quirkyalone: my new demographic?

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― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

that name is really dreadful

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 25 January 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

oops.. link

yeah. i dunno. i could definitely relate to the sentiment and am glad someone acknowledged it and helps other feel not as weird and alone, but it seems poised to become a marketing package. when artists (ie. morrissey) champion such feelings, it's with more arrogance, more wit, more, well, art. when political theorists do it, it's with more power and inspiration. but it just seems more like an interesting idea with a terrible name posed to become a brand (desk calendars, seminars, 'the quirkyalone at the office' series, etc.) that no one it describes could openly admit to embracing.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, I've met a few people who openly embrace both the description and the term. the idea's fine, I just wish there were a less cumbersome name attached to it.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 25 January 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck demographics. Some days it's an ordeal for me to go to the grocery store. I'm not quirky, I'm just alone. I'm not sociable. I'm not single as a fashion statement, I'm single because I'm scared of people. Fuck this bourgeois fashionably educated shit. You're not going to sell me anything.

― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Cripes, sorry, that's not directed at anyone here...

― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer to describe myself as "genetic cast-off permanently years behind my contemporaries' learning curve in matters of human interaction" but that's even more cumbersome

― dave q, Sunday, 25 January 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Read about this in Oprah Magazine the other day. If you want to be an introvert, be an introvert...

...

OK, I posted out a rant, but then I deleted it because the sugar rush is starting to wear off and I don't want to regret this in the morning.

What do you mean it is morning?

― the river fleet, Sunday, 25 January 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

But when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.

What's this supposed to mean? Like, quake in a good way. Because that's rubbish. I have sometimes been described as quirky, and I've spent years of my life alone, but in that time I met loads of other 'quirky' people who were alone and I rarely had much interest in any of them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot to emphasise how profoundly ikky I found that entire essay.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a feeling if i read that link people are going to end up dead.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I would love to see you murder this 'Sasha Cagan' by colliding with her.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It can be like this description of Steven Seagal in action:

"Opponents tend to run into [Seagal’s] palms or fists, and then fly back as if broken on their own accord."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

From the site:

Ten quirkyalone songs

Billy Idol
"Dancing with Myself"

Liz Phair
"Polyester Bride"

Erykah Badu
"My Apple Tree"

Frank Sinatra
"My Way"

Belle and Sebastien
"Mary Jo"

REM
"Walk Unafraid"

Nick Drake
"Fruit Tree"

Lone Justice
"If Love was a Red Dress"

Bjork
"Miss You"

Cher
"Believe"

They even manage to misspell Belle & Sebastian in a quirkyannoying way.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rough Guide to Quirkyalone

― sym (shmuel), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a hard time identifying/sympathizing with monks and priests too

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

O NO! I took the 'quirkyalone test' and came out very quirkyalone!

Your score was 103. Very quirkyalone:
Relatives may give you quizzical looks, and so may friends, but you know in your heart of hearts that you are following your inner voice. Though you may not be romancing a single person, you are romancing the world. Celebrate your freedom on National Quirkyalone Day, February 14th!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This despite laughing out loud at the first question and emphatically choosing 'Long walks alone at night do not appeal to me. They seem dangerous and/or boring.' as my answer.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

9. Would you rather have a predictable vibrator or an inconsistent partner? (9. Would you rather have a predictable vibrator or an inconsistent partner? (If you are a man, assume you are a woman.)

Surely the parenthesis should have read "(If you are a man, it's OK to use a vibrator up your ass")?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Q. Can the quirkyalone be a man?

A. Men can be quirkyalone. But we already have plenty of archetypes for male loners: the angry young man, Odysseus, and the list goes on. For women, the equivalents are spinster and old maid. And so, we call the quirkyalone a woman.

I rarely get called a woman and never Odysseus so maybe the test was faulty in some way.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Your score was 71. Somewhat quirkyalone (otherwise known as quirkytogether):
You are probably part of a mysterious group of people, the quirkytogethers. You share many of our quirky qualities, but you manage to find yourself, on a regular basis, in a coupled situation. Interesting.

though this is probably true, i still feel the authors of this quiz need to suck my cock until i cum blood.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha fuck, that thing's like Notes From The Underground through a Jean Teasdale filter or some shit.

I don't know what would prompt them to think 'quirkyalone' is a good catchy name for anything. They should've called it The Alone, it's a bit more ominous.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Or 'The Prissyegotist' - it would be more honest.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

More questions for the quiz:

Do you make banal faux-sociological observations about your already banal urban lifestyle in order to snag a book deal?

