For some reason, I started my time here on The Range with a post about the Insane Clown Posse, so it seems to make as much sense as anything else to end my time here with an embedded video from one of the group’s thoroughly terrible cover tracks from the bonus album Smothered, Covered and Chunked, out today. You probably shouldn’t press play. It’s really awful, but I try to keep some sort of narrative thread through my work.

Anyhow, it’s been an exciting 673 days and 2446 posts for me here at the Weekly, but tomorrow I’ll be somewhere else, and in a few weeks, someone else will be the proverbial captain of the ship. A sincere thanks to nearly all of you who left comments, shared our posts on Facebook or Twitter, who entered contests, or who mentioned that they enjoyed something I wrote.

In some ways, writing for a living online has robbed me of some of my ability to have human emotions about my work, but there have been some great moments for me here and I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of people who give me great hope about the city I live in. Then again, all of that is generally balanced by someone leaving a comment suggesting that I “shove a bat up [my] ass.”

I won’t miss waking up to some guy leaving fifty comments in all caps about how the city of Tucson killed his dog, Suki, the snarky remarks from the typo police, or people who feel the need to comment on posts about a concert that the band mentioned sucks, but tomorrow I’ll probably see an amusing news story about robots or hear about something cool happening in town that I’ll want to share and I won’t really have a place to do so. It’ll be weird, but I’m sure the internet could also use a break from my opinions.

Most of all, thanks to everyone I’ve worked with here, both the staff in the office and everyone who contributed to The Range. See you around town.

This article appears in Aug 9-15, 2012.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

20 replies on “Dan Gibson Says Goodbye to The Range”

  2. Pouring out a little Colt .45 for you, homie. After your next job it’ll probably be some kind of microbrewed mead. But still I pour!

  3. Good luck Dan. Wish you well on that road well traveled. Hope it’s a center road, or at least center-left.
    You’re an idealist, and this is good. Become an idealist-realist and you’ll even do better. Honesty is good policy.

    Mammey

  6. It’s like the Batman. Putting away the cape doesn’t make what you fight disappear. Sorry fot another snarky comment.

  11. Shouldn’t that headline say “Dan Gibson Say Goodbye…”? I think the AP Stylebook says Internet celebrities take the plural form…(grin)
    Joking aside, I have *really* enjoyed The Range under your direction. May the wind always be at your back, etc. —Harrison Shaffer

  13. Dan, I like how you picked something from the very last issue before I started. Also, you will note that the ‘the’ is only used in Klosterman’s quotes. There is no ‘the’ in the introductory blurb.

  14. Life is not good. Life is not bad. Life is what you make it. Make your life fun Dan. Thanks for the laughs along the way. Good luck.

  15. Good luck in your future endeavors Dan! Although I left a snarky comment about your favorite scene from film, that does’t mean I didn’t enjoy your work for TW. Be sure to read my follow up to that & pass it on to “Grimmy.” Thanks & good times.

  16. This is a huge loss for the TW. You will be missed. I can’t expect the next Range editor to have the same encyclopedic knowledge of early ’90s R & B that you do. Not to mention that for the past two years I haven’t had to troll around the interwebs for entertainment because you have done that for me. This is going to be rough.

    All the best, my friend!

  17. Sorry to say I never met you but I have enjoyed your posts. Best of luck on the road you are taking. Just remember there will always be ass holes out there and there more good people than bad.

  18. How awesome was it to write underneath a headline that had your own name in it? *journalismgiggle*

    Good luck with your new gig, Dan Gibson!

  19. Say it ain’t so-oh-oh-oh-oh. I’ll miss your voice on The Range, but am looking forward to what’s ahead of you. Good luck and have fun!

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