Art Bell

[MV/Liberace!]

here's a much better shot:

[FortRock]

Well Google doesn't seem to hire people and equipment that WE had at my College's Photography Club, and we only had 4500 students in the whole school!!!

[anagrammy]

Great shot, even if there is part of a rearview mirror in it--didn't you even get out of the car?

I'm imagining Areyn driving up to this in a cloud of dust and turning to Art, "This is it?"  From a tropical urban condo-living environment to... modest digs for a man with worldwide interests whose house and possessions are not reflective of what people here and abroad expect American celebrities to call home (see Lives of the Rich and Famous).  I'll bet she was wondering where Asia would find a place in this bleak setting, and Art agreed.

Pahrump:  great place to visit (?) but I wouldn't want to live there.

Anagrammy

[timpate]

10MHz ......How many times has art left radio? Tiz sad but shit the guy is old. Now he should just live out the golden years.

[fromwomewhere outthere]

10MHz ......How many times has art left radio? Tiz sad but shit the guy is old. Now he should just live out the golden years.

66 is old? Are you 20 something?

[FortRock]

ART BELL OLD? You've got to be kidding, Grandma Moses did not become famous until around her 75th Birthday! Radio takes very little physical effort, go to any Ham Radio gathering, and most Hams are anything BUT svelt! Most Radio Guys have little chance of becoming GQ Models! LOL!!

On a side note a news story that Art would have highlighted if he was on the air tonight. At the Mexican Border, the US Border Patrol siezed a whole bunch of Iguana Lizard Meat for use in making retaurant Tamales! Now that's a Cold Blooded Treat! Check CNN!

[Max_TO]

Seeing how this thread has taken many a different turns I have decided to share a little story with you , or more correctly a dream I had .

I had a dream just before Christmas that I was at Art Bells's condo . Both he and his wife were there , they were selling the place and I was scoping the place out as a potential buyer .

When I awoke I though , how strange . I then thought that I would make a point of calling Art during the NYE show to tell him about my dream . But as you all know , and sad to say , he never did that show

[Max_TO]

Double post

[anagrammy]

66 is old? Are you 20 something?

THANK YOU, Tim- Art and I are the same age and I'm as saucy as they come.  Doesn't he know 66 is the old 44?

Anagrammy

[haloedorchid]

Yeah 66 is definitely NOT old. Especially in radio land. That's far too young to be put out to pasture.

Try working around the senior population. 85+ is when they start to seem old, and that's not all of them.

[Scully]

Yeah 66 is definitely NOT old. Especially in radio land. That's far too young to be put out to pasture.

Plus the fact that many successful people don't ever want to retire.  Their work is what keeps them going.

I'm puzzled that Art has seemed to enjoy the "resting" period he's been in for a while, but my sense is that he has known he could come back as often as he wanted to, and that's been enough.  Now that he's officially off C2C, I have a feeling his motor will start to rev back up.  Call me optimistic, if you will.

[HAL 9000]

DANGER WILL ROBINSON...

WARNING:

In a day or two I'll be spewing forth some "boiling pits of sewage" - using language I don't usually use, but there have been a few things said recently which  pushed all my wrong buttons. I'll just be setting the record straight, and will refrain from using any members' screen-name.

It will probably just be more of a cathartic exercise on my part, but sometimes, nutjob information must be confronted with the truth.

I hope my self-editing will survive any scrutiny

[MV/Liberace!]

In a day or two I'll be spewing forth some "boiling pits of sewage"...

haha

[Stevenqbosell]

As somebody has said before this is one of the most epic C2C related threads to ever exist.

This thread is one big beautiful

[aquagoat]

One day last spring - one of the first mild sunny days to come along after a long winter - I found myself pulled over by a cute young officer, a blonde easily young enough to be my granddaughter.  As she was reviewing my paperwork, she asked if I knew I was doing 60 in a 40 KM zone (metric country this Canada).  I replied that yes I was aware but left my sentence dangle with a "but . . . ."  fpr a few seconds, then   threw down the line ...... "but officer . . . . I've been led to believe" . . . .  again, a slow drawling process . . . . ." I've been told, that is to say . . . . that 60 is thenew 40".     All this with a deadpan that Jack Benny would be proud of.  (Jack Benny was a comedian in those golden days when jokes were funny, kids).

