RIP to Roger Corman, one of the greats (if you grade on a curve). My favorite pseudonym, Cal Tinbergen ("a true genius...one of the few") came from his film Forbidden World. True story - the movie was originally titled Mutant, but Corman forced the director to change the name because he said "the American public is never going to watch something with a bizarre title like that. Nobody knows what a mutant is!" A few years later, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a phenomenon.
My point being, visionaries have their limits. Yes, he saw greatness in Coppola, Demme, Cameron, etc. Yes also, he thought "mutant" was too complex a word to ever catch on among the great unwashed, let alone children.
But today, in his honor, I'm rockin' out to the Forbidden World soundtrack by blonde 80s babe Susan Justin. When she signed my copy of the soundtrack album in 1985, I fucking melted. She had that hot-as-fuck "Olivia Newton John in Physical" hair, and she was also a fine musician.
Anyway, here's some music that you'll likely not enjoy because it's, like, REALLY 80s. Half of these tracks had to be composed overnight because the score was originally classical music but Corman was too cheap to buy the rights (the music is public domain but you have to pay the orchestra) so Susan had to cover for the holes in the soundtrack and she had a day to do so. Corman was great, but the people he employed were the heart of his el cheapo film factory.
I know Corman told Joe Dante to make a movie called "DISCO HIGH", and Dante made Rock n Roll High School behind his back. Corman would call and say "how's that Disco movie coming?" When he saw the end product, he was like "well I guess I gotta release this"
Plenty of cheap bastards still in the game in Hollywood - one of my relatives works there and hates most of the fuckers he works for - even the few who pay their bills on time!
The ones who do not even pay - well, I tell him to make friends with a few Italians - they know how to handle deadbeat assholes.
Back before the advent of sugar rich cereals, we had to put our own sugar on stuff like cornflakes, and I can still remember drinking that last bit of milk from the bowl, with the remaining sugar granules at the bottom of the bowl!
Never heard why California might have banned the Count, but then again, California is trying its damndest to re-write the laws of physics when it comes to vehicle emissions regs - they seem prone to attempting to defy reality. I'm in the truck business, and California is essentially mandating that everyone use magic-beans (no, not THAT kind!) to make cars and trucks go, and since magic-beans do not exist, it is a ratcheting de-facto ban on many vehicles... or, as I put it, switching vehicles that run on gas or diesel into vehicles that run on coal (which is also banned, but still allowed in states NOT named California, or New York).
Great article Dave. My wife's favorite kid's cereal is Count Chocula. As for why it might have been pulled? Could it be an issue with the dye used in the cereal? It might have been something similar to the notorious Frankenberry "Scare of 72" when the red dye used in Frankenberry was causing kids to have pink shit. Maybe the dye was called "Red Dye No. 2? Maybe there were incidents where kids in Southern California were pissing Brown Dye No. 1? I actually liked Boo Berry and Alpha Bits cereal more than CC but in our kitchen it was mostly Cheerios and Quaker Oats.
The old man on the Quaker Oats box is the last survivor--- Aunt Jemima is gone, Uncle Ben is gone, the Land O'Lakes Injun girl is gone (they kept the land and got rid of the Injun).
Hi David! I just finished reading Ach! Und Zee Week Zat Perished. Damn, young man, you were busting more skulls in that article than a bunch of liquored up rednecks having it out in the roadhouse parking lot. BRAVO!
You´re insane. This was pure poison, designed by communists to turn American children into fat eunuchs. It´s CASTRATION. If you look straight down and can´t see your dick, you might as well not have a dick.
For the record, Gunther, I ate little but processed sugar and fast food as a kid/teen, and I was always rail thin. I didn't start to bloat until I developed my alcohol problem in my 40s (so don't blame the commies; blame the RACIST WHITE MEN who mass-marketed rum from their colonies). As a kid, it was all sugary breakfast cereals, hostess cupcakes, Big Macs, and Whoppers - no food was ever forbidden to me - and I was damn-near emaciated looking. If it was a Russian plot, it certainly didn't work on me. Maybe the Russkies should've understood the concept of metabolism.
