But for us regular readers- How's the move prep coming along? How did you fare in selling your current place? Have you selected your new place? When is the next auction? Has packing revealed any more ratibor evidence? What's new?
No, I'm just gonna be living in hotels & Airbnbs. The whole point of the downsize was that I no longer have ANY responsibilities for anything. I want my bed made, fresh sheets, towels, and coffee provided. I'll be living out of a duffel bag. Everything else I own in storage.
I'll likely do another auction once I'm in an Airbnb where I can do a new video.
The rats? They know their days are numbered. They're getting VERY aggressive. I'm not joking. They're trying to breach the retaining walls nightly. I hear 'em. I have to sleep with the lights on; it's the only thing that keeps them at bay.
I've been having to tell all my DoorDash drivers that I'm leaving, and each one of them has shared their own rat problems. I think there's a story there, of a massive cover up of just how bad the Westside rat issue has become. The mayor and City Council sweeping it under the rug in advance of the upcoming Olympics!
Ecological imbalance is a thing. Rabbits were brought to Australia as food animals in the late 1700s. A few escaped, and with no natural predators, they became Oz's worst nightmare, altering the continent's ecology, causing erosion, etc.
You remove cats, rats take over (don't know about snakes' presence in BH)
Yep that's what did it. As much as I love how wooded my neighborhood is, I'm moving, at least for June, to an area that's less hilly and more high-risey. Let the rats try to get me THERE!
Other than the cost of housing, rats seem like a good reason not to move to Beverly Hills.
The traffic was not too bad in the area, and of course, the best weather on the planet. (as anyplace near the coast is from there down to San Diego. Wait, what is the weather like in Boys Town in Tijuana - should I investigate?)
Now, since I don't live anywhere near there, I can't tell you about the noise, friendliness of the neighbors, or homeless motherfuckers, either.
If ever there was a Golden Ticket contender, it's her. I half expect to see her doing laps in the chocolate river while Oompa Loompas sing moral lessons in rhyme.
I am very sorry to read this, David. Last year, I was homeless for 9-months after a woman really screwed my life. My wife and I decided to part. She told me that the state Homeless Service would give me a house, as I had three kids, and I had previously been moved out of a flat after two attempts on my life by a neighbour. My psych at the time told me that I'd never have to live in a flat again. I've avoided mentally unstable drink/drug-addicted types since then.
So I went to the Homeless Service. I'd been on the end of controlling behaviour and I'd been raped financially in a very dishonest way. That counts as abuse, but obviously, as a man, that doesn't get you into a cosy place. Yes for women, no for men.
They tried sending me to a "hotel" in another area, as the local hotel was full of Ukrainian draft-dodgers. I don't blame them, but the one that they told me to go to had en suite heroin dealing and prostitution.
I told them to shove it up their rear end, and I walked out. My phone went. It was a Social Worker, telling me that I couldn't go back to my house in case there was violence. I've never been violent. I consider myself to be incapable. Those MRAs really are right, you know.
First night was spent in a shed, with temperatures in single digits... at the low end.
I'll leave out the hell that followed, but I moved into this place just recently, and I'm next to a mental case who has assaulted me on numerous occasions and tried to smash my door in.
The neighbour was given a warning after the fourth assault I'd managed to capture on my smartphone, and the scumbag is now telling all the other residents that I'm a paedophile, on parole from prison, who comes from miles away, and I was moved here to stop me from being killed.
I don't go past my front door. Everything is delivered. I still consider myself to be homeless. There's no way I'm allowing my three children to come here.
Always good to hear from you, Dave. I'm pretty I've read some of these but I'm sure they are worth rereading. You seem to be taking the latest changes well. Never my own strong point, less so in my dotage.
I recognize in myself a tendency to fall into complacency and "get used to things" I shouldn't be getting used to. So sometimes I purposely push myself to move on, to change my surroundings. If only to let myself know I can still do it.
