Midnight In The Desert

[GravitySucks]

Plus Raquel Welch is still hot. Can't say the same for Brigitte Bardot though but I love her sass.

And PBS’s mother is only 73.

[21st Century Man]

And PBS’s mother is only 73.

Sophia Loren is still a very striking lady and what is she 85 now?

[GravitySucks]

It suffers no such deficit, but it does illustrate my point. You're talking about a trope, a very old one, that forms the basis of multiple stories already. Aliens crashing on earth is stuff John W. Campbell was writing about in the 1930's. With modern scientific knowledge about the scale of the universe, what it takes to actually cross it, the probability that intelligent life in the universe is extremely rare, and that kind of a story is longer believable, modern or realistic. It's 2018 and you can't get away with fossil fiction like that in the age of ultra-realistic fiction like "The Martian" any more than you can get away with writing stories about giant squid attacking Captain Nemo's submarine. The zeitgeist has moved on from age of Jules Verne and it would be silly to write that in the age of the nuclear submarine where one torpedo could take out the squid from miles away.

It's the same with Roswell. It looks like 1940's science fiction, as in under the influence of it. Why do the accounts of the Roswell aliens clearly depict primates? Given Earth's biodiversity, why do the aliens look more like us than earth's jellyfish do? Why lightning? It downed aircraft in the 40's, but not so much with modern technology. Also absent are the modern concepts of future technologies. Where's the nanotechnology? Where's the artificial intelligence? Do you even need to travel to a planet in person when you have advanced A.I.? There's just so much about it that no longer seems plausible.

Now, if you want a modern scenario of an alien ship crashing on earth, it would look like this: have a ship equipped with an alcubierre drive come blasting out of warp right next earth, ending human civilization by irradiating it with the gamma rays that would be coming off that thing, and then have the stranded crashed aliens running around trying to survive as the molecular nanotechnology they had brought with them goes horribly wrong and infects the remaining humans and turns them into mutant zombies that think alien life is delicious.Then kill off one main character per chapter, reveal mid-book Commander Blorthrat's secret desire is to transition into a human and make some social justice point about zombie acceptance, and then go for the big reveal that the dinosaurs never actually went extinct, save the day for the aliens, and end on a salacious sex scene thereby opening the way for a badass sequel about dinosaur-alien hybrid earth. Done!

Sounds like you got a new crop.

[GravitySucks]

Sophia Loren is still a very striking lady and what is she 85 now?

Betty White doesn’t have a curfew.

[ShayP]

The song is about a man trapped in the late 21st century but longing for the 1980's.  I'm not that desperate or morose...

I am. 

[Metron2267]

The irony of her calling George Knapp a bloodthirsty vulture is delicious, much like her tears.

Boundless personal grief makes for unstable decision-making.

That well either dries up quickly or she'll find her potential guest list dwindling.

Just sayin...

[rangerdavid]

Boundless personal grief makes for unstable decision-making.

That well either dries up quickly or she'll find her potential guest list dwindling.

Just sayin...

She has a guest list??

[21st Century Man]

I am. 

Aw man.  You need a lass to brighten up your life. 

[bellNwhistle]

I'm a terrible person 
Heather is very sexy and all hetero men want to procreate with her.

Lmfao

[DynamoHum]

This really is a catty little litter box, innit?

Consider, you have Dave to officially laud now (but Whitley or RCH would have been the obvious legacy picks) and yet you get the sideshow of Heather trying to build her own following and the sense that she likely does not have the knowledge nor support system (despite a couple of years in Art Bell Radio School) to carry it off.

Keith gets elevated to savior, Noory snoozes on, Ian's coming back.

I mean there has been a sea change in the now crowded paranormal band that Art loaded up for you and all you seem to want is to do is squelch out the weirdness?

Best of both worlds then, suck and blow - so why all the studied rancor?

Just my 2p’s worth. I’m glad it caused you to create a pretty pattern

[GravitySucks]

I am. 

ShayP. He was destined to live his life trapped on the wrong side of the Mississippi AND the wrong side of Y2K.  But then a spot opened up in a guest house in the desert.

[ShayP]

ShayP. He was destined to live his life trapped on the wrong side of the Mississippi AND the wrong side of Y2K.  But then a spot opened up in a guest house in the desert.

I want a guest house in the desert.

[rangerdavid]

Her latest

[Metron2267]

She has a guest list??

Oh I do hope it's not going to be open lines group grieving and nothing else...

Montaldo may lose interest rapidly if the show becomes little more than a support group.

Anyone remember the Nitecaps Show with Herb Jepko?

Salt Lake, KSL 1160 AM, overnights - 1970s...

[url]http://www.nitecaps.net/audioclips.htm/url]

"We're the Nitecaps, nighty Nitecaps, and we hail from everywhere, but we meet and greet and reminisce when we broadcast over the air. . . . We love to hear each other chat, to hear each glad "Hello!" But most of all we love to hear the voice of our own Herb Jepko. . . . On the quiet side . . . on the starry side . . . on the side where the moombeams play . . . on the brand new side of the day. "

If I hear granny fire up the Hammond organ for a solo I'm gone baby gone...

[Walks_At_Night]

How can I be like 35 pages behind on this thread?  What the hell went down today?   
It should be mellowing out now.................

[GravitySucks]

I want a guest house in the desert.

It is up to you to decide if you have a better chance of getting in the front door with that yellow sundress or a pair of bib overalls.

