Light On Light Through

Happy holidays! Episode 14 of Light On Light Through is mostly about food ... in particular the revolution in convenience and delicious eating being brought about by places like Trader Joe's ... I talk not only about the great food you can get there, but about hearing Wolfman Jack on the radio while I was shopping at Trader Joe's ... Also in this episode ... the Mo' or more is about YouTube again ... Time Magazine picked everyone as its "person of the year," in large part because YouTube has made video producers of us all ... just as I was talking about in Episode 10, Every Eye's A Camera, Every Ear's A Mike here a few weeks ago ... you can still catch that episode of you like ... and in just the past week, YouTube has demonstrated a different kind of value to the world: It made almost immediately available the uncensored rendition of Saturday Night Live's hilarious Special Treat in a Box skit by Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from last week. NBC, as per usual, was too afraid of the FCC to play it unbleep

I'm talking about the Golden Globe Awards, of course, and I call them "The Gold Plated Globes" in this Episode - lucky #13 - of Light On Light Through because of what they missed on television in their nominations for 2006, announced a few days ago.  These would be, most outrageously, Kidnapped, Battlestar Galactica, and The Wire.  They did get a few things right - that's why I call them goldplated, rather than silverplated, or no-plated - and among the accomplisments well recognized are Michael C. Hall's performance in Dexter, Michael Ealy in Sleeper Cell, Bill Paxton in Big Love - which also received a nom as best show - and of course 24 and Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer.  A complete list of the Golden Globe nominations for 2006 - including not only television but movies - can be seen at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association website - they're the folks who bestow these awards. Other sites I mention on the show - not about the Gold-plateds but science fiction - include: the sciphi show - I'm interviewed

Just in time for the Season 4 finale of The Wire, Episode 12 of Light On Light Through has Idris Elba aka Stringer Bell speaking on Stringer, in his new rap record - Driis Speaks on Stringer - in which he tells us what he thinks of Stringer's role in The Wire, and what Idris sees as his future in acting and  music.  I give my analysis of this season of The Wire, and respond to Idris.  We got some great response to Episode 5 of Light On Light Through - "The Wire Without Stringer" - it's been far and away our most popular show - and I'm really pleased to present and discuss Idris' penetrating analysis here in his 2-minute rap record.   Also in this episode - voice-mail from Ebony Moore, and e-mail from John DeNardo of www.sfsignal.com Enjoy... Paul web: http://paullev.com/ blog: https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/ videoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly "Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News   

Oh yeah ... almost walkin' on sunshine, in my Crocs ... and talkin' all about it in Episode 11 of Light On Light Through ... from Thom McCan to Clark's Wallabees to Rockport to Crocs ... a manifesto for shoe liberation and maybe comfort and energy over style... Also in Almost Walkin - Email from Larry Ketchersid, author of Dusk Before Dawn, about the inevitable development of devices that seek out all videos of us on the Web, and take them out ... a rebound for privacy, in the aftermath of what I was saying in my last podcast, Every Eye's A Camera, Every Ear's a Mike...Voicemail from Mike of the MikeThinks.com podcast about time travel and HeroesContinuing the MP3 giveaway of The Chronology Protection Case radio play - see LOLT Episode 8, Time Travel in Fiction and FactJay Kensinger's killer trailer for his 2002 The Chronology Protection Case movie debuts on this LightonLightthrough.com web page - look down the column to your rightI'm reading the first chapter of The Plot to Save Socrates at Emon Hassan's htt

Welcome to the 10th Episode of Light On Light Through ... Every Eye's A Camera, Every Ear's A Mike ... or, How the Cell Phone On YouTube Has Made Movie Stars of Us All, For Better or Worse... It's good for outing racist cops and comedians, but that same cellphone-YouTube hookup, now in almost everyone's hands, means that any and all of us can wind up on YouTube at the drop of a hat, or the flip of a silent cell phone in the corner.  Some of us - including me - love almost any kind of publicity.  But what about those of us who do not? # # # Also on Episode 10 - and looking at the bright side of microphones - introducing Ebony Moore ... singer, songwriter, musician, actress ... you'll hear a minute of her record, Make It Count ... It's irresistible! I'm singing it under my breath even as I'm writing this ... Hear the complete song and more of her fine music at  www.isound.com/ebony_nc Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev2006

Whoa ... a special Sunday bonus Episode of Light On Light Through... a brief review of the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale... or, as I like to call it, The Man Without the Golden Pun... The gist is, I loved the movie, but... Enjoy... Paul Added December 1, 2008:  See also: It's Not HBO - It's A Quantum of Solace web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News 