You may have been borderline HYPERPYROOXIMETABOLIZING. This is a physiological condition whereupon an excess caloric consumption starts a sort of internal metabolizing "furnace" of the body, leading to reverse biothermic stasis. In other words, the human body starts to burn fuel faster than it takes it in. This phenomenon was first observed in the far tip of Patagonia, where the natives ran around naked despite the freezing weather. This can lead to SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION of the human body, often attributed to cigarette smoking, which was an excuse the authorities came up with to cover for the processed food industry. You´re lucky it didn´t happen to you, especially when you were on television.
Bruh... count chocula? Mein schvartze. That's my all time favorite, can only get it once a year now on halloween but before that it disappeared in my area in the mid aughts for years. My ex gf's mom bought me a half dozen boxes from out of state when she visited a relative during that time when it was missing, she did that after I broke up with her daughter too. We previously bonded over our love of count chocula & commiserated over its sudden disappearance lol, she was a real one.
Dave, in your upcoming book Acidic Jew, please include a chapter (or two) on David Irving! I'm loving his bio of Joseph Goebbels, but he doesn't like to attribute anti-Semitic policies to Dolph-baby, preferring to put as much of the blame on Joe as possible.
Dave, your description of Ilhan Omar as "a woman reportedly married to her own brother and also to a chinless white leftist, meaning that she has one husband for hot jungle sex, and one to cook dinner and tidy the house....It’s unlikely she’s wanting for fulfillment" is like something out of Dominance/submission erotica! If you have any fleshed-out stories in this vein, maybe you could include them in the appendix of your upcoming book.....
"he’s enjoying his Dracula cereal" -- if only I had a dollar every time I heard that uttered, right? haha
By the way, you mentioned Sirius losing lots of subscribers now -- perhaps due to turning away from Stern, or just the inevitable reduction in customers since anything is available over a cellphone or wifi network these days anyway -- but I thought I'd mention that this week I heard your Taki colleague Steve Sailor interviewed on the Redscare podcast. On it he said he went to college with the tranny who founded Sirius, Martine (Marty?) Rothblatt. The MtF tranny thing seems to be more pronounced at high IQ gents who tend to make the switch later in life. So it occurred to me that perhaps the types of autistic nerds who were in the Holo game back in the 80s must have had candidates fitting that profile. So any of those fellas you caroused with ever turn out to be a lady later in the life that you're aware of?
First real-life tranny I ever met was the secretary at the Institute for Historical Review. But most of the kinky gaybois there were wiped out by AIDS. David McCalden died in 1990, Keith Stimely 1992. By the mid-'90s, AIDS had cleared out most of the freaks. So you only had old-fashioned 1950s straight-as-an-arrow types (Bradley Smith, Mark Weber) Scientologist Tom Marcellus (who only had alien sex with thetans), or the villainous Willis Carto, whose wife, Ilsa the She-Wolf, was into whips and chains.
Walter "Switched-On Bach" Carlos was the first one on my radar, he was around 33 when he got the operation. He's 85 this year, has had a longtime partnership with another MtF, which makes sense--- the kinds of strange health and medication issues that result from such an operation can only be understood by someone else who's undergone it.
There are few people I have more contempt for than Howard Stern. His entire shtick was finding sad broken people and exploiting them for people to laugh at. Morally he's the same as the Bumfights and Girls Gone Wild people and the woke shtick is to mask that fact.
Stern wants a Presidential Medal of Freedom: "Limbaugh got one, why can't I get one?" And I'd say he has a chance, considering the last round of winners, which included Pelosi, Clyburn, Phil Donahue, Al Gore, John Kerry, Elizabeth Dole....
Helicopter pilots Bob Tur and Dirk Vahle were high-testosterone competitive guys--- now they'vre both had sex change ops and are close women friends! If you made it up no one would believe it.....
