YEAH, Faust is crazy good. It's like watching a myth.

Artists. *eyeroll*

"Freund worked the day shift, and did pick up alot of Browning's mess." Well, yeah, that's what I was saying. Freund ended up directing much of (American) Dracula, uncredited, when Browning wasn't. Or so the story goes, anyway. My point was that if that's the case, it was his directing class before working as a…

Yeah, I think Freund directed it to a large degree. I like to say Dracula is where Freund learned to direct The Mummy. (Actually this is the first time I've ever said that, but I think it's true.)

Browning's silent films with Lon Chaney are very cool.

Yeah, Dwight Frye was great in it. I'd stick up for the cinematography and atmosphere in the early scenes, too; if they had kept that up for the whole movie it would automatically be one of the best horror films of all time.

Oh my god! Cage in Vampire's Kiss!

I've only recently been introduced (on the internet, natch) to the idea of nerds and fat people thinking they should be exempt from being mocked. It's interesting.

They say she's the same but she isn't the same.

Sarah Chalke did okay for herself.

I actually totally see the appeal of climbing, like normal mountains, like the impressive but generally rational mountains we have in the U.S., but Everest and all those Himalyan mountains are simply higher than anything on earth should be. The summits of those fucking things are in SPACE, basically. There's not…

There's an area called "Rainbow Valley," named after all the corpses in their brightly colored North Face jackets and gear.

I maintain that people do the wrong thing with mountains. Don't climb the thing, look at it, and maybe worship it. I see a mountain, I don't want to go to the top of it, I want to stare at it because it's beautiful.

I came to that realization reading the Krakauer book and otherwise reading up on Everest recently. I never had any plans to climb Mt. Everest, mind you, but learning more about it has cemented in my mind that it's something I would never do, any more than I would go into a volcano or down to the Marianas Trench. It's…

I guess there are like 200 corpsicles up there. It's one of the most horrifying places on earth.

And Ken Jeong as K2.

That's actually happened, but instead of bitching they just died.

Coincidentally, I just finished reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air not one day ago. What a hellish, bleak, horrible, murderous place. Man, fuck that mountain. Why would anyone want to go there? As a species we should all fucking shun that place.

It seems like this season they're able to let the callbacks just be jokes and fun little details, rather than building a whole wacky plot on them like they've been doing for the last few years. "Remember that time Marshall ate sushi? Well here's a whole episode about it!"

It's not really coincidental, because the mother saying this stuff to Barney is the reason Barney and Robin ended up getting married. If Barney and Robin don't get married, they don't hire a wedding band, and Ted doesn't meet the mother. The mother being the person to say this to Barney wasn't a coincidence, it was…