June 23-Monday Meanderings of the Mindless

Well, another week has begun- and I have no single coherent topic to expound on today, so- let’s just take a sampling of whatever’s rattling around inside my little tiny brain…
I’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding “what’s next?” on our show, as far as what we’ll be running when the Universal
Classics package expires at the end of July. Well, I plan to make an announcement about what the future holds when I’m on-stage at Flashback Weekend this Saturday- but, if you can’t make it, never fear- I’ll spill the beans right here in the blog shortly after. I think you’ll like what we have coming up for you starting this fall. Our boss Neal Sabin, who worked very diligently for a long time to get the Universal stuff, continues working to get truly decent features for the show-
and is STILL working to get more for when the next stuff runs out! I hope you appreciate his solid support of the Svengoolie program.
People also ask about Sven shirts- will there be a new design?
FYI-we’re working on it- but, right now, our best–selling shirt ever- the “It Came from Berwyn” design-continues to sell extremely well. (By the way- the one question we always get about upcoming shirts- “will they glow in the dark?”-seems to indicate to us that we should retain that quality!) Meanwhile, nobody seems too interested in my idea of marketing “Svengoolie’s Rubber Chicken Jerky”…
I got a puzzling letter from a Milwaukee viewer, asking that we send him a “Svengoolie information packet.” I don’t think we’ve ever mentioned such a thing, much less offered one. Anybody know what he’s referring to?
A viewer asked me recently what might be the stupidest question I’ve been asked (other than THIS one, he specified!)
I think one of the front-runners was the one that started “How long were you Wizzo?”
A couple things that I’ve noticed when I do appearances- before, about one in ten people had a camera- nowadays, everybody has a camera! Plus, more people have chickens, etc, for me to sign. Just so you know, to make sure I get to the maximum number of people, there are sometimes events where they ask that I only sign ONE item per person. They just want to make sure that we won’t have anyone waiting in line who gets shut out, without an autograph, I always try to specify that they should have a line –stopper- in the event there’s a continuous line, and when it’s getting close to my scheduled departure time, that they station someone at the end of the line, who will politely tell people that the line ends there, and we can’t sign for anyone further. We do our best to make sure nobody stands in line, only to be told that Mr. Goolie has to leave before they get to the front.(Hint- get in line early to guarantee you’ll get to see me!)