#WadeIntoTheAndrogynousZone

[ShayP]

It is up to you to decide if you have a better chance of getting in the front door with that yellow sundress or a pair of bib overalls.

#WadeIntoTheAndrogynousZone

I'm always up to the task!  I'll choose the overalls.  It's more subtle.

[21st Century Man]

I want a guest house in the desert.

I wonder where Pahrump gets its water from?  Thing is if you're in the desert, you're shit out of luck if an EMP knocks out the power for 6 months.

[bellNwhistle]

I wonder where Pahrump gets its water from?  Thing is if you're in the desert, you're shit out of luck if an EMP knocks out the power for 6 months.

If I were Airyn, I’d get the fuck out of Dodge.

[Metron2267]

I wonder where Pahrump gets its water from?  Thing is if you're in the desert, you're shit out of luck if an EMP knocks out the power for 6 months.

The name of the town means water rock.

Pahrump has a significant aquifer, so much so that others are eyeing it.

[url]http://www.pahrump-nevada.com/living-in-pahrump.html/url]

The word Pahrump, a Paiute term, has been interpreted to mean "water rock" or "place where big waters flow". Reports show that the Pahrump Valley sits above a huge aquifer of approximately 22 million acre-feet of water. Settlers first appeared in about 1875 and a Pahrump township was created by a small group in 1892. Cotton and grapes were grown for a number of years but the area didn't kick-off until after the Las Vegas road (now Nevada Highway 160) was paved in 1954. Power arrived in 1963 and telephones in 1965.

[Sean92008]

You women Heather loyalists don't get it, do you?

Men will stick their babymaker into most anything female human, and living...  It's nature.

Our brain in our heads (not our trousers) look at the circumstances and make the final decision.  If Heather were perceived as a warm, caring, intelligent, stable, humorous woman, I'd love to create an insemination moment...  Thing is, she's not a connecting type of personality.  If she's cray, stay away...

Yeah, other things factor in the fuckable category (hygiene, morbid obesity - but both of those fall into the mental health category ultimately).

Heather just doesn't connect.  Something is wrong and she's in the wrong profession.  She should look into being a coven  mistress. I hear there's an opening at the Unnamed Coven.

[Rhucus]

https://artbelllegacy.com/bumper_music.htm

Looks like someone feel asleep or they ran out of money for royalties in the S'es. At least the Statlers got in there. I bet Dave is jealous of all her bumper music.

Stops at Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years"... seems very apt 

[Metron2267]

If I were Airyn, I’d get the fuck out of Dodge.

And uproot Asia from her friends and schoolmates so soon after losing her father?

Pahrump may not be Vegas and that may be a very good thing.

[21st Century Man]

The name of the town means water rock.

Pahrump has a significant aquifer, so much so that others are eyeing it.

[url]http://www.pahrump-nevada.com/living-in-pahrump.html/url]

The word Pahrump, a Paiute term, has been interpreted to mean "water rock" or "place where big waters flow". Reports show that the Pahrump Valley sits above a huge aquifer of approximately 22 million acre-feet of water. Settlers first appeared in about 1875 and a Pahrump township was created by a small group in 1892. Cotton and grapes were grown for a number of years but the area didn't kick-off until after the Las Vegas road (now Nevada Highway 160) was paved in 1954. Power arrived in 1963 and telephones in 1965.

Cool, thanks for the info.  You could dig a well there then.

[Sean92008]

And uproot Asia from her friends and schoolmates so soon after losing her father?

Pahrump may not be Vegas and that may be a very good thing.

At the end of the school year, before high school, they really need to get out of the place. Heather alone, failing to answer the question about if she was having an affair with AB is enough.

The innuendo and crash and burn that Heather is/was will have an affect on Asia because kids (even teens) don't have the finely developed filters, plus kids can be vicious.

Pahrump is a fishbowl.  Poop gets around.

[Christ on a Bike]

Heather just doesn't connect.  Something is wrong and she's in the wrong profession.  She should look into being a coven  mistress. I hear there's an opening at the Unnamed Coven.

Didn't she sell bus tickets one time? Among her 40 something jobs?

If it wasn't for Art, lets face it, she'd be lying in a trailer somewhere off her tits on meth

[bellNwhistle]

And uproot Asia from her friends and schoolmates so soon after losing her father?

Pahrump may not be Vegas and that may be a very good thing.

That’s really the biggest negative, for whatever bits of their life we know about. Pulling Asia from school and friends, especially when she needs stability. Rough for Airyn, regardless. She’s a young widow. Single mom. Nutty neighbor, only one of her worries.

[Sean92008]

Didn't she sell bus tickets one time? Among her 40 something jobs?

If it wasn't for Art, lets face it, she'd be lying in a trailer somewhere off her tits on meth

Who says she isn't doing that right now?  She's got the trailer already...

[WhiteCrow]

https://youtu.be/3OFOZQ6pMGo

[Metron2267]

That’s really the biggest negative, for whatever bits of their life we know about. Pulling Asia from school and friends, especially when she needs stability. Rough for Airyn, regardless. She’s a young widow. Single mom. Nutty neighbor, only one of her worries.

On the plus side she has by now a decent support system including Karen and even the Sheriff's office.

Plus the cost of living is low, but prospects for baby Alex may portend a relocation.

I would think replanting Asia and her young son might be appropriate at some point, maybe even next year and if so marketing the property and antenna farm to a knowledgable ham shouldn't be a chore, regardless of how cheap they can act at swap meets.

They're all so young and options abound if need be.

Is Larry King still popping out replicas?

Radio guys sure like to propagate...