Word: weirdness
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...magic, Greenbaum feels that comedy is a very important element of his stage shows. Although magic and comedy occupy “different worlds,” Greenbaum’s ultimate goal is to “bridge that gap.”“Magic is weird and comedy is weird, and putting them together is even weirder.” Nonetheless, he says, “I want to be the guy that’s both.”Unlike OTI and IGP, Greenbaum does comedy with a safety net. “Most...
...Hawaii boasted alcohol-soaked fruit and alcohol-themed decorations. The annual Boy Band Party in Adams was a supremely good time. How often do you get the chance to sweatily headbang to *NSync and Kelly Clarkson (and not just alone in your room)? SATURDAY Mammoth postering efforts and that weird playhouse outside the Science Center were unable to draw a crowd to Habitat for Humanity’s Housed party in Eliot. In another d-hall, Hungama and its accompanying South Asian music enticed a sizeable number of dancers until well past midnight! Mini-skirt-clad girls swapped Uggs...
...your boss, he can't say no. And when you're new and young and your ideas are kind of weird, yes is a hard answer to get. So Andy Samberg, the new guy at the highly competitive Saturday Night Live ideas meetings, borrowed a friend's wife's camera, made a short film and never told producer Lorne Michaels what he was doing until he handed him the tape in December. "That had never been done before," says cast member Will Forte, who starred in the segment, in which he and Samberg had a serious conversation while eating heads...
...performs under the name David Elsewhere, describes his dance style as a mixture of "popping, waving, liquiding, breaking, roboting." What this means in practice is that, first, his body physically melts into a little puddle and then rebuilds itself bone by bone; then he becomes a giant robot; then weird energies go surging through his arms and legs; then he makes it look as though something is crawling around under his shirt; then he becomes a springy hopping creature. And then, just like that, it's over...
...quantum scale, things become more confusing, and particles can register both 0 and 1 at the same time, or a little bit “no,” but mainly “yes,” and vice versa. This corresponds to the weird uncertainties associated with quantum mechanics, and turns out to be one of the important things that makes the world work...