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#91
Quote from: Sean92008 on April 26, 2018, 07:14:04 PM
God, that negative shows just how stacked he was...

#92
Quote from: albrecht on April 26, 2018, 07:04:11 PM
A lot of the people who invented and made millions off the stuff admit they keep their own children off social media, internet, gaming, etc or severely limit it. Some of them have come out and admitted the societal problems it is causing, even for adults.

The "like button inventor" being the most notorious.
#93
Quote from: chefist on April 26, 2018, 05:34:19 PM
No one got a, "how's the tombstone design coming along?" in there I guess...

Genius.

Quote from: Grifynne on April 26, 2018, 05:37:19 PM
I kinda want to see it...for realz.

I was disappointed to learn that this "Bigsby" had nothing to do with building actual Atlas rockets (a graphic designer at the time), nevertheless:


#94
Quote from: K_Dubb on April 26, 2018, 05:31:33 PM
Sean pointed out that, in his experience living around celebrities, their deaths are treated as being in the public interest and news is released within 12 hours.  In light of this, Art's family's expectations were unreasonable considering how egregious it would have been if the real vultures (TMZ, etc.) had gotten to the story first.

Very slight FIFY.
#95
Quote from: Sean92008 on April 26, 2018, 05:20:49 PM
The show must have really sucked then, I totally dropped so many balls on that call...

And I wish I would have used a line like "I guess it would have been better for TMZ to have announced it than the sheriff, huh?"

Even if you didn't word it exactly that way, you did successfully make the point.
#96
Quote from: bateman on April 26, 2018, 04:56:25 PM
WTF is going on now? I can’t get away from this place for more than an hour or 2 without all hell breaking loose again.

Quote from: Element 115 on April 26, 2018, 04:57:08 PM
https://tunein.com/radio/KNYE-951-s34412/  Karen at KNYE is taking calls about Art.

Anon and Sean92008 made it through.  Sean went hard, hit way too close to home and Karen hung up on him.  She gave a weak (and outright bizarre) excuse about Art's immediate family being "hard to reach."
#97
Quote from: PurpleChirple on April 26, 2018, 04:51:54 PM
Way to go Sean!   ;D ;D

This x20,000,000,000.
#98
Quote from: Dr. MD MD on April 26, 2018, 03:28:33 PM
I don't. What if you were in a lot of pain and discomfort and the prognosis was that it was only going to get worse and you're already in your 70s? It's a descision some, if not many of us might have to face ourselves one day.

Tony Scott and Robin Williams are two recent somewhat-similar high profile cases.  If he did commit suicide.

I can't remember Art's specific on-air thoughts about it but I know he was deeply effected by the 90's suicide-redemption movie What Dreams May Come.
#99
Quote from: GravitySucks on April 26, 2018, 03:18:28 PM
Not on the air. He wanted to believe. Probably became catholic to marry Airyn.

Someone (Sean?) pointed out the poncho Art wore at the wedding, a (characteristically Manileño) symbol of Catholic conversion.
#101
Quote from: popple on April 26, 2018, 01:19:11 PM
I heard Heather was furious the cemetery tried to put a temporary name marker on Art's grave until she was done designing the headstone.

"All I wanted for him was a 1:1 scale replica of Coral Castle.  Or failing that, his own Great Pyramid.  'You're crazy,' they said.  'Go home,' they said.  Yeah you know they said space travel could never happen either.  Vultures.  GOSH."

#102
Quote from: Theadora on April 25, 2018, 12:39:42 PM
I got the definite impression, that Keith and Heather were significant others. 

#103
Quote from: mv on April 25, 2018, 12:30:09 PM
She was not barred from the funeral.

Yikes.  Voluntary absence.

#104
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Heather Wade BellGab AMA...
April 25, 2018, 12:14:22 PM
Have you ordered new vanity plates for the Geo Metro?

#105
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Heather Wade BellGab AMA...
April 25, 2018, 11:36:00 AM
#106
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Art Bell
April 25, 2018, 11:12:36 AM
Quote from: ItsOver on April 25, 2018, 11:07:10 AM
Meanwhile, in other Art Bell related news.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/father-disco-moroder-still-behind-decks-aged-78-020908624.html

"But the Italian says his best memory dates back to 1979 when he won his first Oscar for the soundtrack to prison drama Midnight Express."



Did Art ever give a backstory about this choice?  Haven't seen the movie in years but I remember it as one of the best cinematic depictions of justifiable paranoia and panic.
#107
Quote from: mv on April 24, 2018, 06:12:53 PM
"Probably more enjoyable than listening to me."

Dripping with insincerity and resentment.

Whoa.

