This remarkable instrument has a bizarrely close-knit relationship with country.
"To play down the biggest storm to come along in years — if the forecast is even close — seems bizarrely out of character," he wrote on his blog, which gets about 10,000 views on a typical day but received as many as 60,000 per day during the storm.
Past 4,000 metres above sea-level, bizarrely, the earth seems terribly close to the surface.
The first Kiarostami film to cause a stir in the West was "Close-Up" (1990), a bizarrely poignant tale about a real person, a young man named Hossein Sabzian, who perpetrates a fraud.
Bizarrely, all three of the women had close family links to members of Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, lending credence to suggestions that he was the victim of dirty tricks.
Even "Proof," by Jeff Reich, the play that closes the evening by running bizarrely off the track of its initially comic premise, does have a great beginning.
After asking the movies to lead children to light, the First Lady announced "Argo" as Best Picture from the White House, as close to a benediction as this bizarrely Popeless moment could offer.
With no known direct connection between the two directors, the news came as something of a surprise, but they were close associates, and their film careers were bizarrely intertwined.
Studying these bizarrely opulent objects — Bibles, coffee sets, cosmetic cases — up close gives a different, and not altogether pleasant, feeling.
But do stop and applaud the band, bizarrely sited in the hallway behind the front door and closed off from the bar.
