Paul Levinson › Comments

Being invited on television to talk about your book is not the only way an author can get his or her book displayed on the air to potentially millions.   This episode provides advice on another avenue to TV exposure.   YouTube clip : I'm on Fox Business Channel,introduced as author of New New Media   12% off Buy Costumes! Buy Costumes discount code   10% Off & Free Trial on LifeLock! LifeLock special code     10% off Dollar Cars! Dollar Car special code   10% off Thrifty Cars! Thrifty Car Special Code           books mentioned in this podcast: - Paul Levinson

A next-to-last episode of the resumed Season 5 as onlt The Closer can do it:  Provenza's old partner has undergone a sex change, but he still likes woman, and he must reiterate his testimony from a cold case that has suddenly become hot.  Hey, do you know the origins of the word "testimony"?  All this and more, including what I think of the FCC, is this special review.   blog post review:  The Roots of Testimony on The Closer   my views on the FCC and the First Amendment:  The Flouting of the First Amendment     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

A stunning end to the best season of Dexter so far, which could pitch the series into a whole new direction next year.   blog post review: Dexter 4.12: Revenges and Recapitulations     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Fringe continues to put up top-notch science fiction this season.  Episode 2.10 is about memories literally removed from Walter's brain, then reinserted - a story that resonates with Harry Potter's "pensieves,"  the classic Flowers for Algernon , and even an episode on House.   blog post review:  Fringe 2.10: Walter's Brain, Harry Potter, and Flowers for Algernon   related podcast:  House 6.8 and the Reverse of Flowers for Algernon     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

FlashForward 1.10, the midseason finale, posted one of the best episodes in the series so far, with a juggling of alternate universes, a hint of transcendent love, and a story that moved Demetri ever closer to no future at all - or maybe not... - Paul Levinson

Fringe 2.9 is not only an emotionally effective story about Walter's attempt to become a self-sufficient person, but a fine piece of science fiction about symbiont organisms that boost our immune system.   One of my novels, The Consciousness Plague , is about organisms that help us think, so I'm especially partial to symbiont stories...   blog post review: Fringe 2.9: Walter's Story   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                         books relevant to this episode of Fringe: - Paul Levinson

Why "soulless, anti-family schmuck" is my favorite line, likely of this whole superb season of Dexter, certainly of episode 4.1l, which not only had some inspired dialogue, but some shots that Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Fellini would have enjoyed.     blog post review:  Dexter 4.11:  The "Soulless, Anti-Family Schmuck"     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Twitter allows authors to Tweet about their work - send out short messages, with links - at all stages of the writing and publishing process.  Episode 54 of Ask Lev provides specific instructions on how to use Twitter to promote your work.     free Twitter chapter from my new book, New New Media       12% off Buy Costumes! Buy Costumes discount code   10% Off & Free Trial on LifeLock! LifeLock special code     10% off Dollar Cars! Dollar Car special code   10% off Thrifty Cars! Thrifty Car Special Code           books mentioned in this podcast: - Paul Levinson

Almost as much Avatar as Bones in 5.9, with a great story line on the movie line with Sweets and a girl straight out of the summer of love.    A good videogamer story with Booth and Bones, too, which revolves around a question I've addressed as an academic - does playing violent videos lead to violence in the real world (I say there's no evidence that shows that it does).       blog post review:  Bones 5.9 Meets Avatar and Videogamers     I debate Jack Thompson about violence and video games:  YouTube clip       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Dex learns that the Trinity killer was incorrectly named, in this curical, riveting episode 4.10 of Dexter.     blog post review:  Dexter 4.10:  More than Trinity     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Lie to Me 2.9 finds Lightman in Las Vegas, with a taste for the roulette wheel and a fine new character played by The Unit's Abby Brammel.    blog post review:  Viva Lightman and Lie to Me 2.9 in Las Vegas     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Episode 6.9 of House was so much about Wilson that it could have been called Wilson - and it was.  And it also showed us the profound differences and similarities in the two doctors, and gave us a profound ethical dilemma, as only House can.     blog post review:  House 6.9: Wilson       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

The mid-season finale of Heroes, 4th season, finds the show with a compelling series of story lines better than any since the first, magical season.   blog post review: Heroes Mid Season 2009 Finale  with links to reviews of episodes in Seasons 3, 2, and 1     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 68: Weep Not for Newspapers .... in which I explain why the decline of paper newspapers may be the best thing that ever happened to journalism and its goal of keeping citizens in a democracy well informed. This is the latest installment in my continuing series, What's Newer than New New Media, which until now has consisted only of written blogs. Links: more about New New MediaTwitter chapter from New New Media - free!my brief essay on this issue in The Chronicle of Higher Education home page: http://paullevinson.info more blogs: http://InfiniteRegress.tv more podcasts: http://Levinsonnewsclips.com videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user... published on 3 September 2009: New New Media 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 . . . Sierra Waters... - Paul Levinson

The contribution of Shawn Ryan - famously of The Shield and The Unit - was never more viscerally apparent in episode of Lie to Me 2.8, which takes Lightman on a dangerous miliary mission to Afghanistan. - Paul Levinson

Flowers for Algernon tells the heart-breaking story of a man whose surgery makes him a genius, only to slip back to his earlier state.  House 6.8 tells the story of a genius who wants to become stupid.  And then of course there's Gregory House, a genius who is quite happy to wield his intelligence to get what he wants - in the case of Cuddy, so far with not the best results...   blog post review:  House 6.8 and the Reverse of Flowers for Algernon   Daniel Keyes' 1959 Flowers for Algernon     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