Willfully ignorant of her sound since the Gabcast days.  The comment is one thing; that voice has gotten objectively unlistenable.
#108
Quote from: ponyboysunset on April 24, 2018, 04:19:55 PM
I thought it used to say with Heather Wade? On the front page.
PS the chipmunk never gets old. I luvs it.  ;D

Also still getting this.

Cleared my cache.  Strange.
#109
Quote from: ponyboysunset on April 24, 2018, 04:05:46 PM
Holy shit Heather’s name is not on the home page of MITD.

This thing's still showing up for me.  Does it not count?
#111
Quote from: sydtron on April 23, 2018, 01:44:54 PM
Jesus.  They just poured Tannerite on a dumpster fire.


#112
Quote from: Lord Grantham on April 23, 2018, 01:22:17 PM
They've done that thing they did for Roger Ebert where they took all the clips of his voice and made an Art Bell text to speech translator.

The software is called Lyrebird and I'm surprised no one's tried it with Art, yet.
#113
Quote from: GravitySucks on April 23, 2018, 01:45:13 AM
Surely you jest. WTF has taken 40 years and the armies and air forces of the Soviet Union and NATO to almost kind of sort of somewhat harass a bunch of opium smoking goat herders?

I believe geologists refer to it as the Hindu Kush, or sometimes as the upper portion of Earth's tallest and most rugged mountain range.

A war of attrition is an interesting posture to adopt as a positive case; it can't escape your notice that "goat herders," or in a different war's context, rice farmers, are the level of survival you're signing on for when electing to bring your guns to the drone/fighter jet/submarine/Abrams tank fight.

Don't mean to ensnare us in a loop, GravitySucks.  Knowing me, I'm probably wrong.  I just find the questions interesting.  Hope you do too.
#114
Quote from: GravitySucks on April 23, 2018, 01:31:55 AM
...yet

I think the underlying point is that Lockheed Martin's toys are always going to beat Sig Sauer's.  Know what I mean?  So in effect the Second Amendment -- or the commonest reason for invoking it -- hasn't had any teeth since oh about the end of WWI.

Remember Art's Black Hawk test flight in Alaska?  The nanometric infrared detectors that are better than x-ray vision and at thousands of yards?  You're just not going to win if They want to get you, so don't pretend that's the reason you collect firearms.  Own up to the fact that the gunlust is in fact mostly unreasonable and inexplicable, like love.

I'd wager that doing so would completely melt progressive antagonism.
#115
Quote from: GravitySucks on April 23, 2018, 01:18:12 AM
Trivial based on the data you just provided. I don’t drink. Or smoke. And none of my guns have killed anyone.

#116
Radio and Podcasts / Re: George Knapp
April 23, 2018, 01:08:04 AM
Quote from: TigerLily on April 23, 2018, 01:00:47 AM
Si, señor. aka California's version of the Redneck Riviera

The Log from the Sea of Cortez is up there with my favorite books.  Incredible that to this day some of the scientific literature on Baja's natural history is "written by John Steinbeck."
#117
Radio and Podcasts / Re: George Knapp
April 23, 2018, 12:48:02 AM
Quote from: TigerLily on April 23, 2018, 12:34:56 AM
I grew up in LA then moved to San Diego. Serious light pollution. My first night in my Mexico house, went out on the front porch, looked up and saw the Milky Way. Great stargazing

Can't be urban Mexico, then.  Baja?

Quote from: Nebraska888 on April 23, 2018, 12:34:56 AM
The Milky Way shines above my home like a rainbow all sumner.  My backyard is dark and gives me great viewing of the night sky.  My own little heaven.  Rural Nebraska has great dark skies.

Quote from: zeebo on April 23, 2018, 12:31:16 AM
For awhile I lived in a pretty remote Pac. NW valley.  I'd never seen actual dark skies like that, where the Milky Way just jumps out at you, it's so obvious.  Invested in a decent telescope and spent many joyous evenings learning the night sky.  First time I saw Andromeda (and it's two satellite galaxies), that really put things on context.   8)

While we're sharing: the darkest skies I've encountered are at sea (tho not optimal for telescope tripod stability!) and the Pacific-facing (Western) shores of the uninhabited Channel Islands.

#118
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Art Bell
April 22, 2018, 11:53:26 PM
Quote from: CoolTen10 on April 22, 2018, 11:46:40 PM
Link to some revelations:

Nothing newer than 2016.
#119
Yeah, sure, I'd willingly enter this "Orgone darkroom with human-sized oracs":



(Third image down: https://www.theothersideofmidnight.com/20180422_jamesdemeo/ )
#120
Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 22, 2018, 09:37:22 AM
Cheers. I went flying for the first time in two years on thursday.. I was very rusty. But was a fun day out and met some new flying buddies. This is where we were. I took four overlapping photos and the software stitched them together to make a panorama.

Fantastic!

What do you fly?

Also, hello, glad to meet you.
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