Turning Forward, Turning Green, and Turning Nostalgic Turning Forward, Turning Green, and Turning Nostalgic

Well? Did you reset the clock last night? Or, are you getting to everything an hour later than you should have? Or, did you make the mistake of turning the clock BACK- thus putting you
even further back in the scheme of things? Regardless, I hope you planned a stop at the South Side Irish Parade today, where many of our fine staff members of the U, Me-TV, and MeToo are (or were, depending on when you read this) wearin’ the green and handing out green plastic hats! A lot of the St. Patrick’s Day festivities this year have been scheduled early so they don’t upset the religious faction that doesn’t like frivolous carrying on during Easter Week. Come one- isn’t it SAINT Patrick? He’s a holy fellow- though I’m not sure he was a disciple of over-imbibing green beer…and - for those of you waiting for OUR visit from the singing leprechaun- watch next Saturday night’s show…
I’m always happy to know that you guys enjoy seeing some of our classic bits, as we peppered the show with last night. For the many people who always ask if we’re ever going to put out a DVD- as I may have mentioned before, part of the problem with that is that there are rights involved of which we don’t have control-that is, when we use clips of movies, etc-we have the right to broadcast them, but NOT to put them into something we sell-that would involve a complicated agreement and splitting of profits of the DVD that, quite frankly, the movie distributor might not want to do. (The same goes for a cd of Sven songs-we’d have to get the rights to the original tune, and work out a system to pay royalties for the cds sold.) There IS the possibility that we could do a DVD of just bits that don’t include any of a movie- OR-we could do something using some of the public domain films we’ve done, that wouldn’t have any rights hassles attached. Should this get on track, you can bet that we’ll be publicizing it. I appreciate that loyal Sven fans want to see something like this!
I just realized today that my show is running on about six of the stations owned by our company…that’s one more station than “Son of Svengoolie” ran on briefly back in the early 80s-
although that was over a wider span of the country. Thanks to the Internet, I still hear from people who watched me back then in those far-flung cities like San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and Detroit. Thankfully, they all wish they could see the current shows (they’re not writing to say –“it was good riddance when the local station took your show off, and I’m still grateful to them to this very day!”)They join the many Sven fans who watched me here and moved away from our broadcast area who still keep Mr. Goolie as a fond memory!
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