June 10- Clearing the Top of Sven’s Desk-the Final Chapter

I can’t believe it’s taken just about three blogs to go over all the “treasures” one finds on my official desk in the WCIU production department…let’s see if we can finish the inventory today!
Hanging on the cubicle partition to my right- a Three Stooges lobby card for “In the Sweet Pie and Pie” that was graciously given to me by author Ted Okuda, who wrote a great book about the Columbia film shorts- and was co-author of the lovely “Chicago TV Horror Movie Hosts: from Shock Theatre to Svengoolie” book. Also hanging from it are a small Native American “dream catcher” and a plastic skeleton who, when you pull him down, chatters his bony jaws as he goes back up his string. Nearby hangs a rubber, and rather crazed looking “good luck” monkey. Not sure how much good luck he’s brought me, but you don’t see me taking him down, do you?
On the facing cubicle partition, there’s a variety of buttons- one says “I heart Berwyn” which I received when I attended the parade last week- there are more pictures, including a shot of the US Cellular Field scoreboard screen proclaiming “White Sox Welcome Rich Koz” (what? No welcome to Sven?! Why do I even have this up?)-and, in fact, a phony baseball card-like photo of the “Weigel All-Stars”-featuring Koz holding a microphone at the Cell. Way too many pictures of him around here…
There’s a “month at a glance” calendar with all sorts of scrawling on it, including the titles of each week’s Sven  movies and Stooge shows- and-there’s mail. A LOT of mail.
Stacks and stacks of mail! Just some of the bunches and bunches of mail I get every week from you great fans of my shows. It’s very hard to keep up with, and, yes, I know sometimes your requests fall through the cracks amidst the stacks- but, as I always say- it’s true- I personally look at and read everything that you send in. So, if something you requested was never fulfilled- PLEASE- try again. I may have just been overwhelmed, and misplaced what you sent!(That’s why I say- god bless e-mail! It’s so much easier to answer- hint: if you’d like a quicker response- try e-mail. Not that the sheer numbers of that don’t occasionally overwhelm me as well…)
My mouse pad is one of those cool ones that looks like one of the Universal Monsters commemorative stamps- it’s the Wolf Man! I have a few others in my on-deck (or on desk) circle- Stooges ones, Simpsons ones, etc.-along with other items too numerous to mention. Did I bring up the stacks of mail?
Okay- let’s wind this up- you now have an idea of what’s all over the top of my desk. Now, if I can start a blog ort two or six about what’s in the desk drawers…