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• n  strikingly out of the ordinary

• Around Thriller's time, Jackson's weirdness was startling, peripheral, piquant.
• He can take rows of arcane symbols that describe the gravitational weirdness of a black hole and, with a flourish, pull from them equations that look suspiciously like those that .
• When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism.

• outlandishness
• bizarreness

News & Articles

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• Video Is Already Making Instagram Beautifully Strange
  The Vine-killing video option Facebook added to Instagram on Thursday has immediately started to bring motion pictures to your wedding dress-filled mobile photo feeds, but in attempting to copycat Twitter's stop-motion app, Facebook has also introduced an oddly refreshing pattern of weirdness to the notably twee Instagram. Welcome to the age of the Instavideo freakazoid.
  June 20, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• Jimmy Kimmel Will Channing All Over Your Tatum
  Channing Tatum's noodle, an explosive science fair project and Miley Cyrus under a vending machine — all that weirdness and more pops up in Jimmy Kimmel 's new music video for "(I Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatum." The euphemism-filled video never answers what it actually means to "Channing all over someone's Tatum." But you can try to figure it out as Channing and Jamie Foxx break it down on ...
  June 20, 2013 - Mashable
• Kim Jong Un giving out copies of 'Mein Kampf'
  If there's was a weirdness beat, it would need a bureau in North Korea. The Washington Post reports that the highly-qualified leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, honored his own most recent birthday by giving copies of "Mein Kampf" to top offocials of his government. But relax. The Post also notes that: "The book was apparently not distributed to endorse Nazism so much as to draw attention to ...
  June 19, 2013 - MinnPost

Quotes

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• Hugh Grant in The Age
  I don't think many people invite their ex when they get married, so I'm not at all bitter, and there's no bad feeling or weirdness, we're just not invited,said Grant.
• Yolanda Griffith in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Nope. All of that weirdness is out of my system. I have this uniform on now,Griffith said, pointing to her white Storm jersey. "I have total respect for the Monarchs and their players. I spent nine years there. ...... No hard feelings. I'm...
• Richard Curtis in United Press International
  The great thing about French and Saunders is that they have never lost that edginess and weirdness. You often watch them and think they are profoundly strange,Curtis said. "They started under the banner of alternative comedy, but when they...