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26.02.2026 21:03
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The only show that matters.
Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.
The press needs to just stop asking Trump questions. He doesn’t know anything and his incoherent ramblings just become outrage fodder, which too many journalists keep trying to make into “policy statements.” More investigations into the actual damage he’s causing.
True fact: I met Susan Sarandon when she was sitting by a friend’s pool reading the script for Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Hospital.” I guess they went with Diana Rigg. But, hey what a cast. This is too much of a name-drop for a Sunday. I apologize.
I just donated to my friend @bethmacy.bsky.social’s run for Congress in Virginia. Been meaning to for awhile. (Sorry for the delay, Beth.) There are no other candidates like her: a real writer (Dopesick, Truevine, Papergirl) & a real reporter. Brave as all get out. bethmacyforcongress.com
Love this. I have lots of film negs of the back of Congressional, Twinbrook, Pike Plaza and more.
More STUFF from me, including a few of these.
merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/3-things-o...
Also, long story but I left the agency by slamming my fist on the boss’s desk and shouting, “Fuck you, I quit!” My finest hour.
Power of dance. Of art. Of the people.
Mid-vacation I had to go back to the office to get my check. As soon as I stepped in the door I literally felt, as my pal Obi-Wan put it, a disturbance in the force. Seriously I’d only been away a few days but the mad tension was palpable.
EPB started buying up other agencies. Called it mergers. But boss said after, “We own them.” Lovely.
Off Wisconsin. Might be another agency. All ad people think they’re it. You’re lucky to have escaped. Ad exec once quit on a Friday so he could ruin the owner’s weekend.
Earle Palmer Brown was the biggest. I worked there before I knew anything. They had the Roy Rogers account.
I have listened to this. WITH MY EARS! You should, too.
One thing you see in both the smug dope from the Plain Dealer and the Cruise/Pitt clip is profound resentment at the idea that creative work is a skill with human variables--experience, instinct, practice, imagination. There is real anger at the very idea that non-technological human talent matters.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
It was full-on prom attire. Just found out a friend from another school had his prom at the same mall. Need to find out who was responsible for these terrible decisions.
Trump's former attorney. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"
TRUE FACT: My prom was at Montgomery Mall. Everyone just walked in a loop, window shopping. Sorry you didn’t get to experience this magic.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
This is going to be my next film. Can you feel the tension?
Not to brag but I’ve been ahead of the curve on hating Ring cameras.
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
Join us for the Premiere of Nils Lofgren's "No Kings. No Hate. No Fear." It is an anthem for our time. Watch it here! ONLY on MTM.
youtube.com/live/pwbx-uH...
Rejoice that we still have Ms. Markoe to offer perspective.
Hey, Christopher Nolan: THIS is the movie we need. And this is the entire script. IMAX it. Thanks.
This piece by @jonrauch.bsky.social is very much worth reading. (Yes, I know, even if your reaction to the title is, "Gee, you don't say!") He lays out the case more carefully, clearly, and systematically than I have seen elsewhere.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Oh-oh. Page one rewrite for my Emil Jannings biopic…
*music swells*
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES AT THE 98th ACADEMY AWARDS—AS DRIL TWEETS
I'm buying the rights to your novelization for a Play-Doh version in IMAX. Also, seeking voice actors who speak Farsi. Thanks.
