Word: mads
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...outpouring of sadness from her countrymen bordered on the hysterical. And while many of us would like to pretend that only monarchy-mad Britons are capable of such a display, mourning for this damaged, lovely, contradictory woman engaged much of the world for days...
...riots. Completing the traditional arts, Angel, a musician who can make stones sing, lives there too. Mixing Ingmar Bergman with Monty Python, strange, vaguely metaphorical characters pop in and out. Pudgy, bowler-hatted men regularly visit the writer to collect anything that he loves, giving them over to a mad doctor who dissects the objects, looking for their soul. The painter receives a visit from a mute gallery owner who keeps word-cards in his pocket and forms malapropisms like, "Oh, sheep I've lost all my sobbing colours...
...Autumn. He elaborates by doing his best impression of my head-bang while thrashing on an air guitar. Meanwhile, Miserable Faith's musicians kick off their set with a groove-heavy bass riff, and the 50 Naxi kids around me?all painted like football hooligans?start up their mad moshing again. True to the matriarchal traditions of their tribal culture, the girls match the guys slam for slam...
...Mystic Funnies" #3 ends with the kind of story that made Crumb famous - the like of which he hasn't touched in years - dirty, funny animals. This "Fritz the Cat" style combines Crumb's two biggest comic influences: the anarchic early issues of "Mad" magazine and the simplicity of the Donald Duck comics. This one stars "Super Duck, The Cockeyed Wonder." Uwanna, "Super Duck's" girlfriend, gets tired of him falling asleep on the couch after making him dinner. So Supes orders some special pills from the back of the "Beat Off" magazine his nephew Fauntleroy gets caught reading...
...mood-disorders program at Case Western University in Cleveland. As the emotional engine revs higher, however, that energy can become too much. Bipolars quickly grow aggressive and impulsive. They become grandiose, picking fights, driving too fast, engaging in indiscriminate sex, spending money wildly. They may ultimately become delusionally mad...