@theLadyfingers:disqus My impression is that all girls know this, not sure it needs to be widely taught. In fact maybe it is? I have no idea where I "learned" it. It's kind of intuitive, isn't it?

Yeah, what's wrong with this kid that he cannot acquire porn without his mom finding out about it, or feels the need to tell her about it? Yikes.

Never mind, I had Prosecco for dinner and listened to Movies for the Blind twice through. Yes, it's good.

Yeah exactly - you elaborated on this better than I could. I tracked down and listened to so many bands that I heard of via Please Kill Me that left lasting and significant influences on my musical tastes. I don't want to say that this "improved my street cred," because the reason I listened to all this stuff wasn't…

I am shocked that the review says that Barney and Robin "seem at peace" in the cab, and I equally can't believe that nobody else has disagreed. They are not at peace, and that's clear from their expressions. Barney is hopefully (cautiously) optimistic, and Robin is trying to be happy, but unresolvably worried that…

Yeah, I can't say I've been in an exactly similar situation, and I'm like ten years younger than they are, but it is so realistic and so believable to me.

In my opinion, she's the most attractive woman Ted has dated on the show. So there's no accounting for taste.

I kind of thought she was too hot for Ted.

Even if you left the person yourself, you still have weird regrets. If you were ever interested, there's a reason for that. It's not being wedding-crazy, it's that when you get drunk and uninhibited, you feel the emotions of why you liked someone in the first place, and the rational concerns, which are by no means…

I hate to say this but I agree. It makes more sense following from "Tick Tick Tick" in season 7. The season 8 stuff is mostly too silly to be emotionally resonant.

I feel exactly the same way. After the first part I was like "Oh shit, they wasted the season finale on this?" But I loved the last part.

Ted didn't make Victoria leave her husband. She wanted to, and Ted was her excuse.

I cared about it. I thought it was emotionally meaningful, despite knowing that he doesn't actually move to Chicago. Good storytelling doesn't have to actually conceal the ending in order to be suspenseful. It was a really concrete representation of how he feels about Robin, in the same way that Lily's reveal of…

Really? I got all excited to get his stuff after I heard him on Con-Vexed like five years ago, so I have like three Cage albums, but I never really got into any of the albums and ended up disappointed. Any tracks in particular worth a second try?

Me, as well. But I can't do music; it has to be talking, so I listen to podcasts on my headphones. I have specific ones I only listen to when I'm falling asleep, my favorites for that are Planet Money and The History of Rome. (I love both; I like that because then I can listen to an episode "for the first time" more…

I think some people just have it on in the background constantly and maybe that counts as "watching." If you count having it on in the background but not listening exclusively the whole time, I listen to about seven hours of NPR a day, which probably sounds strange and excessive given like that.

Me too. I was already interested in music and reading about it, but Please Kill Me was really the start of seeing myself as someone who was, I don't know, seriously into it and its cultural impact, or something, which I'm sure all teenagers do and which seems kind of dumb to me now. I think I read it when I was 15.

I think one of the reason this genre is so compelling is because it is intrinsically deeply nostalgic - people talking about a time when they were young, probably leading the most exciting part of their life that they would ever lead, feeling tapped into a cultural zeitgeist, engaged in a creative process, enjoying…

Please Kill Me made a huge impression on me. To me, the scene is compelling in an almost totally separate way from the music - not that the two are separable, but that the scene is just as valuable as a scene as the music is as music. I'm not sure if I'm making a clear point, though. I will say that when I read it, I…

Your "in much the same way that" example is weirdly specific and extremely difficult to envision.