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64 Harmless Things I Love to Hate*
A take purge, and a fun little listicle for your Friday.
One of my exes used to call me “Mister Peanut Butter” (from BoJack Horseman) due to my relentlessly sunny and enthusiastic disposition. It’s true. In real life, I was pretty peppy. Though after 2020, I think my general vibe’s a bit more Ashley Olsen drunk-hiking with a machete.
Now I didn’t and don’t love everything, but I do often praise-dump. Everything is awesome or the “best thing ever”. Still, I’m not always one big bright ray of sunshine. No, sometimes I’m the goddamned rain-cloud storming all over your picnic.
So, in the spirit of disappeared Medium spirit poet Kris Gage’s classic text “Several Things I Strongly Dislike”, I’d like to bring my bubbling hate-filled cauldron to the front burner. I’m no Silky Johnson, but there’s plenty I love to hate.
This list won’t include obvious things like fascism, climate change, or Elon Musk. You can take those as given. This is more of an assortment of relatively harmless* entities. Things you might even enjoy. You monsters.
Anyway, buckle up friends. Let’s take a trip to my seventh circle of hell: The people, places, things, feelings, and ideas that I absolutely loathe. Let’s queue up some Nickelback, light up a cigarette, roll up the windows…
