Tonight, we enjoy a quiet moment in nature.
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is an amusing short (two-minute-ish) film from Ireland that could be seen as a joke or as allegory: Here’s Teeth.
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Holy smokes, they don’t spare the lumber: Amish Barn Raising. In ten hours, no less.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, dedicated to anyone who can open a beer bottle with his/her remaining teeth, Australian rockers AC/DC, fronted by their Scottish-born original lead singer Bon Scott, deliver Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation.
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SDA commenter Plainzdrifter:

I grew up in rural Saskatchewan the 50’s, listening to early morning radio while we waited for the school bus. This song blended in well with a bowl of porridge on a cold January morning. It was number one on the charts in 1961, in Canada, the USA and most of the UK.

This seems an appropriate evening to post it: Here’s Andy Stewart, joined by the Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, performing his signature song A Scottish Soldier.
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Tonight, as we wait for tomorrow’s ‘aye’ or ‘nae’ Scotland independence vote that could break up the United Kingdom, we listen to a modern version o’ Robbie Burns’ Scots Wha Hae. (Lyrics here.)
Hopefully it won’t affect the vote, because tribal tensions are already running high in the comments:

“…your Fascist Faggotry is only exceeded by your wacky bampot wankery..”

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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips English guitarist and songwriter Albert Lee, joined by American guitarist Steve Morse, rips through a live version of his signature song Country Boy.
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Tonight we hug the middle of the road, as singer Anita Kerr and the singing Anita Kerr Singers sing Early Autumn.
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Tonight, some lovely footage of Svalbard: The High Arctic.
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Tonight, Tex Atchison of the Prairie Ramblers is Looking For The Bully of the Town.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips New Orleans-based Tuba Skinny, fronted by strong-like-bull lead singer Erika Lewis, take to the streets for a performance of Going Back Home. (h/t)
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The Black Death

In the spirit of today’s speech from the White House on ISIS, we bring you HELL for HONSHU: B-29 Strategic Bombing of Japan. (h/t John Lewis)
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The 1783 eruption of Laki in Iceland.

Volanado, the movie will be released next spring.

I’ve got nothing. If you do, leave it in the thread.

ISIS, Ukraine, Immigration, Inflation, Depression.
Just remember, you could be a Winnipeg Blue Bomber fan. Go Riders!

This one is for @AmandaMarcotte.

In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips, cellist and SDA fan John Catchings plays a lovely instrumental version of the two-hundred-some year old folk song Wayfaring Stranger.
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Can depression and feelings of resignation about mortality be ethereal? Well, yes, at least musically: Tonight we get a young-Bob photo combined with the wise-old-Bob perspective in a track from his 1997 album Time Out of Mind called Not Dark Yet.
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