I don't post a great deal here as I've found that Twitter allows me to get right to my point in such a short amount of words.  (There's something to be said for all this.  I stopped using the phone as email allowed me to send messages and then I got hooked on texting as I could get to my point even faster and hopefully get a faster response.)

Twenty years ago, if you told me about all this, I'd have thought you were crazy.  And twenty years ago I was roaming midtown Manhattan, looking for a bar that would be willing to change the channel on their television to a public access station.  I was doing this as it was when the first episode of the public access version of The Chronic Rift premiered.

At the time, we were only going to do six episodes, an exotic resume stuffer as The Village Voice would come to call it.  But the first episode and the ones that followed went so well that I managed to convince the others to keep going, even though it was costing us $100 a pop to do so.

And we got creative with the show.  We scheduled big episodes during the sweeps like the networks would.  We came up with ways to allow for sponsors to be on the show to help subsidize the cost.  We developed a reputation that most people, despite some hesitation, came on anyway at the urgings of others.  (There were two who refused to do the show and I still feel a twinge of annoyance at their snobbery to this day.)

We had Peter David, Robert Greenberger, Gary Gygax, Ray Harryhausen, George Takei, Mark Lenard, Majel Barret Roddenberry, Sarah Douglas, Kenneth Johnson, Ben Bova, Susan Schwartz, Thomas Disch, Wendy Pini, Roy Thinnes, Conrad Brooks, Angus Scrimm, Marie Wallace and the Toxic Avenger himself at one time or another on our program.  And that's only a handful of the names.

I want to thank Keith R.A. DeCandido, Judith Furnari, Andrea Lipinski, Orenthal Hawkins, Paula Spiekerman, Mike Fichera, Dan Persons, Derrick Ferguson, David Alexander McDonald, Rhymephile, Jay Smith, and David Finnerty for your support in the past and now as the show moves on as a podcast.

I also want to thank the people who may think I've forgotten, but I haven't, their contribution to making the public access show as great as it was Mark Marmor, James Frenkel, Mark Macagnone, Judith Goodman, Felix Rodriguez, and David Nahmod.

I recently posted the first episode on iTunes and plan on releasing each episode weekly, as it originally aired.  I thought about editing out certain things and only offering highlights.  I mean, who wants to watch twenty year old news?  But then, in watching it, I saw how the show is a representation of the our geeky times in the early nineties.  Whether it's the plans for a Star Trek opera in New York or our wishing the troops a happy holiday during their FIRST deployment there, the show is a snapshot of those times.  I couldn't bring myself to leave out anything.

So, I ask that you all join us in this journey by either subscribing to the iTunes feed or by bookmarking our Mevio page where you can watch the episodes online.  Each week, for thirty minutes, we'll take you back to a time that seemed a whole lot simpler now.