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stevep

Boulder climber

Salt Lake, UT

Feb 11, 2011 - 06:02pm PT

Guns don't kill people.

Gerbils (with guns) kill people.

StahlBro

Trad climber

San Diego, CA

Feb 11, 2011 - 06:33pm PT

Albert Einstein was a ladies' man
While he was working on his universal plan
He was making out like Charlie Sheen
He was a genius

Warren Zevon

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2011 - 07:32pm PT

In a few more days there will be adult videos that exploit this imbroglio.

I wonder what the titles will be.

Two And A Half Per Man?
Plaza Pleaser?
The Sheen From Charlie?

Anastasia

climber

hanging from an ice pic and missing my mama.

Feb 25, 2011 - 12:12am PT

Interesting rant Charlie gave and the BIG reaction by the studio... Wonder what you folks think?

Fletcher

Trad climber

from the place of breath

Feb 25, 2011 - 02:54am PT

Sure seems like he's gone off the deep end, sad to say. Maybe some kind of psychosis brought on by stress, drugs and who knows what else. Seems like there's a lot of pain in that man. Hope he can find a way out of this train wreck. I feel for the guy, but you gotta face the consequences of your actions eventually. Or die in a state of numbness.

I'd say he'd never work again in this town but, hey, this is one odd town he works in.

Eric

Tom

Big Wall climber

San Luis Obispo CA

Feb 25, 2011 - 04:02am PT

This topic most properly belongs within the scope of the Hunter S. Thompson discussion.

Charlie Sheen might seem out of control, and if he were a writer, he would write things the way Hunter S. Thompson wrote them.

Instead, he has transcended written literary work, and become the cinematic counterpart, or bastard son, of Hunter Thompson.

I will not say, here, that Charlie Sheen should have graduated from high school (neither did Hunter Thompson). As Thompson said, "There is only so much to learn in school, and that is how to learn."

And, I will never say that a person who seems out of control, but is successful at what they are doing, needs to be reigned in.

The sordid tales have a near monopoly of people who'vd pushed the social norms to the boundrey, who'vd pushed the envelope of status-quo reality, who'vd pushed the ultimate ideal of a singular magical person, unfettered, who did what he wanted . . . to achieve success and popular veneration, regardless of how repulsive to the Craven Masses.

(pre-edit: I have to clean that paragraph up)

Charlie Sheen is an icon of the late twentieth and early twenty-first.

Embrace it, or get over it

Tom

Big Wall climber

San Luis Obispo CA

Feb 25, 2011 - 06:23am PT

Radical, I agree that Thompson's end game was feculent, and against the norms of society. In my mind, he should have run it out, to the end, cancer or whatever.

His Early Way Out was weak, and against his earlier, consistent call for strength against oppression.

There have been more than a few great people, climbers in that rank, who have deselved themselves - - - - - depression and despair has no social ranking, and no discrimination.

Charlie Sheen will probably live to be the greatest example of how far a person can take it . . . and still live.

At this point, he is the highest paid actor on televison, and appears to have a degenerate lifestyle that is second to none.

adatesman

climber

philadelphia, pa

Feb 25, 2011 - 09:55am PT

There are automatic revolvers. The newspaper says so.

Newspaper is correct, with the first one being the Webley-Fosberry in 1901:

More recent (1997) is the Mateba Autorevolver:

hooblie

climber

from where the anecdotes roam

Feb 25, 2011 - 11:26am PT

^^^^ tip o' the hat to provocateur tom.

picture if you will, the heisenberg effect that unfettered realtime schlock reportage
with modern intrusive means might have had on the flavor of some of the
classic character meltdown scenes contained within the works of say ...
shakespeare, arthur miller or tennessee williams.

Chaz

Trad climber

greater Boss Angeles area

Feb 25, 2011 - 12:28pm PT

My guess is he won't survive to see the end of the year.

His half-hour-a-week job straightened him up 24 weeks out of the year, but now that's gone.

If he needs cash he can always open a series of clinics built around his ten-day, lickety-split-rehab system.

pud

climber

Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia

Feb 25, 2011 - 01:16pm PT

"Every time someone visited our offices one had to drive right by this place. Sleezy dive sorta place but with a packed parking lot most nights.
It was inevitable I would be pulled into that place, what with hanging out with the (sales) boys."

DMT,
Why not just say you went there because you wanted to?

pud

climber

Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia

Feb 25, 2011 - 03:21pm PT

Dude,
Nobody cares if you like strip joints now or ever..
I just thought your way of avoiding saying it made it way more obvious than had you owned it in the first place.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2011 - 04:14pm PT

If you were really hungry would you go to a buffet where you are only allowed to look at the food?

Strip joints are for masochists.

scuffy b

climber

dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene

Feb 25, 2011 - 05:01pm PT

Hey, you know what a real sadist does to a masochist, right?

MisterE

Social climber

MEEPMEEPmeepMEEP

Feb 25, 2011 - 05:11pm PT

Largo

Sport climber

The Big Wide Open Face

Feb 25, 2011 - 10:28pm PT

Take the booze out of the story and we're probably not even talking about Charles.

JL

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2011 - 09:47am PT

I watched Platoon again last night.

What promise!

You might recall that the film also featured the son of another superstar actor who's career did not seem to take off from there.

But for Charlie to take the lead role in a Viet Nam film after his father starred in the quintessential Nam film not that many years earlier, and to pull it off, creating another classic, showed such potential.

I think that people should own their own bodies and government has no business telling them what they can or cannot put in them, but to suggest that one can smoke cocaine socially is a pretty strong indicator that the train isn't on the rails any more.
I don't care if he knocks himself out with banging skanks. Its when it goes the other way, when he is violent towards women that I take exception.

pud

climber

Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia

Feb 26, 2011 - 12:37pm PT

Charlie's terror seems to arrive when he is 'clean and sober'

I think he has lost control and the only person that can 'save' him is himself, but he will need real support from people that really care.
His children, parents and siblings are suffering and I hope this ends with a positive outcome.

Among the many symptoms of addiction, being out of control and not knowing it seems to be the most deadly.