Light On Light Through

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 113, in which I review Making a Murderer, both seasons. These 20 episodes should be required viewing for anyone who wants to see the reality of our justice system in America.

Relevant links -

1. my blog post (written) review of the first season

2. my blog post (written) review of the second season

3. a report about my experience as jury foreperson (May 2013) on a different case, in New York

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 112, in which I review The Man in the High Castle - Season 3. I thought it was the best season so far, which is high praise indeed, since I thought the first two seasons were outstanding.

You can find my written reviews of all three seasons here - The Man in the High Castle on Amazon (pilot)... The Man in the High Castle 1.2-1.10: Timely Alternate Reality Par Excellence ... The Man in the High Castle in Reality -- Well, on NYC Subway Cars ... The Man in the High Castle 2.1-2.3: My Heimisch Town ... The Man in the High Castle 2.4-2.6: Rails and Realities ... The Man in the High Castle 2.7-2.10: Alternate Reality to the Rescue, Literally... The Man in the High Castle 3.1: Real People in Alternate History ... The Man in the High Castle 3.2-3: Alternate Realities, Frederic Brown, and Rockwells ... The Man in the High Castle 3.4-6: "Tis Death that's Dead" ... The Man in the High Castle 3.7-10: The Metaphysics of Alternate Realities

My podcast review of Season 2 is here and the Season 1 pilot is here.

And here are my books and my videos.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 111, in which Captain Phil interviews me for a second time -- this time about Aretha Franklin, my novel Borrowed Tides, Mars, Carl Sagan, David Kyle, and sundry things.

Captain Phil is the stage name of Phil Merkel, who was filling in for the regular host of "Progressive Solutions," a radio show on WUSB Radio out of Stony Brook University.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 110, in which Captain Phil interviews me about my music, science fiction, political views, and everything including the kitchen sink.

Captain Phil is the stage name of Phil Merkel, who was filling in for the regular host of "Progressive Solutions," a radio show on WUSB Radio out of Stony Brook University.

Here are links relating to Justin Hayward and The Blue Dahlia, whom I talk about in my intro to this episode, right before the actual interview begins.

1. My review of Justin Hayward in Tarrytown, NY, 12 August 2018.

2. My review of The Blue Dahlia's new album, La Tradition Américaine.

3. The Blue Dahlia and I perform my 1972 song, "Today Is Just Like You," at her CD-release party at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on 11 August 2018 -- here's the video.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 109, in which I review all ten episodes, one by one, of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (first season).

Links mentioned in the podcast -

1. My written reviews of each of these episodes start here. (The link is to my review of episode 1, with links to my reviews of the other episodes at the bottom of that page.) The podcast is based on the written reviews, embellished with a few additional thoughts here and there.
2. My podcast reviews of the first two seasons of The Man in the High Castle are here and here.
3. My top-ten television list of 2017, with Sense8 in first place.
4. My podcast reviews of the first two seasons of The Affair are here and here (Maura Tierney who stars in The Affair is in one of the episodes of Electric Dreams and I mention in this podcast.)
5. More about our April 9, 2018 conference on Touching the Face of the Cosmos.
6. And here's a link not mentioned in the podcast - to a video version of this podcast, replete with imagery of the ten episodes.

And here is more about my books ...

Welcome to Episode 108 of Llght On Light Through, in which I read a new work-in-progress, "Robinson Calculator," on Hour of the Wolf on WBAI-FM Radio on November 16, 2017 at 2 o'clock in the morning. I read about 1000 words of the story.

"Robinson Calculator" was published in 2019 -- you can read the intro over here.

Welcome to Episode 107 of Llght On Light Through, a talk I gave at the McLuhan in New York event at Fordham University on 13 October 2017. More about that event, including a video of the complete panel, here. More about The Omnipotent Ear here, there and everywhere.

It all started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of The Misfits and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Candle in the Wind," which wouldn't be written until 1973 ...

Welcome to Episode 106 of Llght On Light Through, a reading I did of a brand new novelette, "Marilyn and Monet," at Readercon 28 in Quincy, MA on July 15, 2017. I read about 3300 words or about a third of the 10,000 word story. (You can read the complete story here.) Thanks Phil Merkel for recording this reading. (The voices you occasionally hear in the background are from a panel next door - I think they add to the ambience.)

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 105, in which I review The Man in the High Castle - Season 2. Other than mentioning that I think this is easily among the best science fiction television series ever made, if not the best, I'll let my podcast speak for itself ...

You can find my written reviews of both seasons here - The Man in the High Castle on Amazon (pilot)... The Man in the High Castle 1.2-1.10: Timely Alternate Reality Par Excellence ... The Man in the High Castle in Reality -- Well, on NYC Subway Cars ... The Man in the High Castle 2.1-2.3: My Heimisch Town ... The Man in the High Castle 2.4-2.6: Rails and Realities ... The Man in the High Castle 2.7-2.10: Alternate Reality to the Rescue, Literally

My podcast review of the Season 1 pilot is here.

And here are my books and my videos.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 104, in which I review every episode of The Affair - Season 2 - one of my all-time favorite series on any kind of television.

You can find my written reviews of these episodes here -

The Affair 2.1: Advances ... The Affair 2.2: Loving a Writer ... The Affair 2.3: The Half-Wolf ... The Affair 2.4: Helen at Distraction ... The Affair 2.5: Golden Cole ... The Affair 2.6: The End (of Noah's Novel) ... The Affair 2.7: Stunner ... The Affair 2.8: The Reading, the Review, the Prize ...The Affair 2.9: Nameless Hurricane ... The Affair 2.10: Meets In Treatment ... The Affair 2.11: Alison and Cole in Business ... The Affair Season 2 Finale: No One's Fault

My podcast review of all of The Affair season 1

And here are my books and my videos ...