If for some reason you want my autograph, this would be a good week to get it because I will soon be so famous that I'll have to charge a fee, much like those millionaire baseball players.

At 9 p.m. Sunday, I will be featured on an hourlong television program. It will be aired on Pennsylvania Cable Network, which brings you such action-packed programming as live coverage of the state House and Senate in session. (I know for a fact that professional facilities statewide have their TVs glued to these informative broadcasts — of course, those facilities all deal with sleep disorders, but so what.)

Luckily, the show I will be on, "PA Books," is far less silly.

Hosted by PCN president Brian Lockman, it showcases books of interest to Pennsylvanians that do not involve the use of crayons or connect-the-dots.

Sunday's subject will be my new book, "In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers," for which I and Allentown native Forrest Guth, a World War II veteran who served with the famed Band of Brothers, revisited his old European battlefields.

We taped the show July 15. I drove to PCN's studio in Camp Hill and was shown into the Green Room. (No, the room was not painted green. It is simply what we people in show biz call the room where the star awaits his or her call. It has comfy furniture, refreshments, a restroom and other amenities required by us headliners. Unfortunately, the Green Room also is the place where someone slathers makeup on your face and, in my case, my forehead, for fear the bright lights would reflect off my bald spot in laser beam fashion, shoot through the roof and into outer space, interrupting satellite communication.)

Then I entered the studio and sat across from Brian, and we began.

We did the interview in one take, and I believe I did pretty well, although once in awhile Brian hurled a trick question at me for which I was unprepared. On these occasions, I resorted to what we professional journalists, in the jargon of our trade, call "B.S."

I have not seen the finished copy so, like you, I will be watching it for the first time. I just hope I don't come off looking like some sort of doofus (again). Otherwise, I might have to lower my autograph price.

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Shifting gears, do you remember when the Geico gecko was the most irritating insurance spokescreature on TV?

He's not anymore. He's now just moderately annoying as insurance companies evidently are trying to outdo each other in featuring aggravating characters.

Don't believe me? Explain to me the reason for the Progressive Twit. Or, worse, the Nationwide Nerd, who stalks neighborhoods carrying a portable microphone and talks about … well, I don't know what he talks about because when I see him I quickly hit the mute button.

Personally, I'd be in favor of treating the Progressive Twit and the Nationwide Nerd to an all-expenses-paid weekend in a suite at the Bates Motel.

And they can take along Justin Case, that smarmy spokesman for SafeAuto. We'll be sure to reserve plenty of shower space.

lalexander@lnpnews.com