Taki not the same without you. In " Down And Out In Paris And London ' Orwell quotes an old saw of advise that basically goes, " Never trust a Jew, but trust a Jew before a Greek."
Luv you, Ash! Sorry I haven't replied on FB - things are a madhouse right now with the move! Once I'm through with that, I'll have nothing BUT time for the really important things, like my friends. But right now, it's one move-related thing after another!
Oh no worries at all Dave! I totally get it! You take all the time you need my friend! I’ll be here when you need me. Until then, I just wish you a smooth transition, and as many happy moments as you can get in all that madness! It’s a HUGE deal, the task you’ve chosen to tackle! And at our age??! It’s a lot! So, I get it. Just wanna send you as much love as possible to remind you, I got your back buddy! Love ya!!
That truly gives me comfort, Ash! It really does. The next two weeks, as I make the final, as in all-caps FINAL move from my home, forever, will be unsettling and strange. Knowing you're there as a friend who has my back makes a huge difference.
Awe!! That’s so nice to hear! I’m just happy to be of service! Thank you for allowing me into your little world! I’m forever grateful to have you as my friend! I love the fuckin shit out of you! ALWAYS WILL!! I’ll have your back until my last fuckin breathe buddy! 💚🍀💚
Hi Dave. I read the comments first so I don't have to ask about the sale of the house. Congrats. I am really enjoying the reruns here. I believe I've read all but one in the past. It's all worth reading again because sometimes the rabbit hole gets so damn deep I miss a link here and there. But it's all so interesting. Or informative. Usually both. This is going to take a while. Watch out for those damn rats. You're close to the finish line, this is not the time for rat bite fever.
Oh you got em!! Glad to be on board!! I wish I could send you cookies!! (Not the website ones, but real, delicious, home baked cookies!!) comments will have to do for now. Sending all my love your way!! You will always hold a very special place in my cold black heart! 🖤
I was just looking at a Martin Short appearance on Colbert's show; Short complimented Colbert on his "Clark Kent meets Rachel Maddow look", and added, "I feel like I'm sitting with Paul Ryan without the gym membership":
I’ve been continuing to binge on Jiminy Glick interviews—here’s a great one he did with John McEnroe, who the younger readers might not know was a tennis phenom in the late 70s and 80s (he won 7 Grand Slams). I was shocked to just learn McEnroe’s only three years older than I am. Wiki sez too he was an air force brat, “made in Belgium but born in Germany” (quoth his father). He was known for his confrontational on-court manner and for his rivalry with Swede Bjorn Borg, who was known for being cool and restrained—the two of them together were called “Fire and Ice”:
Good to hear from you and I hope you're doing OK. Today I learned the word "frummy" which seems to be an adjective and/or adverb form of Yiddish "frum", which is derived from German "fromm" but is (LOL) also related to Dutch "vroom". Just remembering what you said, that Yiddish is "bastardized German" 🙂
I once played a Yiddish movie scene for my friend from Berlin, because I wanted to know if a native German-speaker could understand it. And he said he could, but it was like listening to black people's English.
FWIW--and that may be zilch...you be the judge--some of your very best material, when you're not in confrontational mode, is the stuff about when you were closer to Hollywood--casting, etc.
Ever read the Pat Hobby stories? Your stuff is like that, yep...
If it had been up to me, I'd have written more about Hollywood. But Takimag wasn't paying me for that. My two favorite types of stories were L.A. local demographic politics, and Hollywood.
All of the LA stuff really appeals to me. I'm prejudiced in favor of LA. Most people don't "get" LA. Aside from the deep, deep feeling that anything is possible there, there's also a willingness to laugh at itself (compare that to the SF civic ethos, huh?), and a pervasive lighthearted irreverence.
E.g., back in the early 80s there was a radio ad--maybe KRLA--for a certain local burger chain whose name I can no longer recall. The ad breathlessly featured this month's promo:
"Try our DeLorean Special! Our biggest, baddest double Colossal Burger, an order of fries...AND FREE COKE!!!"
