Speaking of stabs, people are still taking stabs at identifying everyone’s favorite maybe homo-hating rocker, Donnie Davies.
Yesterday we suggested Donnie may be improv performer Todd Quillen, a hypothesis first offered at Joe. My. God. The kids over at Good as You, meanwhile, wondered if DD’s actually the alter ego of a man named Colby Starck: the drummer in a music group called The Glass Gypsies – an aural-minded assembly listed as one of Love Gods Way’s banned bands. Stark’s suspiciously white, pudgy face made him a notable suspect, leading a number of other blogs to speculate that he is, in fact, Donnie Davies. Apparently, however, they’re all wrong.
Radar sleuth Jeff Bercovici contacted Stark, who insists he is not, in fact, Donnie Davies. Bercovici reports: S
tarck tells Radar he’s not the hoaxer. “While I’m getting a kick out of the hoopla, I’m not Donnie Davies,” he says. In fact, he adds, the photos in which he looks like Davies are several years old; Starck has since lost weight and shaved his mustache. “I’m not as fat as he is, but it’s really the love that I have in my heart for homosexuals that distinguishes us,” he says.
Thus, the mystery continues…
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(Note: while we’re not entirely convinced Donnie Davies actually exists, we aren’t ruling out the possibility that our sexually repressive and deeply religious culture could, in fact, spawn a ridiculous caricature such as the DD. Seriously, everything else about our day and age seems absurd – hello, Ted Haggard – so why couldn’t this be real, too?)
Ian D. Stewart
While I won’t entirely rule out the possibility that Donnie Davies is the real deal (after all, “with God all things are possible”), the imagery in the videos just screams parody and the latest video, wherein Pastor Davies complains of hurt feelings after being harrassed for something he cannot change (his weught, due to a thyroid problem) and thanks Andrew Sullivan for “getting behind” Davies, certainly raises the stakes.
Whether Davies or a higher power, someone defintely has a wicked sense of humor!
ny Big Guy
OK, let’s try this one more time: This. Is. A. Hoax. The. Real. Person. Will. Reveal. Himself. When. He. Has. Milked. It. Long. Enough. The clues are all over the damned place! It probably is some wannabe band mentioned in the “banned music” section.
dickrebel
*sigh*
It’s a satire. Plain and simple. ny Big Guy has it right. The clues are obvious and everywhere. Read his myspace page, look at his friends list. It’s all so fricking obvious. He even went out of his way to use domainsbyproxy.com to obscure his registration information. No ministry would do that, no one wishing to sell records via a record label would do that.
I blogged a bunch of links, you can check it out at:
http://www.obulous.org/2007/01/26/the-whole-donnie-davis-the-bible-says-satire/
Dennis
The mystery is solved! Here is a link to the real Donnie Davies. http://www.kimdawsonagency.com/Index.cfm?FuseAction=OnCameraTalentDetails&TalentID=1221&TalentDisplayID=2&TalentGenderAgeID=1&Category=Film&scrollPos=0
Simon Jones
I wonder if now that it is clearly a parody (as if it wasn’t clear enough already) YouTube and Google will finally develop a damn sense of humor?