[Nowhere Man]

IMO, he went round the bend in '93.
I had listened to him nightly when his show was political.

I first found him in early 1995 tuning around the AM band DXing as I had trouble sleeping from the pain of a car accident I was in and on medica leave. Art kept me company many a night. Back then, IIRC, that was at the tail end of the Brady Bill passing in 1994 and it was still a hot topic. I liked it when the show was directed by the callers although having guests were cool too. I remember the political stuff, I always laughed so hard when "Dr. Democrat" and "Charlie Liberal" called up as well as his battles with J.C. from Texas who says, "he will burn in Hell." I also remember when Hale-Bopp was big too. As to Art, I'm wondering about him, but the only thing is to wait and see, maybe he will be happy and so forth, but I do concur, it is a bit sudden.

[ravinson]

It sounds like Art is jumping into a relationship based purely on lust, but I wish him luck. I'm more worried about his show. He'll be broadcasting in the middle of the day from a highrise in a huge urban area after years on the late night shift in his desert hideaway. I'm afraid he'll be out of touch with what's happening in North America, and won't there be an annoying overseas delay when he's talking to callers and guests?

I predict that he comes back within a year -- probably without his child bride.

[onyx]

I started listening to him sometime in the 80's (86, 87, 88?)--- his show kept me company on drives between San Diego and Las Vegas.

I remember Charlie the Lib and the others you mentioned, but I really despised the jerk from Joshua Tree (doc?). Art let me debate him one night and I buried him. Oh how he hated the fact that a woman had bested him...lol.

IMO, Art'a abject loneliness trumped his better judgment and he ran off to a world of idyllic make believe to short circuit his grief. I hope the marriage brings him happiness. He's fooling himself when he said that she had no idea if he had money or if he was as poor as a church mouse.