Why would anyone want to read unique and interesting insights on subjects when you can get commentary on things everybody else is talking about? Seriously, I found your takes on those topics to be fascinating must reads, Takimag was very foolish not to agree.
Also I've got some good news/bad news:
Bad news is that Joe Biden has been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer.
The good news is that he already died a few years back so it doesn't matter.
Nah...it's an ideological echo chamber site. I'm not trying to play to far-rightists. Or any one particular group. When I upload videos, I just do it here.
The Big 4 - I re-read them once in a while.
Might do it again as there won't be a Week covering those beans that set sail for new blowing grounds, just to be grounded by the Brooklyn Bridge.
It'll take me a few months to loose the reflex action of seeing a story like that and thinking "oh, that'll make a GREAT Week piece!"
You had a past!? Who knew?
But for us regular readers- How's the move prep coming along? How did you fare in selling your current place? Have you selected your new place? When is the next auction? Has packing revealed any more ratibor evidence? What's new?
Escrow closed, I'm out on June 1st!
No, I'm just gonna be living in hotels & Airbnbs. The whole point of the downsize was that I no longer have ANY responsibilities for anything. I want my bed made, fresh sheets, towels, and coffee provided. I'll be living out of a duffel bag. Everything else I own in storage.
I'll likely do another auction once I'm in an Airbnb where I can do a new video.
The rats? They know their days are numbered. They're getting VERY aggressive. I'm not joking. They're trying to breach the retaining walls nightly. I hear 'em. I have to sleep with the lights on; it's the only thing that keeps them at bay.
We have a well-documented rat problem in BH. I don't wanna hear about no bullshit lab-leak theory, when the shit hits the fan! :)
I've been having to tell all my DoorDash drivers that I'm leaving, and each one of them has shared their own rat problems. I think there's a story there, of a massive cover up of just how bad the Westside rat issue has become. The mayor and City Council sweeping it under the rug in advance of the upcoming Olympics!
Ecological imbalance is a thing. Rabbits were brought to Australia as food animals in the late 1700s. A few escaped, and with no natural predators, they became Oz's worst nightmare, altering the continent's ecology, causing erosion, etc.
You remove cats, rats take over (don't know about snakes' presence in BH)
Yep that's what did it. As much as I love how wooded my neighborhood is, I'm moving, at least for June, to an area that's less hilly and more high-risey. Let the rats try to get me THERE!
Other than the cost of housing, rats seem like a good reason not to move to Beverly Hills.
The traffic was not too bad in the area, and of course, the best weather on the planet. (as anyplace near the coast is from there down to San Diego. Wait, what is the weather like in Boys Town in Tijuana - should I investigate?)
Now, since I don't live anywhere near there, I can't tell you about the noise, friendliness of the neighbors, or homeless motherfuckers, either.
"Other than the cost of housing, rats seem like a good reason not to move to Beverly Hills."
Rats that size are not an isolated issue, but a sign of a widespread population.
Like this-
https://youtu.be/ZZ10wLxSYUs?si=VEYmLIKu4fIZAJa2
This is the film I thought of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Gn98fbeMs
Saints preserve us! LOL
I don´t know. I think of the Dave Cole story more as a contemporary American tragedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpYTkavEt20
If ever there was a Golden Ticket contender, it's her. I half expect to see her doing laps in the chocolate river while Oompa Loompas sing moral lessons in rhyme.
I actually met her once, and had a chat for about half an hour. One of the nicest guys I ever met, certainly as far as actors go.
Ha ha! Yeah, but this is “Ratibor”, he’s way bigger, and has “big pointy teeth”!
https://youtu.be/WrZ6yBmIkac?si=J17uKX2zMPUDiggJ
Fantastic! LOL
I am very sorry to read this, David. Last year, I was homeless for 9-months after a woman really screwed my life. My wife and I decided to part. She told me that the state Homeless Service would give me a house, as I had three kids, and I had previously been moved out of a flat after two attempts on my life by a neighbour. My psych at the time told me that I'd never have to live in a flat again. I've avoided mentally unstable drink/drug-addicted types since then.
