Art Bell

[onan]

lol ok, up to page 60 now - I am by no means the most experienced internet communicator out there, but this is CLASSIC stuff, incorporating every web cliche i've ever heard of in one sprawling, oozing stain!

we've had-
the innocent question (what happened to Art?)
information filtering in,
rumours circulating,
rampant speculation,
the 'quiet period',
the 'just when you thought it was all over' moment (x1000)
the well-known 'hitler moment' (can't remember when exactly but it was before page 30)
the lesser-known-but-gaining-in-popularity 'obama moment'
the 'child molester' moment (eeeewwww)
various troll/countertroll unmaskings and general intrigue
...

did I forget anything?

I fking LOVE this site, can I be your friend?

(ignore my sarcastic sig below, I'm serious)

right, back for the last installment, then maybe i can get on with my life

You sir, are getting uncomfortably close to insinuating that we as a group are perhaps irrational.
I will have you know, that all our opinions are solidly grounded in ill-concieved notions and hyperbole. And for you to suggest that this is somehow entertainment... well... erm... is probably the most accurate posting so far... Damn you and kudos.

[JustOneFix]

I fking LOVE this site, can I be your friend?

(ignore my sarcastic sig below, I'm serious)

right, back for the last installment, then maybe i can get on with my life

I was the same way when I first ran across the almighty Coastgab site here. I compare it to a gathering of friends- like minded friends at that.

[Eddie Coyle]

the 'child molester' moment (eeeewwww)

   For clarity's sake...a Mass Murdering child molester allusion was made. No mere diddler!

[b_dubb]

hey did you guys hear that Art Bell quit Coast?

[onan]

hey did you guys hear that Art Bell quit Coast?

GTFO...no way

[BobGrau]

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love this guy. sort of.

(only up to page 70 tho, who knows what'll happen next?)

[aldousburbank]

(only up to page 70 tho, who knows what'll happen next?)

Careful where you sit.

[Harmness]

Yeah, you never know where an alien might have jacked off Whitley Strieber.

[onan]

Yeah, you never know where an alien might have jacked off Whitley Strieber.

Maybe we have found a career path for noory.


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[BobGrau]

...finished... all eighty.six.damn.pages :O

...I feel... I dunno, cleansed, almost.

[Fly By Night]

Omy, at the FF2 page Art is talking about buying a house in Manila. I wonder what color it will be. I bet he is going to put a studio in it and start a new show. Then he will grow unicorns out of his rainbow machine of love.

[b_dubb]

hey Devo deserves more respect than that guys! COME ON!!!!

[Eddie Coyle]

   I wish Marc Knight was here to put Fort Rock's face on Booji Boy...

[anagrammy]

Here's the thing, boys n girls.  The various shadow Arts do not sound like Art.  There I said it.  This post is not an investigative installment, more like when you raise your hand at a "celebration of life" and share a moment you remember that is reminiscent of the deceased.

Since the persona of Art on C2C is deceased, (moustache gone, cigarette missing, pastel polyester instead of black leather) I take us back to the Dr. Jonathon Reed show where in hour 1 Art is dealing with a threatening listener.  Noory dismisses them "you'll always have haters out there--I just ignore them and think of the many more who love this show..." thus sucking all the fun out of yet another opportunity to create interest in Something Wicked This Way Comes, leaving us drowning in doom warnings and efood commercials.

Art leans into the microphone and whispers "I have a ring...(pause)"  Which reminds me that there are no pauses for effect in the George Noory version of Coast, which I am renaming Postcoast because it is more like a wax statue of itself, ala Madame Tussaud's.

"Not this ring because this is a special one. Ramona has one just like it... No, this is a special ring which he can kiss.  Who?  I'll fill you in after the break.  It's something I'm going through and I just have to share it with my Coast audience, because... well, that's me"  BREAK FOR COMMERCIAL during which time I run to the bathroom, run to the kitchen, grab a soft drink and me and a few other listeners have now turned the radio up and have moved closer.