Steve Sailer makes the point that a lot of the late-life MtFs were highly competitive men, extremely driven, and real dicks to everyone around them, treating people badly--- it's like they didn't know how to be male and human both. The only way they could be human was to get a sex change op and "be a woman" instead. Talk about mindfuck!
I know, it's almost like some kinky erotica: the two formerly male arch-rivals now hugging each other, eyes welling with tears over past regrets; having cups of tea and pastries, dishing girl talk, touching the other's hand when making a point, grousing about bra-fittings, sharing names of websites that sell panties, etc. To complete the picture, Ilhan Omar puts them to work as her housemaids: cleaning her bathrooms, doing her laundry, ironing her power suits, cleaning her shoes, prepping dinner and her bed for her male lover coming over that night--- I'm getting a kink-based chub just thinking about it!
An extraordinary fraction of the most prominent and influential male-to-female transgenders are, when you stop and think about them, obvious examples of male ego, aggression, and self-assertion run amok.
For example, MSNBC anchorwoman Katy Tur has just published a memoir, Rough Draft, of growing up the daughter of Bob Tur, the top TV news helicopter pilot. With his wife/camerawoman Marika Gerrard, Bob captured the most notorious footage of Los Angeles’ tumultuous 1990s, such as the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny during the Rodney King riot and O.J. Simpson’s odyssey in the white Bronco from lawyer Robert Kardashian’s house (the keystone event of 21st-century American trash culture).
A relentless wife-beater—somebody in the L.A. news business put together an hour-long tape titled Bob Tur’s Greatest Hits of Katy’s dad punching her mom in their copter live on air—Bob now wears a dress and calls himself Zoey.
Similarly, a few years ago Susan Faludi, another well-known woman journalist, published a memoir, In the Darkroom, about her nasty dad who decided late in life that he was a woman....
Yet few on either the left or the right have noticed this pattern that many of the most influential men to declare themselves women have virtually no feminine traits whatsoever.
Everyone SAYS that, but everyone also says I should be smelling stank. There's been zero proof of like for a month. Yet there's no stank! Explain that, will you? EXPLAIN THAT!!!!!!!
The "beers" are tremendously appreciated, my friend. Thank you. And as per your request, it'll be spent on salmon, my favorite liver restorative. Thank you!
Yeah, Howard taking on his new persona is like Opie and Anthony rebooting the Parents Music Resource Center--- going from saying "everything is bullshit" to saying "if we don't act now, it will be too late!" Stern has become Greta Thunberg with a dick.
RIP to Roger Corman, one of the greats (if you grade on a curve). My favorite pseudonym, Cal Tinbergen ("a true genius...one of the few") came from his film Forbidden World. True story - the movie was originally titled Mutant, but Corman forced the director to change the name because he said "the American public is never going to watch something with a bizarre title like that. Nobody knows what a mutant is!" A few years later, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a phenomenon.
My point being, visionaries have their limits. Yes, he saw greatness in Coppola, Demme, Cameron, etc. Yes also, he thought "mutant" was too complex a word to ever catch on among the great unwashed, let alone children.
But today, in his honor, I'm rockin' out to the Forbidden World soundtrack by blonde 80s babe Susan Justin. When she signed my copy of the soundtrack album in 1985, I fucking melted. She had that hot-as-fuck "Olivia Newton John in Physical" hair, and she was also a fine musician.
Anyway, here's some music that you'll likely not enjoy because it's, like, REALLY 80s. Half of these tracks had to be composed overnight because the score was originally classical music but Corman was too cheap to buy the rights (the music is public domain but you have to pay the orchestra) so Susan had to cover for the holes in the soundtrack and she had a day to do so. Corman was great, but the people he employed were the heart of his el cheapo film factory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFYm8rChYao
I know Corman told Joe Dante to make a movie called "DISCO HIGH", and Dante made Rock n Roll High School behind his back. Corman would call and say "how's that Disco movie coming?" When he saw the end product, he was like "well I guess I gotta release this"
Plenty of cheap bastards still in the game in Hollywood - one of my relatives works there and hates most of the fuckers he works for - even the few who pay their bills on time!
