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This Week in Sociopaths!

Merrill Markoe — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:49:50 +0000

A video I made in my new greenscreen suit about nanotechnology

Merrill Markoe — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:17:13 +0000

I’ve started making some videos for Salon.com about stuff in the news. This is from this past week and is based on an article I read that …well, I explain it in the video. Its only a minute and 30 seconds long: perfect for the ADD attention span with which we are all so familiar. But most importantly, I finally found a way to use my new green screen suit. After I bought it, I tried to make videos of things mysteriously floating around my office. The results were just stupid. This worked out much better. Read more

What to say to the 3 people who come to hear you read at a bookstore.

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:04:51 +0000

Whenever I have a book come out, friends ask me if I will be appearing at any bookstores. I shrug and smile. This is what I am too embarrassed to tell them: Read more

Oh, the giddy hilarity of bras.

Merrill Markoe — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:21:44 +0000

Well, its President’s Day and of course the excitement is palpable. So many holidays, so many opportunities to buy chairs or refrigerators. It can be overwhelming. Read more

My homage to Westminster: The White Working Humans-in-Suits Groups

Merrill Markoe — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:18:02 +0000

Westminster is happening this week. By which I mean the big Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden. Every year I watch that show and have the same thought about how impossible it would be to be a human being leaping around the ring with those pure bred dogs. Year before last I finally did a piece about just the women participants, after watching it in my head for the past 15 years. Read more

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