"Hello, this is Coast to Coast and you are listening to Art Bell from the Kingdom of Nye.... in the high desert... now, we were talking about Mr. Collins (I might have the name wrong), who has threatened me--YES!  (voice goes up) THREATENED ME!  He said he knew where I would be for my book signing.  That's certainly not surprising since I have announced it on the air numerous times and Mr. Collins, if you are listening, I'm going to be at Barnes and Noble, in Long Island, New York on Sycamore Street --um, um 1224 Sycamore St. (address made up) at 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time. (pause)

Does he think I'm afraid of him (derisive laughter)?   The ring, ah, yes, I have this ring with is imprinted... with human....buttocks, so that when he kisses it he will know what he is kissing!  And if you are a member of the Coast family and can possibly make it to Barnes and Noble, you will personally view this kissing as I'm sure Mr. Collins will be there, won't he?  Or will he?
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This is not the Art Bell of one of the three Facebook pages who said, "Airyn said it would be cute if I put up this picture."  Or any of the other monosyllabic entries with random capitalizations in the middle of sentences.  Such as "It's been rainy here and now it stopped."  The idea that Art would post about the weather when he could be on his beloved ham radio chatting it up with buds that he actually knows-- nah.  He may have Airyn doing it for legal reasons, but why should Art give a crap if he's truly retired?  And anybody can see that he has chosen a good path for him and, like most of us, you get tired of the drama.

I'm retired and trust me, you don't buy back into it once you are free.  He has relative anonymity there after living in the glare of the spotlight all of his damn life.  All this hubub that we fans are doing remind me of the Elvis Lives phenomenon, which goes on to this very day.

Art has left the building and I'm enjoying his old performances and bumper music as part of a bygone era that I can still appreciate.  PLUS we have the opportunity of bouncing over to other sites to catch up on Dr. Jonathon Reed or Michio Kaku and get an update.  We certainly can't count on getting one at C2C, which is like expecting a grossly obese elderly cat to keep your barn free of mice.  Aint gonna happen.

Anagrammy

[onan]

So when is Art coming back?

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[anagrammy]

testing

love this guy. (Fort Rock) sort of.

(only up to page 70 tho, who knows what'll happen next?)

Hi Bob and welcome.  As you can see, Fort Rock is the Satan in our Garden of Eden of baseless hope....heh heh.  As long as one pseudo Art says he's moving to Subic Bay and the other says he's buying a house in Manila, well, we're still in business here on Speculation Night Live.

Anagrammy

[Treading Water]

we're still in business here on Speculation Night Live.

Anagrammy

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahaha.  Just what I needed after a really crappy week.

Just got my electricity back after some rather nasty weather.  And...........here it comes again.   See you guys later.

[Camper]

If the world was really going to come to an end in 2012, I'd love for Art to come back and take us for the ride. Just sayin...

[anagrammy]

If the world was really going to come to an end in 2012, I'd love for Art to come back and take us for the ride. Just sayin...

Yes, Camper... in my fantasy Art would host an Open Lines show for callers to request comments on current events.  I would like to hear Art's take on Katrina, tornado increase, killing of OBL, new Area 51 book, etc.

If he would go on Knapp's show every 6 months or so (not Coast, his other one), I could die happy.....

Anagrammy

[Fly By Night]

Art liked to talk about parallel universes. For a happy thought think that somewhere art is interviewing a ghost 2 ghost guest while stocked in NV

[Eddie Coyle]

    The Wiccan Fort Rock purposely set up the "late April" announcement on the eve of Walpurgis. His little way of having fun before the holiday...the bastard

[Jackpine Savage]

In my opinion, Art lost his edge when he began to focus on environmentalist doom-and-gloomism.

It may be right, it may be wrong, but either way it translates into boring-ass radio. Like a Snoory show about health supplements. If environmental talk was catching, Al Gore would be a rock star.

[MV/Liberace!]

In my opinion, Art lost his edge when he began to focus on environmentalist doom-and-gloomism.

It may be right, it may be wrong, but either way it translates into boring-ass radio. Like a Snoory show about health supplements. If environmental talk was catching, Al Gore would be a rock star.

gotta agree.  when this era of art began, i started drifting away from the show.  it wasn't a conscious decision on my part.  it just worked out that way. 


i think he became swept up in a movement that is less about science and more about professional peer pressure and intimidation, anti capitalist sentiment, and a global desire to weaken the united states.  i'm not saying art himself believes in any of that, but for whatever reason, he's hitched his wagon to that movement.  disappointing, but it wouldn't be the first time.


i never could accept art's oft-repeated refrain of, "i don't care if it's man's hand or not. something's happening and we need to do something about it."  well, sorry art... but reality isn't that simple.  if we plan to "do something" about this "something" we purportedly have upon us, particularly if it means the heavy handed imposition of new environmental restrictions, confiscatory tax penalties on commerce, and the abridgment of property rights, we need to be certain of what the cause is first.  scratch that.  we need to be certain climate change (as defined by al gore types) even IS happening. 


on the pro CC side, all i see are selectively chosen satellite images and a deceptive "documentary" pieced together by a former vice president who has a direct financial interest in forcing a carbon trading system upon us.  oh, and there was that shitty day after tomorrow movie based on pseudoscience and content from art and whitley's fictional book.  well then.  stand back while i reconsider my position on this matter.  jeeze.