The ones who do not even pay - well, I tell him to make friends with a few Italians - they know how to handle deadbeat assholes.
Watching Angie Dickinson in "Big Bad Mama" is true American cinematic greatness, in spite of William Shatner.
The Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner, "The Shat Hits the Fan", is one of the funniest things I've ever seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky0RkbeWSU0
You certainly couldn't get away with talking like that to faggots these days!
That is the America I remembered - where people could take a joke without claiming it was a hate crime.
Great memories of watching The Premature Burial on late-night CBS in the early 1970s!
Back before the advent of sugar rich cereals, we had to put our own sugar on stuff like cornflakes, and I can still remember drinking that last bit of milk from the bowl, with the remaining sugar granules at the bottom of the bowl!
Yummy!
Yep! It was like the dessert after a meal of dessert.
Yeah, it was a molten goop!
Never heard why California might have banned the Count, but then again, California is trying its damndest to re-write the laws of physics when it comes to vehicle emissions regs - they seem prone to attempting to defy reality. I'm in the truck business, and California is essentially mandating that everyone use magic-beans (no, not THAT kind!) to make cars and trucks go, and since magic-beans do not exist, it is a ratcheting de-facto ban on many vehicles... or, as I put it, switching vehicles that run on gas or diesel into vehicles that run on coal (which is also banned, but still allowed in states NOT named California, or New York).
Great article Dave. My wife's favorite kid's cereal is Count Chocula. As for why it might have been pulled? Could it be an issue with the dye used in the cereal? It might have been something similar to the notorious Frankenberry "Scare of 72" when the red dye used in Frankenberry was causing kids to have pink shit. Maybe the dye was called "Red Dye No. 2? Maybe there were incidents where kids in Southern California were pissing Brown Dye No. 1? I actually liked Boo Berry and Alpha Bits cereal more than CC but in our kitchen it was mostly Cheerios and Quaker Oats.
The old man on the Quaker Oats box is the last survivor--- Aunt Jemima is gone, Uncle Ben is gone, the Land O'Lakes Injun girl is gone (they kept the land and got rid of the Injun).
So glad TWtP was on time today! But I was sad this story happened too late to be included: https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/us-news/howard-university-graduation-in-chaos-canceled-mid-ceremony/
Next week, to be sure!
Harvard motto —Veritas
Howard motto — Troof
Hi David! I just finished reading Ach! Und Zee Week Zat Perished. Damn, young man, you were busting more skulls in that article than a bunch of liquored up rednecks having it out in the roadhouse parking lot. BRAVO!
Greatly appreciated, my friend!
I was never really a fan of the monster cereals, but I did find the names charming, and appreciated the marketing value.
Random thought: Boo Berry was the Ringo of the genre.
LOL!!!! He was just happy to be there.
Boo Berry mostly appealed to Peter Lorre fans
You´re insane. This was pure poison, designed by communists to turn American children into fat eunuchs. It´s CASTRATION. If you look straight down and can´t see your dick, you might as well not have a dick.
For the record, Gunther, I ate little but processed sugar and fast food as a kid/teen, and I was always rail thin. I didn't start to bloat until I developed my alcohol problem in my 40s (so don't blame the commies; blame the RACIST WHITE MEN who mass-marketed rum from their colonies). As a kid, it was all sugary breakfast cereals, hostess cupcakes, Big Macs, and Whoppers - no food was ever forbidden to me - and I was damn-near emaciated looking. If it was a Russian plot, it certainly didn't work on me. Maybe the Russkies should've understood the concept of metabolism.
You may have been borderline HYPERPYROOXIMETABOLIZING. This is a physiological condition whereupon an excess caloric consumption starts a sort of internal metabolizing "furnace" of the body, leading to reverse biothermic stasis. In other words, the human body starts to burn fuel faster than it takes it in. This phenomenon was first observed in the far tip of Patagonia, where the natives ran around naked despite the freezing weather. This can lead to SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION of the human body, often attributed to cigarette smoking, which was an excuse the authorities came up with to cover for the processed food industry. You´re lucky it didn´t happen to you, especially when you were on television.