So I went to the Homeless Service. I'd been on the end of controlling behaviour and I'd been raped financially in a very dishonest way. That counts as abuse, but obviously, as a man, that doesn't get you into a cosy place. Yes for women, no for men.
They tried sending me to a "hotel" in another area, as the local hotel was full of Ukrainian draft-dodgers. I don't blame them, but the one that they told me to go to had en suite heroin dealing and prostitution.
I told them to shove it up their rear end, and I walked out. My phone went. It was a Social Worker, telling me that I couldn't go back to my house in case there was violence. I've never been violent. I consider myself to be incapable. Those MRAs really are right, you know.
First night was spent in a shed, with temperatures in single digits... at the low end.
I'll leave out the hell that followed, but I moved into this place just recently, and I'm next to a mental case who has assaulted me on numerous occasions and tried to smash my door in.
The neighbour was given a warning after the fourth assault I'd managed to capture on my smartphone, and the scumbag is now telling all the other residents that I'm a paedophile, on parole from prison, who comes from miles away, and I was moved here to stop me from being killed.
I don't go past my front door. Everything is delivered. I still consider myself to be homeless. There's no way I'm allowing my three children to come here.
Best of luck. You're a good Juden dude.
Always good to hear from you, Dave. I'm pretty I've read some of these but I'm sure they are worth rereading. You seem to be taking the latest changes well. Never my own strong point, less so in my dotage.
I recognize in myself a tendency to fall into complacency and "get used to things" I shouldn't be getting used to. So sometimes I purposely push myself to move on, to change my surroundings. If only to let myself know I can still do it.
Taki not the same without you. In " Down And Out In Paris And London ' Orwell quotes an old saw of advise that basically goes, " Never trust a Jew, but trust a Jew before a Greek."
"...but don't trust an Armenian" (Hear that, Ye?...Oh, wait! He doesn't read books, just memes)
LOL!!!!!
Just wishing you well my dear friend. 💚💚💚💚🍀🍀🍀
Luv you, Ash! Sorry I haven't replied on FB - things are a madhouse right now with the move! Once I'm through with that, I'll have nothing BUT time for the really important things, like my friends. But right now, it's one move-related thing after another!
Oh no worries at all Dave! I totally get it! You take all the time you need my friend! I’ll be here when you need me. Until then, I just wish you a smooth transition, and as many happy moments as you can get in all that madness! It’s a HUGE deal, the task you’ve chosen to tackle! And at our age??! It’s a lot! So, I get it. Just wanna send you as much love as possible to remind you, I got your back buddy! Love ya!!
That truly gives me comfort, Ash! It really does. The next two weeks, as I make the final, as in all-caps FINAL move from my home, forever, will be unsettling and strange. Knowing you're there as a friend who has my back makes a huge difference.
Awe!! That’s so nice to hear! I’m just happy to be of service! Thank you for allowing me into your little world! I’m forever grateful to have you as my friend! I love the fuckin shit out of you! ALWAYS WILL!! I’ll have your back until my last fuckin breathe buddy! 💚🍀💚
Hi Dave. I read the comments first so I don't have to ask about the sale of the house. Congrats. I am really enjoying the reruns here. I believe I've read all but one in the past. It's all worth reading again because sometimes the rabbit hole gets so damn deep I miss a link here and there. But it's all so interesting. Or informative. Usually both. This is going to take a while. Watch out for those damn rats. You're close to the finish line, this is not the time for rat bite fever.
Yep - I'm being VERY careful! Especially as I have all my gear ready to hit the road, and I don't need rats to poop in it.
Speaking of poop..... don't know if you're familiar with this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6QfOYbD1Fk
Yep...that would've been a Week That Perished story.
There's going to be far too many stories where I have that exact same thought.
Hey Dave! Sorry, I totally forgot to sub! Thanks for the email on the substack post to remind me! Hope you’re well buddy! Love ya!!
