Or, depending on who you ask, irony has never been more alive!

Big Life Aquatic fan here, too--I personally prefer it to some of the more generally beloved titles on this list. Been meaning to rewatch for a Wes-filmography podcast I’m recording soon!

Bottle Rocket at the bottom?! I’m rioting.

I get (and somewhat share) this feeling for Isle Of Dogs, but I think the main characters in The Darjeeling Limited are supposed to be viewed as privileged, myopic, and culturally insensitive. It’s a story about clueless and damaged white people traveling to India, not a story about India, so I don’t think the fairly…

As a child, I once got pneumonia. I stayed in bed for several days and watched Murder She Wrote and Magnum P.I. on my tiny Sears b&w tv. And guess what? The pneumonia went away. I’m not saying that shitty 80s tv cured me, but I am heavily implying it!

the tip about rewarding your co-conspirator raccoons with tiny peanut butter sandwiches seems oddly specific, like it was written by a raccoon

I also only wanted to read the name as Kingsley St. Buffington (as that’s a perfect name) but I’ve now realized my mistake - it’s Kingsley St. Buffingsworth of the Buffington Buffingsworths.

Yeah, selling deliberately hateful content to maximize profits is kind of the definition of evil.  Short of Nazi serial killer, I’d be hard-pressed to come up with a more evil action. 

There isn’t a bigger fuck bag alive in this country. 

It kind of feels like hearing that cigarette companies knew their product caused cancer or that oil companies knew that global warming was an issue for decades while they lied and sowed doubt. The actual damage they’re doing isn’t the part of it that’s news, it’s that they were fully aware of it all along.

So here’s an anecdote that might cheer you up (or depress you even further - I’m not sure at this point).