I'm tackling Voltaire's "Candide" . I went in pretty much blindly and found it a nice surprise that it was actually pretty funny. The edition I'm reading also has lots of footnotes that help contextualize some of the less immediately obvious jabs.
I'm also reading through the first volume of Álvaro Cunhal's (the most…

I agree with most people here in that it was terrible. However, it had lots of people whose work I've enjoyed in other situations *and* boobies, so I stuck around for two seasons or so.

To be fair, he didn't change names because of Marvel, only book titles. Making the guy himself named Shazam was another of DC's bright ideas.

Buscemi, Edie Falco, Alan Alda… Go for it!

I, myself, prefer to take my flying fucks at the moooooooooooooooon.

Did they make the aliens pay for it using the powers of their magical toupee?

"Maher has a way of making me disagree with him even when I agree with the substance of what he's saying" - Him being a pompous asshole has that effect, yes. I agree with him in a number of issues, but he has a way of putting them forward that makes me want to insult him anyway.

Vampire's Kiss has got this amazing scene (https://www.youtube.com/wat… , that is not only Oscar-worthy, but also Sesame Street-worthy. You can't say that very often (or even in this particular situation, really).

Well, Vertigo had lots of sucessful/famous comics that had nothing whatsoever to do with the DC Universe, like Transmetropolitan, Preacher, The Invisbles, Y: The Last Man, the soon to be over Fables… I do not think the main problem was the return of some characters to the main DC imprint, mostly because Constantine…

Hmmm, I guess I can stick around a bit longer, then.

Now he's running out again, oooh.

I've really been having some difficulties reading (which is something that I'm not really acostumed to), but I've been slowly making my way through Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird.

Pedro *Costa*. Yeah, I know the name is spelled right in the article itself, but the big "COSTO" up there is bugging me.
For the record, "Costa" is a common portuguese surname, "Costo", not so much (in the sense that I never knew anyone with that name ever).

It was written by Jorge Ben Jor, but, as far as I know, the Os Mutantes version was the first recorded. But, of course, I may be wrong.

Yeah, we've got those breaks in the movies in Portugal too. I *think* there was a period in the nineties when we didn't have them, but I'm not really sure. To be frank, I was under the impression that those breaks happened everywhere… I guess that's not true for Sweden, at least?

Beats the hell out of me. As it does how it gets its way to a school in rural Portugal with a (at the time) *very* limited colection…

Nowadays, the school I went to has a respectable library of movies, but, for most of the time I went there, it had *two*, and most classrooms didn't have a TV, much less a VCR, so we had to go to the audiovisual room.
The two movies in question were the La guerre du feu, with Ron Perlman, and Romancing the Stone, with…

The first two seasons of The West Wing are two of my favorite TV seasons ever, no doubt about it. And I agree with you: even at its worst (Season 5, I'm looking at you), The West Wing was really not bad at all.
But, what do I know? I don't even hate The Newsroom (even though it is very far from being Sorkin at his top…

@EvelKareebel:disqus : Also, Transmetropolitan. That book is great.
Anyway, in my opinion, Ellis is often interesting, sometimes great. Millar, on the other hand, is usually childish, sometimes entertaining (most often than not, the times that he manages to restrain himself a bit).

I, if anything, tend to make *more* jokes about things that are personal to me, just not to people that may be hurt by them. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it.