Author: Tom Faranda
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Friday cocktail -reprising the Aviation
I am doing a reprise with a new video because the one I did in early January was taken “private” and can no longer be viewed. The dude doing the video – if you want to avoid the theatrics just use the recipe below the vid. Farandaville recipe – this is really good. And see…
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Women Olympic hockey final – USA v. Canada!!
This is the short version – all three goals with the USA tying the score with only two minutes left, putting the game into overtime. Can’t embed the link, you have to hit it. https://youtube.com/shorts/9nPsOSlYSCE?si=tO9L1L1MCzHwv3WR
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Beautiful short Lenten meditation
See the information at the bottom about the author. I think these two paragraphs are worth pondering.
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Robert Duvall, gone at 95
One of the all time iconic lines from Apocalypse Now – “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” And the greatest cowboy actor? I loved him as a cowboy. The picture is from 2003, “Open Range”. The quote in the link below is from the WSJ, but the actual link takes you to…
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Elroy Face, forkball relief pitcher
He had a long career with the Pittsurgh Pirates – was one of the very first specialist as a closer. Older Yankee fans will unfortunately remember him from the 1960 World Series… Face was one of the first major-league hurlers to make the closer job a specialty. Not an overpowering pitcher, he finagled outs with…