Bless you. That’s what we say after someone comes out of the bath (Ah-fiat basheh!)
Hopefully Fishburbe’s disease is an STD so you’ll be fine. Unless you fancy him.
David, that beard really makes you old, dude. Go to a nice shave and haircut for Heaven’s sake.
Also you gotta hit the gym man. You’ll never regret it. Find a decent natty trainer. You’ll get in shape in three months. It’s really worth it, man. A bachelor like you should be in shape so you’ll have your strength and stamina. Look after yourself.
Thank you, my friend! And thank you for teaching me a very cool new phrase.
As for the gym....well...I don't really care that much about my looks. I ENJOY being single. I lost the "urges" in my late 40s. Plus, for alcoholics, our primary struggle is staying sober. Young people often accomplish that via fitness, "getting in shape for the dating pool." My motivation will be my second book.
Still, this hotel has a big beautiful gym, so maybe I'll check it out.
Oh, and you're right about the beard! I bought a brand new clipper-shaver before I left my house, but tonight it's in my larger duffel, which is in my friend's car, because it's too bulky for me to lug. But if I decide to stay at this place longer, I'll have him retrieve it.
I think it was starring opposite blindingly white David Caruso in King of New York — he just got too used to white guys and doesn’t notice them anymore.
I'm shocked, and frankly, a little disappointed in you.
10 floors of you and Lawrence Fishbourne, alone in an elevator, and you didn't have "an elevator pitch for a movie" in your quiver!?
Even if you were just making it up on the spot (which I'm sure you could do, to fucking hilarious effect!) you kind of owe it to the industry, y'know what I mean?
If nothing else, it would have taught him a valuable lesson about paying attention to who he gets in elevators with.
"Okay, hear me out, a "Matrix" reboot, but adding elements of the TV show "Lost", but in this one, kinda like "The Thirteenth Floor", the matrix is inside another matrix, and here's the twist- within the multiple layers of fake reality, a real reality comes into existence, so it's real, under two layers of fake! It's a mind-bender, a mind fuck, a fucking tornado hellscape of twisted mayhem, culminating with you being born again, like in the end of "2001"! I just need some seed money, and a couple of meetings, and we can get this bad boy greenlighted!"
Something like that.... where he just stands there, slack-jawed, and wondering if he's been dosed with acid, or if he actually died in the hospital and is in purgatory, or if he's just gone completely insane...
Any-hoo, glad to see you are well amigo! I'm digging the Grizzly Adams look. Have fun, relax, get some rest, and stop sharing elevators with sick people, that's just bad math.
Is it possible that Morpheus was playing some "celebrity 5d chess", and that between staying "on your phone" and saying shit like "I can't believe they released me, I'm still so contagious, and I think they just wanted the bed" is a couple of steps from "the celebrity's guide to being left alone in public" playbook? You gotta admit, it's worked on David, and he's a Hollywood Insider!
Also, how funny would it have been if in the middle of all this, Lawrence looked over and said "Are YOU David Cole!? THE David Cole!? Holy Shit man, I'm a huge fan of yours! Man, that shit you did back in the day, proving that the holocaust was a bunch of bullshit, really opened my eyes about the world! Wow, what an honor to meet you!"
Or, if on the elevator, David said something like "Morpheus, I've been sent from the future to kill you!"
Hi Dave. A brief update is better than no update. I sure hope you don't die from LF disease. Maybe he was being overly dramatic? I am going to agree with the shaving suggestion simply because I don't think it works for you. I am also going to agree with hitting the gym. I do light lifting in the morning and walk 2-3 miles after dinner. I don't do this because I give a damn about how I look. I do care about how I feel and you cannot beat the physical and mental effects from exercise. If nothing else, walking lets me forget everything for a short while and just decompress. And you are far from grotesque. I personally think you're kinda cute. Of course I'm old and can't see shit anymore.
LOL!!! I actually took the shaving suggestion the next day. The gray beard fuzz is gone. As for exercise, I love walking and swimming...and it ends there!
Hi Dave! Sounds like “Clean… Mister Clean” took a wrong turn outta the jungle and ended up in the Matrix with no antivirus. You didn’t ride an elevator — you took the red pill straight to quarantine!
I tried to watch the documentary 'Hearts of Darkness' about Coppola making 'Apocalypse Now', but Fishburne's comments were so off-putting that I quit it. Sure, I know, he was only a kid back then. As someone his own age I'm thrilled to hear he's still thriving.
Sheen's narration about him was better than the character itself. "Clean --- Mr. Clean --- was from some South Bronx shithole, and I think the light and space of Vietnam really put the zap on his head."
