Tonight we listen to the tragic tale of an impoverished but indomitable maid who watches her family members give up the wretched ghost, one by one, in a song called simply Irish Ballad.
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In June of 2010, Canada accepted it’s first delivery of Lockheed Martin’s tactical airlift plane, the C-130J Super Hercules. “Prized for its versatility and flexibility“, the Super Hercules gets rave reviews from pilots and commanders, including Lt. Col. Jeff Blalock of the U.S. 48th Airlift Squadron who says, “From a pilot’s perspective, this aircraft is just phenomenal. The engines and props give you tremendous power and capability…It climbs like a rocket on takeoff.”
Take a look at the C-130J Super Hercules in action at the 2011 Paris Air Show.
h/t Michael M.
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January 26 is Australia Day, a mid-summer statutory holiday during which the men, full as a coog, walk around in budgie smugglers having a Captain Cook at the white pointers while the women go looking for their men — at least, that’s what an expatriate New Zealander told me. In honour of our upside-down Anglospheric friends, then, here’s a stirring rendition of their national anthem Advance Australia Fair. Cheers!
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In the early 1920’s a group of Canadian musicians crossed the great briny to become the resident band at New Princes’ Restaurant in Piccadilly in the heart of London. In tonight’s musical selection, recorded in November 1925, the New Princes’ Toronto Band and their unidentified vocalist perform a vaguely indelicate canoeing song about the hearty open-air pleasures of Paddlin’ Madeline Home.
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Ridin’ tough ponies was his middle name. One day, a feller made him a bet that he couldn’t ride that pin-eared, bog-spavined, Roman-nosed, double square iron-branded Strawberry Roan.
Based on rodeo rider Curley Fletcher’s poem.
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Robert W. recently recommended via email this award-winning slideshow of skiers in Whistler, B.C.
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In tonight’s video, a euphonic neotextual treatise that deconstructs the (historically) aleatory hermeneutics of female torso lipidity, the avowedly cisgendered T. Mahal challenges the heteronormative oppression and disempowerment of endomorphic colleens by collating his personal stockpile of intercorporeal data into a singularly mythopoeic, ontologically monovalent, and almost turgidly laconic totality called Big Legged Mamas Are Back In Style.
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In the civilized West, children learning combat sports aren’t usually allowed to compete in full-contact sparring until they’re at least six or seven years old. Sadly, this is not the case in other parts of the world, as evidenced by this all-out Tong War between two highly-skilled toddlers — they appear to be no more than two-and-a-half or three years old — who savagely duke it out in a dojo while adult onlookers laugh. Like it’s funny or something.
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In tonight’s Tips music, from the1942 Paramount Pictures release The Forest Rangers, singing cowboy Dick Thomas, accompanied by a handful of dancers with bootfulls of giddyup, sings about spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle.
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Canadian songwriter Stan Rogers was a 6’4″ giant of a man whose works were often inspired by Canada’s rich history. Rogers died 29 years ago, at the age of 33, in a fire on an Air Canada passenger jet, but he left behind a legacy of some great music, including tonight’s selection, an inspirational maritime tale about hard work, courage, dreams, optimism, and faith called Mary Ellen Carter. (Lyrics here.)
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A funny thing happened on the way to Novosibirsk.
Or at least, it’s funny if you’re Russian.
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Ginger the sleepyhead very much enjoys her breakfast time.
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In tonight’s Tips music we transport you to the deepest, darkest heart of Africa: first, to the banks of the mighty Zambesi, then to Zimbabwe for the traditional song Skokiaan.
Stay safe.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement comedy greats Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin join forces in a very funny scene from Chaplin’s 1952 film Limelight.
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In tonight’s Tips video, via SDA reader Michael S., an unidentified rider and his horse Traveler brave the floodwaters of the Williams River to deliver medicine to stranded residents in Rockingham, Vermont.
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Tonight, Cecil Dill and His Musical Hands show that music is indeed the language of love, as they perform the dreamy romantic ballad Let Me Call You Sweetheart.
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Which is the rooster? Which is the hen? It’s hard to tell ’em apart today.
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If you’re in the market for a slingshot you can go one of two ways: you can choose a run-of-the-mill, garden variety slingshot suitable for chasing small varmints away, or, if you’d rather be safe than sorry, opt for a dedicated hybrid bludgeoning-weapon/counterbalanced-slingshot like Dortmunder Jörg Sprave’s fearsome Slingshot Zombiehammer with Skull Ejector.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement Peter Sellers plays the role of a diligent folk archivist making a field recording in a small town in Ireland. Let’s listen to the fruits of his labour, as Patrick O’Shaughnessy and his Caileigh Band play “The Rattlin’ Boy From Dublin Town”, fueled by a drop of the hard stuff.
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In tonight’s Tips video an emotional display of resistance and national pride breaks out at Rick’s Café Américain.
Bonus: The Liberation of Paris in Color.
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