Time for something a bit different ...Episode 8 of Light On Light Through -- Time Travel in Fiction and Fact ...  a jam-packed 30-minute show ... with a special clip from my Edgar-nominated radioplay, The Chronology Protection Case a special give-away to the first 25 people who send e-mail or voice-mail  - I'll reply with an MP3 of the full 38-minute radioplay of The Chronology Protection Case, performed by Mark Shanahan and a professional cast (but you have to answer a question I ask on the podcast) e-mail about time travel from Sylvia Engdahl, who wrote Enchantress from the Stars and other great novels Shaun Farrell makes the call on Daylight Savings Time a tribute to Jack Williamson, 1908-2006 other goodies, profundities, absurdities and much more... Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: Paul Levinson's Infinite Regressvideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006   my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Dai

a jumbo episode of =Light On Light Through=   --thumbail discussions of Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, Heroes, Kidnapped, Lost, The Nine, Six Degrees, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Wire ... the winners and losers and hangers-on ...  all of that packed into 23 minutes... (no spoilers from this year) ... also including e-mail from Idris Elba (aka Stringer Bell), science fiction critic Gary Wolfe reveals the truth about podcasting, voice-mail from MikeThinks, and more... Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News   

A special Election-Day Episode of Light On Light Through - Episode 6 - Elective Media, in which I discuss the shift in the way we get our news and election coverage - from network news which attracted 50 million Americans in the 1980s and is lucky to reach 25 million now, to cable news which is growing but still attracts only 5 million Americans, to ... well, you're no doubt part of this revolution, which includes YouTube, blogs, and podcasts... Find out why I think these developments in media are making for good days in democracy, whatever the results of today's election... Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News   

I say it's the best show about the real world on television - but is The Wire as good as it was without Stringer Bell?  In Episode 5 of Light On Light Through I probe the powerful appeal of bad guys with redeeming qualities, and look at the contribution of Idris Elba aka Stringer Bell to The Wire.  "The Wire Without Stringer" is a little longer than most episodes of this podcast, because it has a special treat near the end.... .... a minute or so of Idris' great new hip-hop soul recording, Johnny Was... move over, Bob Marley Enjoy! Paul web: http://paullev.com/ blog: https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/ videoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly "Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book more about Th

A special bonus episode of Light On Light Through - which I guess would make this Episode 4 - in which I lament the loss of sunlight at the end of the day under the cruel Standard Time regime that has just befallen us.... Hey, when you're driving home in the dark tomorrow, maybe listening to this will put a little smile on your face... Enjoy.... Paul my books ... my blog ... my videos The Plot to Save Socrates,  my best-known novel "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly "Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News     

For centuries, the public has relied upon encyclopedias - written by carefully chosen experts, vetted by a few venerable editors.... For the past few years, Wikipedia has tried something a little different - an encyclopedia written by ... everyone ... the human species ... in principle, everyone on this planet who can read and write... I'm betting it will take its place among the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia Galactica... various details about me and what I do are on the following pages: web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com and my novel... The Plot to Save Socrates"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News see also my two blog posts on this topic: The Wiki Way and The Forces of Light vs. Darkness on Wikipedia

... well, certainly not in the ratings - at least as far as Kidnapped goes - but these two shows have brought the intelligence and intensity and courage of dramas on television to new heights... in Kidnapped & Battlestar Galactica - Leading the TV pack at quartertime, I explain ... and why these and other shows may be ushering in the first platinum age of television.... this is the second episode of my podcast, Light On Light Through - a more-or-less weekly, five-minute-or-so commentary on some technological, media, popular culture, science fiction issue that strikes my interest (and I hope yours too) ... various details about me and what I do are on the following web pages: web: http://www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): http://www.knx1070.com and my latest novel -- =The Plot to Save Socrates= "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly Enjoy...

on the road to teleportation ... once upon a time, to talk to a person - to communicate - meant you had to be in that person's physical presence ... writing and subsequent media changed all of that... Prius and the Reunion of Talking and Walking explores how new cars with Bluetooth technology are enabling us to move fast again and communicate anyplace at the same time... this is the premier episode of my podcast, Light On Light Through - a weekly, five-minute-or-so commentary on some technological, media, popular culture, science fiction issue that strikes my interest (and I hope yours too) ... ranging from Wikipedia to Battlestar Galactica to the First Amendment...   Like science fiction? Jump into my short story, The Other Car, in which a Prius is a bridge to an alternate reality        more about me and what I do are on the following web pages: web: http://www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: http://PaulLevinson.netvideoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 my latest novel: The Plot to Save So