The Ugandan-born churchman has espoused a weird variety of causes, making him impossible to categorise.
Recent experiences, whether of the high-flying or plain weird variety, can now be processed, though for birthdays circa 21 May, here's a new, exhilarating professional challenge.
His appearance was preceded by a slide show, in the morning session, of especially gruesome comic-book stories, and the hearing room was decorated with twenty-four posters labelled "Representative Comic Book Covers / Crime, Horror & Weird Variety".
The change may be bittersweet for a certain weird variety of Internet nostalgist, but in most other senses it's probably for the best: it's a fantastically annoying bit of code and shouldn't exist at all.
Back in the mid-1970s, Theroux contributed to the resurgence of travel writing with "The Great Railway Bazaar," lifting a flagging genre out of its isolated niche and giving it a nagging, tangy voice that sent it wandering through a weird variety of human experiences.
Of course there's never been a real Jack – born into captivity but in perfect health, living in a best-case-scenario of confinement – so I had to research a weird variety of situations that I thought might overlap with his: not just kidnap survivors but prisoners in solitary confinement or mother-and-child prison units, refugees, hermits and mystics.
Another week, another announcement of a weird variety of Pepsi being released in Japan.
Thanks to the ease of establishing such a club through the Internet, there is now a wide -- and weird -- variety of these clubs available.
Overall, the awards played like a weird, disjointed variety show: an endless array of pop medleys studded with a tango here and a reggaeton there, all book-ended by a rousing political anthem and Mexican regional.
These are the 10 most read stories from the Guardian's technology pages for 2009: it's an often bizarre collection of stories that covers the weird and wonderful variety of stuff we've written about.
