One of my profs in Russia has a story about how in the 1980s she found a complete, uncensored copy of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita in a flea market—a samizdat holy grail. The cost was a week's worth of food.

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Are basketball players the funniest athletes? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Charles Barkley, Detlef Schrempf, Rick Fox, LeBron James and now Blake Griffin.

"You're not wrong, Walter. Just an asshole."

Right.

It's no problem. I'll happily join you on the wall and wave that flag. I've also edited my comment.

It's a decent reflection of the Soviet paranoia of the alien as spy. The fourth largest city in the USSR was closed off from all foreigners.

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You're right about the rest of the Eastern Bloc. For fuck's sake, robot was coined by a Czech. Tarkovsky famously adapted the Bratya Strugatskie and Lem. It's important because the other nations had a tradition of SF before Communism, so had greater Western influence, and had a greater debt to folklore, which is…

The real fun is when you can get both hands bleeding. Actually, the fret hand will hopefully never bleed with the added bonus of preparing you for a life of crime.

It was weird that all of a sudden Rosa has a bad boy fixation when all of her previous boyfriends were choirboys.

My nails regularly get smashed at work (fucking prep tools), so i'll need to remember this.

Sometimes the baby news is incredibly sad.

Season 7 improves when viewing the speeches as comedy, not drama, as seen in the Andrew episode.

It's astounding how few people understand the difference between foreshadowing and comic irony.

Yeah, but not because of her naivete, but because of the assholes in her life.

Shosh is returning after sabotaging all of her relationships and Marnie is single as well. Hopefully this will be awkward as hell.

It's not foreshadowing, but irony after Charlie almost getting her killed twice the night before. It's not her naivete that will get her killed but the men in her life.

I would happily set my idea of weekly hovercraft missions aside for Quantum Leap Archer. I'd imagine that Krieger would also be the focus for that season.

If we're going to speculate/wish for future settings what are you hoping for?