I find out occasionally that people read this, and am always amazed by it. Apparently someone from NPR read my post about quirkyalones and how much
Bookdwarf finds the whole concept repugnant, and looked her up at Harvard Bookstore, and now my beautiful Bookdwarf might get a chance to be on the radio! She’s supposed to call the NPR person back this Monday.
The NPR person is apparently doing research on quirkyalone-ness. I hope she’s trying to debunk the whole phenomenon. Because, really, not only is this a book and a website and a quiz, but it’s a fraud. When did being weird and single suddenly become a movement? Was it when people began to fear for the sanctity of marriage that others began to fear for the sanctity of singlehood? Look, I’m glad you have an identity, but did you need to make it a club?
For crying out loud, the quirkyalone thing is just like Metrosexual Guide to Style and the Official Preppy Handbook and all the other pseudo-guides-to-life out there: annoying almost-funny impulse-buy crap you get as a gift for someone you don’t actually like that much.
Secretly Ironic 