A big reason I moved to New York, without a job, the day after I graduated from college in 1976, was because the city looked and (I imagined) smelled and sounded so intensely old-fashioned in a peculiar, day-before-yesterday way.
I wrote one of them, about the rabbitholes that Bowie's final album burrowed us in, but I was also interested in what BBC 6Music became on that peculiar Monday when we found out he'd died: a memorial site, a chapel, a wake.
The Baker debacle, and the incongruity of his sacking colliding with pretty much the highest accolade in UK radio – Baker already has a clutch of gold Sony awards – is a reminder of how peculiar a day job radio presenting is.
That put Senator John Edwards of North Carolina in a peculiar position Monday morning.
Mr. Daschle grinned broadly at his peculiar 17-day window of power and threw his arms out wide in a gesture of amusement.
Tracing the tension between bourgeois and bohemian values, from fiery antipathy to peculiar present-day reconciliation (e.g., Kerouac, Gandhi and "Born to be Wild" in corporate advertising), "Bobos in Paradise" acknowledges that it took the information age to throw the two camps into hopeless confusion.
In an exciting turn of events, the Peckham Peculiar announced Friday "Victory for the Bussey Building campaigners".
"I am inclined to believe that there is something peculiar about the day itself".
Another wrote that her birth certificate was doubly peculiar, listing the day of her birth as "Thuesday".
Then we realized once again that a season is only loosely tethered to the sun, and a sharp gust chills us, a blast peculiar to a day in the middle of August.
