In tonight’s Tips video, recommended by Robert, we see a spectacular, time-lapse view of the earth at night from the International Space Station.
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Slap on some Brut, pop some Sen-Sen, and get ready to Cha Cha, because an unspecified member of the De Castro Sisters is making a request in the imperative form: Teach Me Tonight. Order the pu pu platter, two Shirley Temples, and start talking.
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Tonight we take a look at a great unsung Korean war hero whose steely nerves and dedication won her the respect, honour, and admiration of the Marines who served with her. During one particularly fierce five day battle in 1953,

…she made 51 trips from the Ammunition Supply Point to the firing sites, 95% of the time by herself…and walked over 35 miles through open rice paddies and up steep mountains with enemy fire coming in at the rate of 500 rounds per minute. And as she so often did, she would carry wounded soldiers down the mountain to safety, unload them, get reloaded with ammo, and off she would go back up to the guns.

Here’s a brief video tribute to the aptly-named Sgt Reckless
h/t Robert O.
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In tonight’s Tips music, from 1950, Luke the Drifter, aka Hank Williams, lets Joseph Stalin know in no uncertain terms that “we don’t scare easily around here, No, No Joe.”
Tell ’em, Hank.
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Strap on the safety goggles, folks, we’ve got two rather fierce videos tonight: first, via Kate, India’s crazy Warriors of Goja perform an interpretive dance called Saturday Night in Prince George, B.C.. If you can get through that without blinking, you’ll be ready to watch the vicious, winner-take-all clash between Schlage and Roesch. Ouch!
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In tonight’s Tips video, Jared and Derek Younger repay their father Herb for his hard work and sacrifice by reuniting him with his long lost love.
A happier guy you’ll never see.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement classical musicians Igudesman & Joo provide concrete — or rather, wooden — evidence that Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov had really, really big hands.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement the Copenhagen Philharmonic occupies Københavns Hovedbanegård and treats commuters and travelers to a surprise performance of Ravel’s Bolero.
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We go to AkitaRescue.org for tonight’s Canine Service Announcement: Symptoms of Bloat. If you own a large breed dog, you owe it to him to watch it.
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Is there such a thing as a right-wing folksinger? You betcha! In tonight’s Tippity twofer, 1960s-era Anti-communist performer Janet Greene warns us to careful of those Commie Lies, because communism is the real Fascist Threat.
Word.
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Crisis? What looming crisis? Rearrange the deck chairs to the soothing sounds of Werner Von Overheidt. Oooh, look at the pretty colours!
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This week’s municipal theme song: Move Along You Lazy Cattle.
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Sometimes, if you’re in the right place at the right time, magnificent spectacles of nature unfold before your eyes and take your breath away: here’s Sophie Windsor Clive’s Murmuration.
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Sometimes when you’re in the air looking down at the ground, you just hope that the wind is steady, as opposed to, I don’t know, gusty. Yikes.
h/t Kate
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Excuse me ma’am, Mr. Anthony Perkins has decided to take a break from his front-desk duties for a few moments, and he wishes to invite you for a Moonlight Swim.
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In tonight’s Tips music The Pogues invade the Spanish city of Almería for an ethanol-powered Fiesta. And maybe a bit of dental work.
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Tonight’s Tips music selection is a follow up to this oddly touching video in which performers and music industry insiders at the CMA awards expressed their support and affection for beleaguered country wildman Hank Williams Jr., who had recently been fired from Monday Night Football for making some highly unflattering on-air remarks about Obama. From 1991, here’s the five-time CMA Entertainer of the Year (along with Clint Black in a brief musical cameo) singing Hotel Whiskey.
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Lest We Forget.

This evening, we keep it simple and sweet. I Will Always Love You. Not the exercise in vocal exhibitionism that was to come along later, but the Dolly Parton masterpiece.
We’re sending this one out tonight on behalf of EBD. Pretty sure he’ll know who it’s for.

Robbie Fulks (whose song Parallel Bars was featured in an earlier post) has seen the modern world, and that’s why he’s Waiting on These New Things To Go. (Lyrics here.)
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