() yes
() no

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Odysseus?!!

'That lad's such an Odysseus'

― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have realised who this woman reminds me of - that awful woman in 'Kissing Jessica Stein'. Oh yeah - Jessica Stein.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no! glorified ironic hipster webdiary accessory quiz taking itself WAY TO FCKING SERIOUSLY as some kind of social-scene-defining anthropolical phenomemon, on no!

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

How quirkyalone are you?
Your score was 71. Somewhat quirkyalone (otherwise known as quirkytogether):
You are probably part of a mysterious group of people, the quirkytogethers. You share many of our quirky qualities, but you manage to find yourself, on a regular basis, in a coupled situation. Interesting.

― erm, okay (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(I got 100 on the quiz, BTW)

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, anyone ever who defines themselves as quirky, wacky, or "i'm craaaazy, me" is almost undoubtedly a terribly boring, unquirky, unwacky git with a terrible sense of humour.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My god - the whole todo magazine is written in this same blackboard scrapingly awful 'quirky' style:

Our Readers

Unlike most of the publications flashing across newsstands, To-Do List magazine is not just for women of a certain age, or just for women period. To-Do List is not just for men with GQ style. Our interest is in diving into the details of daily life that make us click, roar, think, develop, and sometimes break down. No one has the patent on these experiences, even in this decade where the very human DNA is becoming corporate property. Our outlook is broad, and our readers reflect that perspective.

Petra - I think it's supposed to be cutely 'tongue in cheek' but that's what makes it even worse.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

(N. that 'manifesto' looks like the kind of bumf written to give ad/marketing folks a BIG WOODY).

105. Yet I'm living with my boyfriend and am happy like this. Hmmm.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

petra OT fucking M

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Jody, do not be afraid to embrace your inner quirkyaloneness.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, heck, Emily Dickinson would write just like that if she was around today.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i am neither quirky nor alone

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

$10 says whoever wrote this is on a Lifetime channel talk show ten years from now saying "But that was just a PHASE."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

$20 says this bet will never be called in.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i refuse to live in a world where going to the movies by oneself is considered a really novel thing to do

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

$20 says this bet will never be called in.

Wimp.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

“At first I resisted the label ‘quirkyalone.’ It sounded, well, a little too cute for me. But then I read Cagen's manifesto, and discovered she's up to something that could be as important for women (and men) as The Feminine Mystique was years ago: We aren’t just halves of couples; we are distinct individuals—as complete and potentially happy alone as we are with our families and lovers. Thank you, Sasha, for giving us this proud and thoughtful declaration of independence!”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I am Bizarrosolitary

Fuckeduphymenintact

― omg, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazon says:

You may also be interested in these items...

The Introvert Advantage
by Marti Olsen Laney

Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School
by Rachel Greenwald (Author)

Solitude
by Anthony Storr (Author)

How to Be Popular
by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz

Cast Your Net
by Eric F. Fagan

That's the most tragic set of autorecommendations I've ever seen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, Sasha, for giving us this proud and thoughtful declaration of independence!

I want to hurt Ms. Ehrenreich.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

95: Relatives may give you quizzical looks, and so may friends, but you know in your heart of hearts that you are following your inner voice. Though you may not be romancing a single person, you are romancing the world. Celebrate your freedom on National Quirkyalone Day, February 14th!

OMG the MOST disturbing thing is apparently I R ONE OF THEM oh no shoot me now. i blame the daft assumption that seeing movies alone is somehow romantic and not merely a practical solution to no-one else wanting to spend $13 on the weird arthouse shiz i want to watch! They honestly think i romanticise being single, or having a neatly pruned back circle of friends, or whateverthehell else wanky gothite activities they want to pin me down to?

Once they're finished sucking Jess's dick they can start on mine.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

We aren’t just halves of couples; we are distinct individuals

OMG HOLD THE FRONT PAGE

jody otm too, btw.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This truly is the best thing ever.

