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Quirkyalone.net Endorses

Oct 21, 2008 - Written by Sasha Cagen  |  Filed under: Uncategorized

We don’t ordinarily choose sides in any election. But this year I’m going to risk the enraged emails from libertarians, Republicans, and Green Party members, and come out strong for the Democratic Obama-Biden ticket.

Never before has it been so exciting to vote for a Democratic candidate: a writer who may not agree with us all issues, but who is always thoughtful and, as Colin Powell put it, has an intellectual vigor that is fitting and most needed for our times. Never before has it been so terrifying to imagine a vice-presidential candidate as president. Don’t think for a second that Sarah Palin wouldn’t make fun of quirkyalone community organizers if she knew about us!

No matter what the polls say, we don’t know how people will vote Nov. 4. So get out there and vote and protect our right to live in a country where it’s okay to different. Even quirky. No one asked the candidates about quirkyness or quirkyaloneness at the debates, but I have a strong suspicion that Obama would be more supportive. He was, after all, raised by a single mother.

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What It Feels Like to Travel Alone in Brazil

Oct 21, 2008 - Written by Sasha Cagen  |  Filed under: Uncategorized

I have a long post saved up inside of me that I haven’t written, probably because the topic felt so overwhelming I didn’t know where to start. I have wanted to travel for several years. The desire was stored up inside me while work took center stage. For years, I was singularly focused on work, whether it was Quirkyalone, my other book and magazine To-Do List, and my street fashion community website stylemob.com. At long last I decided to take the leap, but to be honest, I was petrified. Petrified and elated.

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Quirkyalone in Brazil! SoSingular em Brasil!

Jul 28, 2008 - Written by Sasha Cagen  |  Filed under: Uncategorized

What’s the most quirkyalone country in South America? Or dare I say, the most quirkyslut? I’m hazarding a guess that it’s Brazil. Don’t worry, Brasileiros, being a quirkyslut is a good thing.

How do I know this?

The Brazilians have published their own Portuguese edition of Quirkyalone. Unlike the Danish and the Germans, they translated the title; so for Brazilians, it’s SoSingular: Um Manifesto para Romanticos Irredutiveis.

I may also soon know from experience. I’m planning a three-week vision quest (ahem, vacation) in Brazil–specifically, in Salvador, Trancoso, and Rio this September. There must be plenty of Brazilian QAs out and about, I wanted to let the quirkyalone community know that I am coming!

If you happen to live in Salvador, Rio, or even Trancoso, or know a quirkyalone who does, let me know because I would love to meet you and potentially we could meet up with others at a bar or cafe.

Quirkyalone Movie Night at the Kabuki: A Private Screening of Sex and the City

Jun 10, 2008 - Written by Sasha Cagen  |  Filed under: Uncategorized

Check out the lovely slideshow above from the Quirkyalone event last night: a private screening of Sex and the City, complete with pink carpet, a Sex and the City trivia game, and popcorn and cosmos served IN the theater! Special thanks to Julie Blaustein for taking the photos and to Wendy Merill, author of Falling into Manholes, and Jerusha Stewart, author of the Single Girl’s Manifesta, for doing a kick-ass job as the primary organizers of the event. My other co-hosts were Rachel Sarah, author of Single Mom Seeking, and Jane Ganahl, author of Naked on the Page.

My own personal take on Sex in the City: not totally into it, I’m afraid. Carrie’s big denouement: “I let the wedding get bigger than Big. ” The primary storyline–a woman who becomes more concerned with her wedding than her marriage–just didn’t strike me as all that interesting. Haven’t we heard that story before? The central Carrie witticism, which opened the film, annoyed me: “Girls come to New York looking for the two Ls—labels and love.” I’m like hmmm, when I moved to New York, I don’t remember coming for the designers. Maybe the movie was just too long, and too obsessed with shopping.

There were wise and unusual scenes for a mainstream movie: for example, when Miranda questions the wisdom of Carrie giving up her apartment and moving in with Big without the legal protection of marriage. Samantha is my favorite in the film. Her storyline is the most radical and unexpected. She would rather buy herself a diamond ring than have her lover buy it for her. When she breaks up with her young, hunky boyfriend of five years, she tells him something we don’t often hear on the big screen: ““I’ve been in a relationship with myself for 49 years and that’s the one I want to work on.”

What did you think?

My Fifteen Minutes of Fame in 7 x 7 Magazine

Jun 06, 2008 - Written by Sasha Cagen  |  Filed under: Uncategorized

Our “Sex” Party is Sold Out! But You Can Come at 8

Jun 02, 2008 - Written by Sasha Cagen  |  Filed under: Uncategorized

Our June 9 Sex and the City party is all sold out–and has been for a week!–but you can still buy tickets for the 8 pm show at the San Francisco Sundance Kabuki and join us for the after-party at the Bistro Bar at the Kabuki afterward. Come dressed in your finest Monday night ensemble. We’ll be snapping photos on the pink carpet before the movie starts.