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What about just 'neiiiiiiiin'? Like the number? Ha, no. Maybe I'll just start working in more gesunheits and lederhosens. If this is the age of the name squish-A-Rod, K-Fed, whatever-what language trend do you think will come next? Besides portmanteaus, like 'sexting'? Mandals, staycation, funemployment-those sorts of butcheries. Cause that's what grown-ups do when you leave them alone. But then we just thought it would be kind of gross because people would go there and make out and have sex on it. And I remember in high school, my friends and I thought that an awesome business would be opening one of those for grown-ups. It was ball pits and big foam building blocks and castles and tunnels. When I was growing up in Louisiana, there was a place in this terrible suburb Kenner called Fun Factory, which was sort of like Discovery Zone.

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Like Discovery Zone? That doesn't seem like a good combination: kids and free wi-fi. It sort of resembles and adult version of Gymboree. The inside of it has astroturf and futuristic metal tables that are built into the wall. No, I don't think that it misrepresents me.ĭo you have any favorite spots around town? Anywhere you go to write? There's a place in Park Slope called Roots Cafe and I like to write there. That's how I've always thought of myself, like Miss Anka. It becomes the Miss Anka of our generation. But I feel like I back up my reasons for not liking things. I don't have a pathological fixation on these things. I don't like when people email me and tell me I'm 'hating on the wrong thing' or 'why are you hating on this?' I'm not really hate-hating on it. But shockingly some people who read it don't seem to know.

Then when I came back, I got my job at The Onion, my first job that wasn't freelancing.ĭo you have any regrets about choosing the name 'The Hater'? Do people often get the wrong idea from it? I think having that name it's fairly obviously tongue-in-cheek. Like Under the Tuscan Sun I'm exactly like Diane Lane. Or I'm like my parents' version of a bougy. And I taught English in Italy for a while, which is a great, bougy thing to do. So then you just stuck around after NYU? Yeah, I freelanced for a while, for Blender and Time Out. She was really serious about it though.ĭid she get plastic surgery? She was more like 'a person living a dream,' one of those kind of stories. I wrote a thing about a girl who wanted to be the next Britney Spears. Did you write for the paper there? Yeah, I did a few things for Washington Square News. How did you end up in New York? I went to NYU. When we first asked her for an interview, she wrote back that she would agree to do it due to her motto, 'Anything Werner Herzog can do, I can do too (except a credible German accent).' She set the cultural bar high and yet we still wound up discussing such topics as what we didn't catch in My So-Called Life as teens that we catch now, and if it's all right to watch Tyler Perry movies ironically. She more than earns her Hater nickname with the barbs dished in the Index, but yet also reveals a real soft spot for the absurdity of it all on The Onion AV Club's blog and in her weekly column, Pop Culture Love Letters. If we only have three minutes on a subway platform to skim through The Onion, it's basically going to involve checking the headlines, the editorial cartoon and The Tolerability Index, an infographic of this week's pop culture travesties, as compiled by Amelie Gillette, aka 'The Hater.' Gillette has a terrific ability to serve as a cultural thermometer-both catching absurd things we might have missed (that Mary Jo Buttofuoco's new book was called 'Getting It Through My Thick Skull') or calling out unfamiliar targets that go unchecked (say, Funny or Die videos).