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From heavy.com:
Art Bell, the radio host, is dead. How did he die? The cause of death is not yet known.
From The Washington Post:
Long before fake news became a political topic, Mr. Bell made a good living encouraging Americans to accept the most fantastic and unlikely tales, to believe that we are not alone, to accept that in a world where the pace of life seemed to quicken with every passing year, there were forces from beyond that were trying to tell us something.
Sources:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/art-bell-dead-cause-of-death-dies-how/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/art-bell-mysterious-narrator-of-the-american-nightscape-is-dead-at-72/2018/04/14/b6f2b278-4015-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.7a7db7da9686
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Monday April 16 2018, @01:09AM (8 children)
I can relate to this. I was huge into paranormal stuff, listened to him, loved the xfiles, and generally nerded out on the internet during the web 1.0 days. Fun times. Good memories.
Maybe it's in my head, but I feel the culture and society was radically different pre 9/11. Shows like art bell wouldn't work today.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:51AM (6 children)
It's not in your head. Millennial culture demands obedience to authority, participation in social media, and virtue signalling on social media to show obedience to authority. GenXers who never lost the emo attitude of the 1990s, who are quietly confident instead of spamming social media about their lives, and who continue to show irreverence toward authority have no place in society. They don't work, literally, because they are middle aged homeless bums who are incapable of performing the requisite cocksucking to land a job.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:58AM (5 children)
quietly confident instead of spamming social media about their lives
Says the dude posting on the internet in a forum under AC...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:06AM (4 children)
You don't understand the meaning of quietly confident, do you? I post as AC because I know who I am and who I am doesn't matter. I make a bonfire of my reputation by not having a reputation. I am the exact polar opposite of MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD who spams his name everywhere and builds his reputation around his giant ego while disingenuously posting articles on his blog about making a bonfire of his reputation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:14AM (3 children)
FTFY! Sometimes weird is just not wierd enough.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:36AM (2 children)
MDC is ego manic. AC is emo depressive.
(Score: 2) by black6host on Monday April 16 2018, @03:45AM (1 child)
I'm glad this place is a small place, with personality. Where else would the initialism of MDC make sense?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:24AM
> Where else would the initialism of MDC make sense?
Wherever people know Roman numerals, you insipiens clod. :D
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday April 16 2018, @07:05PM
The show definitely still works. It's called "Coast to Coast AM" now, and it's still on. [coasttocoastam.com] Lots and lots of listeners.