From Publishers Weekly:

The morning after Cagen, founding editor of the independent magazine To-Do List, attended a "New Year's Eve Party Totally Devoid of [the] Midnight Kiss," she had what she calls a "spontaneous exclamation." She and her friends were "quirkyalones." The word came to her fully formed, and in this zany, untraditional book, she explains the word and the movement it spawned. "Quirkyalone stands in opposition to saccharine, archaic notions of romantic love. It stands for self-respect, independent spirit, creativity, true love, and confidence," Cagen writes, her words echoing with the uplifting message that it's not strange to be single; rather, single is the new norm. Cagen speaks out against dating for the sake of being in a couple and highlights the celebrities who fit and don't fit the quirkyalone mold (Oprah: "of course"; Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks: "[E]nemies of quirkyalones everywhere"). The primary text is spiced up with quotes that zip sideways along the margins, profiles of self-proclaimed quirkyalones, rough pencil drawings and jazzy lists, and the book ends on a suitably quirky note-with a short story Cagen wrote when she was 13. Fun, inspirational and provocative, this book is the perfect antidote to the Valentine's-inspired coupling craze.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It just keeps on giving!

Laughed Out Loud in Recognition, January 22, 2004

Reviewer: Julie Jordan Scott 5passions.com (see more about me) from Bakersfield, CA United States

I was thrilled to find this book after visiting the Quirkyalone website and discovering through taking their simple test I am VERY, VERY quirkyalone. All this time I just thought I was different than most people I met!!

I found this book comforting, hilarious, mind opening and connecting.

The biographies of other quirkyalones and the chapter on quirkytogethers was especially excellent, since being a quirkyalone does not mean you are a recluse, its more like you are comfortable with solitude AND enjoy company.

No wonder I never fared well on the Myers-Briggs when it came to "Am I Extroverted or Introverted?" I am quirkyalone! I love parties and people AND I need to be alone, too.

Ironically, I found this book in the "Relationships" section of the bookstore, which gave me a good laugh.

Read this book and give it as a gift to anyone you know who fits the profile. They will be glad, as I was, to know that I am no longer "alone" in my status as contented, peaceful quirkytogether quirkyalone!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

she had what she calls a "spontaneous exclamation."

*pause*

I am about to transmogrify into Alex in NYC. NAILGUN NOW.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

'At first I resisted the label 'quirkyalone'. It sounded too stupid, half-baked, modish and soul-destroying. Something inside me, I think it was my 'intelligence', told me this was humiliating midmorning talk-show crap. But I refused to be brought down this way, and I took a deeper look. And I'm glad I did! Now my life's more superficial than ever and it's all thanks to Ms Cagen! Some days I don't have to think independently at all!'

― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like she thought that 'metrosexual' was old hat and a better buzz word was needed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried connecting to http://quirkyalone.net but got the following message. Looks like quirkyaloneness is sweeping the nation!

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

Apache/1.3.29 Server at www.quirkyalone.net Port 80

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, so the fact that i go to bed alone at night and sometimes go for a couple days without holding any real conversations with people in person means i'm NOT alone?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

you have us, jess.

personally, i'd rather be labeled "metrosexual" than "quirkyalone".
i think if anyone ever called me "quirky" to my face i would stab their throat.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

People are really digging this shit.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i am beginning to respect this Cagen woman more and more, if only for the fantastic job she has done of packaging and selling snake-oil to some new hipster women who love too much...maybe i should write self-help books...

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

*And finally the penny drops*

― omg, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This is such freaking bullshit.

I took the test and got: How quirkyalone are you? Your score was 78. Somewhat quirkyalone (otherwise known as quirkytogether): You are probably part of a mysterious group of people, the quirkytogethers. You share many of our quirky qualities, but you manage to find yourself, on a regular basis, in a coupled situation. Interesting.

Which basically says "Wow, you're a quirky introvert but you somehow manage to be socially adjusted enough to have relationships, you freak!"

Does it take every generation to reinvent the wheel? Is all it takes to be a pop psychology phenomenon is reinvent a new term? Sheesh.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to have to explore this idea more, but on first examination, I'm turning this meme over like a really fascinating rock I just tripped over and picked up, and I'm thinking Hey, this could be fascinating.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

Oh, this says so much, somehow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

only 86.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

82. I'm a quirkytogether!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I also got 86 -- and no explanation of what that score means. Is there something she couldn't bring herself to tell me?!?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(You have to have pop-ups enabled to get the score. Click "OK" to the button telling your score, and it will tell you what it means.)

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i was a 58, same description as river fleet.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

wow quirkytogether has a wiiiiide margin evidently

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The quirkyalone website is working again. It's like makeoutclub for unattractive people, no?

