There are several sneezing attacks, one demonstration of bizarre bird-mating sounds and a loud, frequently heard clattering as things fall and crash in the office's storage room.
Senate HELP committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and the Trump transition conspired to hold Betsy DeVos's confirmation hearing to be Secretary of Education at the bizarre early bird special time of 5 pm.
When the hearty bird-catcher Papageno sings his introductory song, a flock of bizarre puppet-birds dip and dive around him.
This brilliantly coloured, bizarre-looking bird was thought extinct until conservationists discovered a tiny population in 1948.
"They're such a bizarre-looking bird," he says.
This bizarre-looking bird would have mated more successfully than his peers and, as a result, passed down its genes to a greater number of offspring, who would also possess this newfound advantage blue feet when mating season rolled around.
He reports a long list of bizarre images: bird-feet heads, animals with human hands on their back, zebra-striped dragons, quadrupeds with serpentine necks and so on.
Named after an 18th century Italian ornithologist, and with such a bizarre song, the bird doesn't sound as if it really belongs here – and in some ways it doesn't.
What's bizarre is why Bird targeted Doctorow and, apparently, nobody else — so far.
The creature, considered one of the strangest mammals in the world, has become the latest to have its genetic code sequenced, revealing it to be a bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality.
