Yeah, if Bundy was alive he would hate this documentary for pulling apart the myth of himself he was so devoted to.

I walked in on my SO watching the last episode and what the judge says to him in that trial - wishing him luck....we were like “wtf?”.

I walked in on my SO watching the last episode and what the judge says to him in that trial - wishing him luck....we were like “wtf?”.

Yeah, exactly - he didn’t fit with the accepted idea of a serial killer at the time, because he was had a nice resume of employment, volunteering, education, stable family, white middle class... They wanted a vagrant, someone visibly unstable and unhinged, with a history of violent or unsociable actions that brought…

The woman who escaped Bundy said exactly that. She got in his car, but almost immediately her creep radar went off and she was on guard. I think the police saw someone like themselves - an educated white man who didn’t fit their profile of a serial killer.

So true.

“These floozies and their... velocipedes!”

I’m pretty sure NYC is Lenni Lenape territory. San Francisco is stolen/occupied Ohlone lands. Chicago is the homelands to Algonquian tribes. Atlanta is Creek and Muskogee lands. The metro Phoenix area, which includes Scottsdale, another culture vulture mecca, and Tucson are occupied O’odham lands. The name of Tucson…

This is something I don’t understand. Why spend gobs of money to travel somewhere new for fun, only to do the same things there that you do at home.

pretty much. it’s a GREAT movie. hilarious and sad and maddening.

Seriously. I live in a town which has more tourists on any given weekend than locals and most of them are shite and don’t give a fuck about the history.

I haven’t seen it, BUT I did see it being filmed when I visited Silverlake 1.5 (?) years ago...so, hipster ouroboros I guess

My respect checked out on that line as well. The rest of me stayed to finish it. I enjoyed the quotes from the Native activists htemselves, but not so much the paragraphs surrounding them.

Right. Is her father Native? If not, how hard would it have been to find an actual Native to interview?

Exactly this. I’d be interested to hear the story of the Brooklyn natives that were pushed out to make room in whichever neighborhood Ms. Merlin lives in, or the feelings toward tourists who are trying on on an urban ‘Brooklyn’ look as fashion.

This.

When the author scuttles back to Brooklyn, is she aware that the land there is equally sacred, and that she’s using it without awareness of those who lived there before European contact? There isn’t any place in the Americas where this isn’t true, whether or not there are walking, talking reminders of that fact.

Every generation has their version, at least as far back as the Victorians.

If you haven’t seen Ingrid Goes West yet, do it. It’s a perfect caricature of the people Anna is describing here. And it makes them look like vapid hipster buffoons.

But they don’t come here for the people. They don’t really come here for the land. That’s something that really bothers me. They got off the plane, get in the rental car, drive around, consume, consume, consume, then they take off. And they don’t do anything to recognize the people who have lived here and who still…