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I got an 85, accompanied by the message "Ignorant Ignoramous: Finish the test, Bozo!" Oh great! Not even the internet likes me now!!!!

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 94. Is that a good or bad thing?

How quirkyalone are you?
Your score was 94. Very quirkyalone:
Relatives may give you quizzical looks, and so may friends, but you know in your heart of hearts that you are following your inner voice. Though you may not be romancing a single person, you are romancing the world. Celebrate your freedom on National Quirkyalone Day, February 14th!

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!

Matos OTFM!

STOP STOP STOP WITH THAT WORD, PLEASE!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, "donut" "bitch"

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That's it, I'm going to become a co-dependent breeder/future-divorcee deadbeat dad that likes to be a "warrior" on weekends, and take negotiations courses, just to avoid that fucking word.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Aleksandr", there's far more dignity in even the composition of "donut" and "bitch" than "quirky" and "alone".

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(OK seriously, the *wince* "quirkyalone" make up just 5% of the population, yet most of us fit that to a tee... what about all the lurkers here? What about all the people who would fit that description in the world had they the ability to afford the computer equipment and internet access to share that with us?)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, people! They take walks at night and dress up their cats in Africa too, ya know!!

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(kidding)

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone in this thread totally OTfuckingM.

More self-help malarkey for consumers who are deluded into thinking Really Deep Thoughts about themselves but basically have so self-identity outside of their Utne Reader subscription and the NPR preselect on the car radio in their SUV.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

or bmw, as the case may be.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

is this demographic even smart enough for the Utne Reader?

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

well, "smart enough"

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean this is really for bored receptionists, isn't it?

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My score was embarassingly high (highest posted), they don't even bother to write a description besides "you're very quirkyalone." And I just thought I was a misanthrope.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I realize this has already been said, but I cringe every time I see that fucking word.

― sym (shmuel), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

we sould stick with a different name for it then.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

'Ubermensch'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"asshole" is a nice synonmyn for "misanthrope"

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

my score was 111. i am so fucking quirkyalone that i might have to quirkyvomit!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 26 January 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

66.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 January 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the thing is, I heard about this term like two years ago and thought it had passed. this newfound spate of publicity is sort of like Bart Simpson repopularizing "don't have a cow, man" or something.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 January 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't possibly imagine anyone actually using this term. It's so beyond the pale my mind is spinning.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 26 January 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you warn that 'people are going to end up dead'?
Would you love to see the author of 'Quirkyalone' murdered?
Do you threaten to 'stab their throat'?
Do you call for the 'nailgun now'?
Do you think the author of this quiz needs to suck your cock until you cum blood?

Then you are quirkyalone!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, another and more honest way to report these findings would be to say that modern American life is horrible and isolating. But that wouldn't sell Quirkyalone Chocolate Snacks.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you quirkyobese and dying of quirkycancer? Is your quirkyoil running out? Does everybody else quirkyhate you? Why not quirkyfucking just quirkynvade quirkyraq, then!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, who knew a stupid phrase like "quirkyalone" would inspire Momus to new lows in self-parody?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, if I was running around this thread with a nailgun and a bag of misogyny I would be one of the boys, and fully-rounded. But making a political remark I'm, well, quirky and alone.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I rather liked that she quoted Rilke, as a matter of fact, and didn't want to see her killed by all the people volunteering here.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, one declaration of murder might have been amusingly transgressive.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Tomorrow this q****ya***e horror will all be forgotten, but right now I'm feeling it. DEAR FUCKING GOD.

― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

and a bag of misogyny
Eh?

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

clarification: "it" = "i'm lovin' it" levels of bilious disgust

― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

but if you read a mag entitled "To-Do List" you're fuckin asking for it anyway.

― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Coroner's Report:

All the references to murder on this thread are men offering to off a woman. Except one: a woman, Petra, talks about murder. She says 'Shoot me now'. Ned makes his nailgun remark dressed in an Alex-in-NYC mask, just in case carrying the full responsibility were a little much for one man. And Nick Dastoor projects his own violent impulses onto Jess Harvell when, excited by the vague idea that 'people are going to end up dead', he ups the ante with 'I would love to see you murder this 'Sasha Cagan' by colliding with her.'

