Freaky: 1.conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual 2. strange and somewhat frightening
"All the freaky people make the beauty of the world." Michael Franti
"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." Robert A. Heinlein
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." Lord Byron
"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." Toni Morrison
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” Albert Einstein
“Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.” G. K. Chesterton
Synonyms: abnormal, bizarre, crazy, grotesque, odd, outlandish, peculiar, queer, strange, unconventional, unnatural, unusual, weird, batty, campy, crazy, daffy, dippy, flaky*, fooling around, foolish, goofy, idiotic, illogical, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, off the wall, preposterous, screwy, silly, stupid, unreasonable, wacky

3 comments:
Love everything about this post except the clown in the gutter, lol.
Talk about evoking some creepy feelings early in the a.m. Poe. *sigh* Love him in all his weirdness. The stove picture got me thinking of Sylvia Plath ... and clowns ... they're from Hell. Same as dolls. *shudders* Just sayin'.
lol I know clowns are the creepiest. ewww
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