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RE: The Super Bowl: How I tried to win a million dollars by making a Dorito commercial.

Merrill Markoe — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:00:22 +0000

Okay, I know it is The Superbowl next Sunday. And I know this, even though I don’t watch any sports. There. I said it. None. Nothing. And I am fortunate enough to now live with a man who shares my lack of interest. (In fact, just last night he said to me “Who is playing this year? Is it the Spiders versus The Coconuts?”) Read more

A Very Dylan Christmas:#3

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:41:00 +0000

If this blog has a yearly tradition it is my ongoing efforts at photographing Bob Dylan’s Christmas Decorations. Not everyone thinks of Bob Dylan as a Christmassy sort of guy. I know I didn’t. But I do now. Read more

Some new and hopefully funny stuff re: My New Book.

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:41:13 +0000

Not just two endings, but two impressive tricks!!

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:10:20 +0000

I made myself a book promo. Because I have a book coming out in a month. Read more

The Jpegs RollingStone didn’t want.

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:49:49 +0000

So there is a piece in the new RollingStone about year one of the Letterman show. (If you use the link, check under the area labeled ‘features’ And if the link says something about how you need to be a subscriber, just google Rollingstone,Current issue. And it will appear. Then look for features.). As a lot of you may know, this is not a piece of my past that I revisit much. For a lot of reasons, among them the fact that whatever the opposite of nostalgic is, I am that. But when the writer of the piece, David Browne, contacted me, I decided I’d play along. Because…you know… why not? And in the course of playing along, the art director asked me if I had any photos. As it turned out, I did. I made jpegs out of a bunch of them but for whatever reason, they never made it in to the magazine. Which brings us to this blog post. Since I went to the trouble of making the damn jpegs , I thought maybe fans of the early Letterman show might enjoy seeing them. Lets get ME over with first. Here I am when the show first launched. The important writer shirt was a sarcastic souvenir from my days of being a struggling writer at large, newly moved to Hollywood. Which, at that point, was just a few weeks before this. I thought it was a very funny thing to have on a shirt. That, in a nutshell, was me then. Read more

Fall 2011: Peasants make Great Accessories

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:43:33 +0000

Yes, we all know that we are in the throes of a world wide global economic crisis. But sometimes it takes something dire and international to help us to really SEE. Today my new Anthropologie catalog arrived with exactly that kind of very special fashion reminder. FALL 2011 has a message for us. And it is this. Nothing shows off a great new outfit like PEASANTS! Read more

Analyzing the facial expressions of the candidates

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:43:55 +0000

I’m having trouble deciding whose facial expression is more frightening: Michele Bachmann’s Precious: Read more

Mensans in the Hot Tub

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:23:42 +0000

Models Reveal Their Diet Secrets!

Merrill Markoe — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:14:11 +0000

How to Argue Politics

Merrill Markoe — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:45:32 +0000

Well, the Halloween yard decorations are for sale at Costco and you know what that means: its almost Christmas. Also the political season is in full swing again. Read more