I'll be there, Chris! Thanks so much.

Damn. I wish I could be there as well. (Me, I teach Thursdays - sigh.)

I have admired Commie Girl from afar - thanks for all you have done, Rebecca - and no doubt will continue to do.

Carry on!

Commie Girl, please join your friends at Drinking Liberally tonight. I'm certain there are more than a few of us who will buy you a drink, or two, or three, well, you get the point.

seriously, just like that...a couple of suits come in and you split? I mean really I don't blame you but are we going to be stuck reading columns by E Griley?

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Jenn, don't knock Ellen! She's written some pretty good stuff over there.

Commie Girl will be missed. I hope that she stays in Orange County.

Oh, man. It's hard to think of that editorial room I remember as an intern (who got school credit of course) so empty. Best of luck, Becca. You did us proud.

OC Weekly without Rebecca? Seems impossible. We will miss you. Thanks for all the kind words over the years. Now on to bigger and better things. You are a gifted writer and can't wait to read your next chapter. We love and admire you.

Rebecca was one of the best reads in the OC media. Always surprising, entertaining and to the point.

Can't wait to see what you do next.

Molly Ivins and Commie Girl in the same day; the Republicans are dancing a jig.

Nice work Rebecca; look forward to reading you again....soon

I don't think Rebecca will ever know how genuinely she'll be missed. And if Greg Stacy leaves also I might have a seizure.

First Will Swaim. Then Commie Girl. I'm convinced -- the terrorists have won.

Anyone whispering "don't let the bastards get you down" gets an immediate cream pie in the face. I AM down.

Congratulations, Becca. After a decade of talking the talk, you really walked that walk, and in fine style...straight out the door.

You did Will Swaim, yourself and your many devoted fans very proud.

It's hard to believe I'll flip to that last page (isn't it the first thing everyone reads?) only one more time in anticipation—and sometimes with a little trepidation if I'd partied with you that week—of what brilliant, outrageous and arousing things you had to say.

A very sad sad day.

Becca, hope to have some cocktails with you to celebrate a new beginning

Timbo

Rebecca,

Yours were ALWAYS THE FIRST columns that I read; I NEVER believed in saving the best for last! My best regards to you & your "little buttercup". Take care & stay well. Think good thoughts & have a drinky-winky for me.

Good luck at the next gig. Always remember that there's always another Ribbon Twirling Piano Bar if you look hard enough..

L

wishing you the best, commie girl. you make me proud to be an oc girl.

Hey Cucu: I assume you didn't read this.

I'm so proud of you & I look forward to your next adventure! Commie Girl's finally ready to move aside the Orange Curtain and take on the world. Look out Stephen Colbert! You have a communist on your tail.

Commie Girl was a great read for years, but she became predictable by the end. Nevertheless, good luck.

It's about time! I tried reading Commie Girl's column a few times, but her incoherent rantings made my head hurt. I liked her better the first time when she was called Hunter S. Thompson....at least he was funny. Commies and socialists are vile, disgusting people anyway.

Becca, will you bring Commie Girl t-shirts to Drinking Liberally tonight? I think we should all buy and wear them in your honor. You can charge double the regular price!!!

That sucks! Got to be the only reason I picked up the Weekly. Probably be history in a year. Good luck wherever you go. You'll be missed...

I'll miss you, Commie Girl! You were one of the reasons why I was able to survive high school in Orange County. The only thing that I could EVER expect from your columns was the unexpected...
And boy, was that exciting!

I know this sounds really corny, but you're my hero! You were a brilliantly irreverent blogger before there were even blogs, and you are still a great inspiration to me. Thanks for giving me a reason to care about what happens behind the Orange Curtain.

Oh yeah, and good luck on whatever you do next. Thanks a million, from your best gay admirer.

: )

Global warming's taking over, the weather is beserk and sadly Commie Girl has left the building. What's going on? Your articles have been highlights for me as well as my collegues. I wish you the best and hope to catch your articles in the future with your new ventures.

"This is where you can tell the truth without the bark on it, laugh at anyone who is ridiculous, and go after the bad guys with all the energy you have."

so said Molly Ivins, who just slid over a seat to make room for CG on the national stage. Where she belongs.

Sniffle, sniff. I'm even more devastated than I thought I would be after reading the nice (and a few mean and nasty) comments from your readers. I'm happy for you Rebecca, but I will miss threatening to beat up burly Aussies who grab your boobs or drunk punk rockers who yelled witty things like "Aaargh, matey" when you walked by. You are one of the bravest people I have ever met, and not just because you said the things you did in print (sometimes, cringe, about me), or that you walked out on a sweet gig that made you a local celebrity--but for all the other reasons.

Your big and sturdy friend (I still hate Skratch for that dig),
Homegirl Arrissia

P.S. I will still beat up people or at least send very mean Clint Eastwood-type looks at anyone who dares cross you.