in the 1970s the supposed phenomenon was called "global cooling."  apparently freezing to death wasn't enough to motivate confiscatory taxation, so fast forward 20 years when verbal muscle memory shifts to "global warming."  what a bunch of assholes.  fast forward yet ANOTHER 10 years and we're all vomiting the term "climate change."  yeah, climate change.  sure, an all encompassing term like "climate change" should REALLY cover all future enviro-vacillations... be they up or down, big or small. 


no matter what you want to call it, the solution to the "problem" inevitably involves my money being stolen by rich, elite, inbred globalists... either directly or indirectly.  i find that to be more than coincidental, and i consider suggestions otherwise to be offensive. 


yup, the jury's in... there's no reason to debate any longer... and you're supposed to blindly accept the notion that the earth's climate would naturally undergo ZERO deviation but for the interference and irresponsibility of man.  uhh... ever heard of an ice age?  we were still in one until approximately 10,000 years ago.  in geological and climatic terms, 10,000 years is a blip... it's a fart... and as we stand here today, the most (and few) obvious signs of this long lost climatic era are some polluted lakes and a submerged boat which gordon lightfoot weaved into a tidy paycheck.


the next person who tells me "the science is in" on "climate change" is going to receive a shin to the groin.


as you were.

[morphiaflow]

Art's latest cryptic post from his Facebook page (yes Ana I know you remain skeptical...)

"The quickening is rapidly moving now on all fronts for anybody with open eyes"

This is a few posts above his asking aid in bringing down 2 other fake Art pages.

I don't know if he's talking about the environment, global politics, social change, or...Coast itself...but, it IS interesting.

Just FYI...

[Fly By Night]

Michael, spot on with your view of "Global warming". I always wanted to ask AlGore or Art if the ice age was ended because woolly mammoths were driving SUVs, or if perhaps a better explanation is the Earth goes though cyclical climates on its own.

[BobGrau]

what bothers me about the concept of 'climate change' or whatever we're calling it this week is, it tends to shout down the concept of 'uhh maybe dumping toxic waste in the water supply is a bad idea'.

The toilet is blocked, yet we argue about who left the seat up.

[anagrammy]

gotta agree.  when this era of art began, i started drifting away from the show.  it wasn't a conscious decision on my part.  it just worked out that way. 


i think he became swept up in a movement that is less about science and more about professional peer pressure and intimidation, anti capitalist sentiment, and a global desire to weaken the united states.  i'm not saying art himself believes in any of that, but for whatever reason, he's hitched his wagon to that movement.  disappointing, but it wouldn't be the first time.


i never could accept art's oft-repeated refrain of, "i don't care if it's man's hand or not. something's happening and we need to do something about it."  well, sorry art... but reality isn't that simple.  if we plan to "do something" about this "something" we purportedly have upon us, particularly if it means the heavy handed imposition of new environmental restrictions, confiscatory tax penalties on commerce, and the abridgment of property rights, we need to be certain of what the cause is first.  scratch that.  we need to be certain climate change (as defined by al gore types) even IS happening. 


on the pro CC side, all i see are selectively chosen satellite images and a deceptive "documentary" pieced together by a former vice president who has a direct financial interest in forcing a carbon trading system upon us.  oh, and there was that shitty day after tomorrow movie based on pseudoscience and content from art and whitley's fictional book.  well then.  stand back while i reconsider my position on this matter.  jeeze.


in the 1970s the supposed phenomenon was called "global cooling."  apparently freezing to death wasn't enough to motivate confiscatory taxation, so fast forward 20 years when verbal muscle memory shifts to "global warming."  what a bunch of assholes.  fast forward yet ANOTHER 10 years and we're all vomiting the term "climate change."  yeah, climate change.  sure, an all encompassing term like "climate change" should REALLY cover all future enviro-vacillations... be they up or down, big or small. 


no matter what you want to call it, the solution to the "problem" inevitably involves my money being stolen by rich, elite, inbred globalists... either directly or indirectly.  i find that to be more than coincidental, and i consider suggestions otherwise to be offensive. 


yup, the jury's in... there's no reason to debate any longer... and you're supposed to blindly accept the notion that the earth's climate would naturally undergo ZERO deviation but for the interference and irresponsibility of man.  uhh... ever heard of an ice age?  we were still in one until approximately 10,000 years ago.  in geological and climatic terms, 10,000 years is a blip... it's a fart... and as we stand here today, the most (and few) obvious signs of this long lost climatic era are some polluted lakes and a submerged boat which gordon lightfoot weaved into a tidy paycheck.


the next person who tells me "the science is in" on "climate change" is going to receive a shin to the groin.


as you were.

