Marc Maron fans--update on his cats & new show...

[Surya Gayatri]

e-mail received from MM today--LaFonda' back: SG


"This is ridiculous. It's just like the old days--on and on about the cats. Thanks for all your concern. LaFonda returned just as my marraige was at the brink of disintegrating because of her disappearance. Of course, I blamed Mishna for telling me it was okay to let all the cats out because they're animals and it would be nice if they could all go to the bathroom outside. So, after much fighting, panic and the surfacing of all things irritating about our marriage the cat just saunters in around 2Pm the day after she split--saving the marriage (I'm exagerrating). She seems wiser, less skittish, perhaps she met a man cat out there. Meanwhile, Monkey, LaFonda's male feral companion from the Astoria bunch is acting like he doesn't know her which leads me to believe the scent of another is on her. It's been rough for the Monkey. My wife's nasty male dirt cat, Boomer, who we adopted to keep the now dead Butch company has been making life miserable for the Monkey. With LaFonda out sleeping around I can only assume his masculinity is fractured and I’m going to have to be supportive and keep his self esteem intact maybe bring him to some meetings. Good news--they are all accounted for.

Its best I get this stuff out of the way so I can talk about the important things when the show launches. As always, it’s so hard to separate my important from our important.

I hope you all don't mind that we're going to be leaning heavy on the funny for the new show. It'll be a two hour show and we've already got some great comics lined up to hang out the first week.

No more from me until the “official” announcement in the next few days. I’m off to the port of Los Angeles to keep an eye on things. At least I trust me with the job. I just hope the night vision thingy on my old high eight camera works. Footage forthcoming.

Maron"

[longship]

1. kick

:kick:ed

[LizW]

2. I love a man who speaks of cats as people. n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Me too, I just love the guy...

He's one of the most brilliant comics I've ever known--because of his humanity. SG

[reality based]

3. I sure miss his show.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Yeah, hardly anything worth

listening to on AAR with him gone--especially the early morning "drive time" slot. Mark Riley soldiers bravely on, and Rachel Maddow is her usual erudite self, but that unpredictable, wonderful craziness is gone.
I miss Lawton Smalls, Johnny K-Street, Sammy the Stem Cell, Future Marc. Classics all, and all due to the comic genius & inspiration of MM. SG

[foreverdem]

6. I miss him too

Mark Riley is good, but his show is so dry without Marc Maron. I really miss Morning Sedition, all the characters and even the liberal confessional.

[valerief]

7. Me, too.

I liked having Marc's absurdity balance out the absurdity of the current administration and its unofficial television network and cable press corp.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Let's hope his new show still has that

edgy, off-the-wall quality. Will his LA venue change the mix? We'll soon see...SG