Well, it would've been terribly embarrassing.
But highly entertaining.
The fire that burned within him, became the fire outside of him;
So "Fire!" someone shouted, in the crowded theater, of life;
We respect, your right to freedom of speech, said THE MAN;
... but you`ll never work, in this town, again.
Quote from Joshua Graham
https://rpcs.neocities.org/joshuagraham
Bruh... count chocula? Mein schvartze. That's my all time favorite, can only get it once a year now on halloween but before that it disappeared in my area in the mid aughts for years. My ex gf's mom bought me a half dozen boxes from out of state when she visited a relative during that time when it was missing, she did that after I broke up with her daughter too. We previously bonded over our love of count chocula & commiserated over its sudden disappearance lol, she was a real one.
I'd subscribe 20 times if I could to make up for your loss AND willingly sell my house and all it's contents to keep you in chocula.
Very much appreciated, Tim! I may just take you up on that one day.
All I need to do now is buy a house and some contents.
LOL!
Commendable set-up, reminds me of Margaret Cho!
Dave, in your upcoming book Acidic Jew, please include a chapter (or two) on David Irving! I'm loving his bio of Joseph Goebbels, but he doesn't like to attribute anti-Semitic policies to Dolph-baby, preferring to put as much of the blame on Joe as possible.
Dave, your description of Ilhan Omar as "a woman reportedly married to her own brother and also to a chinless white leftist, meaning that she has one husband for hot jungle sex, and one to cook dinner and tidy the house....It’s unlikely she’s wanting for fulfillment" is like something out of Dominance/submission erotica! If you have any fleshed-out stories in this vein, maybe you could include them in the appendix of your upcoming book.....
"he’s enjoying his Dracula cereal" -- if only I had a dollar every time I heard that uttered, right? haha
By the way, you mentioned Sirius losing lots of subscribers now -- perhaps due to turning away from Stern, or just the inevitable reduction in customers since anything is available over a cellphone or wifi network these days anyway -- but I thought I'd mention that this week I heard your Taki colleague Steve Sailor interviewed on the Redscare podcast. On it he said he went to college with the tranny who founded Sirius, Martine (Marty?) Rothblatt. The MtF tranny thing seems to be more pronounced at high IQ gents who tend to make the switch later in life. So it occurred to me that perhaps the types of autistic nerds who were in the Holo game back in the 80s must have had candidates fitting that profile. So any of those fellas you caroused with ever turn out to be a lady later in the life that you're aware of?
First real-life tranny I ever met was the secretary at the Institute for Historical Review. But most of the kinky gaybois there were wiped out by AIDS. David McCalden died in 1990, Keith Stimely 1992. By the mid-'90s, AIDS had cleared out most of the freaks. So you only had old-fashioned 1950s straight-as-an-arrow types (Bradley Smith, Mark Weber) Scientologist Tom Marcellus (who only had alien sex with thetans), or the villainous Willis Carto, whose wife, Ilsa the She-Wolf, was into whips and chains.
Walter "Switched-On Bach" Carlos was the first one on my radar, he was around 33 when he got the operation. He's 85 this year, has had a longtime partnership with another MtF, which makes sense--- the kinds of strange health and medication issues that result from such an operation can only be understood by someone else who's undergone it.
There are few people I have more contempt for than Howard Stern. His entire shtick was finding sad broken people and exploiting them for people to laugh at. Morally he's the same as the Bumfights and Girls Gone Wild people and the woke shtick is to mask that fact.
Indeed. His late-in-life grasp at respectability should be shunned and ridiculed.
Stern wants a Presidential Medal of Freedom: "Limbaugh got one, why can't I get one?" And I'd say he has a chance, considering the last round of winners, which included Pelosi, Clyburn, Phil Donahue, Al Gore, John Kerry, Elizabeth Dole....
