In person he is far less weird-looking than he appears on TV: the mouth, while certainly striking, seems less outsize when you see it as part of the whole feline package.
Yet it is wilder, weirder, more extreme, far less decorative than what we normally see, and as a result more disturbing.
What's weird is that, nowadays, most people's dinners are far less interesting to look at – and yet they are far more likely to take photographs of them.
Weird But in Britpop's aftermath, this was to prove far less significant than the work of Oasis, a band who stood for earthy honesty, rigid musical conservatism, and a bullish distrust of anything that seemed too clever.
Though far less established than Oliver, Vaquera is another brand with designers who are winning with weird.
The only weird thing about it was that the witness saw something sinister when the reality was far less newsworthy.
Far less cheering but just as much of a page-turner is All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (Jonathan Cape), a weird and wonderful novel about isolation, memory and a dog called Dog.
It is less weird than it seems.
Many receive far, far less, if anything.
