Belarussian hand painted movie posters

"50 First Dates" ; Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler

"Bridget Jones' Diary"; Renee Zellweger

"Scooby Doo"; Freddie Prinze Jr and Matthew Lillard

"Freaky Friday"; Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis

Speaking in Tongues: a Tutorial

"through the will God, speak in tongues today... and every day..."

Where is she now?

Those perfect teeth, that flawless hair, those juicy chunks of lamb delicately placed atop pita with onions, tomatoes and creamy tzatziki sauce....

It's 2009. How old is the face of the Kronos Gyro? She is omnipresent in every street fair I have ever attended, but she must be at least 50 by now. She may be the longest running spokesmodel for a product ever (are gyros even a product? If you think about it, its like running an ad for a turkey sandwich...).  I wonder where she is living, if she is still modeling for food products in her advanced age, and what raw emotions swell to the surface when she comes face to face with her own smiling visage at a street fair. 

father figure

"Thank you, dear Stalin, for our happy childhoods"

dead city

Take a look at these amazing photos of the detritus of Detroit, shot by Yves Marchland and Romain Meffre. Its incredible what happens when beautiful things are left to rot. 

Czech children have better imaginations

a clip from a Czech children's show called Der Fliegende Ferdinand (The Flying Ferdinand)

harbinger

Take a look at this terrifying article published in The New York Times today, titled "With Cash to Spend, China Starts Investing Globally":

Long spurned in the international market but now flush with cash, China is once again on the hunt for global energy and resources... bringing China's total oil investments this week to $41 billion

$41 billion in energy investments, in this economy, in one week. Seems like there's a larger scale power grab in the works here, beyond the massive energy investment. Next thing we know, they'll be preemptively invading energy rich foreign nations.