freakishness

The pet-related freakishness reached downright frightening levels this week when Vance floated the racist lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are kidnapping people's cats to eat them.

Old age, he said, “is seen as a kind of freakishness.”

Coleman wrote in an obituary in the Village Voice, Arbus was interested in “the freakishness of normalcy and the normalcy of freakishness.”

Still, to capture the full freakishness of the sports year it may have helped to be working in a car rental agency in St. Louis or riding north on I-55 one day in mid-August.

Freakishness can breed freakishness, as though the forces of chaos, once out of the cage, can be very hard to recapture.