Of the two references to cocksucking on this thread one is a man saying a woman should suck his cock and the other is a woman saying the same woman should suck hers.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

gee, i think that (a) all lolita was doing in creating this thread was stating that she found a website that expressed some thoughts that she had, but that she was dismayed that it was being used as a cheap come-on of some vulgar book-huckster (i.e., a "chicken-soup for the soul" for 20/30-somethings); and (b) all alex was doing in creating his "shoot some popstar who annoys you with a nailgun" was venting against popstars who annoy him in typically a over-the-top-alex style.

the reactions thereto are more interesting ... and odd ... than the original threads. ILX as Rorschach Test. and i'm sounding like sebastian c.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sebastian Cabot?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, him ... esp. sebastian cabot as "mr. pipp"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

thought you were referring to some poster I'd never encountered, whew

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

god I loved "Family Affair". Do they show that on TV Land? They should. "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" too.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, Momus as misogyny monitor!

Otherwise, yeah, stupid term, stupid article.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank heaven Momus is here to lecture us on misogyny and sexism and tell us all our gender roles. We NEVER would have figured it out without him!

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I'm a little stressed out at the moment by the War on Otherness.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I scored 90. How? Why?

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha like I need to take an online quiz to know that I'm both weird and lonely

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

109 - oh bloody hell

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything is a demographic, but people dont like to think of themselves as part of a target market

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

haha momus yr still white and male and middleclass...yr "otherness" is no danger, pal.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

What I want to know is -- and this is a serious question -- why men and women say 'Suck my cock!' but nobody -- man nor woman -- ever says 'Suck my womb!'

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a parallel world where women start saying 'Suck my womb' and men think it sounds cool and start saying it too, even though they don't have one.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the analogy would be "Suck My Clit" and there's almost certainly an L7 song with that title.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

But the clitoris is usually described as 'a sort of small penis', which puts the balls back in the male court. At that point you might as well just say 'Suck my dick'. Whereas the womb is what puts the wom in woman. Men don't have one. For men to say 'Suck my womb' while not having one, we'd have to see a complete inversion of the power relationship between the genders. With all the womb envy etc that entails. And presumably if that happened, a thread like this would be full of people bragging about what kind of people they had the power to create in their wombs, rather than what kind of people they wished to kill with a phallic nail gun.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, if you study any kind of prenatal biology at all, the penis is a mis-developped clit, not the other way around. All foetuses actually develop as female until strange hormones triggered by misshapen Y chromosomes make them mutate into men. "Suck my mutated organ" isn't nearly as sexy or as powerful, is it?

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Even though it's a metaphorical term Momus, it's a slightly easier one to grasp. Both cocks and clitori (?) are external body parts, whereas asking someone to "suck your womb" invites them to slice and dice and get to your internal organs. It implies being vunerable, not taking pleasure.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was still a teenager and still enamoured of shouting offensive things at people who irritated me, I actually prefered "Suck my left tit!" but you know, who's picky?

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard a woman say "suck my cock," although Alison on the fabled "Dave Matthews: Reasons why blah blah blah" thread just said "Blow Me" to someone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What about "Bite me!" or "Eat me!" which I've often heard women use disparragingly.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Scroll up, Alex:

Once they're finished sucking Jess's dick they can start on mine.

-- petra jane (il...), January 26th, 2004.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, there ya go. Thanks, Momus.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

There are two models of 'empowerment': one where women start to say 'Suck my dick!' (involves women adjusting to dominant male values) and one where men start to say 'Suck my womb!' (involves female values actually becoming dominant).

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(Alex, you might also want to look at what Ned was doing with your nailgun, in your name.)

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

You didn't read the bit about the biological origins of the cock, did you?

Plus, A) who is defining "masculine" and "feminine" values here, considering that women have the need for outbursts of rage and derision as much as anything, and B) if yer going to go on about and believe that sort of womyn-crap and "female values" we wouldn't have the need for a "Suck my ...." phrase anyway.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just perplexed by the fact that when you say 'He's a real man' nobody says 'That's a construct'. But if you say 'She's a real woman' everyone does. (Not that I think I've ever heard that phrase. Which is odd in itself.)

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

They don't? Do you not eat quiche or something?

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

dIDN'T dEMI m00RE tELL sOMEONE tO "sUCK mY dICK" iN oNE oF h3R rUBBISH pHILMZ??? g.i.jANE??? i sEEM tO rEMEMBER sOMETHING aBOUT iT iN tHE pRESS. tHEY sAID iT wAS "eMPOWERING", bUT i wASN'T tOO cONVINCED.

tHIS tHREAD iS rEALLY sTRANGE!@#

― pASHMINA (Pashmina), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My baby's momma used to exclaim "suck my dick!" quite often. She also would yell "BISCUIT!" out the car window at motorists who did things that angered her.

