Merrill Markoe's Blog, page 18

I'm on EBAY selling something hideous.

Okay, its not exactly the same as being on 'Dancing with the Stars', but its a kind of an achievement. If you define 'achievement' as something that  can also be accomplished by  even malingerers and people in prison.

Here's what it actually is: I am  participating in someone's art project which they call  Significant Objects. The way it works is that I (and a rotating cast of writers) have written a story about an item that was found by the perpetrators at a yard sale. They  sent me jpegs...

I'm on EBAY

Okay, its not exactly the same as being on 'Dancing with the Stars', but its a kind of an achievement. If you define 'achievement' as something that  can also be accomplished by  even malingerers and people in prison.

Here's what it actually is: I am  participating in someone's art project which they call  Significant Objects. The way it works is that I (and a rotating cast of writers) have written a story about an item that was found by the perpetrators at a yard sale. They  sent me jpegs...

Ed part two.

Let's say you're a person who doesn't buy the magazines at the grocery check out because you are the one in a million who doesn't care who Jennifer Aniston is dating. You know you should care but you just can't help it. You can't find it in your heart to care. Plus their damn diets don't work. And the "Fifty New Ways to turn HIM on" always turn out to be about taking a bubble bath surrounded by candles. How much more  about Lindsay do you really need to know?. She's barely out of her teens...

The continuing saga of Ed.

Let's say you're a person who doesn't buy the magazines at the grocery check out because you are the one in a million who doesn't care who Jennifer Aniston is dating. You know you should care but you just can't help it. You can't find it in your heart to care. Plus their damn diets don't work. And the "Fifty New Ways to turn HIM on" always turn out to be about taking a bubble bath surrounded by candles. How much more  about Lindsay do you really need to know?. She's barely out of her teens...

Lily and Wendy and Me

I am going to be the co-host of a charity dinner event thing for PAWS L.A. with comedian Wendy Liebman on Oct. 29 in Los Angeles.  The press release is below. The main event of the evening is the brilliant Lily Tomlin. Plus a chance to possibly get a glimpse of Elizabeth Taylor, who is apparently receiving an award.  A lot of people have been wondering when I would finally make an appearance with Elizabeth Taylor. So for them, this is an answered prayer. If she shows up. Okay, no one was...

'Something Extremely Important': the film and one other thing…

There is a written piece from my collection of humor pieces called What the Dogs Taught Me. entitled Something Extremely Important. I sometimes read it out loud to groups to very good response. So I tried to make a little film out of it. It is based on a real life incident in which my dog Puppyboy kept obsessively attempting to make a friend of ours throw the ball for him even though our friend was in the throes of incredible agony after finding out his wife was cheating on him.  The second h...

A housekeeper with OCD, a dog with OCD and one other thing

Anyone who has ever had a conversation with me or read anything I've written won't be very startled to learn that I am not the very best house keeper in the world. I'm disorganized. I make piles of stuff. My desk is a mess. So for the last ten years I have been paying someone to come every two weeks and clean up after me. Unfortunately that person was a very nice woman who didn't do  that much better of a job than I do. She also had a habit of breaking things and then hiding them in a...

Moving right along

First, I want to thank all the people who wrote to me. That was really fun. A little less fun, but exciting in its own way, was the appearance of reporters in my driveway. I gave the woman from the N.Y. Post a lovely sugar free popsicle and the reception was so good that I tried to do the same for the guy from Manchester, England . Sadly, turned out I had some freezer problems in the interim. The one I offered him had melted and refrozen all over the stick so all he got was a diet coke.  ...

Okay. Here it is. My big comment on Mr. Letterman.

And it is this: As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

And now that I have your attention: For your additional enjoyment, here's this.

More dog stuff, dammit.

I am on a blog called Coffee with a Canine. It is here: