Mad attitudes

sometimes, stumbling around the web,
the positivity of it all just brings me down...

that's when i have to do my own little remixes.
they don't make me feel any better,

but by the time i'm done,
it's time to go to bed. 

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Freak Out!

This really does freak me
out sometimes.

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Check Your Meds

... so started exploring something that might turn into a project- a comic strip called "Check Your Meds". we shall see what we shall see, but if you see something you like, a comment or two would be appreciated and encouraging.

stay tuned

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another day in Heaven

"Dum-de-dum, hey, nonny noh, dum-diddy-dum-diddy-dum-dum-dum".

It was a happy day in heaven, but then, most days in heaven were happy ones. Sometimes things would get a little dark, but then he would usually black out and when he came to, the sun would be shining and some simple melody would warble through his thoughts again.

He loved these little melodies. He could sing them over and over, sometimes for what you or I might think was a million years, but to him was not even the blink of an eye.

"Here you go" he said, tilting the watering can, "free water, free water, dum-de-dum-de-dum". The fresh clear water sparkled down onto the blue-green ball and he stared, transfixed as ever by the beauty of the light and the water.

Then the voices started inside his head.
It sounded like people were freaking out, and it hurt his ears. It felt like a power drill drilling into the back of his head, and it didn't make any sense. He put the watering can down, so he could put a finger in each of his ears.

"Dum-De-Dum" he sang more loudly than before, "Hey Nonny Noh, Dum de DUM!".

He walked away, singing as loudly as he could until it was quiet in his head again.

He didn't know who was who was freaking out, or why, or who this "God" was they wanted. He didn't know about any "floods", or "catastrophes" or "disasters" and anyway, his name was Norbert.

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the Excitable boy

Jimmy had always been an excitable boy, curious about every single thing and running everywhere he went. He was also prone to sharing whatever was on his ind ...in fact, sometimes he used his outside voice even when he was in the house!

One day, his parents decided they really didn't like him very much. In fact, they couldn't stand him anymore. So late that night, they had a Talk. By the time the Conan credits rolled, they had narrowed their options down to either an 'accident' on the basement stairs or putting him on medication.

Jimmy's dad told his mom that if ten years of JonBenét Ramsey had taught him anything, it was that even little bodies were a bitch and a half, so why not try him on the kiddy coke and see what happened. "It's a no lose" he reminded her, "the stairs will always be there of we need them".

Six months later, Jimmy was a new boy!

Now, Jimmy sat very still and the Ritalin did all the running, from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. Everything was fine, even if he didn't remember who this weird lady was, or why she was so stoked about showing him her dumb picture of an old hippie.

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Understanding Facebook - 10 useful graphs

i have very mixed emotions about Facebook.
i have an account there but i don't turn up much because nothing much seems to happen. i'm more likely to find something interesting by clicking the "stumble" button again than i am by reading stuff on FB.

when i do post something, there's usually
just two or three responses which out of all my 'friends' is just kind of depressing... and if there's one thing i don't need, it's more reasons to get depressed and/or ratification of my own worst fears about my own insignificance.

i keep trying to understand Facebook, though - these are graphs i found in my search
for greater understanding...

this last graph is perhaps
the most interesting one...

does this mean that Bono
may have found what he
was looking for?

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Mapping America

it's interesting to look at statistics
and look for patterns.

if you're bipolar,
it's practically compulsory.




in my experience,
pattern recognition aka connecting dots
is one of the things my brain
seems wired up to do...

Wall-marts in the US

Passport ownership in the US

...now that we're oriented,
check this out:

IQ levels by state

2004 presidential voting in the US

Over/under median family income (red = under)

this third red and blue
is a pivot point, i think

Annual beer consumption in the US

Per capita wine consumption in the US

Marijuana usage in the US

Religious faith in the US

H1N1 mortality rate in the US

what's interesting about this one
is that the mortality rates are inverted.
the highest rates should not be
in the least populated areas.

hmmmm...

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50 ways to say 'You're Crazy'

actually, over 150...some old, some new,
some that are kinda funny
& some that mean other things too!



"What's in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."





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crazy        1570s, "diseased, sickly," from craze + -y (2). Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of  "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from 1610s.  Jazz slang sense "cool, exciting" attested by 1927.

bluto

head case

beeper (bipolar)

schizo

mentally interesting

psych case















nutbag

cuckoo clock

off my rocker

psycho

loony

nuts

crazy

bats













bojangle

bonkers

buggy

bugging

certifiable

squirrelly

manic

unhinged

wing nut

'flicted
















cock-eyed

crackpot

crunk

duck soup

tetched

dippy

flipped out

jumped the couch

lunachick

lunched

nerts

potty

shell

wig out

wiggity-wack

nutjob















mentally challenged

disturbed

screw loose


mental

demented

weird   

freak

retard

















spastic
   
spaz


split personality

nutcase   

nutter   

halfwit   


















bimbo

strange

bonkers

brain damage

oddball


brain dead   


out of it

thick

head banging


head case


crackers
  
idiot   




















troubled

twisted


demented

deranged   

irrational  


disoriented

loony

unstable























disturbed   

psycho   

lunatic   

psychopath

retard   

dizzy   



























mental   

scary 
 

schizo   

wacky

wally

dulally   

weird

screw loose

weirdo























flid


fruit cake   


f*ck knuckle   



















brainsick

daft

demented

disordered

insane

lunatic

maniac

maniacal

moonstruck



off





















touched

unbalanced

unsound

wrong

bonkers

cracked

daffy

gaga



















bananas

batty

buggy

cuckoo

fruity

loco

crackers





















crackpot

eccentric

crank

ding-a-ling

kook

screwball




















nut case

lulu head


wack job
















sick

demented

zoid

wacko

looney

looney Bird












jacko

crack head

barking


touched

daft


bat shit crazy

Britney Spears

doe

funky monkey

goober

head case

j-cat

looper

psycho-bitch

quack

seven thirty

wall out




























radio rental (Cockney for 'mental')


not all there

doolally

off your head

off your trolley

round the twist

up the pole

buckwilin'

on one

















Patrick Swayze (Cockney for 'crazy')

Chicken Jalfrezi  (Cockney for 'crazy')


apeshit

barmy

bent

deranged

gone

goofy

haywire

kook

mad

moron

screwy

schizoid

schizy



























screwy

sick

sicko

sociopath

stark raving mad

touched

twisted

unbalanced

unglued



















bedlamite

unhinged

wigged out

pixilated

damaged goods

high strung

looney-tunes

basket case

non compos mentis




















feel lucky? learn more
at these fine sources










http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1925070/


http://www.alphadictionary.com/slang/?term=crazy&beginEra=&endEra=&clean=true&submitsend=Search


http://onlineslangdictionary.com/thesaurus/words+meaning+crazy,+insane,+weird,+strange+person.html


http://onlineslangdictionary.com/thesaurus/words+meaning+to+act+wild,+strange,+crazy.html


http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=crazy&searchmode=none






















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