Quirked Around

Must read article by Michael Hirschorn in The Atlantic Monthly about the obsession with quirk in pop culture (as defined by the author it includes a lot of what the writers on this site enjoy).

Opening Paragraph:
We’re drowning in quirk. It is the ruling sensibility of today’s Gen-X indie culture, defined territorially by the gentle ministrations of public radio’s This American Life; the strenuously odd (and now canceled) TV sitcom Arrested Development; the movies of Wes Anderson; Dave Eggers’s McSweeney’s Web site; the performance art, music, and writing of Miranda July; and the just-too-wacky-to-be-fully-believable memoirs of Augusten Burroughs.