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Friday, January 13, 2006

I'LL GET AROUND TO IT

I have finally fixed the archiving of the blog. For the past few months it has been driving me crazy because it kept you dear readers from reading some of the past posts. It should be operating correctly now...so surf away. Pay particular attention to July of 2004. Interesting stuff. I'm frankly kind of impressed at what I wrote.

I had to renew my web domain this week, which caused a slight hiccup in receiving emails and such. That is fixed now and working properly. I see I have quite a few people with a host of questions that I'll get around to answering soon. Maybe not as completely as you want, but I'll do my best.

I'm going to be designing some new bumper stickers and things on the Greg Alan Store, so check in about 2-weeks for those. The coffee mugs will be re-designed for a more general interest purchaser. By the way, the money I collect isn't much...only about 3-dollars per item, so it's not like I'm making out like Bill O'Reilly...just a smidgen here and there.

Thanks again for following me to the afternoons. I have heard from a number of people that they're no longer able (because of their schedule) to listen to me. That's okay. I understand. It's a different audience, and I'm sure some that were not able to listen to me in the morning now have the opportunity to hear my brilliance. (exaggeration, by the way)

To answer one question that a lot of people are asking - NO. I did not choose to move to the afternoon. It was a decision made by those with more power than me. It's okay...it's taken some adjustment (child care, for instance), but everything is fine and I'm sure I'll do well. It's not like I've never done afternoons before. Besides, it gives me a little more time to develop longer-term issues and discussions.

Thanks for stickin with me and the kind notes y'all have been sending to my email at work and here on the website.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Greg:

When you have a chance can you tell us about your Lennonesque photo from the website? Were you on vaction? Who took the photo? Did you go into the Statue of Liberty? When was it taken, etc.

Also, now that you are a PM guy, will you still consider doing the "man in the street" interviews that you once described?

Keep up the great work!!!!

GregAlan said...

The photo in question was taken by my producer when we were in NYC on September 11th, 2002. I was there for the 1-year observance of the terrorist attack. I did my afternoon show for the radio station I was working for at the time LIVE from Ground Zero. It was perhaps one of the toughest programs I've ever done, emotionally. During my week in New York, I took in the usual sites: The Statue of Liberty (which was closed to tourists), the Empire State Building, Wall Street, Times Square, and a taping of the David Letterman Show.

It was weird doing all of that touristy stuff...while my purpose was to explain and bring home to the audience the experience of seeing the worst terrorist attack in US history.

I am considering all kinds of things to do with the show. I have tons of ideas...and I hope you hear some of them.

G