Love ya too, Ash! Thanks for subbing, because I look forward to your comments.
Oh you got em!! Glad to be on board!! I wish I could send you cookies!! (Not the website ones, but real, delicious, home baked cookies!!) comments will have to do for now. Sending all my love your way!! You will always hold a very special place in my cold black heart! 🖤
I was just looking at a Martin Short appearance on Colbert's show; Short complimented Colbert on his "Clark Kent meets Rachel Maddow look", and added, "I feel like I'm sitting with Paul Ryan without the gym membership":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A3pgTX8JUA&t=65s
I’ve been continuing to binge on Jiminy Glick interviews—here’s a great one he did with John McEnroe, who the younger readers might not know was a tennis phenom in the late 70s and 80s (he won 7 Grand Slams). I was shocked to just learn McEnroe’s only three years older than I am. Wiki sez too he was an air force brat, “made in Belgium but born in Germany” (quoth his father). He was known for his confrontational on-court manner and for his rivalry with Swede Bjorn Borg, who was known for being cool and restrained—the two of them together were called “Fire and Ice”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1fbDtUPQjY&t=563s
* I'm grateful you're okay. Be careful about the spending
power of money. You don't want to be this woman.
When you see it, you'll comprehend it.
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/lottery/kentucky-woman-quits-her-job-winning-90k-lottery-money/417-5955428d-4080-4a7b-a9aa-40e271383d12
Good to hear from you and I hope you're doing OK. Today I learned the word "frummy" which seems to be an adjective and/or adverb form of Yiddish "frum", which is derived from German "fromm" but is (LOL) also related to Dutch "vroom". Just remembering what you said, that Yiddish is "bastardized German" 🙂
I once played a Yiddish movie scene for my friend from Berlin, because I wanted to know if a native German-speaker could understand it. And he said he could, but it was like listening to black people's English.
Please tell me who to read in case you stop writing, for whatever reason.
Cicero. But you can always reread Dave.
Spinoza---I picture Spinoza as looking like Dave.
You mean like talking in Dutch?
Mr. Cole - sorry I haven't become a paid subscriber yet - I do plan to become one - please write more.
Thank you and God Bless.
Good to hear from you again.
FWIW--and that may be zilch...you be the judge--some of your very best material, when you're not in confrontational mode, is the stuff about when you were closer to Hollywood--casting, etc.
Ever read the Pat Hobby stories? Your stuff is like that, yep...
If it had been up to me, I'd have written more about Hollywood. But Takimag wasn't paying me for that. My two favorite types of stories were L.A. local demographic politics, and Hollywood.
All of the LA stuff really appeals to me. I'm prejudiced in favor of LA. Most people don't "get" LA. Aside from the deep, deep feeling that anything is possible there, there's also a willingness to laugh at itself (compare that to the SF civic ethos, huh?), and a pervasive lighthearted irreverence.
E.g., back in the early 80s there was a radio ad--maybe KRLA--for a certain local burger chain whose name I can no longer recall. The ad breathlessly featured this month's promo:
"Try our DeLorean Special! Our biggest, baddest double Colossal Burger, an order of fries...AND FREE COKE!!!"
Maybe you can remember this one, Dave?
Why would anyone want to read unique and interesting insights on subjects when you can get commentary on things everybody else is talking about? Seriously, I found your takes on those topics to be fascinating must reads, Takimag was very foolish not to agree.
Also I've got some good news/bad news:
Bad news is that Joe Biden has been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer.
The good news is that he already died a few years back so it doesn't matter.
LOL!!!!!
What’s going on there? Used to be my first site to visit in the morning but now I just read Ann, Taki himself and Dalrymple.
Check out my last Substack post before this one.
Your videos on Youtube were always entertaining and informative. Have you considered creating a new channel on Rumble?
Nah...it's an ideological echo chamber site. I'm not trying to play to far-rightists. Or any one particular group. When I upload videos, I just do it here.
Hi David
What happened at Taki Mag?