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  • “Frownie Brownies and Attackie Blackies”

    David Cole - Jun 18th 2025 3:07pm EDT

    Okay, here we go! Time to run the pieces I had in the pipeline before my decade+ at Takimag ended. I submitted this piece on April 21st, a day before I told Taki that conditions had become such that I could no longer continue to write for him. But I made it clear I didn’t […]

  • Back in Beverly Hills! And a History Lesson

    David Cole - Jun 16th 2025 5:16pm EDT

    [NOTE TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS: In-between posting my unused Takimag pieces, and new political ramblings when I see fit, I’m also blogging my experience as a homeless guy living from hotel to Airbnb to hotel again, all my possessions in a duffel bag. If these posts don’t interest you, no need to unsub. Just don’t read […]

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  • Dave on the Great L.A. Bean Riot of ’25

    David Cole - Jun 13th 2025 6:47pm EDT

    Look, I ain’t keen to write about politics. I have 14 weeks of Taki’s columns to release (things I’d already written before I left), so why the hell should I write anything new…for FREE. For FREE? What am I, Jesus or something? I spent 10+ years getting paid for this shit. These days I just […]

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  • Homeless Dave…The Adventure Continues!

    David Cole - Jun 10th 2025 6:17am EDT

    So I left the fancy Larry Fishburne hotel, because nice as it was, it was expensive. Three nights was fine. Also, the sauteed spinach I got from room service as a side dish to my lobster bisque last night REALLY disagreed with me. Like, badly. Let’s just say the maid who opens the door to […]

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  • If I Should Die Before I Wake…Blame Larry Fishburne

    David Cole - Jun 7th 2025 4:13am EDT

    This is just a brief update, so the people who are like “Unsubscribed! It’s too short!” are right now prepping to do so, their fat ugly little Down Syndrome faces beet red at the prospect of reading something too brief. One day I’d love to put the “it’s too short” people in the same room […]

  • Regrets…and Thanks

    David Cole - May 29th 2025 7:13pm EDT

    I want to thank you all for getting my GiveSendGo over the line. Nobody likes to admit weakness, but I kinda needed the lift. It’s been a less-than-good year, even though I try to live by the Norm Macdonald “ass cancer” standard of, “is blood pouring outta your ass? No? Then you’re okay.” And thankfully, […]

  • My Unused Takimag Content

    David Cole - May 26th 2025 2:15pm EDT

    Years ago I realized that the key to enjoying the Taki’s job was to write compulsively whenever the mood hit. Full columns, The Week That Perished, so that I’d never have to sweat a deadline. I COULD write something new on Friday (my column deadline was Sunday night), or I could just use one of […]

  • Duffel Dave

    David Cole - May 24th 2025 2:03pm EDT

    June 1st is my out date for my home now that escrow’s closed, so I’ve loaded everything I need into a duffel, as my plan is to vagabond around the Westside until I see whether my GiveSendGo for a new book and the republication of my first, banned book reaches its modest goal. If so, […]

  • David Cole: Book or No Book

    David Cole - May 23rd 2025 3:16pm EDT

    This will be the shortest post I’ve ever done. Which means I’ll get about 500 unsubs, because I know you guys, and when a post is too lengthy, you unsub. So I’m assuming you’ll do the same if it’s too short. “For what I’m payin’ to subscribe ($0), I wants me sum CONTENT!” This post […]

  • The Essential Cole

    David Cole - May 18th 2025 11:43am EDT

    Oh man, am I gonna get unsubs for this! A RERUN! For three years I’ve been bringing you new Substacks weekly monthly whenever the fuck I feel like it, but now, as I’ve been getting a flood of new subs post-Takimag, I feel the need to “curate” (as the kids say these days) the top […]

  • The Takimag Story, a Great Miscalculation, and a Mexican Wake-Up Call

    David Cole - May 5th 2025 10:27am EDT

    Many of you have asked why I’m no longer with Takimag, and as much as I’m a compulsive anecdotalist, I’ve decided to not discuss it publicly. The details don’t favor Takimag, but I can’t overlook that Taki gave me over ten years of gainful employment doing the only thing I love to do, the only […]

  • L.A. Bueno?