I'd love to close this story with every old man's dream of a textbook Penthouse letters ending, but alas, it just didn't end that way.   But considering my sass got Ms Officer to close up the ticket book and send me along with a plea to "be careful in my attention to zone limits" I'll claim it as a victory for springtime speeders everywhere.
Rick O'Shea aka Aquagoat aka Jabba da Puck

[b_dubb]

66 is old? Are you 20 something?

66 is old if you're a smoker who lives a sedentary lifestyle.  i don't see Art getting a lot of cardio

[EvB]

here's a much better shot:

My first thought was "boy, does THAT look desolate!  But then i looked at the late-winter piles of snirt* outside my New England apartment window.  Yea - it's a desolate time of year.


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[/color]Snirt = snow + dirt - those ugly piles from major plowing.

[txs]

HI ALL... new member here, please bear with  me as to using this forum correctly.  also having serious trouble with my verizon dsl that gives strange output... but anyhow, how HEALING to find this forum about the general mystery of the disappeared artbell.  my question is, i ran across a post mentioning some woman's name, i think it was lisa lyon, someone lyon, it was on this forum i think, and apparently, she had said something relevant about what happened with art.  i wonder if you could steer me to that post or posts... i am very interested, like everyone here, in whatever the story might be, as to where is art.

i personally, with my witch's powers, my esp, or whatever, think most likely it was just a case of art not liking something that was done or offered regarding his future part in the show, and so he said "&^%$# YOU!" and took his marbles and went home.  and never said anything publicly, not wanting to drag the show down or badmouth anyone. he was never one to get into mud slinging, even if it might be justified,.  he just doesnt need it.  so i figure something unfair occurred and he just decided to cut his losses.  i did think, though, that he would keep on with his short wave radio stuff but havent been able to find anything on that - is there anything to find?  seems like he would HAVE TO be "live" SOMEWHERE! how could he get rid of that part of his personality overnight?  he is a RADIOHEAD of the first order.  i dont see how he can live without being ON, on some level. 

i doubt if he is sick... more likely, he just has a brand new life to live, a different life, in a different "country" and now he has time to live it.  i doubt if he has had that much of a PERSONAL life, all his life, how can you when you are such a slave to the things he was a slave to.  but with a new wife and her family, and little girl, living in a different place, the idea of just taking back his TIME must have seemed enticing... and he has the resources to really enjoy his retirement. i think that's what happened. and some slight at Coast just pushed him over the edge. and i doubt he's ever looked back. he seemed to have a good intuition about when some move was just RIGHT for his life, like with his new marriage. he had no second thoughts.  i think his disappearing from public life was the same sort of thing for art.

he probably knows if he made his presence known publicly on some forum, that he would be mobbed by people demanding to know all the particulars, which he obviously is not in a mood to share.  no one would be content with what he is doing NOW...  but no doubt he does miss the contact to some degree.  how could you not, after what, 40 or 50 years of DAILY contact. but he does have something ELSE now, to fill that void with, and god bless him with that.

i think we will have to content ourselves with old shows from the past! at least it is something.  i find the nostalgia here amusing... like some people waiting for the second coming... but i understand it.  art was SO GOOD at what he did, he was just BORN for it, that it is difficult to imagine an art bell that is NOT ON THE RADIO.  but there IS more to life than that, you know! some part of us is just in DENIAL... i am still having unpleasant withdrawal symptoms myself!  spending much too much time rooting around the coast website searching for some goodie old art shows, but I KNOW i have heard them all 100 times, then trying to content myself with some george show, but boy, is that a tough row to hoe, after art... i do like ian quite a lot but he isnt on nearly enough.  i definitely do not like any of the other newbies they have had on.  i have kept my insider membership but only with the idea that some NEW oldies will be dragged out... but now that i have discovered this new site that has artbell 24/7, maybe i can finally dump it.

i did email the webmaster a couple times around the time when i noticed art bell's name had been removed... and other things mentioned in this forum.  but i never got the courtesy of a reply.  and the quality of coast on streamlink has gone way down. i have complained about the shows being all chopped up from segment to segment so i cant even follow them... but again, no response.  so it's a waste anyhow.

it is good to be in the company of like minds, though! we are a sort of pathetic bunch, we are!  not wanting to accept reality!  i bet you my firstborn, that art has lurked on this very site, and any others that might be about him!  maybe not sticking with every post, but i just bet he's been here... again, my esp.

thanks for putting up with yet another poor abandoned artbell fan... we'll be ok.  we'll make it.  strength in numbers...

hang in there...

