I'd never heard of you before I started reading Taki. Your sense of humor and willingness to point out the absurdity on your own team instantly made me want to continue to hear from you. The holocaust crap you occasionally discuss is interesting, and sometimes humorous, but not anything that would drive me toward or away. Coming up with descriptions like a Manatee falling from a skyscraper are keepers! You have a perspective I appreciate, and I assume many of the people who look forward to reading your articles feel the same.
I would have said I didn't give a rat's ass about the holocaust stuff, but I know you've recently had a traumatic rat experience. I'm sensitive that way.
Craig, I second that comment as well. Taki's mag has some great commentary that has led me to expand my navel gazing to a number of writers I may not have paid attention to. The Week is what got me here, I think I may stick around.
1) When anyone talks to me about "greed", in any context, I always say, "I am so glad to hear that you do your job pro bono. I have great respect for that!" They usually fall into the trap...
2) I am considering unsubbing *just* for a shot at an email exchange that I can brag about to friends!
Dave truth be known I've toyed with unsubscribing.
Why? Great prose, funny, well researched, and no shortage of zombie-movie or holocaust expertise. Problem is your biggest flaw is honesty, hard to read the truth sometimes.
But don't worry, once a Daver always a Daver.
BTW your Co-Taki Steve Sailer wrote column exposing the identify of the group who performed public service by disrupting a UCLA Gaza-Protest-Camp. Apparently they spoke Hebrew, maybe those are the hard-nosed Beverly Hills Persian Jews? I suggested a name for the gang:
When I lived in Pasadena there was a group of leftists who would protest the Persian Jews and accuse them of sacrificing chickens. I have no idea what that was all about but it kind of made me like the Persian Jews. People are constantly trying to take some kind of fight to them and they're just like "No we know who we are, leave us alone."
I've read Dave's "Field Guide to North American Jews" have taken jew-spotting trips to east n west coasts.
Dave actually this would be interesting story as you know LA pretty well - your excellent work in the "Beverly Hills Dispatch" stands out. Who was that masked mensch ? Unlike jan6 wankers they came in at night, with masks, had plan.
Dave, I guess you're familiar with that retarded fag from The Guardian who tried to dox Steve Sailors publisher, Lomez, of Passage Press. Apparently, it didn't go over as well as he expected. He could be Ron Unz' ugly brother and everyone on Twitter is letting him know it. I bought Steve's new book, but have yet to read it. Anyway, do you think you're too radioactive for Lomez/Passage Press? I'm not sure how that publishing thing works but he seems to have had success by embracing so-called "controversial" authors. Thanks for today's post. Enjoyed it.
Passage and I have been in talks since January. I know the dudes well. And you might enjoy knowing that the attempted doxxing has only boosted their sales, to a very great extent. Doxxing ain't what it used to be.
The third unsubber you mentioned fell victim to two things: 1) MY heroes don’t get paid and 2) never meet MY heroes (or read their work and email them, in this case)!
As a side note, after watching some of Fuentes' stuff on Rumble, the guy is a total recluse, hardly leaves his house, hates interacting with people in real life and online, and he constantly badgers his audience. It's more likely that he's doing coke off his OWN ass. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
I did reply to your email from my other address. I actually didn't unsubscribe at all, it's just that I had two separate emails subscribed and wanted to delete one of them. So you really only lost 9 subs. I hope that makes you feel better. I'm a big fan of your writing, and I can tell that you drink at least as much as I do.
Zombi's eminate from Hollywood then stagger eternally around NOHO, as I noticed during my recent visit to Laemmle. No doubt, Ol' Dave spent a past life or two as a zombi, and will gleefully spend many more future lives (or deaths) as one. And that is a question for wise Ol' Dave: are zombies alive, or just between lives? There is another Zombi that is a product of Hollywood, and excitedly for Dave it is made with Rum! During 1934 Don Beech invented the Zombi at his Don The Beachcomber restaurant in Hollywood.
Mix ingredients in a shaker with crushed ice:
45 ml Jamaican dark rum
45 ml Puerto Rican gold rum
30 ml Demerara rum
20 ml fresh lime juice
15 ml falernum
15 ml Donn’s Mix (2 parts fresh yellow grapefruit juice and 1 part cinnamon syrup)
1 tsp Grenadine syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
6 drops Pernod
Pour into a Zombi glass and garnish with mint leaves.
