees who are now out of work, it is the hotel, transportation, and restaurant employees whose businesses served the same tourist customers.
Will the theme park entertainment come back? Unknown, I’d say, because the fear being pounded into everyone to “social distance,” to an absurd level, might mean that tourists will no longer feel comfortable visiting such venues.
Chop with Chris – Hand Carved Wooden Bowl In C Major
Pat Metheny – So May It Secretly Begin
An evening pause: Hat tip Rex Ridenoure of Ecliptic Enterprises.
Katica Illényi – Once Upon a Time in the West
An evening pause: Music by Ennio Morricone, played on the theremin with the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hat tip Cotour.