Author: Tom Faranda

Our great friends Paul and Doreen had their second daughter Marissa marry on April 10th. Here’s a very amusing short post with a picture of Marissa at her own wedding, and at her sister Alison’s wedding, one year and one week earlier.  You don’t do blonde jokes at Novotny weddings It’s only now that I’ve been able…

Great stuff. Oakland's Dallas Braden Blanks Rays in Perfect Game In Boston, where the Yankees were preparing for a Sunday night game against the Red Sox, Rodriguez was gracious when asked for his reaction. "Good for him," he told reporters. "Even better that he beat the Rays." Braden threw 77 of his 109 pitches for…

The big science news yesterday and this morning is the announcement by researchers that modern humans have Neanderthal genes – maybe up to 4% of our genes from them. The theory had been that the split between our ancestors and Neanderthals occurred about 400,000 years ago, with the Neanderthals going extinct about 30,000 years ago, and…

Well, sports if you count Joe going to the West Point spring paintball "Combat Classic", and Tim getting his trophy for being on the County district little league champion travel team last summer. And of course, it all counts. I took Joe up to West Point last Saturday morning, where he joined six friends plus one Dad.…

Or at least that is the contention of some people. No one is actually certain the ball went 565 feet in the air. it did exit Tiger Stadium. Mantle was 21. “No one in the history of the game has hit the ball farther than Mickey Mantle. His 565-foot home run hit at Griffith Stadium in…

Or Marissa and Karen will kick your you-know-what. One year ago, Marissa Novotny was the Maid of Honor at her sister Alison’s wedding to Matt. I took this picture, which I loved, of her with Karen Riner. Yesterday, this time at Mariss’a own wedding (Alison Maid of Honor of course) to Jim, she and Karen posed again.…

I put up a post about this yesterday. The presiding judge sets the record straight on the Wisconsin child abuser, Fr. Lawrence Murphy . Here's the statement of the current Archbishop, Jerome Listecki, which he made Tuesday at the end of Mass.   Dear Friends, This Lent throughout the archdiocese, we celebrated a Season of Mercy, acknowledging our sinfulness…

Ugh. I had a coonskin cap. Fess Parker was 85. "Davy Crockett Star Fess Parker … After getting out of acting, he went into the wine business. Fess Parker Winery . And his wine was pretty good. 

Too bad. I posted this Tom Faranda's Folly: Stepinac, my high school, wins basketball championship back on the seventh, when Stepinac won the CHSAA NY championship. and moved into the state finals.  But a great run, nevertheless. Stepinac's season came to an end yesterday in the CHSAA Class A state championship after a 66-62 defeat by Buffalo's…