Comments on: HAIL AND FAREWELL

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:07:56 +0000

Hey Rick, keep it up. I have no doubt we’ll keep checking in. . . even if there’s a day or two without a missive. And an advance happy birthday!

By: Silvio

Silvio — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:09:47 +0000

Happy New Year.

We appreciate your show and work.

By: Digital Publius

Digital Publius — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:08:05 +0000

An inspirational farewell, Good fortune Rick.

By: lionheart

lionheart — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:25:49 +0000

I spend too much time reading dozens of blogs. You are, by far, the best writer on the circuit. I can’t wait to read your book!

By: Gaia's Child

Gaia's Child — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:17:29 +0000

Rick, I really enjoy your blog; it is one of the few that I try to read everyday. So I will miss you but I’ll still be checking in. The 55 is a milestone and you need to follow your dreams. Thank you for all the thought provoking articles and for bringing comments back. Good luck to you.

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:34:16 +0000

baqueronman: You son will probably make it just fine. I don’t think the industry (I should state that while I live in the LA area I’m about as far away from the industry as I can possibly be because I have some sense of personal integrity) cares one whit what your son believes, as long as he can extract as much money from the talent, the studios, or even better, both. I have found hard-core conservatives to be particularly skilled at extracting blood from a turnip. Witness their ability to raise tremendous amounts of money for things like ID “research” and creationist museums.

Nah, he’ll be just fine, and he’ll likely fit right in.

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:30:25 +0000

Oh. And I should mentioned - I accompanied “Another Hundred People” in a production of “Side by Side by Sondeim” once (I’m a pianist). That particular song, you get the right person singing it and it’ll send chills up your spine. Sondheim was a master at word painting.

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:27:30 +0000

I generally don’t agree with you on a lot of things. In fact, on a lot of things I consider you to be full of bovine excrement.

However, I found myself listening to KTLK yesterday while I was on the way to the store, and some guy in for Rachel Maddow was going on about the whole “Barack the Magic Negro” song. And I found myself disagreeing with him as well. So what if it’s offensive? So what, even, if a blowhard such as Limbaugh liked it (that, to me, is usually an indication that I sould stay far away). I am sometimes offensive to make a point as well, and I started thinking… I’m not entirely sure that just shutting the debate down with calls of “racism” is the right thing to do in this case.

Maybe I’m turning a little more to the right than I used to be. Or maybe I’m just starting to see the same thing I see in the conservatives in the liberals.

I keep reading here. Because unlike Malkin or hotair.com or their ilk… you at least are trying to keep an open mind, and you’re at least trying to see people like me, who disagree with you, sometimes *strongly*, as human beings. I suppose that’s all I can ask for.

Keep writing. At the very least, you’re giving me some incentive to start blogging again, if only to say “Oh, that Rick Moran is being stupid again, and here’s why”. And isn’t that all blogging really is, anyway?

Have a nice year.

By: boqueronman

boqueronman — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:50:30 +0000

For personal reasons your essay is welcomed. My son recently graduated from a university actor training program. He now has an agent, is a member of a theater production cast, and is clutching at unpaid video (in its broadest sense) acting opportunities. All of this while doing odd jobs such as door-to-door sales, product delivery, etc. I know he knows the hard road he has chosen, made harder because he is a hard core conservative in politics. But he has our support and I think he'll find his own path. Happy New Year to you and your readers. I wish him the best. One of my friends from college was Michael Emerson who plays Benjamin Linus on Lost. He quit the business for many years before going back to school and getting a few breaks in the 1990's. Another friend from high school teaches while appearing regularly on the stage in Chicago - not regularly enough to make a living at it, unfortunately. The point being, there are many paths to success and I hope he finds his. ed.

By: djh

djh — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:00:58 +0000

May you have a happy/ prosperous and productive New Year.
I look forward to you comments on what appear to be “interesting times”
Plus, please, 24, your comments make the experience so much more.