Joe’s outdoor track season

Having run cross country in the fall, Tom Faranda’s Folly: The sports seasons have begun at Chez Faranda and not run in the indoor track season, Joe is now on the freshman Fordham Prep track team, and the season is in full swing. This past Sunday was the Jesuit Championships and Joe ran in the … Read more

Colonoscopy as comedy

Note: My next colonoscopy is not due for a couple of years This from our friend Kevin, transplanted Englishmen-living-in-Australia-who-we-met-when-we-lived-in-Jamaica. I especially liked #9. Uhhh, some editing to conform to American taste and a PG rating … Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite humorous….. A physician claimed that the following … Read more

Sunday’s Papal Mass at Yankee Stadium

See my other two posts about the day here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Local Croton priests upstage Holy Father at Yankee Stadium and here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Some pictures from the “Concert for Hope” that preceded the Papal Mass . I have been at two other Papal Masses – Denver in 1993 with about 400,000 people … Read more

The Everest Guide

If you watched any or all of the Discovery Channel series Everest: Beyond the Limit, you know who Russell Brice is. Brigid and I watched and enjoyed the whole of last year’s series. Brice runs about the most successful high mountain-climbing commercial operation, Himalayan Experience. he’s never lost a client and gotten 300 people to … Read more

Hillary Clinton theme song for this week

I have shamelessly ripped this off from Michelle Malkin – UPDATE – Obama’s Gloves Are Off — And May Need to Stay Off – washingtonpost.com But the candidate who rocketed to stardom as the embodiment of a new kind of politics — hopeful, positive and inspiring — saw his image tarnished in the bruising fight … Read more