Maron subbing on "Ring Of Fire"

Marc Maron has Tweeted that he's filling in for Papantonio and RFK Jr. this weekend on Air America. Check with your local station.

Air America does it to me AGAIN

Break Room Live's last show:

Maron Down Under

I was trying to find a video for the Australia Channel 10 show "Good News Week," and look what I found instead: a clip of Marc Maron competing on one of the show's silly game segments.

Video: Palinites protest Letterman

No cries of "Letterman is a Muslim terr'rist, kill him!" But still fun!


"Alinksy and ACORN."

Also: Baked Alaskan by Todd Palin - "Where's MY apology?"

The newest Mariners fan

Heretofore non-sports fan Marc Maron, Air America Media pundit, has chosen a baseball team to root for. He explains his variety of reasons in this segment from Friday's Break Room Live:



No sooner had Maron boarded the good ship Mariner than the team went out and got clobbered by the Twins 11-0 on Friday and 9-6 on Saturday, continuing a four game losing streak courtesy of Texas and Kansas City.

Only today's 5-3 win over Minnesota saves Maron from jinx status. Welcome, Marc, and see ya at Safeco Field.

Maron from the road

Here's the link at The Guardian where Marc Maron is blogging about their cross-country election road trip.

Marc Maron goes all English on us

I seem to recall Maron was going to do some HBO election year show with Ana Marie Cox, but it never went anywhere. Instead, Marc has hooked up with the folks at The Guardian:

GuardianFilms puts the rubber to the road

Comedian and Air America Media host Marc Maron joins the team that brought you the New Hampshire primary and Super Tuesday documentary series as we hit the highway for a new election road show, this one stretching from coast to coast.

We'll be travelling, in true American style, in two RVs. Packed inside, along with Marc Maron, will be veteran investigative journalist James Ridgeway, who'll be blogging from the road, and a team of film-makers and editors headed by Patrick Farrelly and Kate O'Callaghan, producing daily short videos from the cities and farms, truck stops and mega-churches, country clubs and soup kitchens of the United States. We'll be joined by Guardian correspondents, politicians, and assorted opinion-makers as we try to understand the forces shaping the US vote in 2008

From Los Angeles to Washington, DC - via the battleground states of Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia - we'll be looking at the key issues and inviting ordinary citizens into our "Truth Booth" to tell us which candidate can snatch a divided and demoralised nation back from the jaws of disaster.

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The post with Dan Rather

Toddled over to the Westin today, to attend the Plymouth Housing Group annual luncheon. I love this group, it is unbelievably effective in planning, funding and constructing transitional and low income housing around downtown Seattle. And they also provide the medical and social support services people need to avoid becoming homeless again.

Anywho, the annual luncheon always features a celebrity draw. A couple years ago it was Malcolm Gladwell; last year was Martin Sheen. Today at least a thousand people turned out to hear journalist Dan Rather, who spoke in broad historical terms about the rise, neglect and potential fall of the social welfare system in the United States.

Rather is eloquent and cerebral -- which is easy to forget reporters can be, given the current state of the profession's blow-dried ratings leaders.

Also given a few minutes to speak were former mayor Norm Rice, and current mayor Greg "Seattle's Green Mayor" Nickels. Both spoke of the need to reduce homelessness; Nickels finished his free lunch, then slipped out when the lights went down for the video profiling several Plymouth residents.

Nickels' appearance, frankly, was a breathtaking display of chutzpah. I wonder if he'll feel the same way about the homeless tomorrow.

Nickels. He finished lunch and scooted.

The Other Thing:

The new website for the Sam Seder/Marc Maron online show can be seen at mvslive.com, give it a look and enjoy the videos.

Soft launch for Maron v. Seder show

Tune in at Noon PT on Monday-Thursday this week for previews of Marc Maron and Sam Seder's new Air America online video show. The link is samsedershow.com/YKCam. Marc promises it "won’t look anything like this one."

Maron at Bumbershoot!

Marc Maron, the funniest person fired twice by Air America, will be at the Seattle's Bumbershoot music/arts festival over Labor Day weekend. According to story today on CBS Marketwatch, Maron --along with "satiristas" Janeane Garofalo, Tom Rhodes and Rep. Richard (Dick) Martin will appear on the Comedy Stage South aka the Charlotte Martin Theatre.

Maron in for Hartmann

Marc Maron brings the Funny to Air America again, filling in for Thom Hartmann tomorrow and Wednesday, July 2. Tune in to KPTK am 1090, 9-Noon Pacific, or stream on the Death Star.

Maron gets another tryout

Marc Maron is back on Air America again for the Noon-3 pm PDT slot, today through Friday. Once again, Seattlites must listen on the Death Star, or hope for a weekend replay on KPTK.

Maron can go home again, apparently

The Maron brings the Funny back to Air America Radio, with a guest host stint May 6-8. Randi's old time slot, Noon-3 Pacific.

Seattlites: listen online at the Death Star.

Maron in Seattle this weekend

Erstwhile Air America host Marc Maron says he will be recording his third CD ("and maybe last") at Giggles comedy club, April 4 and 5, 8pm and 10pm shows.


Update: Marc on Conan O'Brien--




Link: Seattle radio interview in advance of the Giggles gig.

Maron and Seder to fill in for Malloy

Marc and Sam are going to be subbing for Mike Malloy next month on his Nova M show (9-midnight weekdays, KPTK). They mentioned the news near the end of yesterday's Seder vs. Maron vodcast.

Sam will be taking April 7, while Maron will be hosting the April 8, 9 and 10 editions.

Maron said he won't do Air America anymore, because they won't pay him.

Ma(ro)n on the street interview

So 27 minutes ago I'm listening to KPTK, and an AP Radio report about Eliot Spitzer comes on. They sought out a "man on the street" for a reaction, and guess who it was: Marc Maron, erstwhile Air America morning guy! But is that how the newsreader described him? No. How about "comedian," "genius humorist," or "Marc Maron of the internet's Seder v. Maron Hours"? Nope, nope and nope. AP described Maron as "New York resident Marc Mara"!

Q: ...New York resident Marc Mara says Spitzer should resign.

Maron: Yeah, based on this, on his, his career, and now come to find out he's tricked everybody. He's not the high moral standing fella he's portrayed himself as."

Next time Marc, spell it out for the reporter!

Talk Radio notes

Erstwhile Air America host Marc Maron (the funny one) fills in for Randi Rhodes on Wednesday, Oct. 31 (Noon-3 Pacific online, 5-8 KPTK). Not bad for someone who said he was done with the network.

Also, erstwhile Englishman Michael Jackson returned to southern California airwaves yesterday on new Los Angeles talk station KGIL. The local liberal in a lineup that includes Larry King and Neal Boortz, Jackson is on 9-11am Pacific with a replay 5-7pm.

". . . Client."

Hey all you Marc Maron Seditionistas: click here to listen to Iris Bahr as "Svetlana," on WNYC's Studio 360 (July 6).