FIRST OF THE LAST!!!
First of the Last posts!!!

Would've been first had I not been on the other post reading about who should be the first person to post on this... post.

Post. Post. Post. Post. Post.

And guys, I'm in my lithography class right now and in a crystal clear moment I've figured out what I'm gonna work on for the next few days.... a few clues:

1. Philosopher Kings and Queens.
2. Working class heroes.
3. Progressive Utopians with no sense of humor.
4. NOT iron-on transfers.
5. Series.
6. Sending Marc one, once I'm done.
Submitted by Painting Girl on July 14, 2006 - 12:21pm. | reply | email this comment

Hey, buddy, what's up?

Bring the funny big time!

Let's land this thing. Gracefully and with a certain amount of dignity. With a plum!

And in the end, the love you take
is equal to the love you make

First of the Last posts!!!

Would've been first had I not been on the other post reading about who should be the first person to post on this... post.

Post. Post. Post. Post. Post.

And guys, I'm in my lithography class right now and in a crystal clear moment I've figured out what I'm gonna work on for the next few days.... a few clues:

1. Philosopher Kings and Queens.
2. Working class heroes.
3. Progressive Utopians with no sense of humor.
4. NOT iron-on transfers.
5. Series.
6. Sending Marc one, once I'm done.

the ride have been nothing but a class act all the way.....,

What a contrast with no-class-unfunny-dead-air-dancing-on-your-grave fucking franken "bringin' the unfunny" on AAR promos before you're even off the air.

  I sincerely hope you can swing a deal with Comedy Central for a show reflecting the great show (s) you gave birth to on radio.  Where ever you end up, we'll be there. Thank you for so many great funny moments, insightful interviews and showing heart and speaking truth- especially the truth.

A final thanks to you and all of the various players involved with MS and MMS. I have learned so much from your excellent interviews, and you always kept me laughing with the great bits and characters. As far as I'm concerned, your interviewing skills far surpass those of anyone in the MSM as well as on AAR. Thank you, thank you! Have a great last show - I'll be listening!! I hope you get your website back soon.

Thanks for the laughs and the turn-ons.

Cheers,
Blake

AAR replied to my complaint letter this morning to tell me:
"We plan to stay in contact with him for future opportunities as we see him as an important asset to this network."
Even now I'm not sure what reality they are living in.

Good luck on everything you do... I'll be watching and waiting to sign on.

Under The LobsterScope

Well Dammit!

I won't get to hear tonight's show 'til tomorrow - haven't heard yesterday's yet either - & I said before I'm in no particular hurry to be done with it all = (

I'm going to miss this thing SO much! I already said it all @ the end of MS, but these guys(& gals) created just  about the funniest shit I've heard on Radio since the Nat'l Lampoon Radio Hour.Wotta a great gathering of talent = )

*sniff* 

Thank you! Marc Maron!!!

&  (of course) THANK YOU! Jim Earl

& everybody else on the show as well  - I sincerely hope this won't be the last I hear of you all......

(posted this on the prior blog as well) 

I got the same email as btchakir. Here it is in its entirety:
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"Dear Dave:

Your email about Marc Maron was forwarded along to me, thank you so much for relaying your passion about Marc with us. As you know, his last show is tonight. Unfortunately we tried to make it work where he could return to NYC in a larger role and do a show out of NY where our infrastructure is, the show in LA was not under our control and was only web-based to the network-but he is unable to return to NYC at this time. We plan to stay in contact with him for future opportunities as we see him as an important asset to this network.

Thank you for your support and for being an Air America listener.

Hope you have a good weekend.

Best wishes,
Jaime Horn"

Sails are fluttering and wind is yar, so getting in it! 

It is always about the money.

A. Sorrow?

B. Disappointment?

C. Hope?

D. Gratitude?

D. All of the Above?

Sinton was always on our side but he's only one member of the board.

Done sorta in the tone of recovery corner, soft sorta sincere...
I don't know what to say. Good luck? trite. Get a job? Well you really are a stand up so I figure your used to that. Goodbye? Hope not, clearly not that good either. Will miss you? Overdone possibly insincere. How about, I hope the mother-fuckers who never gave you a fair shake regret it... boy that doesn't sound good either. This is hard. But I really loved having Marc Maron on Air America, it was a big draw to me and a hell of a lot more interesting than just humor or just politics can be, it's a damn good mix. Hopefully will not miss you for long and we can all get our Maron fix another way.

*****

Sucks, all day yesterday I couldn't get on any AAR site (except MR for some reason) couldn't get any of the podcasts)... lost power for like 3 hours. But I did manage to listen to part of the 3/18/05 Morning Sedition, since I had no recent podcasts, particularly Rapture Watch and the chat after was GREAT. So Jim, in my dark (literally) bitter hours with no food or power, stuck home because I coudn't open the garage from outside, lamenting the loss of the Marc Maron show, you reached out from the past and told Marc to enjoy his interview with Colonel Klink or that Chicken guy and made me laugh so hard I almost fell off the stool and actually killed myself. ;-)

Man! I have learned so much!

Your shows were the only ones on all of AAR that actually had interviews! All that is left now is an ocassional guest who just spreads more liberal talking points, and there aren't even any liberal talking point memos! They only address the topical issues of the current news day. They also have ranting and raving hosts whose primary job seems to be to disagree with callers, not unlike the 'popular' format of right wing radio.

