Cops Cracking Down on Journalists ... Again! Welcome to Episode 27 of Light On Light Through ... While Josh Wolf sits in prison in California, New York City police are pursuing their own war against journalists ... arresting two Columbia University journalism students this past Thursday for videotaping police cars from a public sidewalk ... I call upon Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly to see that justice is served ... bring these cops to justice!

Plus flashes ... media drop the ball on John Edwards reporting ... Al Gore never claimed he invented the Internet...

Helpful links:

1. Columbia Univ students thrown in jail for doing their assignment my blog post; Class Assignment Lands Two Students In Jail New York 1 News story; The War On Journalism website with details and videos of past police misconduct against video journalists
2. Preserving Freedom of Expression in America 60-minute video hosted by Howard Vicini about Josh Wolf (first broadcast March 16, 2007)
3. Media Drop the Ball in Edwards Reporting and Politico-Edwards lesson: Blogs need even higher standards than mass media my blog posts; Republican pap about Al Gore and the Internet my blog post
4. The Silk Code podiobook - my award-winning novel, read by Shaun Farrell, available free - at http://thesilkcode.blogspot.com or http://podiobooks.com
5. http://artofgraciousliving.com Patsy Terrell's podcast - Patsy does the wonderful Light On Light Through - Blubrry id
6. The Plot to Save Socrates published in trade paperback February 20 - this means you can get a new copy, if you like, for $10+ over on Amazon and most places ... (click on the above title to get to Amazon) ... and if you'd like an autographed copy, at no extra charge to you, just send me an e-mail at [email protected]

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://paullevinson.net and http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com

my short stories: at fictionwise

The Silk Code - Locus Award, Best 1st Science Fiction Novel, 1999

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Welcome to The Four Phils... Episode 26 of Light On Light Through ... in which I interview actor and screenwriter Mark Shanahan about how he came to write and star in the Edgar-award nominated radioplay of The Chronology Protection Case based on my novelette of the same name ... my fictional NYPD forensic detective Dr. Phil D'Amato is the hero of this story ... and Mark and I talk about his and other renditions of Phil ... a rare, behind-the-scenes interview about the making of a radioplay...

Plus flashes ... update on Josh Wolf, the imprisoned journalist ... my modest proposal for this political season ... and "wiki" makes it into the OED - how about a Wiki-OED?...

Helpful links:

1. Details on Phil D'Amato - his appearances in short fiction, novels, movie, and radioplay ... The Lives and Times of Dr. Phil D'Amato
2. Listen to The Chronology Protection Case - complete, live, radio recording - free
3. Howard Vicini with updates on Josh Wolf
4. Blog post by me: Supporting the Best Candidates in Both Parties
5. More of me on politics at http://InfiniteRegress.tv
6. The Silk Code podiobook - my award-winning novel, read by Shaun Farrell, available free - at http://thesilkcode.blogspot.com or http://podiobooks.com
7. http://artofgraciousliving.com Patsy Terrell's podcast - Patsy does the wonderful Light On Light Through - Blubrry id
8. The Plot to Save Socrates published in trade paperback February 20 - this means you can get a new copy, if you like, for $10+ over on Amazon and most places ... (click on the above title to get to Amazon) ... and if you'd like an autographed copy, at no extra charge to you, just send me an e-mail at [email protected]

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://InfiniteRegress.tv and http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com

my short stories: at fictionwise

The Silk Code - Locus Award, Best 1st Science Fiction Novel, 1999

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Free Josh Wolf ... Episode 25 of Light On Light Through ... there's not much light in the California prison that holds Josh Wolf ... his crime? refusing to turn over videotapes of a violent demonstration that he was using to make a documentary ... Josh Wolf, 24, another victim of Congress's refusal to enact a Federal shield law to protect journalists who do the people of America's work ... details in this special episode

Plus flashes ... Connecticut foolishly cracks down on MySpace ... Wikipedia violates its own ideals and cracks down on pretender professor ... and, yes, Daylight Savings Time is here and I love it!

