Seriously overtaxed vocally, not entirely mobile physically and battling a cold, he resorted to bizarre, attention-grabbing antics.
Over the course of his campaign, Kashkari resorted to a number of bizarre, attention-grabbing stunts, including posing as a homeless person and asking constituents to smash toy cars in exchange for gas money.
The tower is multi-sided, but this is not one of the bizarre and attention-getting polygons we have seen so much of in recent years - this abstract form is as controlled as a Donald Judd sculpture.
"It's attracted a bizarre amount of attention relative to what I consider my serious work," she said, meaning her life as a poet, writer and anarchist.
On Friday, President Obama called Mr. Ahmadinejad's comments "hateful" and "offensive" in an interview with the BBC's Persian-language news service, and the British deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said they were "bizarre, offensive and attention-grabbing pronouncements" aimed at deflecting the dialogue away from concerns about Iran's nuclear program.
"But instead, once again, an issue of grave global concern has been overshadowed by the bizarre, offensive and attention-grabbing pronouncements by President Ahmedinejad from this podium yesterday," Mr. Clegg said in prepared remarks released in advance by the British Mission to the United Nations.
As for track and field, the shock of two great runners both going down was a bizarre way to call attention to the quadrennial Olympic jubilee coming soon.
"They will often try to retain the fame by resorting to all sorts of bizarre behavior to bring attention to themselves," Brim said.
He surrounds himself with aides who are either wildly incompetent or utterly defeated in their attempts to domesticate the mulish and bizarre object of their attention.