Man! Who else would entertain Jim's notions of meat-eating being a political, nay, a greater-than-polotics-alone issue that effects us all, and then book a guest who was not already on-hand or on-call to address only today's news topics? Who else dug up info on decent transportation? (Since the interview with Ed Beagley and the electric-car guy I knew what to look for and actually found out that the owner of the Kenai, AK, Arby's apparently drives one of those vegetable oil deisels! Gonna get in touch with him!)

If I want to hear vehemently rhetorical diatribes, I can just tune in to Rush or O'Reilly and mentally negate everything I hear. The emotional rush will still be there, and I can root for the disconnected callers, and feel like I am the underdog all over again!

Boo to AAR! I want to learn!  I also want a little bit of The Funny! I don't want it strained and construed and assigned to short segments after the bumper and before the ranting again!

You guys re-invented radio, gave it class and an edge, something it hasn't had since the Thirties, and then it was pretty lame, but plenty inventive. AAR doesn't know what it is doing to itself.

Man! I'm mad! What do I do now? Go back to NPR's 'Science Friday,' 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me,' 'This American Life,' 'On the Media,' and 'Car Talk?' (Er, wait, not the last one, their podcast is a premium offer...)

Pulling out the MS MP3 CD's...

"...This is really the end for me at Air America Radio it seems."

IT SEEMS.

Interesting turn of a phrase there, Marc. IT SEEMS that somewhere in the back of your mind you know you'll be back. Maybe you don't have a conscious awareness of it. Maybe you can't imagine it. But it only SEEMS that it's the end of your relationship with Air America. It SEEMS to me the door is still open, that Air America still wants you, and that someday you'll be back.

That'll be sweet.

=====
"...George W. Bush is a new kind of bi-polar: the poles being indifference and destructive violence." Justin Frank, M.D.
:firetruck:

Just dammit.

Marc,when you come back (to whatever,wherever), I'll be listening.

Air America - you are now dead to me. No offense, but I've had enough too. 

Tonight is going to be a call in (I think), but does anybody remember the number to call if you're outside the LA county area?

Something to do with "Steph?"

the Z girl

"I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess."

The "Man's Prayer" from The Red Green Show

Painting Girl, do you need my email address? I so want one or more of those t-shirts.

peasantwitch@hotmail.comORpeasantwitch@yahoo.com 

gypsy
Faith in the face of disaster is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.-Marc Maron: The Jerusalem
http://msgyspy.blogspot.com
FOUNDER, CULT OF EARL

firetruck!

Thanks Marc & Jim (and Kent, Bruce et al.) for great shows. 

I have always believed that on the radio it is possible to do ANYTHING.  You guys have created whole characters with back-stories and on-going lives that would never work on TV.  And all this is available while you're driving your car, or in the can or working at your computer (oops) or walking with your IPod.  Damn it you can do anything on the radio IMMEDIATELY with little or no production effort except comic genius - which you all have in spades.

AAR has simply fucked up. 

Funnily, I don't think you guys ar especially high-maintenance - you just don't suffer fools gladly - and that's a good thing that appeals to most of the kind of people who would listen to a network like AAR.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Firetruck !!

They're using Horse bombs, Oxen bombs and Ass bombs. You mean their blowing up donkeys?  I WISH !!!  ....funny stuff.  I'll miss it all.

Something I don't think AAR understands how far out of talk radio I was before the little AM station started broadcasting in Boston.  (it's actually two stations,  but the signals are so weak,  one is for north of the city and one is better to the west.)

I had to train myself to listen commercial radio after so many years of NPR and adult oriented rock, now my day is structured by it.  Granted the ads are a pain but I accept their honestly in begging for my money and attention.  The content of the shows is what I need to hear. 

One more premium listener,  signing off.

Bob

Imagine Whirled Peas

progressivespirit = miamimystic23@gmail.com

This is a very sad day for ALL of us, the many who invested so much time, faith, and money into Morning Sedition, TMMS, and AAR in general.  Marc, Jim, & Co. did a wonderful job throughout the past 2+ years.  I am so sad at this time because the Maron crew has become such a big part of my life & daily routine.  I hope that we hear from all of you again soon.

I am now such a big fan of Marc & Jim - It is such a travesty the AAR will not ante-up in recognition of the uncanny effort of Maron & Co. in spite of such terrible treatment by AAR management.  Although selfishly disappointed, I respect Marc for his decision not to give in to AAR feable offers for a second time.  In the unintellible word of the shrub, "Fool me once, shame on me...won't get fooled again!"

I anxiously await new info on Marc & Jim's next move.  Until then...FIRETRUCK!

Best to all,

Steve Garcia

we have 9 hours and 39 minutes till the show is over... >__<
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Duct Tape is like the Force: it has a Light Side and a Dark Side and it holds the Universe together.

Don't forget that we're gonna have a kick-ass show tonight!

The final MS was one for the archives to be listened to again and... well, you've got to stop at a certain point.

So let's bring on the funny tonight! And the Franken impression! AND SOMEONE WHO'S ATTENDING BETTER BRING A CAMERA PHONE OR HAVE WIRELESS AND A CAMERA TO POST PHOTOS DURING THE SHOW!!! And busting AAR's chops! And busting the Democrats' chops! And the Republicans'! And talk about the speculative investigators! And CATS! TALK ABOUT THE CATS! TALK ABOUT MISHNA! JIM, TALK ABOUT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND TIP-TOE AROUND YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY-AGREEMENT WITH THE DAILY SHOW!

And bring on the sentimitality as well... but MAN! I can't get all mascara-messy this early in the evening. :(

I just listened to the AARP and Kerry swiftboat commercials again.

Le sigh.

Le sigh.

Le weep.