Dr. Drew professionally posits that Charlie Sheen is bi-polar and having a controlled manic episode. Probably, but, perhaps Dr. D is wrong. Perhaps, Charlie Sheen is just too good at articulating what he thinks. Let’s diagnose him as over-articulating. TooFineAPoint-itis.
I can relate. BNL fans sometimes over-articulate. We are word fetishists and we express ourselves not wisely, but too well. Read any on-line review critical of BNL. Where most fans would defend their band with …
“UR stopid!!! My band rulz!!!!!”
… we comment, “Tell me, why are you dismissing the textured leitmotif in the third track?” (Also, we say shit like “posit.”)
And we aren’t more passionate about our band than anyone else, it’s just we sound more passionate because we weave into one sentence all the synonyms for “awesome.”
( It’s what inspired this scene from Community.
And yes, the next week they said Pierce had been following BNL all summer. Keep it up, NBC. We like the attention.)
So, BNL fans over-articulate. Similarly, rulers of Middle-eastern countries over-articulate. While an American politician might say, “I refuse to give in to these protesters,” Gadhafi would say, “I want to die here as a martyr. Libya is the tree, and we have watered this tree with our blood.”
Granted, Gadhafi is crazy, but maybe not as crazy as he sounds. Perhaps he just over-states his case.
Then, on to Charlie Sheen. Is he crazy? Or just really good at expressing himself? Let’s look at his words.
“Last I checked, ‘Chaim,’ I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.”
This does sound like Libyan rhetoric, especially with the taste of Anti-semitism there. I would have to stay up late crafting that “converting your tin cans” sentence, and he just rattles it off. Is that insanity? Or is he a poet?
“I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time–and this includes naps — I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.”
No, I’M sorry, Charlie. Sorry you never got together with Maya Angelou and punched up Phenomenal Woman.
(On how he got sober) “Decide that you’re going to, and do it. It’s not that complicated. Just decide that you’re going to harness the power of your mind.”
People did sober up before AA. I think that might be how they did it. Is that crazy talk?
I’m just saying. Over-expressing. Putting too fine a point on it. Middle-Eastern Rhetoric. I wonder if Charlie Sheen likes BNL?
UPDATE: ===========================================
Here’s an excellent quiz. Who Said It, Charlie Sheen or Muamar Gadhafi?
8 responses to “UPDATED: Resolved: Charlie Sheen is NOT Batshit Crazy”
Following the latest Charlie Sheen quote/sighting hurts my head. I can’t wrap my brain around what happened to my crush from such 80’s smashes as “Young Guns”, “Wall Street” and “Major League”. The crazy; it’s far more disturbing in him than it is in the guy that begs money at the offramp in the morning.
I think he’s gone from really cooking to a full boil, which is now spilling the hell all over the stove. I think that somebody turned the heat up on Charlie Sheen’s brain (probably Charlie himself), and no one will ever be able to contain that mess, ever again.
I’m sorry, did I say, “think”? I meant to say “posit”.
🙂
I truly thought Charlie had completely lost it until I watched him on Piers Morgan last night. I started to get what he was complaining about. Not that I could explain it exactly but I did get it. That being said he will lose. All he needs to do is ask Suzanne Sommers or Valerie Harper.
He’s batshit crazy, and no amount of positing will convince me otherwise at this point.
//People did sober up before AA.Really? How?
P.S. Dr. Drew is correct. This isn’t sobriety, it’s a bi-polar dry drunk. The media is doing him no favors by enabling him.I feel sorry for his family and his children.
P.P.S. I like your new banner.
Amy in StL – Because Charley is crazy and it’s coupled with power, maybe? Tami – Great imagery, you positer you.Zayrina – What would it be like to make millions of dollars, be on the #1 show (which I’ve never seen) and to have everybody kiss your ass since you were 20? And your Dad’s a movie star too? It would be hard to be realistic. Caroline – Well, I had to try. Mershy – I feel sorry for his sister, if he has one.