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February’s been an amazing month for me: I turned 30, got a radio show on the station I grew up listening to and, most important by far, I’ve been eating […]
For a week now, the world has endured Charlie Sheen deluging it with insane rant after insane rant like a fire hose attached to a hydrant of batshit crazy. Yesterday, he started a Twitter account, which has been gaining roughly 50,000 followers per hour and shows no signs of slowing down. The number of Charlie Sheen quotes and references from my friends clogging my Facebook and Tweetdeck pages has steadily climbed to the point I almost miss them bitching about their terrible jobs and lousy significant others. I don’t get it. Why are people so fascinated by a clearly manic individual finally going over the edge?
If you’ve never experienced being around someone in a manic state, I suppose there is something cool about it. At first. I had a friend who would lapse into mania any time he wasn’t high on painkillers. The guy was bursting at the seams with energy and would launch into hour-long tirades at the drop of a hat about subjects as varied as the greatness of Tool, his ability to summon demons from Hell and the Jewish conspiracy to keep him down. (That last one usually focused on his Jewish ex-girlfriend.) Unfortunately, fun as it was listening to these ramblings in between games of Mario Kart Double Dash, they eventually grew violent and I had to stop hanging out with the guy. Plus I got sick of letting him win because I feared being bludgeoned to death by a Game Cube controller.
Which brings us back to Charlie Sheen. This isn’t a man to be emulated or envied in any way (well, other than the money). He’s a mentally ill abuser of women who has finally lost it. And, while you may think that would be my kind of guy, it isn’t. So please, let’s all get the #Winning, #TigerBlood and #AdonisDNA hashtags out of our systems and move on. Because, honestly, it’s starting to get a little too “Joker riling up the inmates of Arkham Asylum” for my tastes.
Matthew on March 2, 2011
“can’t is the cancer of happen” – charlie sheen
Matthew on March 2, 2011
i also think im gonna start to buy DVDs of the Two and a Half Men sitcom
carmen on March 3, 2011
yes! thank you! all i can think of is “god, this is like when michael came by the house at 6 am in july with mittens for me and adam talking about how he was one of god’s archangels”
it’s entertaining enough, but it’s nowhere near as funny as britney spears 2006/2007 for my money. and who wants to be the ten billionth person who says “winning?” it’s uncreative.