Like a cheap Chinese hooker, Ol' Dave will entertain you for money, otherwise he would rather hang out with Zombies!
Reminded of the time some twerpy journalist interviewed Rush in the early 90's and asked him "Do you just do what you do for money" and El Rushbo shot back " Why, do you do your job for free"?
Well I live in a house divided. My husband is w/ you and loves Romero, and post-Romero. I love Romero and PRE-Romero!! If I were trapped at home w/ a broken leg or Covid, I could think of almost nothing more fun and self-indulgent than to watch a double-feature of "White Zombie" and" I walked w/ a Zombie" (well maybe "I was a Zombie for the FBI", but that hasn't been made yet as far as I know!) And the reason classic Caribbean Zombie movies are scary is not so much the fear of the creatures, but of becoming like them. I guess it's not all that different from post Romero, except you don't get eaten- your mind just gets erased. It's more existential!
Yeah but it's like, "ooooh, I'm afraid of hypnotists!" Okay, cool, but the deeper fear Romero touched upon was the idea that our loved ones come back as creatures that CAN'T be controlled. Like a cancer, there's no cure, no witch doctor who can "reverse the curse," but diseased beings that can only be killed by a head-shot, and if you don't have the guts to do it, your own mom or grandma will kill you before you can kill them.
BTW, there are a ton of unintentionally funny moments in White Zombie (Silver's death: "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh......weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh...uweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaah"), but my favorite is when the German guy screws up his line and they just kept it in the film because fuck it: https://youtu.be/NV3B2z0HkKA?si=jHhrBHPM5dP2PNce&t=2064
True about the loved ones turning into the threatening enemy. That does make zombies more scary than say a grizzly or an irate mountain lion.
I haven't seen White Zombie in a few years, but I have been searching for an intentionally funny zombie movie I remember seeing as a kid. From what I can tell it was titled "King of the Zombies" It had Mantan Moreland (an Eddie "Rochester" Anderson type) in it playing a chauffeur. He and his boss end up on some Caribbean island. When he goes to park the car a tall lanky zombie w/ a Don King haircut tells him "I used to drive a car like that for master...when I was alive" Rochester replies "When you was alive? That done it!" Then he revs the car and zooms off! That's all I remember- and I can't find it anywhere!!
Do people really think unsubscribing (especially when it is free), are really "spiting" the writer/creator? It takes more balls to "blow off' jury duty.
So about those zombie movies--- Dave-- where do you stand on the divide between the classic Caribbean Zombie flick and the contemporary brain-eating movies (and shows)?
Oh, I can answer that easily. Zombie movies didn't officially start until Night of the Living Dead. That's when George Romero invented the notion of the independent contract zombie. Prior to that, zombies were always under the control of a Voodoo master. And what's scary about that? Romero created an entire genre - the living dead out for themselves, not controlled by Bela Lugosi. Changed the face of horror. And funny enough, there's only been one zombie brain-eating film - 1985's Return of the Living Dead. Yet it was such an amazing film, it made the entire world think that all zombies eat brains. I did an entire podcast about it.
Frodi did an amazing job hosting you on that two-hour Holocaust vid--- he let you make your points, never interrupted, created an atmosphere where you could go freely in any direction.
Geoffrey Holder! Yaphet Kotto was good in it too.... Kotto was great in an early 70s movie by Larry Cohen titled 'Bone', I highly recommend. I wonder if Dave is a Larry Cohen fan.....
I KNEW Larry Cohen! I used to be a member of the Academy of Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy, and Cohen was a member too, and we'd see each other at screenings and meetings. I'd always be there with my tall, busty, fit, perfect California girl GF, and Cohen would always be there with his best buddy Jim Dixon (who appeared in all Cohen's 1970s/80s films). And Cohen would ALWAYS gravitate to us, because my date was better n' his. So I got to talk to him a lot.
I loved Bone (1972) and The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977), the latter with Broderick Crawford in the definitive J. Edgar portrayal. I want to see God Told Me To (1976). Except for It's Alive (1974), I don't remember any of Cohen's movies playing at my local General Cinema Corporation mulitiplex....