[anagrammy]

DANGER WILL ROBINSON...

WARNING:

In a day or two I'll be spewing forth some "boiling pits of sewage" - using language I don't usually use, but there have been a few things said recently which  pushed all my wrong buttons. I'll just be setting the record straight, and will refrain from using any members' screen-name.

It will probably just be more of a cathartic exercise on my part, but sometimes, nutjob information must be confronted with the truth.

I hope my self-editing will survive any scrutiny

Yippee!  Love me some boiling pits of sewage! 

Not to worry about screen names, Hal, we welcome your tirades.  After all, aren't we all pieces of work after 200+ pages of moaning about the loss of a radio host?  Besides, those of us still listening to Noory are having pablum instead of chili rellenos, so we welcome a little spice.

Anagrammy

[SomeVelvetMorning]

Welcome aboard TXS!  Lisa Lyon is the producer of Coast to Coast.  The post dicussing an e-mail that she sent is at: http://www.coastgab.com/index.php?topic=2136.300 This was a post by MorphiaFlow (#323 in this topic).  Hope this helps.

[EvB]

HAHA!!  the sad thing is, there are people out there who would believe this.  i shit you not.

Damn - wish we could name names 

[Agent : Orange]

HI ALL... new member here, please bear with  me as to using this forum correctly. 

Welcome!

*passes the popcorn tub*

[Mops]

It must interesting for Art to realize the show is so popular that even his replacement is becoming famous for being a dud.     

[anagrammy]

Welcome!

*passes the popcorn tub*

Welcome TXS--you are definitely in the right place, at the right time, with the right people, for the final episode of the quad Art Bell retirement saga.  Your thoughts are our thoughts, so pull up a chair.  Need butter with that popcorn? 

And here's a hanky.  We are in mourning here, but with a sense of humor.

Anagrammy

[FortRock]

I am NOT in mourning around here, just VERY impatient for Art's Major Announcement, COMING SOON! Keep up the hope out there Bellites, our man is coming! POSITIVE ENERGY!!

[anagrammy]

I am NOT in mourning around here, just VERY impatient for Art's Major Announcement, COMING SOON! Keep up the hope out there Bellites, our man is coming! POSITIVE ENERGY!!

BELLITES!  I love the sound of that... cult?  "Bellites gathered outside the main entrance, waving fists and signs and chanting "Bell, Bell, Bell" while others sang "No More George Noory" to the tune of "No More I Love Yous" by Annie Lennox

No More George Noory
the language is leaving him
No more George Noory
the language is leaving him...in silence

I used to have demons in my room at night
despair, desire, despair, so many monsters
But now I don't find myself bouncing home
whistling buttonhole just tuning me...in

No More George Noory
The language is leaving him
No more George Noory
changes are shifting... outside the world

They are being really crazy
they were on the come and you know what, Mummy?
The monsters are crazy, there are monsters...inside Premier.

No more George Noory (rousing chorus)


BELLITE HIGH PRIESTESS ANAGRAMMY

[MV/Liberace!]

BELLITES!  I love the sound of that... cult? 

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FortRock]

AH YES WE ARE THE BELLITES!!!
WHAT ARE OUR TENNENTS???

First, we have to make a pilgrimage to Pahrump, Nevada once in our life.

Second, we feel that Area 51 would be far cooler with pet cats, LOTS OF THEM! (Groom Lake covered in felines)

Third, everyone needs to be a licenced Ham!

Forth, George Noory can provide pizza delivery to our meetings!

Fifth, we will hide the Crazy Glue from Art! (very important)

Sixth, we believe in hereditary linage of hosting, Art will serve until Asia is of age!

Seventh, we believe that we can scream out "STUPID IDIOT" at least once during a Richard C. Hoagland apperence!

Eighth, roast turkey will be banned at our meetings! (Art needs to be able to eat at our meetings)

Ninth, Caller J.C. will not ever be allowed at meetings, BUT Edna is welcome!

Tenth, UFO Greys will have first spot in line for the booze!

[SomeVelvetMorning]

Bellites..... That is great!

We already have a movie: The Brotherhood [& Sisterhood] of the Bell (circa 1970)



We just want George Noory to know:

Ask not for whom the Bell tolls, [he] tolleth for thee!

[EvB]

I didn't know Art won't eat turkey!