I took the jeers and drank the beers and crawled back home at dawn

And ended up a blogwatch in the morning…

POLISH POSTERS–THESE ARE SO AWESOME!!!!:

While most movie posters in the United States pretty much showcase the standard corporate style imagery to hawk the film, the fine folks in Poland have a brilliant dramatic license when marketing Hollywood’s finest in their country, resulting in some of the most brilliantly surreal and amazing pieces of movie artwork ever created. Some of them are obvious, some seem to be crazy nonsequiters that have nothing to do with the original picture, while others seem to change the focus of the movie altogether. Weekend At Bernies now looks more like a horror film, and Polish poster for The Terror of Mechagodzilla looks as if it was animated by the folks that made Yellow Submarine. Enjoy this sampling of their wares, and then visit POLISHPOSTER.com to see more, and maybe even buy one. They are all originals with no reproductions, so be prepared to empty out your polish piggybank.

link (via Relapsed Catholic)

and Jonah Goldberg:

Every sane economist understands that this is an untenable system. Unemployment among French workers under the age of 26 runs at about 23 percent, and it’s higher than 50 percent in immigrant-heavy suburbs. …

America, according to French politicians, journalists, and intellectuals, is an economic state of nature. But in 2004, according to economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth, only 13 percent of unemployed American workers couldn’t find jobs in 12 months of looking. In France, 42 percent of unemployed workers couldn’t find jobs within 12 months. (In Germany the number was 52 percent, and in Italy it was 50 percent.)

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