The best voodoo zombie picture is Jacques Touneur's I Walked with a Zombie. The last ones I know of were made in the 80s and were very good, namely Believers and Serpent and the Rainbow. Body Snachers are similar just the control agent is different. I find movies where people lose their identities to hive mind aliens more creepy because they can hide inside a seemingly normal person, like a serial killer, and also because they are intelligent and have a plan which plague zombies don't.
I love Jaques Tourneur! Both Body Snatchers are great , but I'm a bigger fan of the original Don Siegel. I'm not familiar w/ Believers or Serpent. I'll check them out.
I'm also a huge fan of scary child(ren) flicks. Natural or supernatural. The Bad Seed and Village of the Damned are up there for me!
I'd never heard of you before I started reading Taki. Your sense of humor and willingness to point out the absurdity on your own team instantly made me want to continue to hear from you. The holocaust crap you occasionally discuss is interesting, and sometimes humorous, but not anything that would drive me toward or away. Coming up with descriptions like a Manatee falling from a skyscraper are keepers! You have a perspective I appreciate, and I assume many of the people who look forward to reading your articles feel the same.
A very kind comment, Craig. Much appreciated, and thank you.
I would have said I didn't give a rat's ass about the holocaust stuff, but I know you've recently had a traumatic rat experience. I'm sensitive that way.
LOL!!!!
Craig, I second that comment as well. Taki's mag has some great commentary that has led me to expand my navel gazing to a number of writers I may not have paid attention to. The Week is what got me here, I think I may stick around.
Please do!
Same here Craig! Exactly how I came on board, and why I'm staying!
Two points, Dave:
1) When anyone talks to me about "greed", in any context, I always say, "I am so glad to hear that you do your job pro bono. I have great respect for that!" They usually fall into the trap...
2) I am considering unsubbing *just* for a shot at an email exchange that I can brag about to friends!
LOL!!!!
Dave truth be known I've toyed with unsubscribing.
Why? Great prose, funny, well researched, and no shortage of zombie-movie or holocaust expertise. Problem is your biggest flaw is honesty, hard to read the truth sometimes.
But don't worry, once a Daver always a Daver.
BTW your Co-Taki Steve Sailer wrote column exposing the identify of the group who performed public service by disrupting a UCLA Gaza-Protest-Camp. Apparently they spoke Hebrew, maybe those are the hard-nosed Beverly Hills Persian Jews? I suggested a name for the gang:
"The Proud Oy's"
"The Proud Oys"
Okay, THAT'S genius.
When I lived in Pasadena there was a group of leftists who would protest the Persian Jews and accuse them of sacrificing chickens. I have no idea what that was all about but it kind of made me like the Persian Jews. People are constantly trying to take some kind of fight to them and they're just like "No we know who we are, leave us alone."
They are NOT Woody Allen "oygenflayyygin" nebbish Jews. They don't take shit.
I've read Dave's "Field Guide to North American Jews" have taken jew-spotting trips to east n west coasts.
Dave actually this would be interesting story as you know LA pretty well - your excellent work in the "Beverly Hills Dispatch" stands out. Who was that masked mensch ? Unlike jan6 wankers they came in at night, with masks, had plan.
Dave, I guess you're familiar with that retarded fag from The Guardian who tried to dox Steve Sailors publisher, Lomez, of Passage Press. Apparently, it didn't go over as well as he expected. He could be Ron Unz' ugly brother and everyone on Twitter is letting him know it. I bought Steve's new book, but have yet to read it. Anyway, do you think you're too radioactive for Lomez/Passage Press? I'm not sure how that publishing thing works but he seems to have had success by embracing so-called "controversial" authors. Thanks for today's post. Enjoyed it.
Passage and I have been in talks since January. I know the dudes well. And you might enjoy knowing that the attempted doxxing has only boosted their sales, to a very great extent. Doxxing ain't what it used to be.
Fantastic. I hope something comes of it.
*The Grauniad, as Derbyshire called it, because it was formerly rife with typos. Typos or not, it will always be The Grauniad to me
Oh, you mean The Gaahdian! (That's what we Massholes call it.)
