[dennisw]

They'll live and broadcast from the Philippines but I'm sure they will live in the USA 2 months of the year once the dust settles. Art might leave his Nevada compound for good. Too many memories

[csvset]

Well at least Art didn't ask his dying wife for a divorce.

I hope it works out for him.

[foolscap]

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[HairOfTheDog]

What to think? I dunno.

I think Art Bell has always been whacked, and a little too weird for me to 'get' most of the time. The gushing and the love songs sound a little hard to bear, I'm sure I'd have turned it off.

Many want to criticize him for his choices here... both because she is very young and Phillipa, and also because his wife died only recently.

On the one hand, I'm don't think highly of men who seek young foreign brides. I think they do it to find a wife who has all the qualities of a Golden Retriever. Goldens are nice dogs, but they're a lazy trainer's dog... you don't have to be a good master in order for them to worship you. :~D Not sure where the men who regularly proclaim the desirability of young foreign mail order brides on other threads are...

On the other hand, much of the criticism seems to dwell on the time since his wife's death. I have no reason to fault him on that. I take it, from reading the thread, that one of Art Bell's favorite slogans is "life is short". Well, for someone his age who has seen death, I think he knows how true that is. My mom married a great man after my folks divorced, and they had a great marriage. He was terrific for her and to her while she had cancer and died. A few months after my mom's death, he became involved with a woman who had been an acquaintance of both of them while my mom was alive. While she was younger than he, she was at least in the 'cover the grey' phase of life, she wasn't two generations younger. I didn't particularly like her, but I was polite and very happy for him to have found another chance at companionship in his old age. I don't wish loneliness on anyone. He died suddenly less than a year after my mom did. How long should he have grieved?

John O.... can't help but ping you to this thread.

[GoRepGo]

Since, evidently there is no divorce in the Phillipines,... you don't suppose there was any need for a prenup?

[newsworthy]

"The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."

[djf]

I like Art and the show, but man, this is just way to weird. I remember hearing him on the show a few weeks ago saying he was going east for a while.

I knew that he was going to the Phillipines, but figured it was more on a mission to find out about the culture and history of Ramona.

Isn't it, in general, kind of a good idea to get to know the person you marry for more than like a week?

[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, I heard Art Bell yesterday where he got remarried and he is moving to the Phillipines. I still like the guy but I wonder if he is running on all eight cylinders. He's selling off all his things, giving up his cats and so on. I could never give up my kitties, heck, we spent almost $800/$1000 on one of our cats, Greystone, to keep him alive only to lose him yesterday to his kidney failure. I wish the guy happiness but him to do this, there is a side of my wondering if he is acting a bit loopy. I'll still listen and let time and myself judge on that one.

[Sam Cree]

So, is she on her knees in that picture? And wtf is Art wearing mosquito netting?

[Mike Darancette]

The fear of loneliness after years of companionship can be very strong.

[wolficatZ]

Art can do whatever the heck he wants to.

What a low rent,trashy headline.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Well, that was quick. Didn't take long to get the new wife.

[Minutemen]

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