Absolutely! (sorry- couldn't resist)  You don't have to be particularly educated to get it right on this issue.  All you have to do is watch Nova.  Is not the human race the most adaptable creature?  Lives off the frozen ocean at the North Pole as well as in the Sahara desert.  The keyword is "adapt."  We adapted to nature's changes. 

One other constant that bears mentioning - man's ability to squeeze a living out of absolutely anything using fear.  I can imagine the first salesman wrapping some mud in some leaves and trading with other ape-humans, telling them it protects them from snake bites, hence, keeps them alive longer.  Then came along the shaman who improved on the idea by eliminating the product and replacing it with a service--their services, of course.  They brought the rain, they stopped tornados, they could protect you from he weather spirits for a price.

The hair is gone, mostly.  The loincloth has been replaced by a suit and scratching in the dirt is now a Power Point, but the game is the same.  Sell fear first, then your book, your product, your magic.

Man evolves, but some things are clearly hardwired.

Anagrammy

[Camper]

"The quickening is rapidly moving now on all fronts for anybody with open eyes"

Art was good at listening to opinions that were different from what he believed to be true except when it came to the quickening. If you don't believe then your eyes are closed.... 

Hey Art, if global havoc is near wouldn't you be better off hunkering down in your desert compound than living in a high rise in the big city?

[anagrammy]

Art's latest cryptic post from his Facebook page (yes Ana I know you remain skeptical...)

"The quickening is rapidly moving now on all fronts for anybody with open eyes"

This is a few posts above his asking aid in bringing down 2 other fake Art pages.

I don't know if he's talking about the environment, global politics, social change, or...Coast itself...but, it IS interesting.

Just FYI...

Hi M, I think he's responding to my chum in the water on several forums that these Facebook pages do not discuss anything substantive.  None of the subjects that Art loved.  My instinct is that Art would not bother to do trivia talk.  If he did jump on Facebook, it would be to keep in the mix on the paranormal, creepy, crypto, climate and alien stuff he was into all his life.  I held that he had never, ever uttered a substantive word on any of these pages, so they all seemed he same to me.

Then he mentions the quickening a day later.  Which means he is reading the forums, which I have always wondered.  If he left his fans without a proper goodbye, I can understand that given his previous retirements which ended up temporary.  Like getting married in a white dress with a veil and bridesmaids the first time and maybe the second time if enough years go by, but the third time no way.  You elope to Hawaii or Las Vegas and send everyone photos marked "thinking of you!"

Airyn has the Art Bell 2 page (photo of Art and Asia/blue) as a friend and none of the others.  This is the most convincing piece of evidence since she is the real deal for sure.  Her page accepts everyone just like Art's does, but Airyn gets privacy by speaking in her own language to family/friends. 

I do tend to question Art requesting aid to eliminate the fake-Art pages because his reaction to this kind of behavior in the past has been condescending.  For example, in 1998 Art was threatened by a disgruntled fan, Curtis Leland - threatened Art with a group protest at Today show.  Arts reaction was 

"Hahaha," a low laugh that was part growl. "You don't think that scares me, do you Leland?  ... I have a ring... and if you are good, you can kneel and....kiss it...(BREAK)  The ring is a special one, not this one I have on now--this is special because Ramona has one just like it-- No the ring I'm talking about is shaped like a human....buttocks so that when he kisses it, he will know what he is kissing."

Now, the General PM'd me and made a very good point.  He said I was confusing Art's art with Art.  It's true the radio persona of mystery is gone, having been hung up like a clown suit (who wears leather in the tropics after all?).  In thinking about separating Art from his art, my sense was that part of Art's success in connecting with such a large and loyal fan base was that he was real on the air.  Yes, there was theater involved and hype--Lord, that man would hype his own book like it was the sequel to the Bible, "...a collector's item in years to come, I guarantee it, possibly even a reference book!"  But theater aside, you felt like you connected to a human being who was not playing you for a fool, like you won't notice if the guest is a poser or a lunatic. 

Art did not base his self-esteem on what others thought and the idea that he would whine about someone pretending to be him and ask his fans to help him get rid of them?  No.  Somebody pretending to be him?  In my opinion, Art would say, "My fans can tell the difference.  People been trying to imitate me for years.  Sometimes even I get it wrong...heh heh."

Anagrammy

[JustOneFix]

Anagrammy-

I had not heard about that Curtis Leland threat, but the part about the ring I recall Phil Hendrie doing a segment about it. It was almost verbatim of what you posted. Let me dig around in my archives and find the file.