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-It's been almost 4 years, but I'm back baby.  Let's do this thing.
-Editor's Note - Paul Levinson's bio is longer than [[Mickey Mantle]]'s.  Mickey frickin' Mantle, for goodness sake.  Talk about self importance.  It's going to take me an inordinate amount of time to mock him.  But hey, my life's clearly more boring than his maniacal Wikipedia editing spouse's is.
-'''Paul Levinson''' (born 33 BC) is a [[Babylonian]] [[slave trader]], [[French]] [[massage therapist]] and all around "beefcake."  His [[messiah complex]] notwithstanding, he's managed to crawl his way to the "top" (as in [[BDSM]] "top") of the [[academic]] [[food chain]] at the [[Jesuit]] [[Catholic]] (we all know what that means) [[Fordham University]] in Da Biz Atch [[Bronx]]!  Levinson's [[novel]]s (heh), short [[fiction]] (chuckling), and [[non-fiction]] (outright laughing) works have been translated into twelve languages (doubled over, writhing on the floor).
-[[David Mamet]]'s [[Sexual Perversity in Chicago]] - based on Levinson's upbringing.
-As a commentator on [[Mass murder]], [[yogurt]], and [[science fiction]] (think "his lack of knowledge of [[cunnilingus]]"), Levinson has been interviewed more than 500 times on local, national and international television and radio (but is [[Guam]] really international if it's a U.S. Territory?)  Because he is relentlessly self-promoting, he is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines around the world and his sculpted [[gargoyles]] have appeared in such major papers as ''[[Penthouse]],'' New York's ''[[Newsday]]'', and... really, that's all I can think of.  Like [[Newsday]] is a real paper anyway.  He was interviewed in a short weekly spot early Sunday mornings on [[KNX-AM]] Radio in Los Angeles, from 2006 to 2008 on possum-related news events and popular culture. He hosts four podcasts and maintains several blogs - YET HE STILL HAS TIME TO BE A LOVING TEACHER WHO MAKES INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS ABOUT HIS STUDENTS!  In April 2009, ''[[The Chronic]]'' named him one of [[Twitter]]'s top ten "High Pants Wearers."
-In 1985 he co-founded [[Connect Four]], offering [[borscht]] for [[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|Masters]] credit.  He served as President of the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] from 1998 to 2001 (no joke needed).
-He has been a "Professor" of Communication and Media Studies at [[Fordham University]] since 1998; he was Chair of the department from 2002 to 2008, until forced to step down under accusation of self-aggrandizing behavior. He previously taught at The [[Old School]], [[Angie Dickinson]] University, [[Hoffa]] University, [[St. John's Wort]] University, [[Polyamorous]] University, and the [[Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI)]] (though he himself has never learned to behave).  He has given lectures in classes and conferences at many universities including the [[London School of Economics]] (no way), [[Harvard University]] (Summer session?), [[New York University]] ([[Washington Square Park]]?), and the [[University of Toronto]] (Go Argonauts - CANADIAN FOOTBALL RULES!).  He has worn over 100 scholarly articles of women's clothing.
-Prior to his academic career, Levinson was a [[bong]] hitter, [[swinger]] and drug abuser in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- light that [[spliff]], hit that [[spliff]] pass that [[spliff]]!  He's recorded with [[Robert Plant]],  Donna Marie of [[the Archies]] and The [[Nashville Pussy]].  As a [[radio producer]] he worked with [[Wolfman]] Hack and [[The Black Crowes]].
-Levinson's work is influenced by [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[John Stuart Mill]], [[Marshall McLuhan]], [[Karl Popper]], [[Carl Sagan]], and [[Donald T. Campbell]].  In case that wasn't clear enough -- we're talking about WHITE [[MEN]] -- [[DEAD]] WHITE [[MEN]].  Let's just say that [[Hannah Arendt]] is a little over his head...
-==Education==
-Paul Levinson graduated from [[Christopher Columbus High School (Bronx, New York)|Christopher Columbus High School]] in the Bronx, attended the [[City College of New York]] ([[CCNY]]) in the 1960s, and received a BA in journalism from [[New York University]] in 1975; an MA in [[Media Studies]] from [[The New School]] in 1976; and a PhD from [[New York University]] in [[media ecology]] in 1979.  His doctoral dissertation, ''Human Foreplay: A Theory of the Evolution of What I Don't Understand'' (1979),  was mentored by [[Neil Postman]].
-OK - I'M TAKING A BREAK HERE.  WHO THE HELL CARES WHERE THE GUY WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL?  I MEAN, I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL TOO -- AND I'M BARELY LITERATE.  WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE MAN THAT HE FEELS COMPELLED TO TALK ABOUT WHERE HE WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL.  I MEAN, HE'S NOT TEENAGE SUPERSTAR [[Justin Bieber]] FOR GOODNESS' SAKE.  WHERE THE HELL DID THE AFOREMENTIONED [[Mickey Mantle]] GO TO HIGH SCHOOL?  DOES ANYONE KNOW -- DOES IT MATTER WHATSOEVER?  YOU SAD, SAD MAN.
