Doesn't it seem during a time like this the best thing we could have is one last open lines.. hosted by Art Bell.. and the ability for us all to sit around the radio camp fire and tell tales long into the long.. Long into the darkness until the sun rises again. 
Yes.. that would be nice. . . 

Inquiring minds would love to know.. did Art go to the light, or avoid the big bug zapper in the sky!!

Heather Wade: I am in painful shock at the loss of my mentor in talk radio and my friend, Art Bell, today
Lionel: A hero. One of the most interesting talents in a cavalcade of boring.
Ian Punnett: He was always good to me
Whitley Streiber: He passed away peacefully in his sleep

RIP

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Art Bell dead on Friday the 13th


Bell died at his Pahrump, Nev., home, Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly announced in a Facebook post to the community. She described him as a “longtime resident” of the area and said an autopsy to confirm the cause of death would be performed later this week..

Washington POST: The mysterious narrator of the night is dead..

Reporting from USA TODAY..

BEST OF: The Area 51 caller..
As it happened: George Noory announcing the death of Art..
Best of: The Ghost to Ghost binge..

Art Bell dead at 72 on Friday the 13th

Fans across the word of the radio giant are overwhelmed with emotions at this hour. Art Bell, the legend of our time, has finally found an answer to his question of what happens when we leave this earthly dwellings.





Radio show host and long-time Pahrump resident Art Bell has died according to the Nye County Sheriff Department.  Bell was the original owner of the Pahrump-based radio station KNYE 95.1FM and was known across the U.S. and in Canada for his paranormal radio program, "Coast to Coast."  He passed away at his home in Pahrump at age 72.

With the history of Bell, perhaps Friday the 13th was actually the best time to meet a maker ... 
George Noory announced news during his Friday night Coast to Coast with his voice quivering..

Heather Wade surprisingly took off from Midnight in the Desert tonight.. this prior to the death being announced by the Sherrif..

George Knapp posted news online.. 

Clyde Lewis grieved on air during Ground Zero..

Ian Punnett and Dave Schrader also gave online condolences on the matter..

Punnet called into Coast to Coast AM last night commenting on the surreal nature of events... He relayed a brief story of how he was originally unsure if Art Bell even liked him as the Saturday host to begin with!

Whitley Streiber, arguably one of Art Bell's closest friends, was distraught when George Noory spoke to him last night. Streiber seemed shocked by the sudden nature of events, commenting that Bell seemed fine a day earlier when he spoke to him..

A law exists in the state that autopsies are performed on people who die in their homes. Same will occur in this case, it is reported.

Meanwhile, a slight scandal is developing between the Bell inner circle and the law enforcement from Nye County.. From the Midnight Facebook page:

The Nye County Sherrif was asked to NOT announce Art's passing by his wife, until an appropriate time. Airyn did not want the media exposure until she was ready. In fact some family members were not even notified. Why would Nye County Sherrif publicize Art's passing until the family was ready? They are a disgrace to the community and an assault to privacy. Those of us in Art's inner circle had a plan to inform the family and fans of Art's passing in an appropriate manner, and they took this away from us. Shame on Nye county sheriff department.
DEVELOPING..


The Tweet to War! Backtrack today?

Donald Trump has said he never revealed when an attack on Syria would take place, in what could be a stunning reversal from Wednesday's warning to Russia to "get ready" for US missiles. 

 "Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all!" he tweeted on Thursday morning. "In any event, the United States, under my Administration, has done a great job of ridding the region of ISIS. Where is our 'Thank you America?'." The latest volley from the US President came as the Kremlin claimed a special hotline for the US and Russian militaries to communicate about their operations in Syria was active and being used by both sides.

MEANWHILE FROM TIME: A new cover rebrandishing a 'stormy' White House as a sequel to its 2017 version *(that one minus the water*)

The life changing moments






This past week I learned that a truly wonderful person left this planet. She was a kind hearted who led her family through good times and bad.

I have had a bit of a writer’s block lately. I am going through a little bit of a transition myself.

The news couldn’t be more interesting. Donald Trump tweeting about FBI raids on his lawyer’s office due to a porn star scandal. How salacious can you get! A nude protester interrupting Bill Cosby’s trial! Mark Zuckerberg himself appearing before Congress to testify about giving away our secrets to third party companies and Russians! Disasters in the weather world! Major motion pictures! Winter storms!

And maybe it is just information overload.

I opened this post with a brief note about a friend, Kim, who passed away this week. When I met her my life was in a different place. Just after high school and a whole set of different people in my life than what exists now.

Seven year cycles.

There is a theory and belief among some that every seven years, your Chakra changes.

Seven seems to be the magic number. The time when your cells change. The time when your mind and spirit may as well.
0-7 Years7-14 Years14-21 Years21-28 Years28-35 Years35-42 Years 42-49 Years49-56 Years56-63 Years63-70 Years70-77 Years77-84 Years

The period I am in now seems accurate:


From the thirty-fifth to the forty-second year, depending upon one’s personality and what one’s circumstances allow, one begins to feel a new restlessness. In some degree a desire to share whatever one has gained through life with others comes to the surface.

Thus we find many successful business men building libraries, or aiding colleges and the arts at this period in their life. What has been developed or realised can be taken to greater subtlety during this period. This is almost like unfolding something, perhaps similar to the way a flower unfolds a bud that has been developing in earlier phases of its growth. This is when we reassess the results of what we are doing externally in our life. Our relationships, careers, habits and the ways we interact are all put under scrutiny and modified or changed. It’s a time of facing up to what does and what doesn’t satisfy us.

You may reach heights or realisation and creativity not touched previously. The profound breakthrough of ones innate genius that emerges around this time will no doubt be expressed in some degree. However, whatever is attained or realised will be enlarged and synthesised in later periods.

Perhaps this is why the writer’s block is coming to fruition. The culmination of a change.. Our relationships, careers, habits and the ways we interact are all put under scrutiny and modified or changed. It’s a time of facing up to what does and what doesn’t satisfy us.

Indeed it exist like that.. a time when, in this seven year cycle, a mall indeed is also being taken away from our very existence……memories written on walls that now crashed down.



As the seven year cycle evolves…

Cosby show


NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A topless protester with "Women's Lives Matters" written on her body in red ink charged at Bill Cosby Monday as he walked into a suburban Philadelphia courthouse for the start of his sexual assault retrial.

The woman jumped over a barricade and launched toward Cosby but was intercepted by sheriff's deputies. She was taken into custody and led away in handcuffs.

HISTORY