Holocaust deniers are bad enough, but I draw the line at mud runners
The third unsubber you mentioned fell victim to two things: 1) MY heroes don’t get paid and 2) never meet MY heroes (or read their work and email them, in this case)!
As a side note, after watching some of Fuentes' stuff on Rumble, the guy is a total recluse, hardly leaves his house, hates interacting with people in real life and online, and he constantly badgers his audience. It's more likely that he's doing coke off his OWN ass. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
LOL!
"Coke off his own ass" indeed! LOL!
If I could do coke off my own ass, I’d never leave my house, either
I can't do drugs, but sniffing a Chinese hooker's butt sounds great!
Truly a man of culture right here. So blessed.
Alas, a man can dream
From right to left: Peters, Fuentes, Gage and Jones after they found out Holocaust Historiography didn't end in 1992.
LOL!!!! Thank you for a good laugh to start my day.
Well, to be fair, there were a lot of people who said the world ended when Clinton got elected....
I did reply to your email from my other address. I actually didn't unsubscribe at all, it's just that I had two separate emails subscribed and wanted to delete one of them. So you really only lost 9 subs. I hope that makes you feel better. I'm a big fan of your writing, and I can tell that you drink at least as much as I do.
Also, mud runners are gay and retarded.
I get asked to edit for free all the time. "But you like to do it!"
Yeah, I'm fortunate. Now pay me.
Also no thanks for bringing Ali Alexander's dick I was going to eat lunch but not now.
Yeah, I'd much rather snort it off Alia Shawkat's stage dick (she played Alexander Hamilton in an ep of Drunk History):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yi0FNwOYiI&t=145s
Zombi's eminate from Hollywood then stagger eternally around NOHO, as I noticed during my recent visit to Laemmle. No doubt, Ol' Dave spent a past life or two as a zombi, and will gleefully spend many more future lives (or deaths) as one. And that is a question for wise Ol' Dave: are zombies alive, or just between lives? There is another Zombi that is a product of Hollywood, and excitedly for Dave it is made with Rum! During 1934 Don Beech invented the Zombi at his Don The Beachcomber restaurant in Hollywood.
Mix ingredients in a shaker with crushed ice:
45 ml Jamaican dark rum
45 ml Puerto Rican gold rum
30 ml Demerara rum
20 ml fresh lime juice
15 ml falernum
15 ml Donn’s Mix (2 parts fresh yellow grapefruit juice and 1 part cinnamon syrup)
1 tsp Grenadine syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
6 drops Pernod
Pour into a Zombi glass and garnish with mint leaves.
Like a cheap Chinese hooker, Ol' Dave will entertain you for money, otherwise he would rather hang out with Zombies!
Reminded of the time some twerpy journalist interviewed Rush in the early 90's and asked him "Do you just do what you do for money" and El Rushbo shot back " Why, do you do your job for free"?
Well I live in a house divided. My husband is w/ you and loves Romero, and post-Romero. I love Romero and PRE-Romero!! If I were trapped at home w/ a broken leg or Covid, I could think of almost nothing more fun and self-indulgent than to watch a double-feature of "White Zombie" and" I walked w/ a Zombie" (well maybe "I was a Zombie for the FBI", but that hasn't been made yet as far as I know!) And the reason classic Caribbean Zombie movies are scary is not so much the fear of the creatures, but of becoming like them. I guess it's not all that different from post Romero, except you don't get eaten- your mind just gets erased. It's more existential!
Yeah but it's like, "ooooh, I'm afraid of hypnotists!" Okay, cool, but the deeper fear Romero touched upon was the idea that our loved ones come back as creatures that CAN'T be controlled. Like a cancer, there's no cure, no witch doctor who can "reverse the curse," but diseased beings that can only be killed by a head-shot, and if you don't have the guts to do it, your own mom or grandma will kill you before you can kill them.
BTW, there are a ton of unintentionally funny moments in White Zombie (Silver's death: "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh......weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh...uweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaah"), but my favorite is when the German guy screws up his line and they just kept it in the film because fuck it: https://youtu.be/NV3B2z0HkKA?si=jHhrBHPM5dP2PNce&t=2064
Double tap to the head, please. Zombieland taught us a single shot won't keep them down!