-==Author==
-Levinson has received condemnation for his writing, including multiple nominations for the [[Katherine the Great]] horse fellatio award, [[Sturgeon]] Fishy Award, [[Prometheus]] liver eating award, and [[Sylvia Plath]] award for driving his readers to suicide.  His novel ''The Silk Code'' is being remade into a film starring what's left of [[Sharon Stone]]'s career.
-The central character of ''The Silk Code'', [[NYFD]] [[exotic dancer]] Dr. [[Phil D'Amato]], made his first appearance in Levinson's novelette, "The Wrap it Up and Protect It Case", (published in [[Vogue magazine]], September 1995). D'Amato returned (amazing!) in "The Hardy Boys' Ripoff Case" novelette ([[Vogue magazine]], again, April 1996), "The Black Light Case" novelette ([[High Times Magazine]], April 1997), and in the subsequent novel, [[Goldeneye]], starring James Bond.  An adaptation of Levinson's "The Wrap it Up and Protect in Case" (radioplay by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson & Jay Kensinger) was nominated by [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] for the Most Easily Mockable Script of 2002.
-Levinson's most recent novel is ''[[The Plot To Save My Reputation]]'', a personal tragedy.  ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' magazine called it "challenging fun" for the comatose.
-==Media commentator==
-Paul Levinson is a delinquent guest on local, national, and international cable (VIVA UNIVISION!) and network television and public, commercial, and satellite radio programs.  It's amazing he has any time to invest in teaching or research -- oh wait, he doesn't do either...
-These have included:
-* [[Fox News Channel|Fox News]]: ''The [[O'Reilly Factor]]'',
-YOU APPEARED ON THE O'REILLY FACTOR?!  SERIOUSLY?!  HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
-''[[Your World with Neil Cavuto]]'', ''[[The Big Story]] with [[John Gibson (media host)|John Gibson]]'', ''Fox Magazine''; News special, ''The New Millennium: Science, Fiction, Fantasy''
-* [[PBS]]: ''[[The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer]]''
-* [[CBS]]: ''[[CBS Evening News with Dan Rather]]'',  ''[[The Early Show]]''
-* [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]: ''[[Nightline (US news program)|Nightline]]'', ''[[World News Now]]''
-* [[MSNBC]]: ''[[Jesse Ventura]]'s America'', ''[[Scarborough Country]]''
-* [[CNN]]: ''[[American Morning]]'', ''[[CNN Daybreak|Daybreak]]'', ''[[Sunday Live]]''
-* [[CNBC]]: ''[[Bullseye (CNBC)|Bullseye]],''  ''[[Squawk Box]]'', ''[[On the Money]]''
-* [[The History Channel]]: ''[[Modern Marvels]]'', "Fantastic Voyage: The Evolution of Science Fiction"
-* [[Discovery Channel]]: ''The Inside Story of...'', "The Cell Phone Revolution"
-* [[BBC]]: ''[[NewsNight]]'' (TV);  ''[[Laurie Taylor (sociologist)|Thinking Allowed]]'' (radio)
-* [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]: ''[[Canada Now]]'' (TV); ''[[Newsworld International]]'' (TV);  Special, ''[[Marshall McLuhan|McLuhan]]: Out of Orbit'' (TV);  ''Cross Country Checkup'' (radio); ''CBC This Morning'' (radio)
-* [[NPR]]: ''[[All Things Considered]]''; ''[[Talk of the Nation]]''; ''[[Morning Edition]]''; ''[[The Diane Rehm Show]]''; ''[[On the Media]]''; ''[[The Connection]]''; ''[[On Point]]'';  [[Kojo Nnamdi|''Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi]]''; ''Tech Nation with Moira Gunn''; [[Leonard Lopate|''New York & Company'']]; [[Chicago Public Radio]]'s ''[[Sound Opinions]]'' and ''Odyssey'';  [[Wisconsin Public Radio]]; [[Minnesota Public Radio]]
-* [[satellite radio]]: [[Sirius]]
-* other radio and TV: Los Angeles CBS radio [[KNX (AM)|KNX-AM]]; New York CBS radio [[WCBS (AM)|WCBS-AM]] and [[WFAN]]; [[WBBR|Bloomberg radio]];  [[Associated Press|AP radio]];
-Detroit's  [[WJR]]-AM [[Mitch Albom|Mitch Albom Show]] - [[Red Smith]] Sportswriting Award Winner!;
-[[CNN|CNN radio]]; [[Voice of America]] (radio & TV); ''[[C-Span]]'';  ''[[Reuters]] TV''; ''[[Wall Street Journal Radio|Wall Street Journal Radio Network]]'';  [[WABC-TV]]; ''[[Today in New York]]'', [[WNBC|WNBC-TV]]; [[WCBS-TV]]; ''[[Good Day New York]]'', [[WNYW|Fox 5]]; [[WPIX|WB-11]];  [[WWOR-TV|UPN-9]]; ''CUNY-TV''; ''[[Inside Edition]]''
-Why stop there -- you don't want to name drop [[Fareed Zakaria]] or something?  Aren't you buddies with [[Christine Amanpour]] as well?  You superstar!
