And again during his playful off-season feud with Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder.
Whispery acoustic ballads crashland on top of wriggly rants, and neopsychedelic soundscapes give way to playful, off-center pop songs.
His Twitter brims with playful, off-the-cuff observations like how he'd rather be watching Seinfeld with his girlfriend than go to an after-party and the cover of his forthcoming debut after-party andntheitanium, sees him recovering a classic high schofl yearbook phiso against a pink and purple backdrop.
But the impression of a career given to playful, one-off tours de force misleads.
The notebook starts off playful, but gets gradually darker, more desperate.
But Mr. Johnson's vision is so big, so original, so playful and carried off with so much attention to detail that it succeeds dazzlingly.
More often, though, the vivid and playful illustrations take off where the poems end to tell a story of their own through brightly contrasted colors and Matisse-like shapes.
The play anthropomorphises a damaged natural world in the form of an ancient folklore faerie – the Skriker – who reels off playful and often perturbing word association monologues reminiscent of the Northern political punk poetry of John Cooper Clark.
However, like the playful logos shown off by the company over the past two days - on Tuesday a set of animated balls which evaded the cursor, and on Wednesday a grey logo which changed colour as you typed - the new system will only be available on modern browsers: Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Google's own Chrome, and Apple's Safari.
The dialog starts off playful, with a bouncy rhythm.
