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Dec.13.2009
Bob Dylan has a new Christmas album out. I suggest you go to I Tunes and download him singing "I'll be Home for Christmas", then listen to it, as I tell you the heartwarming story of what Bob's version of the song means to me.
Lets begin with Exhibit A...the photo above.
But first a...
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Sep.23.2009
1. Here is someone else's blog about me, my dogs and coffee.
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Sep.07.2009
No one has been clamoring for it, but here it is anyway. The German expressionist episode of Quickdraw McGraw that Hanna Barbara somehow forgot to make. Well, actually the whole show looked like this to me.
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Aug.18.2009
The L.A.Weekly has a comedy issue out. The theme was Hollywood horror stories and I contributed one. If you go to L.A.Weekly online, you can read great ones by my friends Elayne Boosler and Laura Kightlinger. Here is mine:
Lather Rinse Repeat. By Merrill Markoe
In 1986 , when Ronald Reagan was ...
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Aug.08.2009
There is an interesting article in todays New York Times about a service that now exists to help recovering patients make their way through all the false charges on their hospital bills. These self titled "medical advocates" charge to help you navigate the language of the insurance...
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Aug.02.2009
I don’t watch that much reality TV. Although I am hooked on “Intervention” and “Obsessed.” And I did go to a friend’s house to watch the season closer of The Bachelor.But for the most part, the stuff slithers past me . Until today. Because I just read a review of a new show in the L.A. Times that...
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Jul.15.2009
I went to art school. Well, actually I went to UC Berkeley where I was an art major all the way through to a Masters degree.Which immediately reminds me of the words of the great Joe Strummer who said "There's only one answer to what you're going to do after school and thats art school; The...
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Jul.09.2009
I have begun the difficult task of creating a corporate montage for my dog. Because everyone here at this house needs more vertical media integration. Like they had at the Michael Jackson funeral. Its all about the media integration now. And of course, the branding. And the repackaging of your...
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Jul.06.2009
Last night I cooked a squash in the oven. This morning, I discovered this lighter than air blob of stuff in a pan on one of the lower racks; a porous charcoal cloud that I bet doesn't weigh a whole ounce. It looks like what you feel like you shed once your depression has lifted. Or the thing you...
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Jul.04.2009
Its the fourth of July weekend. What that used to mean to me, when I was single, was the beginning of the downhill slide to Christmas. Because July seemed to go by in such a rapid flash that the next thing I knew, it was the part of August where the fences for the Halloween pumpkin lots started...
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Jun.22.2009
Everyone knows that the publishing industry in general and artists in specific are struggling to figure out how to get paid vis a vis 'new media'.Its not clear how it is ever going to work for anyone but the corporations buying ads, unless you are among the people collecting money for those ads....
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Jun.04.2009
A new winner has been announced as the most annoying word in the world. And when I say "announced" I mean by me, just now.
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May.27.2009
It may not surprise you to hear that I have very little experience negotiating international policy. While this wouldn't have held me back from a prominent advisor position in the Bush years, I am afraid that it disqualifies me from stepping up to the plate in the current administration. But I have...
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May.22.2009
I compulsively read all those articles that boast “Ten new foods that burn belly fat .” I guess lots of people do and that’s why they make up so many new lists every month. Sometimes I think its the same bunch who fabricate the belly flab lists and the “101 new ways to turn him on” lists that...
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About Merrill
Merrill Markoe was born in New York City but by the time high school reared its ugly head, the Markoe family had moved five times. They eventually landed on the San Francisco peninsula where, during her sophomore year, Merrill began a decade long tradition of...
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Causes Merrill Markoe Supports
1. The Jane Goodall Institute 2. Tailsofjoy.com 3. Best Friends Animal Rescue 4. The Humane Society 5. PETA
6. The Sam Simon Foundation