Helicopter pilots Bob Tur and Dirk Vahle were high-testosterone competitive guys--- now they'vre both had sex change ops and are close women friends! If you made it up no one would believe it.....
https://laist.com/podcasts/off-ramp/the-surprising-story-of-2-tv-chopper-pilots-who-followed-the-oj-chase-20-years-ago
Steve Sailer makes the point that a lot of the late-life MtFs were highly competitive men, extremely driven, and real dicks to everyone around them, treating people badly--- it's like they didn't know how to be male and human both. The only way they could be human was to get a sex change op and "be a woman" instead. Talk about mindfuck!
Jesus!!!
I know, it's almost like some kinky erotica: the two formerly male arch-rivals now hugging each other, eyes welling with tears over past regrets; having cups of tea and pastries, dishing girl talk, touching the other's hand when making a point, grousing about bra-fittings, sharing names of websites that sell panties, etc. To complete the picture, Ilhan Omar puts them to work as her housemaids: cleaning her bathrooms, doing her laundry, ironing her power suits, cleaning her shoes, prepping dinner and her bed for her male lover coming over that night--- I'm getting a kink-based chub just thinking about it!
Sailer wrote in 2022:
An extraordinary fraction of the most prominent and influential male-to-female transgenders are, when you stop and think about them, obvious examples of male ego, aggression, and self-assertion run amok.
For example, MSNBC anchorwoman Katy Tur has just published a memoir, Rough Draft, of growing up the daughter of Bob Tur, the top TV news helicopter pilot. With his wife/camerawoman Marika Gerrard, Bob captured the most notorious footage of Los Angeles’ tumultuous 1990s, such as the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny during the Rodney King riot and O.J. Simpson’s odyssey in the white Bronco from lawyer Robert Kardashian’s house (the keystone event of 21st-century American trash culture).
A relentless wife-beater—somebody in the L.A. news business put together an hour-long tape titled Bob Tur’s Greatest Hits of Katy’s dad punching her mom in their copter live on air—Bob now wears a dress and calls himself Zoey.
Similarly, a few years ago Susan Faludi, another well-known woman journalist, published a memoir, In the Darkroom, about her nasty dad who decided late in life that he was a woman....
Yet few on either the left or the right have noticed this pattern that many of the most influential men to declare themselves women have virtually no feminine traits whatsoever.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-truth-about-pervs/
Wow.....
They can't beat real men, so they go up against the broads...
What’s a party like at the “Colehaus”??
Here are the instructions on how to use the toilet
Don’t venture past any areas marked off with construction tape - this place is not insured!
If a beaner works in the area, it’s probably safe for white people too
If you see a green sheet, please keep your voices down as a video maybe in progress
LOL! You're closer to the truth than you think.
I have it on good authority ( from the man himself) that the toilet flushes on demand now.
LOL!!!!!
It's voice activated?
Don’t mind the rat; I’m sure he’s dead
Everyone SAYS that, but everyone also says I should be smelling stank. There's been zero proof of like for a month. Yet there's no stank! Explain that, will you? EXPLAIN THAT!!!!!!!
Rats can chew through wooden doorths
LOL! And WINDOWTHS!!!!
Dave I am subscribed, and happily so, bought you beers (which I recommend you spend on salmon)
Keep up the good work. Also don't go crazy - as you point out one by one Republicans have been going nuts (coincidence !?)
whom the Gods would destroy, they you first make mad
whom the Gods would make mad he would first make Republican
The "beers" are tremendously appreciated, my friend. Thank you. And as per your request, it'll be spent on salmon, my favorite liver restorative. Thank you!
Neturei Karta - When you've never heard about cold fries.
Howard was much more entertaining talking about lesbians...
Yeah, Howard taking on his new persona is like Opie and Anthony rebooting the Parents Music Resource Center--- going from saying "everything is bullshit" to saying "if we don't act now, it will be too late!" Stern has become Greta Thunberg with a dick.
Romania at the time had a knock off brand called Vlad the Impaler Os.