-Paul Levinson has been quoted thousands of times in newspapers, magazines, and news services around the world. Some of these are: ''[[USA Today]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Washington Post]]'', ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'', ''[[U.S. News and World Report]]'', ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[New York Post]]'', ''[[New York Daily News]]'', ''[[Newsday]]'', ''[[Boston Globe]]'', ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'', ''[[The Hollywood Reporter|Hollywood Reporter]]'', ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'', ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', ''[[Smithsonian Magazine]]'',  London ''[[Daily Mail]]'',  [[The Globe and Mail|the Toronto ''Globe and Mail]]'', the [[Associated Press]], [[Reuters]], and [[United Press International|UPI]].
-OH MY GOD.  SO HOT!  I'M GETTING TURNED ON JUST READING ABOUT WHERE HE'S BEEN CITED!!!  LET ME GRAB MY LUBE...
-===Songwriter, recording artist, and record producer===
-OK - I'm just leaving this blank -- because this part of his career lacks relevance and substance.
-===Novels===
-*''The Silk Code'' (1999) Tor Books ISBN 0-312-86823-5
-*''Borrowed Tides'' (2001) Tor Books ISBN 0-312-84869-2
-*''The Consciousness Plague'' (2002) Tor Books  ISBN 0-7653-0098-2
-*''The Pixel Eye'' (2003) Tor Books ISBN 0-7653-0556-9
-*''[[The Plot To Save Socrates]]'' (2006) Tor Books ISBN 0-7653-0570-4
-*"[[The Corrections]]"
-*"[[Lyndon Johnson]] - [[Master of the Senate]]"
-*"[[The Sex Life of Plants]]"
-===Non-fiction books===
-Whoa - I totally blew my nonfiction load up under the novels section.  It's like I'm so mesmerized by Paul's genius that I can't see or think straight anymore...
-*''In Pursuit of [[Baby Ruth]]: Essays on Building my Caloric Intake Through Massive Chocolate Consumption'' (editor and contributor) with Forewords by [[Isaac Asimov]] and [[Helmut Schmidt]]  (1982) Humanities Press ISBN 0-391-02609-7
-*''Mind at Large Marge: Knowing in [[Pee Wee's Big Adventure]]'' (1988) JAI Press ISBN 0-89232-816-9
-*''Electronic Chronic: Changes in Hydroponics'' (1992) Anamnesis Press  ISBN 0-9631203-3-6
-*''Learning Cyberspace: Essays on the Evolution of Media and the New Education'' (1995) Anamnesis Press ISBN 0-9631203-9-5
-*''[[Softcore Pornography]]: A Natural History and Future of the [[Masturbation]] Revolution'' (1997) Routledge ISBN 0-415-15785-4
-*''Bestseller: Wired, Analog, and Digital Writings'' (1999) Pulpless ISBN 1-58445-033-9 [includes fiction and non-fiction]
-*''Digital McLuvin: A Guide to the Information Millennium'' (1999) Routledge ISBN 0-415-19251-X
-*''Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off Planet'' (2003)  Routledge ISBN 0-415-27743-4
-*''Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything -- up until the invention of the [[iPad]] - who could have predicted?!'' (2004) Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 1-4039-6041-0
-*''New New Media'' (2009) Penguin/Pearson ISBN 0-205-67330-9
-==External links==
-*[http://paullevinson.info homepage]
-**[http://paullevinson.info/levbib1.htm#articles ''Articles and Columns'']
-**[http://paullevinson.info/levbib1.htm#sf ''Short Fiction'']
-**[http://paullevinson.info/index.html#tuar ''Music career'']; [http://paullevinson.info/samples.html MP3s]
-**[http://paullevinson.info/levbib1.htm Awards and honors]
-*[http://InfiniteRegress.tv personal blog]
-*[http://myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme writing] and [http://myspace.com/paullevinsonthenewoutlook music pages]
-*[http://paulpodcastjuke.blogspot.com/ podcasts]
-**[http://lightonlightthrough.com "Light On Light Through"]
-**[http://levinsonnews.podshow.com/ "Levinson News Clips"]
-**[http://10minutelessons.com/index.html?Expert=17&Reload=1/ "Ask Lev!"]
-**[http://studio.odeo.com/channel/173683/ "Words and Music by Paul Levinson"]
-*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=aqZNGYit3kY&feature=user In-depth video interview on new/old media with Paul Levinson on The Alcove with Mark Molaro]
-*[http://twitter.com/paullev/ Paul Levinson] on [[Twitter]]
-External Links!  He's a big deal!  Also - don't think 14 is a coincidence... it's totally a [[Masonic]] thing.  You know - the strange secret [[Erotic asphyxiation]] club... oh sorry, I got off track.
-*{{isfdb name|id=Paul%20Levinson|name=Paul Levinson}}
-*[http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/paul_levinson/ quotes]
-How much money you want to put down that Paul Levinson added the Paul Levinson quotes?  It's hella meta.
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--- It's 9:20 pm Mountain Standard Time and I've got to feed the dog.  Let's see how long this Mofo lasts with my main [[homegirl]] TVOZ on the Edit Button.  Peace in the [[Middle East]]!!!