Helpful links:

1. Complete details about Josh Wolf: http://www.joshwolf.net/
2. Judith Miller quotes me in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (at the end): http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1637&wit_id=4698
3. Blog posts by me: Yay! Daylight Savings Time - 03.10.07 Connecticut Going for the Easy, Ineffective, Unconstitutional Way to Protect Children on MySpace - 03.09.07 Free Josh Wolf - 03.08.07 Free Josh Wolf II: The Case for A Shield Law - 03.11.07 Should Liars Be Unwelcome on Wikipedia? - 03.08.07
4. Come over to http://PaulLevinson.net - my new nightclub blog
5. The Silk Code podiobook - my award-winning novel, read by Shaun Farrell, available free - at http://thesilkcode.blogspot.com or http://podiobooks.com
6. http://artofgraciousliving.com Patsy Terrell's podcast - Patsy does the wonderful Light On Light Through - Blubrry id
7. The Plot to Save Socrates published in trade paperback February 20 - this means you can get a new copy, if you like, for $10+ over on Amazon and most places ... (click on the above title to get to Amazon) ... and if you'd like an autographed copy, at no extra charge to you, just send me an e-mail at [email protected]

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://paullevinson.net and http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com

my short stories: at fictionwise

The Silk Code - Locus Award, Best 1st Science Fiction Novel, 1999

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Welcome to Episode 24 of Light On Light Through ... Gore Back On Center Stage ... he won the popular vote for President of the United States in 2000 ... he was nominated last month for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alerting the world to the dangers of global warming ... and his movie An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar last week for best documentary ... we examine the contributions of Al Gore and look at what may be next for him...

Plus flashes ... the RIAA on the warpath again ... study finds college students are narcissistic - is that so bad?

Helpful links:

1. Two of my blog posts about Al Gore: Gore Nomination for Nobel Prize Poetic Justice and Gore and Obama
2. The Silk Code podiobook - my award-winning novel, read by Shaun Farrell, available free - at http://thesilkcode.blogspot.com or http://podiobooks.com
3. http://artofgraciousliving.com Patsy Terrell's podcast - Patsy does the wonderful Light On Light Through - Blubrry id
4. The Plot to Save Socrates published in trade paperback February 20 - this means you can get a new copy, if you like, for $10+ over on Amazon and most places ... (click on the above title to get to Amazon) ... and if you'd like an autographed copy, at no extra charge to you, just send me an e-mail at [email protected]

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://InfiniteRegress.tv and http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com

my short stories: at fictionwise

The Silk Code - Locus Award, Best 1st Science Fiction Novel, 1999

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Welcome to Dummy in the HOV Lane ... Episode 23 of Light On Light Through ... in which we semi-seriously consider the case of man who was pulled over on Long Island, NY for driving with a dummy passenger in the HOV lane ... why would a sleeping person, a quiet person, a dullard-type dummy be ok, but not this life-like dummy? How about a dog, a chimp, or a snake plant?

Plus flashes ... lowly bacteria to the rescue again - they can make buildings more earthquake resistant ... Lost sinks further downhill ...Battlestar Galactica is diving ... and what's wrong with those Academy Award people - not letting Borat speak on Sunday night...

