In need of work, he takes a 28-hour night course in caregiving at a local church and is soon hired to take care of Trevor Conklin, a girl-crazed, video-game playing, angry teenager in the advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which is "tying Trev in knots, twisting his spine and tightening his joints so that his ribs all but rest on his hips".
You, too, can appear as crazed about video games as Dan.
"Their children can be crazed and invigorated by video games, and at the same time sedated and fatted by enormous piles of schoolwork and processed junk food.
Where are the lyrics that speak to a micro-chipped, dot-commed, cell-phoned, video-crazed, Starbucks-bloated world?
Architectural subjects and scale are common, as are fictional characters, who appear in videos, beset with crazed melancholy.
Chicago Sun-Times writer Thomas Conner gave a negative review of the song, stating, "She collaborated with Eminem this summer on the controversial '"Love the Way You Lie"', a song and hotly debated video conflating wild passion with crazed assault.
It has also begun to create an entire culture of video-crazed individuals young and old that want to shoot their own video of everything, everywhere and in real time.
This was before Sandra Bland and Tanisha Anderson died in police custody and before we saw videos of girls like Dajerria Becton being manhandled by crazed officers.
Of all the video segments, Scully's was probably the one the sports-crazed comedy titan would've loved the most, a salute to his 35-year softball career.
The rush that players get from playing war video games is alarming for someone who recalls all too clearly the crazed look on the young militiamen's faces as they poked their heads into our car, Kalashnikovs slung to their backs, and asked innocuous-seeming questions ("Where are you coming from? Where are you headed?
The Fiorina campaign followed up with another video, more than seven minutes long, depicting Senator Barbara Boxer, the Democratic incumbent, as a crazed blimp, floating across the country.
