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Terry C's avatar

Hi Dave! While I am absolutely delighted that you have kept tradition by posting Edison's Frankenstein, I can't deny a powerful hankering for a Dave video. I guess my appetite will be all the more whetted when Christmas time comes around!

May I also congratulate you on your latest Tuesday column, "The Rothenberg Principle." With each passing day, it seems to me, people become more insular, self-centered, and indifferent to the effect their ego driven behavior has upon the lives of others. In fact, they seem to have little time for prioritizing anything other than their subjective notions of personal victimhood, justice, and what they call "my truth." Obviously, Rothenberg is an extreme example of the disease. Nevertheless, it does manifest, in various degrees, with a sizable portion of the population. For such people, the idea of belonging to a larger community, as a fully responsible contributing participant, is not only foreign but hateful. After all, to the narcissistic mind, everyone else is merely an extra in their play.

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David Cole's avatar

Thank you for the great comment, Terry. And you can COUNT on that Christmastime video!

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JW Booth's avatar

I think insularity is a response to DEI's wedge against unity. It doesn't matter who is best for the job—only that you are a member of the aggrieved class. Those who get cheated out of a position they want may become bitter and only concerned with themselves, not the whole group. If other groups exist to get perks based upon their skin color, having the wrong skin color, white in this case, doesn't promote rooting for or helping the undeserving beneficiaries.

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Terry C's avatar

I'm no expert on the causality of the cancer I see. I merely know that it is dangerous and very likely terminal. With that being said, I agree with your reasoning on this point. Insularity is a desired response by the Marxists (for lack of a better term) who have so diligently sowed the seeds of disunity for at least the last one hundred years in this country.

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Terry C's avatar

"I feel like we're reaping some whirlwind from people who were let down by everyone in their lives, from their selfish parents to institutions like churches and schools."

Reaping the whirlwind indeed! I appreciated your comment very much.

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Bill Shepard's avatar

Hitler discussing the scourge of Kenny G.

https://youtu.be/c0E6a8SMYGc?si=OGc5G4nmBF5SXRDf

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Terry C's avatar

"Not some Muzak lab experiment to help nerds pick up girls." In memory of Willhelm. LOL!

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Jimmy bennett's avatar

ok thanks.. uniqe. I won't lie i was expecting good ole Dave to be on the screen with his famous green screen in the back in all his glory and and opening song or something :-)

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S.A. Dehnadi's avatar

A timeless side-splitter!

I see monstrosities like Kenny G. and get motivated that “Hey, maybe even I have a chance at fortune and glory.”

Happy Halloween, David

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David Cole's avatar

And to you, my friend!

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

It's Halloween! Why even Dracula will be they-uh! https://youtu.be/iH-Q59geylw?si=DNr6sJCZ111iacNo

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David Cole's avatar

He hears The Shaggs and impales himself with a stake.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

The copy of their album I bought in the 80s had a "GRAMMY WINNER" sticker put on it by a smartass. The Virgin Megastore here (remember them?) used to play them before closing time to clear the place out.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

Only one worse was Shooby Taylor. At least The Shaggs played real instruments.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Shooby went over at the Apollo about as well as Krusty's Komedy Klassics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MutYIgL4Gbk

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CG's avatar

I always have a tab open to "google" while visiting Dave's site. I learned of the Shaggs and my life is so much richer now.

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Terry C's avatar

Fuck, Sonny, this is why we strap on a cup before going in the ring. LOL!

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SandyC's avatar

Let a year pass by and you forget just how much fun that video is. Brilliant. Happy Halloween Dave.

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David Cole's avatar

Thank you, Sandy! It'll always be a seasonal tradition.

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

Happy Halloween Dave !!! You are my all time favourite Hollywood Jewish goblin, I'm not just sayin' that.

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David Cole's avatar

Thank you sir!

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

I probably should not ask this, how is it possible that YT ain't banned your epic silent film? Your masterpiece is second on my list of silent films, right behind D. W. Griffith's "Intolerence".

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Texas Khaan's avatar

Dave is the only Hollywood guy you have ever interacted with. Spelling favorite with a "u" is quite pretentious of us.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

I thought you were from the Canadian part of Texas

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

Wait, I meant that for SCT. Are you two the same person?

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Texas Khaan's avatar

We are one, dual subscribers.

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Texas Khaan's avatar

Post a link to "Intolerence", if you will.

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David Cole's avatar

Griffith made that film as a response to his critics RE Birth of a Nation. He then donned blackface and white gloves and exited the room going "yowza yowza MAMMY!" Worst film premiere ever.

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

LOL !!!

Seriously, that was a hell of a project to make, with the huge numbers of people required, the massive sets that had to be built.

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Terry C's avatar

Twas epic, sir. Absolutely epic! LOL!

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

I shall do so, Your Majesty.

https://youtu.be/SyqDQnoXa70

BTW you misspelled "Intolerance".

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Texas Khaan's avatar

Neither of us can spell!

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Franklin Wright's avatar

Happy Halloween

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David Cole's avatar

You too, my friend!

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Bill Shepard's avatar

Push was the impetus for this monstrosity?! Excise the memory of that horror with repeated Push-Up’s!!

Quickly mix:

2 oz. Malibu rum (or Dave’s CVS bargain rum and a squirt of Hawaiian Tropic)

1/2 oz. orange juice

1/2 oz. lemon juice

1/4 oz. simple syrup

1 egg white

Dry shake then ice shake. Strain into your favorite tiki glass and garnish with four shakes orange bitters, a pinch of rind, a swirl of Velvet Felernum, then two ice cubed gummy eyeballs.

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Mike Carroll's avatar

I just hope you weren't raped by a demon this past week the way Tucker claims he was.

Yes, I can't believe I just typed that sentence.

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David Cole's avatar

When someone told me about that yesterday, how he claims he was attacked and clawed in the night, I replied, "maybe it was an owl; his laugh is like a mating call."

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Mike Carroll's avatar

I think it was actually aliens.

Also watching the riots in LA after the WS reminded me of a great Rush Limbaugh idea: hold sports championships in enemy countries so that they can be destroyed in the ensuing celebratory riots.

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David Cole's avatar

I talk about the riots in this Sunday's Week!

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

In Rothenberg’s defense, he deliberately burned the child in a horrifically painful way that led to decades of debilitation, suffering, and his son’s eventual death

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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JW Booth's avatar

In Texas, we would have fried Rothenberg.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

You think Texas is based? California actually HAD fried Rothenberg

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Ann Fan's avatar

That was marvelous fun! Thank you!

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David Cole's avatar

My pleasure!

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Ricardo's avatar

Happy Halloween, Dave!

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David Cole's avatar

And to you too, Ricardo!

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