What is so appealing about "empowerment" anyway?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to see more anxiety about killing and other typically male behaviours, especially when they're so rife in politics, movies. I don't like it when people think 'going postal' on an authoress is cool, but think talk of wombs is for quiche-munchers. But, you know, carry on your slaughter. I can just go to another thread, pull down the blinds, and insert ear plugs.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always been entertained/intrigued by the notion that a society where policy-makers/empire-builders were predominantly women and not men would be less violent. Especially as many matriarchal societies of the past were as bloody and war-going-to as their patri- counterparts.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy crapcakes! I just done scored a 110, and it all reads *SHOCKAH!* strangely and eerily familiar. Somebody KISS ME!

I must now revel in my newfound quirkylonesomerrific lifestyle.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, I doubt it's the woman who wrote this piece that invokes the urge-to-kill so much as the patronizing and inane concept of the "quirkyalone".

Although now that I think about it, this other discussion of male/female-ness makes me realize the hilarity of the fact that the word "patronizing" is often a perjorative, whereas "matronizing" isn't. Is that even a word at all for that matter?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you ??ed yourself there.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed! And this from a man from an ethnic group that produced Boudiccea and Lady MacBeth!

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, I doubt it's the woman who wrote this piece that invokes the urge-to-kill so much as the patronizing and inane concept of the "quirkyalone".

Well, yes. That Momus is ignoring this possibility is not my worry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, (if I can psychoanalyze the thread) what was interesting was that there was some anxiety. Ned and Nick used what I'd call a 'transference alibi', attributing their violent gestures to Alex and Jess respectively. And I think the women being all laddish was an attempt on their part to say 'Look, this is not just a pack of guys putting the boot into a woman, and using violent and sexist language about how she should die, suck their dicks, and be nail gunned. We're doing it too! So it's not sexist!' Unity is restored, anxiety banished.

Matronising will only be possible after the revolution. We men must eat quiche and get weak!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I thiought I was just making a joke about angry Jess's weight.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What is so appealing about "empowerment" anyway?

nick is this a serious question?!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a site to tell you all about it!

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

is a 'real women' the same as a 'proper lady'?

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, do you like being told what Masculinity does and does not entail?

http://www.bondian.com/books/images/43298571.gif

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Boudiccea and Lady MacBeth

If you look at the history of Boudiccea, she was totally in cahoots with the Romans for most of her life. She got sent to Rome on all-expenses-paid trips. Only later did she, a bit like Bin Laden, turn against them. Lady Macbeth is a sad image of female power. All she can do is cheerlead her husband into killing people.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Real men eat Anything!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually Mark it is, although not a well thought out one. The concept of "empowerment" implies that power is a universal desirable, but I don't think all people necessarily want power/to be empowered.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's about at least having the OPTION nick

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

depressed people, for instance - they don't want to be empowered.

― run it off (run it off), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Real men wear latex boots and perfume and NOTHING ELSE, and grow their hair down to their kneecaps.

Is this a Ragget I see before me?

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I have anything latex, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck this shit. think up some bullshit word and people credit you with inventing a movement. cf 'the atkins diet' -- giving credit to a named person for the most stupid, not-even-involving-thought thing ever. we fucking deserved 9/11.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is the Momus who has posted to this thread the same Momus who made the stupendously brilliant "Oskar Tennis Champion"?

― Stephen R., Monday, 26 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

uh oh.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

89 - I think I'm AloneApathetic*Shrug*NotReallyTrying

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

but the ten quirkyalone songs are a full-on suckfest, except for cher and drunken versions of my way.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I am a quirkyslut.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen R, yes, it's the same one.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I did make a record of that title, Stephen, but am now running for political office on the Radical Castrationist Matrons Party (RCMP) ticket.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Tired of preaching to the converted at Castrationist meetings, I have taken it upon myself to enlighten these sexist fools who think nail guns are fun and that RCMP stands for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well what can I say, Mr Currie. You are an exceptional artist. I've only recently discovered your genius and have been playing "Oskar Tennis Champion" to all my friends. I was at Gavin Turk's new exhibition the other day, and the album was being played on a loop over the gallery speakers. Is he a friend of yours?

