Love to Hate: Comics
To explain this seemingly conflicted theme, one could take the examples of such popular comics as Cathy or Family Circus. As I peruse the comics section of the Sunday newspaper I cant help reading them. I already know they are going to suck but I just can't resist, it's as if I need to fuel my love for hating them on a weekly schedule. This goes for the culture as a whole, we are amazing cruel in the way we build up our heroes and favorite celebrities just to bring them back down and continue hating them with a list of all the other things we hate for whatever reason. "I love this" or "I hate that" are sentences we drop like acid at a Phish concert. We are all too comfortable using the strongest ranges of our emotions to describe spaghetti or wicker. In fact on a last visit from my father he actually made me a list of things he hated, starting with the tiramasu I unknowingly ordered as a surprise for his birthday. Thus the first thing on the list of things he hated which spun into an interesting group; straws, cous cous, red lights, the Will Rogers Foundation, along with this woman named Madame Stratum. I mean what did cous cous ever do to anybody? Just because you're not sure if its a grain or pasta doesn't mean you should hate it. It's as if we all have drawn this black and white imaginary line around the world dividing it into the things we love and the things we hate. So much so sometimes i think its hard for anybody to see the gray middle ground, all those weird personal feelings between the two. This issue, the illiterati crew encourages you to explore the gray or embrace the black and white, just remember illiterate loves you as much as we hate you. Hating you momentously, Rachel "Sheriff of Love Crimes" Paton
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