Nuts! I just moved to Wisconsin and was counting on your column for some continuity with Southern California. You've been the liveliest SC commentator on politics and culture since Harlan Ellison. I hope you can find a new publisher and maybe a little peace in your life soon.

The new owners of the OC Weekly can suck a whole bag of dicks! And my left nut two times!!

Well, maybe I should have said "a new publisher so you can continue to wage war against nonsense." Once the new owners ruin this paper, there should be ample room for a new one.

Cucu: As we Mexicans say in times of hardship: Ruega por nosotros.

My sorrow from the fact that I will no longer get my weekly dose of Commie Girl OR Greg Stacy overshadows the thrill I got when I saw that Arelleno addressed little old me personally in his post. What the goddamn hell amd I going to do now?

Oh Becca, but we will always have Dona Sangre.
Luv ya,fellow misplaced mermaid. There's a world out there and you belong in it. Fish rule! Daniella

This is the most pathetic thing ever, but due to circumstances beyond my control (think medical bills, and then think of more of them), I was separated from my beloved county three and a half years ago with no likely prospect of return. Ever since then, I've depended on OC Weekly for a tiny little 56k fisheye peephole on what's going on back in what I only realize now is and always will be "home." And now it's going to be all different and unfamiliar. BWAAAhahHAH!!
(sniffling noises) And Thomas Wolfe can go to hell and die!
I only hope that all of you go onto better things, because you're really all too pretty and talented to still be working for this awful fish-wrap now, aren't ya? Farewell Commie and Chris and Will. Love ya ta bitses!

obviously, an alternative to the alternative is needed. Fuck new times. Their shitty los angeles paper was a complete load of crap and now these fucking pennyante lightweights run la weekly and oc weekly? Fuck them in their rancid mouths.
i wish the whole staff would leave and then they'd have to resort to hiring a bunch of castoffs and reject who would blindly follow whatever cockamaimie dictums issued by the fatous fat-asses who run that revolting company.
I am fucking pissed. This is a hurricane katrina for free thinking in orange county.
Ah, yes, I remember the old days, the days o' jim washburn and buddy siegel and rich kane's haikus and all kinds of neat shennanigans. How about this one from the early days, lampooning the Register's ridiculous ad campaign: you'll read. you 'll think. you'll know or something like that with a picture of princess di or some other useless icon.

the weekly's take was a picture of hitler and the line:
you'll laugh. you'll cry. you'll annex the Sudetenland.

Now that's journlaism. Rise up staffers! Storm the bastille! Wage in-house Guerrilla Warfare! Shit in the coffeemaker! Hold your collective breaths until thse evil vile motherfuckers release their gurry fucking hands from a paper that's mean so much--and pissed so many people off.

New Times: I currse your fucking name, your fucking faces and your stupid fucking policies that are driving the best and brightest from your paper.

I can't wait to piss on your graves when the paper you rape and pillage goes under and a new one rises from its ashes, glorious and triumphant, brave and exalting!

you stupid dumb fucks.

Beautiful, Sexy and Talented Rebecca,

Go forth and kick some ass (with your laptop). You will definitly stick it who/whatever icon you wish to expose with your wit, satire, and devestaing sense if irony.

Too Thick? All of my best to you, Commie Mom and your Sweet Buttercup. I will look forward to reading your next great expose!

Good on her!! I love her and I am looking forward to her superfamousosity! She's my hero. Gustavo, you know it's up to you now to keep me reading. And Steve Lowrey. And Greg Stacy. And, oh shit, there are some others. But mostly you Gustavo. You're my other hero.

If you leave, too, it's over completely. At least until you start another real alt-weekly.

mucho love to everyone but the suits!

Those of us in the Collective will go with you Rebecca! Damn, this paper was a lifeline for me after I got out of high school, picking it up at the Hip Pocket (shout out to the porn aficionados!) or the Center (shout out to the LGBTQs). . .but like most people I flipped to Commie Girl first. Something about her writing just made me realize how fucking hilarious this County can be. . .and I was moritified at Liev Schreiber blowing her off! Ahh, good times. . .please, tell me there's a fund where we can give money so that the good times don't have to come to an end?

First Will S and now Rebecca? What kind of black juju are the new owners laying down that's driving everyone away? Any ppl know links to what's going on?

Bye, CG. Really be missed!

So depressed. CG was one of the highlights of my week. With Lowery editing there aren't too many more reasons to keep reading (oops, sorry Gustavo!) I got the hell out of OC a while ago, but if you're in San Francisco, drinks are for sure on me!

What I meant was 'with Lowery editing INSTEAD OF WRITING'.

I love you, your family, your incredible writing, your decency, and your humanity. I'll miss you every Friday.

" It's 4th of July and we're all going to jail!!!"

Rebecca,

You're a stone gas. I say - good for you. Won't take you long. I wish I could remember more of our drunk conversations. Thanks for the past copy!

Keep on keepin' on.

RS

ayer, I saw this hina con Rick Reiff on Inside OC ... esta bonita and smart ... how neat! ...