The Unzbies require a 45 Cole to the head...triple tap!
True about the loved ones turning into the threatening enemy. That does make zombies more scary than say a grizzly or an irate mountain lion.
I haven't seen White Zombie in a few years, but I have been searching for an intentionally funny zombie movie I remember seeing as a kid. From what I can tell it was titled "King of the Zombies" It had Mantan Moreland (an Eddie "Rochester" Anderson type) in it playing a chauffeur. He and his boss end up on some Caribbean island. When he goes to park the car a tall lanky zombie w/ a Don King haircut tells him "I used to drive a car like that for master...when I was alive" Rochester replies "When you was alive? That done it!" Then he revs the car and zooms off! That's all I remember- and I can't find it anywhere!!
I'll look for it.
Do people really think unsubscribing (especially when it is free), are really "spiting" the writer/creator? It takes more balls to "blow off' jury duty.
You get paid for this!?
UNSUBSCRIBE!!!
On a more uplifting note-
So about those zombie movies--- Dave-- where do you stand on the divide between the classic Caribbean Zombie flick and the contemporary brain-eating movies (and shows)?
Oh, I can answer that easily. Zombie movies didn't officially start until Night of the Living Dead. That's when George Romero invented the notion of the independent contract zombie. Prior to that, zombies were always under the control of a Voodoo master. And what's scary about that? Romero created an entire genre - the living dead out for themselves, not controlled by Bela Lugosi. Changed the face of horror. And funny enough, there's only been one zombie brain-eating film - 1985's Return of the Living Dead. Yet it was such an amazing film, it made the entire world think that all zombies eat brains. I did an entire podcast about it.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NaME2s8KIDIF/
Dave and Frodi vids are up there with Mearsheimer and Napolitano vids for don't-miss-ableness!
He's probably my favorite host ever.
Frodi did an amazing job hosting you on that two-hour Holocaust vid--- he let you make your points, never interrupted, created an atmosphere where you could go freely in any direction.
Yep; he's a pro. I always look forward to doing a show with him.
Baron Samedi was terrifying in Live And Let Die
Geoffrey Holder! Yaphet Kotto was good in it too.... Kotto was great in an early 70s movie by Larry Cohen titled 'Bone', I highly recommend. I wonder if Dave is a Larry Cohen fan.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Cohen
I KNEW Larry Cohen! I used to be a member of the Academy of Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy, and Cohen was a member too, and we'd see each other at screenings and meetings. I'd always be there with my tall, busty, fit, perfect California girl GF, and Cohen would always be there with his best buddy Jim Dixon (who appeared in all Cohen's 1970s/80s films). And Cohen would ALWAYS gravitate to us, because my date was better n' his. So I got to talk to him a lot.
I loved Bone (1972) and The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977), the latter with Broderick Crawford in the definitive J. Edgar portrayal. I want to see God Told Me To (1976). Except for It's Alive (1974), I don't remember any of Cohen's movies playing at my local General Cinema Corporation mulitiplex....
The Stuff made it to theaters, if briefly. So did Q and Special Effects, at least here in L.A.
Q was actually quite well-received.
I was terrified of drinking a 7-Up for years!
Ah-ha-ha-haaaaa!
Too soon
LOL!!!!
The best voodoo zombie picture is Jacques Touneur's I Walked with a Zombie. The last ones I know of were made in the 80s and were very good, namely Believers and Serpent and the Rainbow. Body Snachers are similar just the control agent is different. I find movies where people lose their identities to hive mind aliens more creepy because they can hide inside a seemingly normal person, like a serial killer, and also because they are intelligent and have a plan which plague zombies don't.
I love Jaques Tourneur! Both Body Snatchers are great , but I'm a bigger fan of the original Don Siegel. I'm not familiar w/ Believers or Serpent. I'll check them out.
I'm also a huge fan of scary child(ren) flicks. Natural or supernatural. The Bad Seed and Village of the Damned are up there for me!
Scary children flicks, yeah!
um yeah! Like my fav. Twilight Zone "It's a Good Life" w/ Billy Mumy (and Cloris Leachman!)
Loved Cloris in The Last Picture Show and as borderline-psychotic Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.