This is best review of movie have read. Gonna hafta see it at movie theater now.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Just keep writing!  I know it’s a cliche, but it will help to strengthen your portfolio and hopefully put you into a career in writing (if that’s what you’re looking to do).

Art’s Coast to Coast AM was something special on late night talk radio. He gave nearly everyone equal respect, but it was often clear that he was allowing some of it just for the entertainment value as much as anything. He never seemed to take anything excessively seriously.

Thanks! I majored in creative writing at LSU during Dubya’s first term, but all I’ve done since then is ride a desk and look at Excel spreadsheets.

Damn, this is very relatable.  Are you a writer?  You captured a moment beautifully!

That was Art Bell’s premiere talent: having all manner of craziness as guests and callers and taking it all with the gravity & sincerity that you’d expect from a Murrow or Cronkite. Nobody’s going to ever confuse Alex Jones with anyone but the loudmouth uncle they try to avoid at family reunions, but Art Bell had the…

His show was from an era where this shit was ultimately benign

I loved listening to this show when I was a graveyard shift baker. My boss turned me onto it. We used to listen every night and laugh our asses off at how crazy these people sounded, and it was the only time he wasn’t a raging asshole. Master bakers (lol) are exactly how they are portrayed on screen, raging assholes.…

Nothing like driving home, and realizing the night was so successful, you could put Art Bell on the radio

I’m not sure, but I always wondered what he thought of Alex Jones’ right-wing, cranked-up-to-11 version of his show.  Crazy conspiracies flourish on both shows, but the key difference is the approach.  Alex Jones tells you that you can’t trust anyone but him (and the small coterie of insiders that he endorses); Art…

My mom loved Art Bell and would let me stay up in the summer to listen with her when I was an pre-teen. Then when I was a rebellious teen and didnt want to spend any time with my parents I stopped. After she passed away I was going through her things and found a bunch of tapes episodes of Art Bell. I realized that she…

SO many memories of catching this one late at night, at a young enough age where I didn’t have the saavy to realize that not everything on the radio was in fact true, and I remember being so unnerved by it all.  And that opening music theme still gives me shivers when I hear it.  

When I was a kid I used to be able to pick up a station in Washington state all the way up in northern Canada; only at night and in the winter. At our ranch we had two TV channels and (in the daytime) two radio stations, so finding Art Bell felt like a clandestine pirate radio broadcast. I was accessing not only…

He was a national treasure.

what earned her the star, obviously. :)

If your place of business is so busy that people leave a bad review I don’t see how bad reviews are a problem.

Actually, “the bar was busy and loud” is exactly the kind of thing other people need to know. Maybe it’s not fair to ding the actual rating but if I’m not in the mood for busy & loud, I know to go somewhere else. It’s less a criticism of the place than a description of the experience.

People are reviewing your winery accurately (ie., the reviews say “it’s really busy and loud” and you yourself admit that it’s really busy and loud) and rating it 4/5 and you’re somehow upset? Damm what do you expect from people?

I got a Goop notification for this?