Helpful links:

1. Read the full blog post for this episode: Dummy in the HOV Lane
2. More about helpful bacteria: Hail the Mighty Lowly Bacterium ... Paul De Kruif's The Microbe Hunters ... and my novel, The Consciousness Plague...
3. The Silk Code podiobook - my award-winning novel, read by Shaun Farrell, available free - is now up and running, with the first five chapters over at http://thesilkcode.blogspot.com or http://podiobooks.com - get over there and subscribe, while the going is good...
4. http://artofgraciousliving.com Patsy Terrell's podcast - Patsy does the wonderful Light On Light Through - Blubrry id
5. The Plot to Save Socrates just published in trade paperback last Tuesday, February 20 - this means you can get a new copy, if you like, for $10+ over on Amazon and most places ... (click on the above title to get to Amazon) ... and if you'd like an autographed copy, at no extra charge to you, just send me an e-mail at [email protected]

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://InfiniteRegress.tv and http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com

my short stories: at fictionwise

The Silk Code - Locus Award, Best 1st Science Fiction Novel, 1999

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Welcome to Episode 22 of Light On Light Through ... Lost: Anatomy of a Loss ... in which we look at what went wrong with this tv series which galvanized audiences with its experimental story telling and viral marketing the first season, put people to sleep or got them frustrated in the second season, and now, despite a good resumption this February, is struggling to stay afloat...

Plus flashes ... actually, just one big, bad one this episode ... the FCC's at it again with a report circulating in Congress that calls for extension of government regulation of television programming ...

Helpful links:

1. Unveiling http://PaulLevinson.net - my new nightclub blog, over at Rudius Media, which has podcast players for all four of my shows - Light On Light Through, Ask Lev, Levinson news clips, and Words and Music by Paul Levinson - plus videos of many of my tv appearances, reviews of my books, a blog I write to usually a few times a day, a Message Board where you can talk to me, and a lot more... other Rudius bloggers include Tucker Max, Bob Greene, and Bill Dawes... come on over!
2. The Silk Code podiobook - my award-winning novel, read by Shaun Farrell, available free - is now up and running, with the first five chapters over at http://thesilkcode.blogspot.com or http://podiobooks.com - get over there and subscribe, while the going is good...
3. http://artofgraciousliving.com Patsy Terrell's podcast - Patsy does the wonderful Light On Light Through - Blubrry id
4. http://bigbrry.com Tom Marquette interviews me (part 2 - 45 mins) (part 1 from last week is also on the site)
5. The Plot to Save Socrates will be published in trade paperback this Tuesday, February 20 - this means you can get a new copy, if you like, for $10+ over on Amazon and most places ... (click on the above title to get to Amazon) ... and if you'd like an autographed copy, at no extra charge to you, just send me an e-mail at [email protected]

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://paullevinson.net and http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com

The Silk Code - winner Locus Award, Best First Science Fiction, 1999

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Welcome to Episode 21 of Light On Light Through - How To Research Ancient History for Science Fiction ... I gave a talk on this topic to the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey at the Garden State Plaza Borders Bookstore this evening ... but for all the people in the world who couldn't attend, my two secret ingredients are old Encyclopedia Britannicas (1955 or earlier) and new sources on the Web (quadruple corroborated)...

Plus flashes ... Hank and Jack Bauer ... MSNBC Countdown Board goes ballistic over my critique of Keith Olbermann (because of his attack on 24) ... Lost's recovering ... and iTunes and the Beatles...

And the early-Beatle-like James Harris with a nice home-demo of his song Tonya McCreary...

Helpful links:

1. http://paullevinson.blogspot.com my blog posts on many of the flashes
2. MSNBC Olbermann Countdown Board ... for some reason, most of the posters there don't like me...
3. http://www.myspace.com/jamesharrisacoustic you'll love it
4. http://artofgraciousliving.com Patsy Terrell's podcast - Patsy does the wonderful Light On Light Through - Blubrry id
5. http://bigbrry.com Tom Marquette interviews me (part 1 - an hour) (part 2 next week)
6. http://adventuresinscifipublishing.blogspot.com/ special preview of Shaun Farrell's podiobook of my novel The Silk Code - chapter one! - you can also hear it at http://odeo.com/audio/8529393/view

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com

The Silk Code - winner Locus Award, Best First Science Fiction, 1999

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Welcome to Episode 20 of Light Light Through - Blockbuster, Netflix, the Web: The Future of Watching Movies out of Theaters. It all began with Edison's kinetoscope, which gave movie-viewers a one-on-one experience. Now, after a century of theater going, more and more people are watching movies on their own devices. But not all of them are equal. Blockbuster, which has dominated this market, still makes you go out in the rain to return a movie. Netflix is better, but still leaves you hostage to the mailman. That leaves the Web - and nothing succeeds like delivery of movies at the speed of light...

