― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 25 January 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 25 January 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave q, Sunday, 25 January 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)
...
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)
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)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)
"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)
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)
― sym (shmuel), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
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)
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)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
'That lad's such an Odysseus'
― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― erm, okay (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)
Wimp.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)
or
Fuckeduphymenintact
― omg, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)
That's the most tragic set of autorecommendations I've ever seen.
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)
I want to hurt Ms. Ehrenreich.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
OMG HOLD THE FRONT PAGE
jody otm too, btw.
― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
*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)
― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― dyson (wearing his labcoat) (dyson), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Stephen R., Tuesday, 27 January 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)
(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)
Hey, she can stand by her words.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Paul Ess (Paul Ess), Sunday, 8 February 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)
-- cºzen (skiplevel...)
i had a coworker who seemed like she might self-identify as "quirkyalone"
this thread has me feeling very jess©
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)
somehow i imagine these people also flaunting the fact that they like weezer
Weezer ARE these people.
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)
Are you a jess©?
― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)
― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)
― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago)
― Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago)
― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago)
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)
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)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)
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)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago)
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)