A Mild Disliking Pit?

[Matt]

I love Miranda July, and will chain-fight to the death for her right to do whatever the hell she dreams up next.

You're on, friend.

[dave from knoxville]

Wait, Scraps, how big are you?

[buffcoat]

I like Terri Gross.  I don't always agree with what she finds interesting, sure, but she's very often interviewing someone I'm interested in.  She also ranges from pop culture to political and economic stories.  With all of NPR you take the good with the bad, and on NPR she's the good.  I find her interviewing style a lot less annoying than Jessee Thorn's style, who also has a lot of good guests.  Some of his guests (Simon Rich, Miranda July...) make me much angrier than people I've heard Terry Gross interview. 

Then you must like Jazz!  Not jazz.  Jazz!  That's what Terri likes.

[emma]

Margaret Atwood is walking a thin line. She's been in my mild disliking pit until recently--her reading voice is terrible and she's kind of a jerk, whatever--but the Longpen (http://www.longpen.com/index.html) might just be her ticket down to the hate pit.

[Stupornaut]

Mike Nelson's in my mild dislike pit -- his MST3K and RiffTrax stuff is funny, but the fact that he's hanging out with lame unfunny right-wing creeps like James Lileks and Hugh Hewitt makes me sad. Also, this.

[dave from knoxville]

Wow. Maybe that's why the funny host quit MST3K.

[Beth]

I love Miranda July, and will chain-fight to the death for her right to do whatever the hell she dreams up next.

I'm with you on this one, Dave!

[Emily]

i really like the way "Hate Ditch" rolls off the tongue. can we consider going back to this terminology?

please.

[Stupornaut]

Hate Vestibule?

[samir]

Irk Moat.

[ben]

whoever started or posted the topic about where to go in europe

[John Junk 2.0]

Mike Nelson's in my mild dislike pit -- his MST3K and RiffTrax stuff is funny, but the fact that he's hanging out with lame unfunny right-wing creeps like James Lileks and Hugh Hewitt makes me sad. Also, this.

Fuck that guy.  I'm actually relieved to discover this, because it was a struggle to try and like him in the first place.  But I like how a guy who talks to funny robot puppets on t.v. and makes fun of old sci fi movies with them is going to tell us how he's displeased with the Democrats and their trend towards a Silly America.

[Sarah]

I always preferred Joel.

[KickTheBobo]

This dunce might have made it into my Hate Pit if she had some semblance of a personality.

[senorcorazon]

I officially throw Dave Eggers in the Irk Moat (formerly the Mild Disliking Pit). I can't hate him entirely because he did create an afterschool program in places around the country, wrote some okay books, etc etc. However, this whole "let's let the guy do everything", including curate a show at a gallery in New York, is highly annoying. Enjoy the mildly gritty hummus and slightly bland cheese on the welcome platter in the moat, Mr. Eggers.

And yes, I understand that this opens me up to a lot of McSweeney's related bashing. So good ahead.