{"id":31938,"date":"2025-12-23T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31938"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:16:58","slug":"comeback-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31938","title":{"rendered":"Comeback opportunity…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Click link for article by Ted Giola Dec 22\/25 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Return of the Weirdo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this be the cool new thing of 2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/tedgioia\/p\/the-return-of-the-weirdo?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are less weird than they used to be,\u201d claims psychologist Adam Mastroianni<\/a>. He describes this as \u201can epidemic of the mundane.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strangest thing, he believes, is absence of strangeness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody wants to make waves\u2014or even trickles. Conformity is the flavor of the month, and it tastes the same every<\/em> month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2026 may be the year the former weirdo and cosplay conscious video personality, the Nelson Auteu<\/strong>r, makes a comeback\u2014(if Ted Gioia is right about weirdos returning).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You, the most blessed subscribers out there in the ether… be the judge. As a public service, our technical team here at the Court Painter studio has assembled a selected small sampling of Nelson Auteur interviews and conversations from 2012\u201315.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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