space case

Actually, he was several characters, pitched somewhere in between a fast-talking educator who seamlessly switched from lecturing to hectoring, a piratical space case who wouldn’t be out of place hawking tickets in the parking lot of a Phish concert, and a bar-stool philosopher whose no-frills pronouncements focused on why people, but especially kids, need to stop looking down at their screens and start looking up at the natural world.

A cerebral and interior character, he may be more interesting in the books, but he’s been a monotone space case for the last few seasons of the show.

When I have spoken to her about how this makes me feel, she says, “I’m a space case. Don’t take it personally.”

When I have spoken to her about how this makes me feel, she says, "I'm a space case. Don't take it personally."

The buildings resembling trailer homes offer beds, three meals a day, community space, case management and mental health services.