"But what's unusual is everyone's here at the same time.
My circumstances are unusual (not everyone gets an Internet windfall before turning 30), but my relationship with material things isn't.
Certainly, the working environment around McMurdo Station is intense: It is dangerous, highly variable, and so unusual that everyone working wants to maximize the hours actually "doing science".
"Even if a particular method of execution is not cruel and unusual to everyone, if it inflicts unusual pain on a specific inmate, that's a constitutional violation," said David Cole, the legal director of the ACLU, which filed an amicus brief in support of Bucklew.
The ritual aspects of makeup, smoke, and unusual typography help everyone leave the quotidian realm faster.
"And it feels more unusual, because not everyone is ripping them off".
Because he was himself unusual, Chris perceived everyone else to be so.
Taveras's focus was not unusual: these days, everyone from preschool teachers to politicians talks about infant brain development, and toy companies tap into parental anxiety about it.
But then I realized there might a useful tip here: by visiting only untouristed spots, you are such an unusual presence that everyone will go out of their way to be hospitable.
And what makes it unusual is that everyone goes to the same place to train, the same climbing walls, from beginners to elite climbers, all climbing routes beside each other".
The background: BADBADNOTGOOD – BBNG to their friends, and fans of printer ink – are a jazz outfit who specialise in unusual covers, of everyone from Joy Division and James Blake to My Bloody Valentine and Odd Future.