Yours is a unique vision, and from this thread I can see that you are also a witty, insightful rhetoricist and philosopher.

― Stephen R., Monday, 26 January 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't any of your friends vomit when they heard Momus' appaling voice?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Nick has an absolutely stunning voice. He is one of the vocal great stylists of the age.

― Stephen R., Monday, 26 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

'great vocal stylists' I meant.

― Stephen R., Monday, 26 January 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

stepehen are you momus?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I was at Gavin Turk's new exhibition the other day, and the album was being played on a loop over the gallery speakers. Is he a friend of yours?

I have met Mr Turk, but he showed no sign of being a fan. (I, on the other hand, was very impressed by his stained sweater.) That's his new show at White Cube? The one where the work is literally 'under wraps'? I also met Jay Jopling last year and got the impression he hated me passionately, so I'm very surprised to hear this. Rather happy, though.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus, why don't you make like Genesis P. Orridge and just *become* a woman? Is that transgressive enough for you?

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I fully intend to. Gen is cool.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Stop praising him! You'll compromise his otherness.

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Gen 13? The comic book?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, but this pisses me off. Why does irritation with this article consitute a battle in the War on Otherness? If anything, the quirkyadvocates are the ones who want to domesticate and commodify the "other" -- the loner/outsider/romantically unattached/whatever. This, to me, is much uglier and worthy of contempt than the (not at all likely or realistic) threats against the author, which strike me more as expressions of frustration toward what's poised to be purely a marketing juggernaut.

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Turk has a precise art-historical model: Man Ray's 1920 object called The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse, a sewing machine wrapped inside a tightly bound package.

I can only assume he's picked my album because there's a track called 'Electro-Sexual Sewing Machine' on it. And the show is called The Golden Thread.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does irritation with this article consitute a battle in the War on Otherness?

Oh screw the Other, I'm famous now!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Prude hits the nail on the head there. For a start, it's exploitative. A demographic is a marketing tool. What is she (I didn't even realise it was written by a woman at first) trying to do? Sell books. For a second, it's defeating the whole point, trying to make an insiders club of outsider status. "Let's all be quirkyalone together!" is just another conformist club of "Let's all be different together!"

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

typical Jonathan Jones preening in that Guardian review of Gavin's show...

― run it off (run it off), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

my god, momus¡ i had no idea those blokes riding around on horse back dressed in red were in fact not police - and actually members of the radical castrationist matrons party¡
next time i see one i'll be sure to yank him off that horse of his¡ try to fool me, will he - i'll show 'em¡

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

river, how could you not notice it was written by a woman immediately i think it was obvious she only made it man-applicable as an afterthought.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I honestly didn't notice!

Maybe it's like those things where men never notice that Christianity is sexist, despite the fact that they try to make it "women applicable" only as an afterthought. ("Oh no, Christ embodies both male and female, how can you feel excluded?")

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ech, i got a 113 on the test.
b-b-but i just got a compliment on my scarf from my biggest crush ever, which should bump my courage meter up just enough for me to ask her out...

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

to be honest i didnt notice it was written by a woman either.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

idiocy is its own gender.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i did notice it was written by a woman, but jess is otm. this borders on retardation.

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this is moronic on a "dropped on the head at birth" level

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey! Don't go insulting the mentally disabled by comparing them to this woman.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems much more insulting/offensive (and yes, possibly "misogynist") to label something so clearly the product of cruelly manipulative, low com denom, corporate marketing as "female" than for me to mention that same said corporate construct can "suck my cock until i cum blood."

but then again, what do i know, i'm not "the other."

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, momus are those vice checks still keeping you and your culture warriors in the war on otherness fat and happy?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I am waiting for one right now to pay my rent, Hulkington. My December rent.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus I also met Jay Jopling last year and got the impression he hated me passionately

do you think he's heard your song "Everyone I've Ever Slept With"?

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

vice actaully pays for its content¿

― dyson (wearing his labcoat) (dyson), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no! do y'all have to drag b. ehrenreich into it? (sorry that was upthread, i haven't visited in awhiles). i'm mad crushing on her son. but i'm just so damn quirky. and alone.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd call Jay Jopling a cunt but that would be an insult to lady organs everywhere. He's some kind of organ, but it doesn't self-clean. Anyone who thinks Elton John is this incredible human being whereas Bowie is a 'talent vampire' AND GETS DRUNK AND TELLS PEOPLE is a bit, well, remedial and clearly is saved from the petrol-station forecourt by family money. Also Nick, you need to *have* money before the guy appears to like you.

