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Política portuguesa para totós (I)

toda a semelhança entre a realidade e o mundo dos pokemon é fruto do acaso, digo eu;imagens retiradas de Bulbapedia;Pokémon © 2002-2013 Pokémon. © 1995-2013 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.

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"It struck me that perhaps a lot of the people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man’s dead when his heart stops and not before. It seems a bit arbitrary. After all, parts of your body don’t stop working — hair goes on growing for years, for instance. Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. Old Porteous is like that. Wonderfully learned, wonderfully good taste — but he’s not capable of change. Just says the same things and thi...

Anatomia dos Mártires de João Tordo

Depois de ter lido e gostado bastante do seu conto Cidade Líquida na colecção do DN e dado ter lido algumas opiniões positivas sobre os seus livros (por exemplo no Metáfora de Refúgio), decidi prosseguir na minha leitura da obra de João Tordo. Escolhi o Anatomia dos Mártires porque gostei do tema que se propõe abordar, muito embora não soubesse ao certo o que esperar dele.
Este livro segue a vida de um jornalista em busca do seu "furo", de um artigo que comprove a sua qualidade de trabalho per...

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"Every thinking person nowadays is stiff with fright. This is merely a chap who’s got sufficient foresight to be a little more frightened than the others. Hitler’s after us! Quick! Let’s all grab a spanner and get together, and perhaps if we smash in enough faces they won’t smash ours. Gang up, choose your Leader. Hitler’s black and Stalin’s white. But it might just as well be the other way about, because in the little chap’s mind both Hitler and Stalin are the same. Both mean spanners and sm...

Goodbye Lou Reed

I hope you got to have your very own Perfect Day before the end.



Just a perfect day
Drink sangria in the park
And then later, when it gets dark
We go home

Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later a movie, too
And then home

Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on

Just a perfect day
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
It's such fun

Just a perfect day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was someo...

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The Victories Volume 1: Touched by Michael Avon Oeming

Eu conhecia Michael Avon Oeming do seu trabalho em Powers e também de uma ou outra ilustração para a Marvel pelo que comecei a segui-lo no twitter. Foi assim que acompanhei o processo de criação de The Victories, que o autor comentou frequentemente na rede social, e fiquei interessado em ler algo não só ilustrado mas também escrito por ele. Oeming não desiludiu. The Victories é uma visão pessimista de uma sociedade com "super-heróis". A história é-nos apresentada pelo ponto de vista...

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"I was discovering what three-quarters of the blokes who’d been officers were discovering — that from a financial point of view we’d been better off in the Army than we were ever likely to be again. We’d suddenly changed from gentlemen holding His Majesty’s commission into miserable out-of-works whom nobody wanted. My ideas soon sank from two thousand a year to three or four pounds a week. But even jobs of the three or four pounds a week kind didn’t seem to exist. Every mortal job was filled...