“

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I’m lucky.

When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift – that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies – that’s something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter – that’s something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that’s the finest I know.

So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

”

Lou Gehrig

70 years ago today

from "Live From New York" - Senator Al Franken, D-Minn, the early years...

  • Al Franken: My daughter was the first Saturday Night Live baby, the first new child born to anybody who worked on the show.
  • Tom Davis: Gilda (Radner) and G.E. Smith, the musician, were living together in the Dakota, and Gilda wanted to give Al's wife, Franny, and the new baby a shower. G.E. and I are in the back room of the apartment where all his guitars are, because the shower's for women - all the secretaries, all the wives, Jane (Curtin) is there, Laraine (Newman) is there. Everyone is waiting for the baby to arrive and there's a knock at the door and G.E. and I peek in from the other room.
  • Al Franken: My wife came with her sister first and I was to bring the baby. My other sister-in-law came with me. So I got a doll the exact size of the baby and swaddled it - I told Franny I was going to do this - and there's like thirty women, and I walk in and they're all going like "Ohhhh...ahhhh," and I walk in and I hit the baby's head on this piece of furniture and I go up in the air and I come down with everything, everything, going onto this doll so that there is no way I didn't kill the baby. And the screams, the screams!
  • Tom Davis: The scream that came out of these women, it just made everyone's hair stand on end. They just witnesses this man kill his newborn baby. To this day, I've never heard a more terrifying sound than all those women witnessing this baby being killed by its father.
  • Al Franken: And then my sister-in-law Carla walks in with the real baby.
  • Tom Davis: I'm telling you, Al did shit like that. I love him for it.

Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups"

Costars David Spade, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and Kevin James.

I’m assuming that Kevin James is only in this because Chris Farley is dead. 

“Summer, it turns me upside-down
Summer, summer, summer
It’s like a merry go round.”
The Cars, “Magic”
“Hey kids, this Summer when you’re all being inundated with this fourth of July bullshit don’t forget what you’re really celebrating… A bunch of white slave owning congressmen that didn’t want to pay their taxes.”

Dazed and Confused, 1993

a classic.

(via lorenrochelle) (via soupsoup)

Blink DC: Pictures from Ben and Noel's Wedding

Awesome work by Sarah and Kip.