Dave: when I think 'listener' JJ does not spring to mind, but Ms Emin has heard the song in question. Ms G Starr (who likes Nick's records, as does Esther, who probably gave some to GT) is a big fan and played it for her, FACT.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not too sure about Gavin Turk, and I thought the latest White Cube show - essentially bronze casts of rubbish bags - was both too much of a one-trick pony and also too reminiscent of the Chapman Bros' bronze casts of blow-up dolls. I was surprised by the Momus soundtrack blasting out over the gallery speakers, but that aspect worked very well I thought.

― Stephen R., Tuesday, 27 January 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Humph. No one notices when art installations have D1s1nf0rmation soundtracks. Maybe we should do that "record the electromagnetic fields of his penis during intercourse" project after all and call it "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About MY Penis (Scientific Version)" - yeah, that would be transgressive.

(This concept is copyrighted 2003 by D1s1nf0rmation vs. Kate St.Claire in case any of you wankers out there decide to copy it in any way shape or form, don't even try it, we'll sue.)

― the river fleet, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no! do y'all have to drag b. ehrenreich into it?

Hey, she can stand by her words.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't suck wombs, they're concave; there isn't anything to wrap a mouth around. So shouldn't the phrase be "Tongue my Womb!" Anyway, yeah, Sasha Cragen can tongue my womb ...

― Paul Ess (Paul Ess), Sunday, 8 February 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

I've started dismissing people a lot lately for being the kind of people I imagine saying "I'm a quirkyalone!"

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I knew it!

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm really sarcastic & a little odd!!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I dismissed you long ago.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago)

does this demographic even still exist?

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Rock and roll junkie, straight forward, loving life, completing my film degree here in the city.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Actually, because of Sasha Cagen and my association of it with Jessica Stein, these dismissals only really of women.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)

tabby to go.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)

does this demographic even still exist?

-- cºzen (skiplevel...)

i had a coworker who seemed like she might self-identify as "quirkyalone"

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure I've ever met someone I can imagine would say 'I'm a quirkyalone!'

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)

i still can't bring myself to actually read an article on this non-phenomenon

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)

xpost

somehow i imagine these people also flaunting the fact that they like weezer

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)

"Your score was 68."

Weezer ARE these people.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

62, a quirkytogether. what rubbish.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

How jess are you?
Your score was 74. Somewhat jess (otherwise known as jesstogether):
You are probably part of a mysterious group of people, the jesstogethers. You share many of our jess qualities, but you manage to find yourself, on a regular basis, in a coupled situation. Interesting.

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

85, mofos!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

How quirkyalone are you?
Your score was 105. Very quirkyalone:
Relatives may give you quizzical looks, and so may friends, but you know in your heart of hearts that you are following your inner voice. Though you may not be romancing a single person, you are romancing the world. Celebrate your freedom on National Quirkyalone Day, February 14th!

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I scored 93 on the Jessometer.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

i'M 80% Jess.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

i don't have any animal collective bootlegs, although i do have all the solo projects!!

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

The requested URL /jessfaq.html was not found on this server

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

90, but my real answers would fall somewhere in between the options given. A dumb test. A dumb 'demographic'.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago)

87 Jess!

― Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

My quirkypoints were 75, so that makes me quirkytogether. Which was kinda expected, I don't do that much stuff alone.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago)

i thought i would be more jess.

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Rock and roll junkie, straight forward, loving life, completing my film degree here in the city.
-- RJG

And there's a Steely Dan lyric without even trying.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I mean, Steely Dan, how much more quirkyalone can you get?

Seeing as no-onw likes the word, perhaps we should come up with some alternate names for this marketing concept? Here's some initial suggestions:

*Biosocial failure

*Weirdo

*Sweet hearted loser

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago)

*ILXor

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago)

We have a winner!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago)

110

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

*ILXor
-- Remy

make me sammiches that i can order en masse for consuming alone in my room over the next few days

Today I sculpted a tullip out of ice cream using only my tongue

We have a winner!
-- Ned Raggett

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

This is a thread about Xenomorphs

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago)

TS: Sasha Cagen vs Sasha Kagan!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I found a copy of this book for $1 outside the Strand this summer.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

i am 85% jess

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

i've dropped down to 65% jess.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

and back up to 75% jess.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

61% jess

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

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