Blog Posts for Merrill Markoe

I try doing some P.R.

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:14:32 -0700

I never do any personal P.R. because...well, it seems to me that it never makes any difference. Its just one of those things I have learned by being alive. And there are few enough of those things. But it seems I learn this one over and over. Still...I will make that weak attempt one more time. For no reason at all. So okay, three things. 1. Here is someone else's blog about me, my dogs ...

In case anyone cares: An interview

Merrill Markoe — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:17:31 -0700

with me.

The Merrill Markoe show: Episode 2

Merrill Markoe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:10:57 -0700

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.

My Hollywood horror story: from the L.A. Weekly

Merrill Markoe — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:39:09 -0700

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 President, Paramount bought a screenplay from me about a girl who worked at a magazine, was about ...

Hospitals develop brilliant new phrase for Kleenex

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:45:24 -0700

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 companies and hopefully spot instances of double billing and fraud. That's the premise anyway. ...

Annoying person helped by new reality show.

Merrill Markoe — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:52:28 -0700

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 provides the first really concrete reason to stand behind reality shows as a genre.Below ...

The art exhibit at Bed Bath and Beyond

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:09:44 -0700

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 last resort of malingerers and people who don't want to work." He's not wrong. And I admit ...

IPO: Puppyboy

Merrill Markoe — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:16:43 -0700

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 assets. I'm feeling good about this. http://merrillmarkoe.com/blog

A paper plate full of despair.

Merrill Markoe — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:18:12 -0700

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 got rid of when you finally stopped worrying. Or maybe its that thing that dissolved when you ...

In honor of our country's birthday: Rambutan

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:15:36 -0700

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 going up. Well, come on. They have to start in August because it takes at least 60 days to get ready ...