I saw Danny Glover in a hotel lobby in Sydney a few years ago while he was advocating for indigenous rights - he was looking frail as well. He almost looked scared when I recognized him - maybe I look like a radical?
LOTS of the "young guys" I grew up with are old now. It takes a moment to realize that. Even among A-listers. There's never been a cinema generation in which this many movie stars are over 60.
I don't care about your hair either, Dave, and I'm as Gentile as they come. Maybe Mr Fishburne is still suffering from "the open air of Vietnam putting the zap on his head"
Hopefully Fishburne would stop being engrossed with his phone conversation long enough to notice he's supposed to be freaked out by the dead body in the lift.
Stepping in the lift with a live man and leaving the lift with a dead body would obviously see him arrested, leading to a unique courtroom drama, where the defendant remains preoccupied with his phone conversation. Miraculously, he is acquitted for murder, but faces disciplinary action for refusing to be silent in court.
Just listened to the 6/6/25 ep of Radio Derb, and Mr. Derb announced that it's his last ep--he concluded with, "There will be no more from Radio Derb next week, nor in any following week."
Hello there, David
Bless you. That’s what we say after someone comes out of the bath (Ah-fiat basheh!)
Hopefully Fishburbe’s disease is an STD so you’ll be fine. Unless you fancy him.
David, that beard really makes you old, dude. Go to a nice shave and haircut for Heaven’s sake.
Also you gotta hit the gym man. You’ll never regret it. Find a decent natty trainer. You’ll get in shape in three months. It’s really worth it, man. A bachelor like you should be in shape so you’ll have your strength and stamina. Look after yourself.
Have a great night.
Thank you, my friend! And thank you for teaching me a very cool new phrase.
As for the gym....well...I don't really care that much about my looks. I ENJOY being single. I lost the "urges" in my late 40s. Plus, for alcoholics, our primary struggle is staying sober. Young people often accomplish that via fitness, "getting in shape for the dating pool." My motivation will be my second book.
Still, this hotel has a big beautiful gym, so maybe I'll check it out.
Oh, and you're right about the beard! I bought a brand new clipper-shaver before I left my house, but tonight it's in my larger duffel, which is in my friend's car, because it's too bulky for me to lug. But if I decide to stay at this place longer, I'll have him retrieve it.
Dakota Johnson is newly single Dave don’t sell yourself short. She was with that boring Coldplay guy for ages. So you already know she dates older.
I think it was starring opposite blindingly white David Caruso in King of New York — he just got too used to white guys and doesn’t notice them anymore.
LOL!!!!
DAVID!
I'm shocked, and frankly, a little disappointed in you.
10 floors of you and Lawrence Fishbourne, alone in an elevator, and you didn't have "an elevator pitch for a movie" in your quiver!?
Even if you were just making it up on the spot (which I'm sure you could do, to fucking hilarious effect!) you kind of owe it to the industry, y'know what I mean?
If nothing else, it would have taught him a valuable lesson about paying attention to who he gets in elevators with.
"Okay, hear me out, a "Matrix" reboot, but adding elements of the TV show "Lost", but in this one, kinda like "The Thirteenth Floor", the matrix is inside another matrix, and here's the twist- within the multiple layers of fake reality, a real reality comes into existence, so it's real, under two layers of fake! It's a mind-bender, a mind fuck, a fucking tornado hellscape of twisted mayhem, culminating with you being born again, like in the end of "2001"! I just need some seed money, and a couple of meetings, and we can get this bad boy greenlighted!"
Something like that.... where he just stands there, slack-jawed, and wondering if he's been dosed with acid, or if he actually died in the hospital and is in purgatory, or if he's just gone completely insane...
Any-hoo, glad to see you are well amigo! I'm digging the Grizzly Adams look. Have fun, relax, get some rest, and stop sharing elevators with sick people, that's just bad math.
Cheers!!
LOL!!!!!!
Celebrities don't like being bothered.
Dave-I say "go for it"! Your hair and beard look great! Very Moses handing over the tablets!
Yes....aspirin, for my hangover.
I have to say I was thinking more along the lines of the old "five constipated men in the bible" song (Moses-he took the tablets)!!!
LOL!!!!!
“These fifteen — oops — TEN commandments!”
I've heard, five, seven and ten, but the bible pretty long so I'm sure one could find 15 good ones!
So, I wonder...
Is it possible that Morpheus was playing some "celebrity 5d chess", and that between staying "on your phone" and saying shit like "I can't believe they released me, I'm still so contagious, and I think they just wanted the bed" is a couple of steps from "the celebrity's guide to being left alone in public" playbook? You gotta admit, it's worked on David, and he's a Hollywood Insider!