My 1972 album on HappySad Records, Twice Upon a Rhyme, will soon be available on iTunes.   This episode of Ask Lev is the first of a series in which I tell how Twice Upon a Rhyme got from there to here.  The account is instructive about how to keep your music alive and kicking for 35+ years.   listen to some of songs from Twice Upon a Rhyme on MySpace Facebook fan page for Twice Upon a Rhyme - reviews, links to free MP3s, etc Twice Upon a Rhyme CD on Amazon     12% off Buy Costumes! Buy Costumes discount code   10% Off & Free Trial on LifeLock! LifeLock special code     10% off Dollar Cars! Dollar Car special code   10% off Thrifty Cars! Thrifty Car Special Code           music mentioned in this podcast: - Paul Levinson

FlashForward 1.9 unlocks another piece of the puzzle - two of the characters know in their flash forwards in April 2010 that they had those flashforwards at the time of the blackout in 2009. This shows that, for these two characters at least, the explanation I put forth in my blog last week - that the April 2010 flashforwards took place in a reality (reality 1) in which the people had not had blackouts/flashfowards six months earlier, but once the blackouts/flashforwards occurred in 2009, this slipped the world into another reality (reality 2)- is not quite right... All those and more in Episode 1.9, against a great Dylan rendition of Shelter from the Storm. blog post review: FlashForward 1.9: Shelter from the Storm see also Realities 1 and 2 in FlashForward Angie's List Special Offer Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code Budget Car Rental special code eHarmony special code eMusic Trial Code LifeLock special code Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 Enjoy a little Dylan ... - Paul Levinson

V's 2009 Season 1, Part I finale - episode 1.4 - offered a powerful, exciting dose of medical science, in the Visitor mode...   blog post review:  V 1.4: Good Medicine for Television     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

A stunning surprise in this episode - 4.9 - of Dexter, which has been setting off suprises like baloons at a fair, and is making this one of the best seasons of Dexter, which is always outstanding television.   blog post review:  Dexter 4.9: Trinity's Surpising Daughter     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Fringe hits its stride in a great episode 2.8 about the Eternal Bald Observers - which moves the central story importantly along, and tells a standalone tale with real heart and intellectual verve.   blog post review:  Fringe 2.8: The Eternal Bald Observers   see also:  Fringe 1.4: The Eternal Bald Observer   and, if you like time travelers at great moments in history - The Plot to Save Socrates     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

As the cool winds of November blow across the land, I stop in a place where the breeze and everything else is virtual:  Second Life.   There's a chapter in New New Media about Second Life, so it's only appropriate that I go to that avatar realm on my Second Life booktour.   My talk will begin at 3pm Second Life Time (6pm Eastern).  My avatar's name is PaulLevinson Freenote.  Send me a message there if you see this in time, and I'll reply with landmark which you can use to teleport the event.  Or, click on the SLURL listed below.  If I get a recording of this appearance, I'll put it up in a podcast, and put the link to it here.   That's the signpost up ahead— your next stop, Second Life! - Paul Levinson

An endearing episode 5.8 of Bones, which brings us Ralph Waite as Booth's grandfather "Pops".   He of   course sees what everyone else does, that Bones and Booth are right for each other...   blog post review:  Bones 5.8:  Booth's "Pops"     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Loker was in the dog house in Season 1 of Lie to Me, demoted to unpaid intern because he divulved some information to the Security Exchange Commission.   In episode 2.7, Loker redeems himself and more...     blog post review:  Lie to Me 2.7: The Redeeming of Loker   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

The Visitors get visas on episode 1.3 tonight, and this multiples the number of twists and surprise reveals.   blog post review: V 1.3: Multiple Twists and Lizard Visions       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

This highly significant episode 6.7 of House clarifies an issue hanging since season 1, brings together the best of all the seasons, and may have shown a leading character to the permanent door - though this is House we're talking about...     blog post review:  Four's a Crowd on House 6.7     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

Great mistakes and one huge, unexpected mystery in Dexter 4.8 - which makes this a continuingly superb, unique series.     blog post review:  Dexter 4.8       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code     Nutrisystem Special Discount! Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

The shot of Ben Reynolds followed by Bill O'Reilly and Saddam Hussein on Lie to Me 6.6 was priceless.  And the rest of episode was pretty fine, too.   blog post review:  Bill O'Reilly, Saddam Hussein, and Ben Reynolds in Lie to Me 6.6   other links of interest:   my 2006 The New Golden Age of Television   videos of me vs. O'Reilly on Fox   my Levinson News Clips podcast reflections of my 1st appearance on O'Reilly       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code     Nutrisystem Special Discount! Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

A more emotional, personal than medical episode 6.6 House, as House and Cuddy, and Chase and Cameron, go down their complex paths.     blog post review:  House 6.6 Around the Bases   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code     Nutrisystem Special Discount! Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson

A philosophically high-toned episode 1.8 of FlashForward, which features Olivia's sexy night outfit as a lesson in the stubborn intractability of the future.   blog post review:  FlashForward 1.8: The Nightie as a Grain of Sand     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code     Nutrisystem Special Discount! Call 866-223-5039 - Paul Levinson