And debuting in this Episode, a new LOLT feature: flashes ... in which I give quickie takes on media news. This week: the media are most to blame for the Boston cartoon terror scare ... Viacom the doomed dinosaur snarls at YouTube ... Yale prof disapproves of student sex in showers (well, ok, sometimes I'm make an exception and consider a story which isn't media news)...

Helpful links:

1. A Short History of the Movies by Mast and Kawin best history of motion pix I know of
2. Brewster General Store if you'd like to get your hands on a real kinetoscope
3. http://thesilkcode.blogspot.com/ where to subscribe to Shaun Farrell's forthcoming podiobook reading of my novel, The Silk Code (won the Locus Award for best first science fiction novel of 1999)
4. http://patsyterrell.com Patsy's the Blubrry voice on LOLT
5. http://podcastpendulum.podomatic.com Podcast Pendulum!
6. http://thesciphishow.com listen for Jason's interview with me - about The Chronology Protection Case - which should be live tomorrow (Sunday, 4 February 2007)
7. look at the second podiobook in the column to your right: it's The Chronology Protection Case, yours, free, enjoy! And enjoy the first chapter of The Plot to Save Socrates, too, while you're at it... podiobook reading of that is right above The Chronology Protection Case...

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, 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

Welcome to Episode 19 of Light On Light Through in which we consider How Goes the Ship of Free Speech? The ancient Greeks called it parrhesia, and loved it so much they named ships after it. How is the ship of free expression faring in our world today? Well, here in the U.S.A., as we near the anniversary of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during Superbowl halftime several years ago, the answer is: not so good. The FCC has levied record fines against broadcasters deemed to have presented objectionable material. Both parties in Congress have cried out for larger fines, and extension of FCC control to cable. All of this in the face of our First Amendment, which clearly says "Congress shall make no law ... abridging freedom of speech..." The one bit of good news? We have podcasting, which so far has been beyond anyone's ability to control...

And speaking of podcasting, and looking at the bright side, I talk about various projects I'm happy to be involved in with Shaun Farrell, and Tee Morris, at the end of this episode...

Helpful links:

1. I debate Brent Bozell about free speech. He was head of the Parents Television Council - which, according to Todd Shield's article in the December 04 Mediaweek, was responsible for 50% of the complaints received by the FCC about the Janet Jackson "costume reveal".
2. Athenian triremes named after abstract concepts (such as free speech)

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblog: http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

Welcome to Episode 18 of Light On Light Through - Keith Olbermann, Jack Bauer, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... What do these three have in common? Well, last Tuesday evening, Olbermann delivered a diatribe about 24 and Jack Bauer, as perhaps deliberate tools of the Bush administration to frighten the American people about terrorism, and thereby shore up support for its policies. I say Olbermann misunderstands how people enjoy fiction, and recommend to him and his producers an acquaintance with Coleridge's "willing suspension of disbelief". I also recommend Thomas Jefferson, for his confidence in human rationality and his distrust of anything that smacks of calling for censorship...

Helpful links:

1. Olbermann's attack on 24 - don't know how long the link will be up
2. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria - where he discusses "willing suspension of disbelief"
3. 24 Season Premier (first 4 hours) - object of Olbermann's ire
4. http://paullevinson.blogspot.com - more from me on this topic

Enjoy...

Paul

web: http://paullevinson.infoblogs: http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme and http://paullevinson.blogspot.com

videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006Light On Light Through podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com

Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com

Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea

words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, recordings, and interviews about my music and fiction

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