Also, how funny would it have been if in the middle of all this, Lawrence looked over and said "Are YOU David Cole!? THE David Cole!? Holy Shit man, I'm a huge fan of yours! Man, that shit you did back in the day, proving that the holocaust was a bunch of bullshit, really opened my eyes about the world! Wow, what an honor to meet you!"
Or, if on the elevator, David said something like "Morpheus, I've been sent from the future to kill you!"
You gotta have fun in life.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better Fishburne disease than Fishbone disease (where you die with the sounds of black power ska ringing in your ears)
LOL! "Funeral party at ground zero."
Like the Bad Brains, they were pissy about their audience being white.
If I die a Ska related death may it be from Buster Bloodvessel.
The Ska's the limit!
"What can you tell me about ska?" is a long-running joke with a friend of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvqAK5opx88
It'll make your pressure drop.
Hi Dave. A brief update is better than no update. I sure hope you don't die from LF disease. Maybe he was being overly dramatic? I am going to agree with the shaving suggestion simply because I don't think it works for you. I am also going to agree with hitting the gym. I do light lifting in the morning and walk 2-3 miles after dinner. I don't do this because I give a damn about how I look. I do care about how I feel and you cannot beat the physical and mental effects from exercise. If nothing else, walking lets me forget everything for a short while and just decompress. And you are far from grotesque. I personally think you're kinda cute. Of course I'm old and can't see shit anymore.
LOL!!! I actually took the shaving suggestion the next day. The gray beard fuzz is gone. As for exercise, I love walking and swimming...and it ends there!
Hi Dave! Sounds like “Clean… Mister Clean” took a wrong turn outta the jungle and ended up in the Matrix with no antivirus. You didn’t ride an elevator — you took the red pill straight to quarantine!
"Cowboy Curtis" has had one rodeo too many.
Would not be the first time I have seen people bond over being douchbags
Larry on the phone, looking at a bearded Dave: "This sho' nuff a bizarre sight in the middle-a all this shit!"
Yeah, you look like Moses in that pic. Please give us the Taki Tablets :)
I tried to watch the documentary 'Hearts of Darkness' about Coppola making 'Apocalypse Now', but Fishburne's comments were so off-putting that I quit it. Sure, I know, he was only a kid back then. As someone his own age I'm thrilled to hear he's still thriving.
Of all the characters on the boat, I find him to be the least interesting. Just filling up a spot as machine gunner.
Sheen's narration about him was better than the character itself. "Clean --- Mr. Clean --- was from some South Bronx shithole, and I think the light and space of Vietnam really put the zap on his head."
It’s 2025, early June and David Cole is riding in a public elevator car, and the passenger is none other then Morpheus
Are we in a novel, because this can’t be true.
Damn!
Fuck it Man You look good! just keep that bathrobe closed.
Made me chuckle—thanks!
LOL!!!!!!
Fishburne looks a little fat in his covid/contagion PSA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgBvI1jZOWc
He's looking quite emaciated today. The WASTING DISEASE! At least he didn't cough while we were in that elevator.
I saw Danny Glover in a hotel lobby in Sydney a few years ago while he was advocating for indigenous rights - he was looking frail as well. He almost looked scared when I recognized him - maybe I look like a radical?
LOTS of the "young guys" I grew up with are old now. It takes a moment to realize that. Even among A-listers. There's never been a cinema generation in which this many movie stars are over 60.
I don't care about your hair either, Dave, and I'm as Gentile as they come. Maybe Mr Fishburne is still suffering from "the open air of Vietnam putting the zap on his head"
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That reminds me of the elevator scène in “Ghost.” Let us hope he was just practicing lines for a possible remake.
Or a remake of Contagion!
BTW, sorry I missed your birthday. So a very belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
It would take an impressive degree of schizophrenia to make it an entertaining remake of Devil.
Hopefully Fishburne would stop being engrossed with his phone conversation long enough to notice he's supposed to be freaked out by the dead body in the lift.
That's what would make the movie a classic; he NEVER notices!
Stepping in the lift with a live man and leaving the lift with a dead body would obviously see him arrested, leading to a unique courtroom drama, where the defendant remains preoccupied with his phone conversation. Miraculously, he is acquitted for murder, but faces disciplinary action for refusing to be silent in court.
LOL!!!!
LOL!!!!!
Thanks! 👍😀
Just listened to the 6/6/25 ep of Radio Derb, and Mr. Derb announced that it's his last ep--he concluded with, "There will be no more from Radio Derb next week, nor in any following week."
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2025-06-06.html
Turned 80. May be exhausted, or just changed priorities.
Yeah, he sez he's trying to spend less time on the computer. He no longer does the monthly diary column either.