Arlo's effort was a weird hybrid, incorporating the talking blues of his father, Woody Guthrie George Carlinn's stoned comic musings; and Abbie Hoffman's Yippie politics.
Emmanuel Macron's effort is a weird one, because it looks like the backstage photo pop stars take at gigs where they all say grace together and hope for a successful show.
SoftBank is very well known in Japan for their weird marketing efforts, including a family that stars in all TV commercials for the company and has said husky as the father (this is also the way they sell the iPhone over here).
It takes a lot of effort to be this weird.
This shouldn't be read as some sort of weird, conspiratorial effort to deprive Warren of attention — Buttigieg's fundraising and Ryan's announcement were genuinely newsworthy events, and there's nothing wrong with covering candidates who are ahead in major polls.
His latest effort happens to get weird in the sense that it seems to deliver a contact high as you're watching it.
Another essential aspect of the series is more general, and it's one that Murphy strikes with a bit more clarity: the weird and mysterious efforts of directors to make substantial and personal work within the confines of Hollywood studios.
If that concept isn't weird enough, the effort to recreate the hip, artistic spirit and distinctive geography of the tiny but creatively fertile neighborhood is the brainchild of MTV, an entertainment brand synonymous with populist fare and mass appeal.
His 1792 competition entry for the design of the White House, a classical facade topped by a glass dome, mixes Palladian precedents with references to contemporary French architecture — a weird if imaginative effort to link American democracy simultaneously to revolutionary France and the birth of the Roman republic.
No, rather than respond with the listlessness some of these weird Hagel oppo-efforts more or less demand, too many people remain willing to boogie down on the tatty dance floor of unfounded or uncorroborated claims.
