Sometimes his comments went over a weird edge, as when the Navy vet teased an Air Force vet: "I tried to get in the Air Force, but my parents were married".
Maybe I'm crazy, and a weird edge case, but I do wonder if the realtime User Streams implementation could alter the way people use Twitter.
To the average person this approach probably seems absurd, and it has an undeniable weird edge to it, like a psychological fight club run out of a church basement.
An excellent D.J. set by Diplo was a chatter of multilingual voices and rhythms; Aphex Twin provocatively pushed his bamboozlingly complicated beat algorithms for longer than you'd think they could be sustained, tensing up the pleasure zone of the dance tent; the D.J. team Simian Mobile Disco pumped out electronica with weird edges and simple vocal hooks.
"It's totally based on having fun and based on humanity and the weird edges and cool things that happen when people just randomly run into each other, these vectors," he said.
"I'd be like me but without this weird ethereal edge.
It's got a weird, melancholy edge to it, which is entirely appropriate".
The playwright, Brian Dykstra, seems to be drawing from, and reaching for, the growling menace and weird gonzo edge of Sam Shepard.
Hence the comedy spoofs – Smashie and Nicey, Alan Partridge, or the 1980s Channel 4 sitcom The Kit Curran Radio Show – all bonhomie and smooth on air, but with a weird, desperate edge as soon as the red studio light goes off.
Newgrounds was much like eBaum's World and AlbinoBlackSheep – a user-generated content website for the angry teenage masses – but it had a slightly weirder, darker edge.
It was a weird crowd freaks edged out of the LA scene, kinks from the valley, middle-aged ravers, tech rats on acid, kids on E, old women, the usual hustlers.