    David Cole - Apr 15th 2025 1:08am EDT

    Leftists and rightists alike refuse to understand L.A. Rightist dimwits like Ukrainian/Jewish podcaster Michael Malice, who claims “L.A. is the second Detroit,” and other rightist dimwits like this tard who claims “they lock their doors and windows in Compton because it’s all black,” live continually in 1992. And when I, who actually did live in […]

  • The Battle of Ape Bridge

    David Cole - Apr 8th 2025 12:00am EDT

    Did I ever tell you my favorite memory from the George Floyd riots of 2020? I live-tweeted about it at the time, but since my X account was nuked, I suppose I can tell the tale again here. To set the scene… I’ve written many times about Century City, the mega-wealthy neighborhood (like so much […]

  • The Third Worlding of the American Mind

    David Cole - Apr 1st 2025 1:10am EDT

    You know what I hate? Liberals! Ooooh, I hate ’em so much. Bet you do too. C’mon, shake your fist at ’em with me. C’mon, do it! Shake harder, boy; they’re still here! The thing I hate most about liberals is how dumb they are! Dumb, dumb, dumb, amirite? Like, did you hear, there’s this […]

  • Darryl Cooper Cites Me, Incites Me

    David Cole - Mar 25th 2025 1:50am EDT

    What do you do when your entire identity has been built around a “they” that’s oppressing you, but “they” don’t actually seem to be oppressing you? You’ve taken on “victim” as your identity, but you’re not being victimized enough. So you’re forced to live vicariously through “Hitler the victim.” Ah, Darryl Cooper again. My least […]

  • Home, Homeland on Deranged

    David Cole - Mar 18th 2025 7:31am EDT

    I’m gonna start this week’s column with a very disturbing piece of video. In 1985 two dumbasses in Reno, 20-year-old James Vance and 18-year-old Ray Belknap, got drunk and decided to blow their brains out with a shotgun. Hey, at least there wasn’t a TikTok to livestream it. Belknap did it right, sending what little […]

  • My New Column, My Worst Day

    David Cole - Mar 12th 2025 12:08pm EDT

    Here’s this week’s column. It’s personal and self-indulgent, like everything I write. But it does have import, at least to me (like everything I write). Link: Of Course Elon’s a Nazi Okay, I’m getting a TON of new followers but few new subscribers. You know, jerkasses, it’s subscribers, not followers, that help boost a Substack. […]

  • Of Course Elon’s a Nazi

    David Cole - Mar 11th 2025 1:27am EDT

    Friday, November 1st, 2024. I’m at home going through my nightly routine (trying but failing to muster the courage to pull the trigger) when I suddenly start to get dozens of texts from unknown numbers. The first one reads “Is this you? Fuck FUCK holy shit!” Another Thomas Sowell text? No, can’t be; I’ve got […]

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  • Imps in Charge!

    David Cole - Mar 4th 2025 6:41am EST

    In the 1992 “Mr. Belvedere” SNL sketch, Tom Hanks plays the president of a fan club for the guy who played Mr. Belvedere on the sitcom. And the gag is that the “fans” are lunatics and stalkers who murder Belvedere’s pets, masturbate while watching the show, and write the actor fan letters on death certificates. […]

  • Three for the Road (to Hell)

    David Cole - Feb 25th 2025 1:45pm EST

    Last week’s column was written during my recent health scare; this week’s is being written as I’m recuperating, sober, and thus in a terrible mood. So to make it easier on myself, I’m going to dispense with three different rants. Maybe there’s a connecting theme, maybe there isn’t. We’ll see as we go. MAGA-Morph Activate! […]

  • Pach Like Me

    David Cole - Feb 18th 2025 10:05am EST

    “Pach” as in pachyderm. Get it? GET IT??? If you haven’t read this week’s column, do so, as I don’t plan to recap it here. I said DO SO! Even though the column says it was “last week” that I Elephant Manned, it was actually two weeks ago (I write all my columns two weeks […]

  • On God and Dogs

    David Cole - Feb 18th 2025 2:42am EST

    Booze and antibiotics may not be the best cocktail for a column. But hey, that’s the fun. A week ago I bit down on an M&M peanut and it sliced through the soft tissue beneath my bad tooth (56 years old and I’ve only ever had one cavity, but like Babe Ruth at bat, you […]

  • The Death of Hollywood Part III: Don’t Dream It’s Over (But Yes, It’s Over)

    David Cole - Feb 11th 2025 3:31am EST

    London, 1911. Two proper gentlemen meet for an ale. “With this land grant and generous endowment by the Brothers Wilks—who stomp the earth to extract petrol for lamps and whatnot—we shall be greatly facilitated in an endeavor of our choice. Wot say thee, friend Jeremy?” “My oath, brother Benjamin, I do declare that we should […]

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  • The Death of Hollywood Part II: Local Actors Act Loco

    David Cole - Feb 4th 2025 5:19am EST

    I’ve had a lot to say over the years about how rightists refuse to act locally, or seem incapable of doing so. With one of the defining aspects of the Trump era being “the God-King will solve all problems at the national level, because all problems emanate from a Deep State cabal,” it’s understandable that […]

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  • In the Year 2025, Will Hollywood Survive?

    David Cole - Jan 28th 2025 12:00am EST

    The defining entertainment industry story of 2024 was the collapse of Hollywood, the “death of movies,” to quote the L.A. Times. The defining story of 2025 is, to quote the Times again, “Will the work ever come back?” Taking some time off from politics (because everyone and their retarded uncle is opining on the new […]